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(D) promote the marketplace introduction of infrastruc-
ture for hydrogen fuel vehicles; and 
(E) conduct an education program to provide hydrogen 
and fuel cell information to potential end-users. 
(c) AGENCY COOPERATION.—The heads of all agencies, including 
those whose agencies are not represented on the Task Force, shall 
cooperate with and furnish information to the Task Force, the 
Technical Advisory Committee, and the Department. 
SEC. 807. TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Hydrogen Technical and Fuel Cell 
Advisory Committee is established to advise the Secretary on the 
programs and activities under this title. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) MEMBERS.—The Technical Advisory Committee shall 
be comprised of not fewer than 12 nor more than 25 members. 
The members shall be appointed by the Secretary to represent 
domestic industry, academia, professional societies, government 
agencies, Federal laboratories, previous advisory panels, and 
financial, environmental, and other appropriate organizations 
based on the Department’s assessment of the technical and 
other qualifications of Technical Advisory Committee members 
and the needs of the Technical Advisory Committee. 
(2) TERMS.—The term of a member of the Technical 
Advisory Committee shall not be more than 3 years. The Sec-
retary may appoint members of the Technical Advisory Com-
mittee in a manner that allows the terms of the members 
serving at any time to expire at spaced intervals so as to 
ensure continuity in the functioning of the Technical Advisory 
Committee. A member of the Technical Advisory Committee 
whose term is expiring may be reappointed. 
(3) CHAIRPERSON.—The Technical Advisory Committee 
shall have a chairperson, who shall be elected by the members 
from among their number. 
(c) REVIEW.—The Technical Advisory Committee shall review 
and make recommendations to the Secretary on— 
(1) the implementation of programs and activities under 
this title; 
(2) the safety, economical, and environmental consequences 
of technologies for the production, distribution, delivery, stor-
age, or use of hydrogen energy and fuel cells; and 
(3) the plan under section 804. 
(d) RESPONSE.— 
(1) CONSIDERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—The Secretary 
shall consider, but need not adopt, any recommendations of 
the Technical Advisory Committee under subsection (c). 
(2) BIENNIAL
REPORT.—The Secretary shall transmit a 
biennial report to Congress describing any recommendations 
made by the Technical Advisory Committee since the previous 
report. The report shall include a description of how the Sec-
retary has implemented or plans to implement the rec-
ommendations, or an explanation of the reasons that a rec-
ommendation will not be implemented. The report shall be 
transmitted along with the President’s budget proposal. 
(e) SUPPORT.—The Secretary shall provide resources necessary 
in the judgment of the Secretary for the Technical Advisory Com-
mittee to carry out its responsibilities under this title.
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SEC. 808. DEMONSTRATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the programs under this 
section, the Secretary shall fund a limited number of demonstration 
projects, consistent with this title and a determination of the matu-
rity, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impacts of technologies 
supporting each project. In selecting projects under this subsection, 
the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable and in the public 
interest, select projects that— 
(1) involve using hydrogen and related products at existing 
facilities or installations, such as existing office buildings, mili-
tary bases, vehicle fleet centers, transit bus authorities, or 
units of the National Park System; 
(2) depend on reliable power from hydrogen to carry out 
essential activities; 
(3) lead to the replication of hydrogen technologies and 
draw such technologies into the marketplace; 
(4) include vehicle, portable, and stationary demonstrations 
of fuel cell and hydrogen-based energy technologies; 
(5) address the interdependency of demand for hydrogen 
fuel cell applications and hydrogen fuel infrastructure; 
(6) raise awareness of hydrogen technology among the 
public; 
(7) facilitate identification of an optimum technology among 
competing alternatives; 
(8) address distributed generation using renewable sources; 
(9) carry out demonstrations of evolving hydrogen and fuel 
cell technologies in national parks, remote island areas, and 
on Indian tribal land, as selected by the Secretary; 
(10) carry out a program to demonstrate developmental 
hydrogen and fuel cell systems for mobile, portable, and sta-
tionary uses, using improved versions of the learning dem-
onstrations program concept of the Department including dem-
onstrations involving— 
(A) light-duty vehicles; 
(B) heavy-duty vehicles; 
(C) fleet vehicles; 
(D) specialty industrial and farm vehicles; and 
(E) commercial and residential portable, continuous, 
and backup electric power generation; 
(11) in accordance with any code or standards developed 
in a region, fund prototype, pilot fleet, and infrastructure 
regional hydrogen supply corridors along the interstate highway 
system in varied climates across the United States; and 
(12) fund demonstration programs that explore the use 
of hydrogen blends, hybrid hydrogen, and hydrogen reformed 
from renewable agricultural fuels, including the use of hydrogen 
in hybrid electric, heavier duty, and advanced internal combus-
tion-powered vehicles. 
The Secretary shall give preference to projects which address mul-
tiple elements contained in paragraphs (1) through (12). 
(b) SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—As a component of the demonstration 
program under this section, the Secretary shall provide grants, 
on a cost share basis as appropriate, to eligible entities (as 
determined by the Secretary) for use in—
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(A) devising system design concepts that provide for 
the use of advanced composite vehicles in programs under 
section 782 that— 
(i) have as a primary goal the reduction of drive 
energy requirements; 
(ii) after 2010, add another research and develop-
ment phase, as defined in subsection (c), including 
the vehicle and infrastructure partnerships developed 
under the learning demonstrations program concept 
of the Department; and 
(iii) 
are 
managed 
through 
an 
enhanced 
FreedomCAR program within the Department that 
encourages involvement in cost-shared projects by 
manufacturers and governments; and 
(B) designing a local distributed energy system that— 
(i) incorporates renewable hydrogen production, 
off-grid electricity production, and fleet applications 
in industrial or commercial service; 
(ii) integrates energy or applications described in 
clause (i), such as stationary, portable, micro, and 
mobile fuel cells, into a high-density commercial or 
residential building complex or agricultural commu-
nity; and 
(iii) is managed in cooperation with industry, 
State, tribal, and local governments, agricultural 
organizations, and nonprofit generators and distribu-
tors of electricity. 
(c) IDENTIFICATION OF NEW PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—In car-
rying out the demonstrations under subsection (a), the Secretary, 
in consultation with the Task Force and the Technical Advisory 
Committee, shall— 
(1) after 2008 for stationary and portable applications, and 
after 2010 for vehicles, identify new requirements that refine 
technological concepts, planning, and applications; and 
(2) during the second phase of the learning demonstrations 
under subsection (b)(1)(A)(ii), redesign subsequent program 
work to incorporate those requirements. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this section— 
(1) $185,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(2) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(3) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
(4) $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
(5) $375,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
(6) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
2011 through 2020. 
SEC. 809. CODES AND STANDARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in cooperation with the Task 
Force, shall provide grants to, or offer to enter into contracts with, 
such professional organizations, public service organizations, and 
government agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate to 
support timely and extensive development of safety codes and stand-
ards relating to fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen energy systems, and 
stationary, portable, and micro fuel cells.