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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3598 
To ensure consideration of water intensity in the Department of Energy’s 
energy research, development, and demonstration programs to help guar-
antee efficient, reliable, and sustainable delivery of energy and water 
resources. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 
Mr. GORDON of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Science and Technology 
A BILL 
To ensure consideration of water intensity in the Department 
of Energy’s energy research, development, and dem-
onstration programs to help guarantee efficient, reliable, 
and sustainable delivery of energy and water resources. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water Re-
search Integration Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INTEGRATING ENERGY AND WATER RESEARCH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out each of the energy 
research, development, and demonstration programs of the 
Department of Energy, the Secretary of Energy shall— 
(1) seek to advance energy and energy effi-
ciency technologies and practices that would— 
(A) minimize freshwater withdrawal and 
consumption; 
(B) increase water use efficiency; and 
(C) utilize nontraditional water sources 
with efforts to improve the quality of that 
water; 
(2) consider the effects climate change may 
have on water supplies and quality for energy gen-
eration and fuel production; and 
(3) improve understanding of the energy re-
quired to provide water supplies and the water re-
quired to provide reliable energy supplies throughout 
the United States. 
(b) SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall incorporate, as appro-
priate— 
(1) new advanced cooling technologies for en-
ergy generation and fuel production technologies; 
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(2) performance improvement of existing cool-
ing technologies and cost reductions associated with 
using those technologies; 
(3) innovative water reuse, recovery, and treat-
ment in energy generation and fuel production; 
(4) efficient water use design strategies and 
technology development for carbon capture and stor-
age systems; 
(5) technologies that are life-cycle cost effective; 
(6) systems analysis and modeling of issues re-
lating to the energy required to provide water sup-
plies and the water required to provide reliable en-
ergy supplies throughout the United States; 
(7) technologies to treat and utilize produced 
waters discharged from oil, coalbed methane, and 
mining activities; 
(8) advanced materials for the use of nontradi-
tional water sources for energy generation and fuel 
production; 
(9) biomass production and the impact on hy-
drologic flow; and 
(10) reduction of water resource impacts of fos-
sil fuel resource development. 
(c) INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION.—In carrying out 
the energy research, development, and demonstration pro-
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