118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7685 
AN ACT 
To strengthen and enhance the competitiveness of American 
industry through the research and development of ad-
vanced technologies to improve the efficiency of cement, 
concrete, and asphalt production, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Innovative Mitigation 
Partnerships for Asphalt and Concrete Technologies Act’’ 
or the ‘‘IMPACT Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ADVANCED CEMENT, CONCRETE, AND ASPHALT 
PRODUCTION RESEARCH PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—Part I of subtitle C of title V of the 
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117– 
58) is amended by inserting after section 40522 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 40523. ADVANCED CEMENT, CONCRETE, AND AS-
PHALT PRODUCTION RESEARCH PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) ADVANCED PRODUCTION.—The term ‘ad-
vanced production’ means production of cement, 
concrete, or asphalt with one or more of the fol-
lowing improvements with respect to the production 
of commercially available cement, concrete, or as-
phalt: 
‘‘(A) Improved cost-effectiveness. 
‘‘(B) Improved quality, durability, engi-
neering performance, and resilience. 
‘‘(C) Improved efficiency of resource con-
sumption and material demand. 
‘‘(2) ALTERNATIVE FUELS.—The term ‘alter-
native fuels’ means any solid, liquid, or gaseous ma-
terials, or a combination thereof, used to replace or 
supplement any portion of fuels used in combustion 
or pyrolysis for low-emissions cement, concrete, or 
asphalt. 
‘‘(3) COMMERCIALLY
AVAILABLE.—The term 
‘commercially available’, with respect to cement, con-
crete, and asphalt, means that the cement, concrete, 
or asphalt is— 
‘‘(A) readily and widely available for pur-
chase in the United States; and 
‘‘(B) produced using a production method 
of cement, concrete, or asphalt products, as ap-
plicable, that is widely in use. 
‘‘(4) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-
tity’ means any of the following: 
‘‘(A) An institution of higher education. 
‘‘(B) An appropriate State or Federal enti-
ty, including a federally funded research and 
development center of the Department. 
‘‘(C) A nonprofit research institution. 
‘‘(D) A private entity. 
‘‘(E) Any other relevant entity the Sec-
retary determines appropriate.
‘‘(F) A partnership or consortium of two 
or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (E). 
‘‘(5) 
ENGINEERING
PERFORMANCE-BASED 
STANDARD.—The term ‘engineering performance- 
based standard’ means an existing engineering 
standard with respect to which the requirements ap-
plicable to such standard are stated in terms of re-
quired results, with criteria for verifying compliance 
rather than specific composition, design, or proce-
dure. 
‘‘(6) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 101 of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 
‘‘(7) LOW-EMISSIONS CEMENT, CONCRETE, AND 
ASPHALT.—The term ‘low-emissions cement, con-
crete, and asphalt’ means cement, concrete, asphalt 
binder, or asphalt mixture that reduces, to the max-
imum extent practicable, greenhouse gas or directly- 
related copollutant emissions to levels below commer-
cially available cement, concrete, or asphalt. 
‘‘(8) RURAL AREA.—The term ‘rural area’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 343(a) of
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1991(a)). 
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section, the Sec-
retary shall establish a program of research, development, 
demonstration, and commercial application of advanced 
tools, technologies, and methods for advanced production 
and use of low-emissions cement, concrete, and asphalt in 
order to— 
‘‘(1) increase the technological and economic 
competitiveness of industry and production in the 
United States; 
‘‘(2) expand and increase the stability of supply 
chains through enhanced domestic production, 
nearshoring, and cooperation with allies; 
‘‘(3) achieve measurable greenhouse gas or di-
rectly related copollutant emissions reductions in the 
production processes for cement, concrete, and as-
phalt products; and 
‘‘(4) create quality domestic jobs. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out the program 
under subsection (b), the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) coordinate with the programs and activi-
ties authorized under title VI of division Z of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (relating to
industrial and manufacturing technologies) and the 
amendments made by such title; 
‘‘(2) coordinate across all relevant program of-
fices of the Department, including the Office of 
Science, the Advanced Research Projects Agency- 
Energy, the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, 
the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable En-
ergy, the Office of Fossil Energy, the Office of In-
dustrial Efficiency and Decarbonization, the Office 
of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, and 
the Office of Nuclear Energy; 
‘‘(3) leverage, to the extent practicable, the re-
search infrastructure of the Department, including 
scientific computing user facilities, x-ray light 
sources, neutron scattering facilities, and nanoscale 
science research centers; and 
‘‘(4) conduct research, development, demonstra-
tion, and commercial application of the advanced 
production of low-emissions cement, concrete, and 
asphalt that have the potential to increase domestic 
production and employment in both advanced and 
commercially available processes. 
‘‘(d) STRATEGIC PLAN.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the establishment of the program under sub-
section (b), the Secretary shall develop a 5-year stra-
tegic plan identifying research, development, dem-
onstration, and commercial application goals for 
such program. The Secretary shall submit such plan 
to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The strategic plan under 
paragraph (1) shall— 
‘‘(A) identify programs at the Department 
related to the advanced production of low-emis-
sions cement, concrete, and asphalt that sup-
port the research, development, demonstration, 
and commercial application activities described 
in this section, and the demonstration projects 
under subsection (f); 
‘‘(B) establish technological and pro-
grammatic goals to achieve the requirements 
specified in subsection (c); and 
‘‘(C) include timelines for the accomplish-
ment of such goals developed under the plan. 
‘‘(3) UPDATES TO PLAN.—Not less than once 
every two years, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate an up-
dated version of the strategic plan under paragraph 
(1). 
‘‘(e) FOCUS AREAS.—In carrying out the program es-
tablished in subsection (c), the Secretary shall focus on 
the following: 
‘‘(1) Carbon capture technologies for low-emis-
sions cement, concrete, and asphalt production proc-
esses, which may include the following: 
‘‘(A) Oxycombustion and chemical looping 
technologies. 
‘‘(B) Precombustion technologies. 
‘‘(C) Post combustion technologies. 
‘‘(D) Direct carbon dioxide separation 
technologies. 
‘‘(2) Materials, technologies, inputs, and proc-
esses that— 
‘‘(A) produce fewer greenhouse gas or di-
rectly related copollutant emissions during pro-
duction, use, and end use of cement, concrete, 
and asphalt; or 
‘‘(B) provide quality, durability, resilience, 
engineering, or other performance metrics equal 
to or greater than commercially available prod-
ucts.
‘‘(3) Medium- and high-temperature heat-gen-
eration technologies used for the advanced produc-
tion of low-emissions cement, concrete, and asphalt 
which may include the following: 
‘‘(A) Alternative fuels. 
‘‘(B) Renewable heat-generation and stor-
age technology. 
‘‘(C) Electrification of heating processes. 
‘‘(D) Other clean heat-generation tech-
nologies and sources. 
‘‘(4) Technologies and practices that increase 
the efficiency of energy use, natural resource con-
sumption, or material demand, which may include 
the following: 
‘‘(A) Designing products that encourage 
reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and re-
cycling. 
‘‘(B) Minimizing waste, including waste 
heat, from low-emissions cement, concrete, and 
asphalt production processes, including through 
the reuse of waste as a resource in other indus-
trial processes for mutual benefit. 
‘‘(C) Increasing the overall energy effi-
ciency of low-emissions cement, concrete, and