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‘‘(3) The Secretary shall submit into the public record
of the Commission proceeding with any prescription under
subsection (a) or alternative prescription it accepts under
this subsection a written statement explaining the basis for
such prescription, and reason for not accepting any alter-
native prescription under this subsection, including the ef-
fects of the prescription accepted or alternative not accepted
on energy supply, distribution, cost, and use, air quality,
flood control, navigation, and drinking, irrigation, and
recreation water supply, based on such information as may
be available to the Secretary, including information volun-
tarily provided in a timely manner by the applicant and
others.
‘‘(4) Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit other in-
terested parties from proposing alternative prescriptions.’’.
(c) TIME OF FILING APPLICATION.—Section 15(c)(1)
of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 808(c)(1)) is amended
by striking the first sentence and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) Each application for a new license pursu-
ant 
to 
this 
section 
shall 
be 
filed 
with 
the
Commission—
‘‘(A) at least 24 months before the expira-
tion of the term of the existing license in the case
of licenses that expire prior to 2008; and
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‘‘(B) at least 36 months before the expira-
tion of the term of the existing license in the case
of licenses that expire in 2008 or any year there-
after.’’.
TITLE IV—INDIAN ENERGY
SEC. 401. COMPREHENSIVE INDIAN ENERGY PROGRAM.
Title XXVI of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (25
U.S.C. 3501–3506) is amended by adding after section 2606
the following:
‘‘SEC. 2607. COMPREHENSIVE INDIAN ENERGY PROGRAM.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of the
Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs estab-
lished by section 217 of the Department of Energy
Organization Act, and
‘‘(2) the term ‘Indian land’ means—
‘‘(A) any land within the limits of an In-
dian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria;
‘‘(B) any land not within the limits of an
Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria whose
title is held—
‘‘(i) in trust by the United States for
the benefit of an Indian tribe,
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‘‘(ii) by an Indian tribe subject to re-
striction by the United States against alien-
ation, or
‘‘(iii) by a dependent Indian commu-
nity; and
‘‘(C) land conveyed to an Alaska Native
Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act.
‘‘(b) INDIAN ENERGY EDUCATION PLANNING AND MAN-
AGEMENT ASSISTANCE.—(1) The Director shall establish
programs within the Office of Indian Energy Policy and
Programs to assist Indian tribes in meeting their energy
education, research and development, planning, and man-
agement needs.
‘‘(2) The Director may make grants, on a competitive
basis, to an Indian tribe for—
‘‘(A) renewable energy, energy efficiency, and
conservation programs;
‘‘(B) studies and other activities supporting trib-
al acquisition of energy supplies, services, and facili-
ties;
‘‘(C) planning, constructing, developing, oper-
ating, maintaining, and improving tribal electrical
generation, transmission, and distribution facilities;
and
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‘‘(D) 
developing, 
constructing, 
and 
inter-
connecting electric power transmission facilities with
transmission facilities owned and operated by a Fed-
eral power marketing agency or an electric utility
that provides open access transmission service.
‘‘(3) The Director may develop, in consultation with
Indian tribes, a formula for making grants under this sec-
tion. The formula may take into account the following—
‘‘(A) the total number of acres of Indian land
owned by an Indian tribe;
‘‘(B) the total number of households on the In-
dian tribe’s Indian land;
‘‘(C) the total number of households on the In-
dian tribe’s Indian land that have no electricity serv-
ice or are under-served; and
‘‘(D) financial or other assets available to the In-
dian tribe from any source.
‘‘(4) In making a grant under paragraph (2), the Di-
rector shall give priority to an application received from
an Indian tribe that is not served or is served inadequately
by an electric utility, as that term is defined in section 3(4)
of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16
U.S.C. 2602(4)), or by a person, State agency, or any other
non-Federal entity that owns or operates a local distribu-
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tion facility used for the sale of electric energy to an electric
consumer.
‘‘(5) There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Department of Energy such sums as may be necessary to
carry out the purposes of this section.
‘‘(6) The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such
regulations as the Secretary determines to be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this subsection.
‘‘(c) LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may guarantee
not more than 90 percent of the unpaid principal and
interest due on any loan made to any Indian tribe
for energy development, including the planning, devel-
opment, construction, and maintenance of electrical
generation plants, and for transmission and delivery
mechanisms for electricity produced on Indian land.
A loan guaranteed under this subsection shall be
made by—
‘‘(A) a financial institution subject to the
examination of the Secretary; or
‘‘(B) an Indian tribe, from funds of the In-
dian tribe, to another Indian tribe.
‘‘(2) 
AVAILABILITY
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
Amounts appropriated to cover the cost of loan guar-
antees shall be available without fiscal year limita-