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Union Calendar No. 121 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2313 
[Report No. 110–202] 
To establish research, development, demonstration, and commercial 
application programs for marine renewable energy technologies. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2007 
Ms. HOOLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Science and Technology 
JUNE 21, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. 
HONDA, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. CASTOR, Mr. WU, and 
Mr. MILLER of North Carolina 
JUNE 21, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 15, 2007] 
A BILL 
To establish research, development, demonstration, and com-
mercial application programs for marine renewable en-
ergy technologies. 
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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 ‘‘Marine Renewable En-
ergy Research and Development Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States has a critical national in-
terest in developing clean, domestic, renewable sources 
of energy in order to reduce environmental impacts of 
energy production, increase national security, im-
prove public health, and bolster economic stability. 
(2) Marine renewable energy technologies are a 
nonemitting source of power production. 
(3) Marine renewable energy may serve as an al-
ternative to fossil fuels and create thousands of new 
jobs within the United States. 
(4) Europe has already successfully delivered 
electricity to the grid through the deployment of wave 
and tidal energy devices off the coast of Scotland. 
(5) Recent studies from the Electric Power Re-
search Institute, in conjunction with the Department 
of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 
have identified an abundance of viable sites within 
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the United States with ample wave and tidal re-
sources to be harnessed by marine power technologies. 
(6) Sustained and expanded research, develop-
ment, demonstration, and commercial application 
programs are needed to locate and characterize ma-
rine renewable energy resources, and to develop the 
technologies that will enable their widespread com-
mercial development. 
(7) Federal support is critical to reduce the fi-
nancial risk associated with developing new marine 
renewable energy technologies, thereby encouraging 
the private sector investment necessary to make ma-
rine renewable energy resources commercially viable 
as a source of electric power and for other applica-
tions. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) MARINE
RENEWABLE
ENERGY.—The term 
‘‘Marine Renewable Energy’’ means energy derived 
from one or more of the following sources: 
(A) Waves. 
(B) Tidal flows. 
(C) Ocean currents. 
(D) Ocean thermal energy conversion. 
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(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
SEC. 4. MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DE-
VELOPMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in conjunction with 
other appropriate agencies, shall support programs of re-
search, development, demonstration, and commercial appli-
cation to expand marine renewable energy production, in-
cluding programs to— 
(1) study and compare existing marine renew-
able energy extraction technologies; 
(2) research, develop, and demonstrate advanced 
marine renewable energy systems and technologies; 
(3) reduce the manufacturing and operation 
costs of marine renewable energy technologies; 
(4) investigate efficient and reliable integration 
with the utility grid and intermittency issues; 
(5) advance wave forecasting technologies; 
(6) conduct experimental and numerical mod-
eling for optimization of marine energy conversion 
devices and arrays; 
(7) increase the reliability and survivability of 
marine renewable energy technologies, including de-
velopment of corrosive-resistant materials; 
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(8) study, in conjunction with the Assistant Ad-
ministrator for Research and Development of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency, the Undersecretary of 
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and other 
Federal agencies as appropriate, the environmental 
impacts of marine renewable energy technologies and 
ways to address adverse impacts, and provide public 
information concerning technologies and other means 
available for monitoring and determining environ-
mental impacts; 
(9) establish protocols, in conjunction with the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
for how the ocean community may best interact with 
marine renewable energy devices; 
(10) develop power measurement standards for 
marine renewable energy; 
(11) develop identification standards for marine 
renewable energy devices; 
(12) address standards development, demonstra-
tion, and technology transfer for advanced systems en-
gineering and system integration methods to identify 
critical interfaces; and 
(13) utilize marine resources in the Gulf of Mex-
ico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. 
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