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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4061
To provide for a pilot power plant designed to revitalize depressed commu-
nities by providing energy intensive industry with an effective opportunity
to dispose of solid wastes and obtain inexpensive electricity and steam,
and to provide a pilot role model for the development of a comprehensive
national strategic energy intensive industry initiative.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 16, 1994
Mr. TRAFICANT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide for a pilot power plant designed to revitalize
depressed communities by providing energy intensive in-
dustry with an effective opportunity to dispose of solid
wastes and obtain inexpensive electricity and steam, and
to provide a pilot role model for the development of
a comprehensive national strategic energy intensive in-
dustry initiative.
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 ‘‘National Environ-
mental-Economic Recovery Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) plants such as the SEMASS plant in Roch-
ester, Massachusetts, and the Wheelabrator plant in
Baltimore, Maryland, provide an effective and effi-
cient means of disposing solid wastes and obtaining
inexpensive electrical power and steam; and
(2) the availability of such plants in a commu-
nity will attract energy intensive industry to that
community, increasing the community’s tax base and
strengthening its economy.
SEC. 3. GRANT AUTHORITY.
The Secretary shall make a grant of $10,000,000 to
the nonprofit IRCA Foundation, a subsidiary of Industrial
Resource Consultants of America, for the establishment
of a facility described in section 4.
SEC. 4. FACILITY.
The facility to be established as described in section
3—
(1) shall produce electric power, steam, or both,
from solid wastes;
(2) shall have 2 boilers and be capable of ex-
pansion;
(3) shall be located in a depressed community
in the United States;
(4) shall provide electricity and steam to energy
intensive industry customers at no more than 40
percent of the market rate for electricity;
(5) may provide electricity to public entities or
light industry, but not to residential consumers; and
(6) shall obtain a continuing supply of feed-
stock sufficient to sustain maximum operational ca-
pability through long-term contracts with municipal
and other governmental sources.
SEC. 5. REINVESTMENT OF SAVINGS.
Any energy intensive industry customer obtaining
electricity or steam from the facility described in section
4 shall invest in equipment, physical plant, or increased
employment at least 7 percent of the savings gained by
obtaining such resources from that facility compared to
the cost of obtaining such resources from other sources.
SEC. 6. REPORT TO CONGRESS.
Within one year after the facility described in section
4 becomes fully operational, the Secretary shall transmit
to the Congress a report recommending whether the Fed-
eral Government should make additional grants similar to
the grant authorized by this Act. Such recommendation
shall be based on the Secretary’s analysis of whether the
grant made under this Act has resulted in—