the participants in the Center may not be disclosed by any 
officer or employee of the Department of Energy except 
as provided in the provision included in the memorandum 
of understanding pursuant to section 202(d). 
SEC. 208. AUTHORIZATION ON APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Energy for carrying out this title $500,000,000 
for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2016. 
SEC. 209. ADVANCED BATTERY LOAN GUARANTEE PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary 
of Energy shall establish a program to provide guarantees 
of loans by private institutions for the construction of fa-
cilities for the manufacture of advanced vehicle batteries 
that are developed and produced in the United States, in-
cluding advanced lithium ion batteries. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary may provide a 
loan guarantee under subsection (a) to an applicant if— 
(1) without a loan guarantee, credit is not 
available to the applicant under reasonable terms or 
conditions sufficient to finance the construction of a 
facility described in subsection (a); 
(2) the prospective earning power of the appli-
cant and the character and value of the security 
pledged provide a reasonable assurance of repayment 
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of the loan to be guaranteed in accordance with the 
terms of the loan; and 
(3) the loan bears interest at a rate determined 
by the Secretary to be reasonable, taking into ac-
count the current average yield on outstanding obli-
gations of the United States with remaining periods 
of maturity comparable to the maturity of the loan. 
(c) CRITERIA.—In selecting recipients of loan guar-
antees from among applicants, the Secretary shall give 
preference to proposals that— 
(1) meet all applicable Federal and State per-
mitting requirements; 
(2) are most likely to be successful; and 
(3) are located in local markets that have the 
greatest need for the facility. 
(d) MATURITY.—A loan guaranteed under subsection 
(a) shall have a maturity of not more than 20 years. 
(e) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The loan agreement 
for a loan guaranteed under subsection (a) shall provide 
that no provision of the loan agreement may be amended 
or waived without the consent of the Secretary. 
(f) ASSURANCE
OF REPAYMENT.—The Secretary 
shall require that an applicant for a loan guarantee under 
subsection (a) provide an assurance of repayment in the 
form of a performance bond, insurance, collateral, or other 
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means acceptable to the Secretary in an amount equal to 
not less than 20 percent of the amount of the loan. 
(g) GUARANTEE FEE.—The recipient of a loan guar-
antee under subsection (a) shall pay the Secretary an 
amount determined by the Secretary to be sufficient to 
cover the administrative costs of the Secretary relating to 
the loan guarantee. 
(h) FULL FAITH AND CREDIT.—The full faith and 
credit of the United States is pledged to the payment of 
all guarantees made under this section. Any such guar-
antee made by the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence 
of the eligibility of the loan for the guarantee with respect 
to principal and interest. The validity of the guarantee 
shall be incontestable in the hands of a holder of the guar-
anteed loan. 
(i) REPORTS.—Until each guaranteed loan under this 
section has been repaid in full, the Secretary shall annu-
ally submit to Congress a report on the activities of the 
Secretary under this section. 
(j) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
(k) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority of 
the Secretary to issue a loan guarantee under subsection 
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(a) terminates on the date that is 10 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 
210. 
DOMESTIC 
MANUFACTURING 
CONVERSION 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
Section 712 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 16062) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and components thereof, 
including vehicles and components derived from 
the activities of the New Manhattan Center for 
High Efficiency Vehicles’’ after ‘‘sales of effi-
cient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, plug-in electric hybrid, 
flexible-fuel,’’ after ‘‘production of efficient hy-
brid’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Priority shall be given to the refurbishment or 
retooling of manufacturing facilities that have 
recently ceased operation or will cease operation 
in the near future.’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(b) COORDINATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary may coordinate implementation of 
this section with State and local programs designed to ac-
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complish similar goals, including the retention and retrain-
ing of skilled workers from the such manufacturing facili-
ties, including by establishing matching grant arrange-
ments. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for car-
rying out this section— 
‘‘(1) $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2007 through 2011; and 
‘‘(2) such sums as may be necessary for each 
of the fiscal years 2012 through 2015.’’. 
TITLE 
III—BIOFUELS 
INFRA-
STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 
SEC. 301. BIOFUELS INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Energy 
shall establish a program for making grants for providing 
assistance to retail and wholesale motor fuel dealers or 
other entities for the installation, replacement, or conver-
sion of motor fuel storage and dispensing infrastructure 
to be used exclusively to store and dispense biobased fuel 
(as defined in section 303(2) of the Biomass Research and 
Development Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 8101 note)), including 
E–85 gasoline, biodiesel, or biodiesel blended fuel. Such 
infrastructure may include equipment used in the blend-
ing, distribution, and transport of such fuels. 
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