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FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy 
research and development activities, under the authority 
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public 
Law 95–91), including the acquisition of interest, includ-
ing defeasible and equitable interests in any real property 
or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or expan-
sion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing, 
use, and disposal of mineral substances without objection-
able social and environmental costs (30 U.S.C. 3, 1602, 
and 1603), $876,320,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $149,000,000 shall be derived by trans-
fer from ‘‘Clean Coal Technology’’: Provided, That of the 
amounts provided, $288,174,000 is available for the Clean 
Coal Power Initiative Round III solicitation, pursuant to 
title IV of the Public Law 109–58: Provided further, That 
funds appropriated for prior solicitations under the Clean 
Coal Technology Program, Power Plant Improvement Ini-
tiative, Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, but 
not required by the Department to meet its obligations 
on projects selected under such solicitations, may be uti-
lized for the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III solici-
tation under this Act in accordance with the requirements 
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of this Act rather than the Acts under which the funds 
were appropriated: Provided further, That no Clean Coal 
Power Initiative project may be selected for which full 
funding is not available to provide for the total project: 
Provided further, That if a Clean Coal Power Initiative 
project selected after enactment of this legislation for ne-
gotiation under this or any other Act in any fiscal year, 
is not awarded within 2 years from the date the applica-
tion was selected, negotiations shall cease and the Federal 
funds committed to the application shall be retained by 
the Department for future coal-related research, develop-
ment and demonstration projects, except that the time 
limit may be extended at the Secretary’s discretion for 
matters outside the control of the applicant, or if the Sec-
retary determines that extension of the time limit is in 
the public interest: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may not delegate this responsibility for applications great-
er than $10,000,000: Provided further, That financial as-
sistance for costs in excess of those estimated as of the 
date of award of original Clean Coal Power Initiative fi-
nancial assistance may not be provided in excess of the 
proportion of costs borne by the Government in the origi-
nal agreement and shall be limited to 25 percent of the 
original financial assistance: Provided further, That funds 
shall be expended in accordance with the provisions gov-
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erning the use of funds contained under the heading 
‘‘Clean Coal Technology’’ in 42 U.S.C. 5903d as well as 
those contained under the heading ‘‘Clean Coal Tech-
nology’’ in prior appropriations: Provided further, That 
any technology selected under these programs shall be 
considered a Clean Coal Technology, and any project se-
lected under these programs shall be considered a Clean 
Coal Technology Project, for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. 
7651n, and chapters 51, 52, and 60 of title 40 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations: Provided further, That funds 
available for the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III 
Funding Opportunity Announcement may be used to sup-
port any technology that meets the requirements of the 
Round III Announcement relating to carbon capture and 
storage or other beneficial uses of CO2, without regard 
to the 70 and 30 percent funding allocations specified in 
section 402(b)(1)(A) and 402(b)(2)(A) of Public Law 
109–58: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein 
made available shall be used for the field testing of nuclear 
explosives in the recovery of oil and gas: Provided further, 
That, of the amount appropriated in this paragraph, 
$43,864,150 shall be used for projects specified in the 
table that appears under the heading ‘‘Congressionally Di-
rected Fossil Energy Projects’’ in the text and table under 
this heading in the explanatory statement described in sec-
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tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act). 
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES 
For expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum 
and oil shale reserve activities, including the hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, $19,099,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, unobligated funds remaining from prior 
years shall be available for all naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserve activities. 
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE 
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve facility development and operations and program 
management activities pursuant to the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 
et seq.), $205,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $31,507,000 shall be provided to initiate new site 
expansion activities, beyond land acquisition, consistent 
with the budget request: Provided, That none of the funds 
provided for new site expansion activities may be obligated 
or expended for authorized activities until the Secretary 
has submitted a report to the Congress on the effects of 
expansion of the Reserve on the domestic petroleum mar-
ket, which is required to be submitted within 45 days of 
enactment of this Act. 
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