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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9851 
To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a Hydrogen Tech-
nologies for Heavy Industry Demonstration Program, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 
Mr. SORENSEN (for himself, Mr. MOLINARO, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. BACON, and 
Mr. COSTA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a 
Hydrogen Technologies for Heavy Industry Demonstra-
tion Program, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Hydrogen for Industry 
Act of 2024’’. 
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SEC. 2. HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY 
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. 
(a) EMISSION REDUCTION PROGRAM.—Subtitle F of 
title IX of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16291 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 969E. HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEAVY INDUS-
TRY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF LOW-INCOME OR DISADVAN-
TAGED COMMUNITY.—The term ‘low-income or disadvan-
taged community’ means a community (including a city, 
town, county, or reasonably isolated and divisible segment 
of a larger municipality) with an annual median household 
income that is less than 100 percent of the statewide an-
nual median household income for the State in which the 
community is located, according to the most recent decen-
nial census. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of the Hydrogen for Industry Act of 
2024, the Secretary shall establish a program, to be 
known as the ‘Hydrogen Technologies for Heavy Industry 
Demonstration Program’ (referred to in this section as the 
‘Program’), under which the Secretary shall provide 
grants or cooperative agreements to demonstrate indus-
trial end-use applications of hydrogen for— 
‘‘(1) iron, steel, and metals manufacturing; 
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‘‘(2) cement manufacturing; 
‘‘(3) glass manufacturing; 
‘‘(4) ammonia and fertilizer production; 
‘‘(5) industrial food processes; 
‘‘(6) production of synthetic fuels from hydro-
gen, such as with carbon oxides; 
‘‘(7) fuel refining, such as biorefining; 
‘‘(8) chemical synthesis, such as synthesis of 
methanol and ethylene; 
‘‘(9) process heaters, including hydrogen com-
bustion with environmental controls; 
‘‘(10) cogeneration to make electricity or heat 
to support industrial processes; or 
‘‘(11) any other use of hydrogen for heavy in-
dustry, as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(c) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Program is to 
support the adoption of hydrogen as an emissions reduc-
tion technology for heavy industry, including in applica-
tions where hydrogen is blended with other fuels or feed-
stocks. 
‘‘(d) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS AND OTHER AU-
THORIZED PROJECTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
grants or cooperative agreements on a competitive 
basis for commercial-scale demonstration projects 
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