I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2196 
To direct President, utilizing the Western Area Power Administration, to 
acquire renewable energy in amounts sufficient to ensure that, of the 
total amount of electric energy the Federal Government consumes during 
any fiscal year, certain minimum amounts shall be renewable energy, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2011 
Mr. MARKEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct President, utilizing the Western Area Power Ad-
ministration, to acquire renewable energy in amounts 
sufficient to ensure that, of the total amount of electric 
energy the Federal Government consumes during any 
fiscal year, certain minimum amounts shall be renewable 
energy, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Renewable En-
ergy Expansion Act’’ or the ‘‘FREE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RENEWABLE ENERGY REQUIREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 203 of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15852(a)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) The President, utilizing the Western Area 
Power Administration for electric energy procure-
ment when practicable, shall ensure that, to the ex-
tent economically feasible and technically prac-
ticable, of the total amount of electric energy the 
Federal Government consumes during any fiscal 
year, the following amounts shall be renewable en-
ergy: 
‘‘(A) Not less than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2014. 
‘‘(B) Not less than 12.5 percent in fiscal 
years 2015 through 2016. 
‘‘(C) Not less than 15 percent in fiscal 
years 2017 through 2018. 
‘‘(D) Not less than 17.5 percent in fiscal 
years 2019 through 2020. 
‘‘(E) Not less than 20 percent in fiscal 
years 2021 through 2022. 
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‘‘(F) Not less than 22.5 percent in fiscal 
years 2023 through 2024. 
‘‘(G) Not less than 25 percent in fiscal 
year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter. 
‘‘(2) Nothing in this subsection shall require ex-
isting electric energy customers of the Western Area 
Power Administration to pay any of the costs the 
Administration incurs associated with compliance 
with this subsection.’’. 
(b) 
PRODUCTION
ON
FEDERAL
AND
INDIAN 
LANDS.—Section 203 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
(42 U.S.C. 15852) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) PRODUCTION
ON
FEDERAL
AND
INDIAN 
LANDS.—The Secretary of the Interior shall seek to maxi-
mize the amounts of renewable energy produced on Fed-
eral lands and Indian land as defined in title XXVI of 
the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) 
for purposes of compliance with subsection (a).’’. 
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