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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5656 
To provide for Federal energy research, development, demonstration, and 
commercial application activities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 21, 2006 
Mrs. BIGGERT (for herself, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. HALL, Mr. SMITH of Texas, 
Mr. CALVERT, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, and Mr. 
WAMP) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Science 
A BILL 
To provide for Federal energy research, development, dem-
onstration, and commercial application activities, 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 ‘‘Energy Research, De-
velopment, Demonstration, and Commercial Application 
Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act— 
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(1) the term ‘‘biomass’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 932(a)(1) of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16232(a)(1)); 
(2) the term ‘‘cellulosic feedstock’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘lignocellulosic feedstock’’ 
in section 932(a)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 
2005 (42 U.S.C. 16232(a)(2)); 
(3) the term ‘‘engineering-scale’’ means the 
minimum size required to predict with confidence all 
physical processes controlling the performance of a 
full-scale industrial facility; 
(4) the term ‘‘National Laboratory’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘nonmilitary energy labora-
tory’’ in section 903(3) of the Energy Policy Act of 
2005 (42 U.S.C. 16182(3)); and 
(5) the term ‘‘Secretary’’means the Secretary of 
Energy. 
SEC. 3. FUTUREGEN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry out a 
project to demonstrate the feasibility of the commercial 
application of advanced clean coal energy technology, in-
cluding carbon capture and geological sequestration, for 
electricity generation. 
(b) INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT.—The Secretary may 
conduct the project through a financial assistance coopera-
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tive agreement with a consortium of coal-fired power pro-
ducers, coal companies, and other electric utility industry 
and mining industry participants 
(c) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall design the 
project to ensure that— 
(1) the project is operating by 2012; 
(2) the project shall be able— 
(A) to achieve at least a 99 percent reduc-
tion in sulfur dioxide emissions or, when burn-
ing coal containing 3 pounds or less of sulfur 
per million British thermal units, the project 
shall be able to emit no more than 0.03 pounds 
of sulfur dioxide emissions per million British 
thermal units of thermal energy produced by 
the project; 
(B) to emit no more than 0.05 pounds of 
nitrogen oxide emissions per million British 
thermal units of thermal energy produced by 
the project; 
(C) to achieve at least a 90 percent reduc-
tion in mercury emissions; 
(D) to emit no more than 0.005 of total 
particulate emissions in the flue gas per million 
British thermal units of thermal energy pro-
duced by the project; and 
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(E) to achieve at least a 90 percent reduc-
tion in carbon dioxide emissions; and 
(3) the project demonstrates the feasibility of 
electricity generation from coal using advanced clean 
coal technology with carbon capture and geological 
sequestration at a cost not greater than 10 percent 
higher than the average of all commercial integrated 
coal gasification combined cycle electric generating 
plants operating in the United States as of the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(d) COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ADVANCED CLEAN 
COAL TECHNOLOGY.—To reduce technical risk and focus 
development efforts on system integration, the Secretary 
shall, to the extent practicable, ensure that the project uti-
lizes available advanced clean coal technology, such as coal 
gasification technology, for those components of the 
project where such technology would be appropriate. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
out this section— 
(1) $54,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(2) $112,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
(3) $130,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
(4) $95,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; 
(5) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; and 
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(6) $71,000,000 for fiscal year 2012. 
SEC. 4. ADVANCED FUEL CYCLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR NU-
CLEAR POWER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry out a 
program of research, development, demonstration, and 
commercial application for advanced nuclear fuel cycle 
technologies for generating electricity and industrial proc-
ess heat from nuclear power, including technologies for 
spent fuel recycling, waste minimization, and reduction of 
radioactivity of final waste products. 
(b) OBJECTIVES.—The Secretary shall design the 
program under this section to develop technologies that 
would— 
(1) minimize the volume and heat load of high- 
level nuclear waste destined for storage in a geologi-
cal repository to the extent that a single repository 
would be sufficient for storing all nuclear waste gen-
erated by United States commercial nuclear power 
plants during this century; 
(2) increase the proliferation resistance of com-
mercial nuclear power reactors and their associated 
fuel systems and infrastructure; and 
(3) increase the amount of useful energy that 
can be extracted from nuclear fuel. 
(c) SYSTEMS ANALYSIS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop 
a comprehensive modeling and simulation capability 
to enable a thorough analysis of possible advanced 
nuclear fuel cycle systems. The modeling and sim-
ulation capability shall be capable of examining— 
(A) all of the components of each advanced 
nuclear fuel cycle system analyzed, including— 
(i) spent fuel separations technologies; 
(ii) advanced burner reactor tech-
nologies; 
(iii) fuel fabrication technologies; 
(iv) advanced thermal reactor tech-
nologies, including advanced thermal reac-
tor designs that would be capable of reduc-
ing the toxicity or radioactivity of spent 
nuclear fuel components; and 
(v) waste disposal technologies; 
(B) the manner in which possible tech-
nology and engineering choices for individual 
components might affect the overall system, 
and how various system components would 
interact with one another; and 
(C) quantitative mass flows of nuclear fuel 
and spent nuclear fuel, including projected in-
ventories and transportation requirements for 
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