SEC. 4. NATIONAL MARINE AND HYDROKINETIC RENEW-
ABLE ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, 
AND DEMONSTRATION CENTERS. 
Section 634 of the Energy Independence and Security 
Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17213) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘AND 
HYDROKINETIC’’ after ‘‘MARINE’’; 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by in-
serting ‘‘and Hydrokinetic’’ after ‘‘Marine’’; and 
(3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.—The Centers— 
‘‘(1) shall— 
‘‘(A) advance research, development, dem-
onstration, and commercial application of ma-
rine and hydrokinetic renewable energy tech-
nologies; and 
‘‘(B) serve as information clearinghouses 
for the marine and hydrokinetic renewable en-
ergy industry by collecting and disseminating 
information on best practices in all areas relat-
ing to developing and managing marine and 
hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies; and 
‘‘(2) may serve as technology test facilities es-
tablished under section 633(c).’’. 
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SEC. 5. MARINE-BASED ENERGY DEVICE VERIFICATION 
PROGRAM. 
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 
(42 U.S.C. 17211 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating sections 635 and 636 (42 
U.S.C. 17214, 17215) as sections 638 and 639, re-
spectively; and 
(2) by inserting after section 634 (42 U.S.C. 
17213) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 635. MARINE-BASED ENERGY DEVICE VERIFICATION 
PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish a marine-based energy device verification program to 
provide a bridge from the marine and hydrokinetic renew-
able energy capture device design and development efforts 
underway across the industry to commercial deployment 
of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy devices. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the program are 
to fund, facilitate the development and installation of, and 
evaluate marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy 
projects, in partnership with Federally Funded Research 
and Development Centers, and in conjunction with Cen-
ters established under section 634, universities and other 
institutions of higher education, private business entities, 
and other appropriate organizations, in order— 
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‘‘(1) to increase marine and hydrokinetic renew-
able energy experience; and 
‘‘(2) to build and operate enough candidate de-
vices to obtain statistically significant operating and 
maintenance data. 
‘‘(c) OBJECTIVES.—The objectives of the program 
shall include— 
‘‘(1) verifying the performance, reliability, 
maintainability, and cost of new marine and 
hydrokinetic renewable energy device designs and 
system components in an operating environment; 
‘‘(2) providing States, regulators, utilities, and 
other stakeholders with a valid opportunity to test 
and evaluate marine and hydrokinetic renewable en-
ergy technology in new areas; 
‘‘(3) documenting and communicating the expe-
rience from those projects for the benefit of utilities, 
independent power producers, other nonutility gen-
erators, device suppliers, and others in the marine 
and hydrokinetic renewable energy development com-
munity; and 
‘‘(4) resolving environmental issues through ro-
bust characterization, reliable impact prediction, ef-
fective monitoring, development, and use of adaptive 
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management, and informing engineering design to 
improve environmental performance.’’. 
SEC. 6. ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 
(42 U.S.C. 17211 et seq.) (as amended by section 5) is 
amended by inserting after section 635 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 636. ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
‘‘(1) the use of marine and hydrokinetic renew-
able energy technologies can reduce contributions to 
global warming; 
‘‘(2) marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy 
technologies can be produced domestically; 
‘‘(3) marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy 
is a nascent industry; and 
‘‘(4) the United States must work to promote 
new renewable energy technologies that reduce con-
tributions to global warming gases and improve do-
mestic energy production. 
‘‘(b) GRANT PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—As soon as practicable 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
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Secretary shall establish a program under which the 
Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities— 
‘‘(A) to advance the development of marine 
and hydrokinetic renewable energy; 
‘‘(B) to help fund the costs of environ-
mental analysis affecting the deployment of ma-
rine hydrokinetic devices; 
‘‘(C) to help enable the eligible entities— 
‘‘(i) to gather and collect the types of 
environmental data that are required when 
working in a public resource (including the 
waterways and oceans of the United 
States); and 
‘‘(ii) to monitor the impacts of dem-
onstration projects and make the resulting 
information available for widespread dis-
semination to aid future projects; and 
‘‘(D) to help fund the cost of advancing re-
newable marine and hydrokinetic technologies 
in ocean and riverine environments from dem-
onstration projects to development and deploy-
ment. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this paragraph, an entity shall submit 
to the Secretary an application at such time, in such 
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