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the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the 
Chief of the Forest Service; and 
‘‘(B) public lands (as defined in section 
103 of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702)), the sur-
face of which is administered by the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting through the Director of 
the Bureau of Land Management. 
‘‘(6) 
INVENTORIED
ROADLESS
AREA.—The 
term ‘Inventoried roadless area’ means one of the 
areas identified in the set of inventoried roadless 
areas maps contained in the Forest Service Roadless 
Areas Conservation, Final Environmental Impact 
Statement, Volume 2, dated November 2000. 
‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out the pilot program.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 210 and inserting the following 
new item: 
‘‘Sec. 210. Biomass utilization pilot program.’’. 
SEC. 
7307. 
PROGRAMMATIC 
ENVIRONMENTAL 
IMPACT 
STATEMENT. 
The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall, in cooperation with the Federal Energy 
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Regulatory Commission and the Secretary of Energy, and 
in consultation with appropriate State agencies, jointly 
prepare programmatic environmental impact statements 
which contain all the elements of an environmental impact 
statement under section 102 of the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332), regarding 
the impacts of the deployment of marine and hydrokinetic 
renewable energy technologies in the navigable waters of 
the United States. One programmatic environmental im-
pact statement shall be prepared under this section for 
each of the Environmental Protection Agency regions of 
the United States. The agencies shall issue the pro-
grammatic environmental impact statements under this 
section not later than 18 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. The programmatic environmental impact 
statements shall evaluate among other things the potential 
impacts of site selection on fish and wildlife and related 
habitat. Nothing in this section shall operate to delay con-
sideration of any application for a license or permit for 
a marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technology 
project. 
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Subtitle D—Carbon Capture and 
Climate Change Mitigation 
CHAPTER 1—GEOLOGICAL 
SEQUESTRATION ASSESSMENT 
SEC. 7401. SHORT TITLE. 
This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘National Carbon 
Dioxide Storage Capacity Assessment Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 7402. NATIONAL ASSESSMENT. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ASSESSMENT.—The term ‘‘assessment’’ 
means the national assessment of capacity for car-
bon dioxide completed under subsection (f). 
(2) CAPACITY.—The term ‘‘capacity’’ means the 
portion of a storage formation that can retain car-
bon dioxide in accordance with the requirements (in-
cluding physical, geological, and economic require-
ments) established under the methodology developed 
under subsection (b). 
(3) ENGINEERED
HAZARD.—The term ‘‘engi-
neered hazard’’ includes the location and completion 
history of any well that could affect potential stor-
age. 
(4) RISK.—The term ‘‘risk’’ includes any risk 
posed 
by 
geomechanical, 
geochemical, 
hydrogeological, structural, and engineered hazards. 
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(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the United States Geological Survey. 
(6) STORAGE FORMATION.—The term ‘‘storage 
formation’’ 
means 
a 
deep 
saline 
formation, 
unmineable coal seam, or oil or gas reservoir that is 
capable of accommodating a volume of industrial 
carbon dioxide. 
(b) METHODOLOGY.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop 
a methodology for conducting an assessment under sub-
section (f), taking into consideration— 
(1) the geographical extent of all potential stor-
age formations in all States; 
(2) the capacity of the potential storage forma-
tions; 
(3) the injectivity of the potential storage for-
mations; 
(4) an estimate of potential volumes of oil and 
gas recoverable by injection and storage of industrial 
carbon dioxide in potential storage formations; 
(5) the risk associated with the potential stor-
age formations; and 
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(6) the Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the 
United States and Canada that was completed by 
the Department of Energy in April 2006. 
(c) COORDINATION.— 
(1) FEDERAL COORDINATION.— 
(A) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall 
consult with the Secretary of Energy and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency on issues of data sharing, format, devel-
opment of the methodology, and content of the 
assessment required under this section to en-
sure the maximum usefulness and success of 
the assessment. 
(B) COOPERATION.—The Secretary of En-
ergy and the Administrator shall cooperate with 
the Secretary to ensure, to the maximum extent 
practicable, the usefulness and success of the 
assessment. 
(2) STATE
COORDINATION.—The Secretary 
shall consult with State geological surveys and other 
relevant entities to ensure, to the maximum extent 
practicable, the usefulness and success of the assess-
ment. 
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