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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4990 
To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy of a program 
of Federal support for local governments that establish Clean Energy 
Bond Acts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2006 
Mr. ISRAEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide for the establishment by the Secretary of Energy 
of a program of Federal support for local governments 
that establish Clean Energy Bond Acts. 
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 ‘‘Local Clean Energy 
Initiative Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall es-
tablish a program to provide to local governments that es-
tablish a Clean Energy Bond Act grants in an amount 
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up to 20 percent of the costs of implementing clean energy 
projects funded by the Clean Energy Bond Act. 
(b) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under the 
program established under subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall give preference to local governments that will be en-
gaging in the full range of clean energy projects, and to 
those who can demonstrate a prior commitment to envi-
ronmental conservation. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Energy $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2007 through 2011 to carry out this Act. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘alternative transportation fuel’’ 
means methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco-
hols; mixtures containing 85 percent or more by vol-
ume of methanol, denatured ethanol, and other alco-
hols with gasoline or other fuels; natural gas; 
liquified petroleum gas; hydrogen; coal-derived liquid 
fuels; fuels (other than alcohol) derived from biologi-
cal materials (including neat biodiesel); and elec-
tricity (including electricity from solar energy); 
(2) the term ‘‘Clean Energy Bond Act’’ means 
a statute authorizing a local government to issue 
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bonds for the purpose of funding clean energy 
projects; 
(3) the term ‘‘clean energy project’’ means— 
(A) an energy conservation measure; 
(B) a project to update or convert munic-
ipal buildings to generate power from a renew-
able energy source; and 
(C) a project to replace automobiles owned 
by the local government with hybrid vehicles or 
vehicles that run on alternative transportation 
fuel; 
(4) the term ‘‘energy conservation measure’’ 
means a measure that is applied to an existing mu-
nicipal building that improves energy efficiency and 
is life cycle cost effective and that involves energy 
conservation, cogeneration facilities, renewable en-
ergy sources, improvements in operation and mainte-
nance efficiencies, or retrofit activities; and 
(5) the term ‘‘renewable energy source’’ means 
solar heat, solar light, wind, geothermal energy, and 
biomass, except for— 
(A) heat from the burning of municipal 
solid waste; or 
(B) heat from a dry steam geothermal res-
ervoir which— 
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(i) has no mobile liquid in its natural 
state; 
(ii) is a fluid composed of at least 95 
percent water vapor; and 
(iii) has an enthalpy for the total pro-
duced fluid greater than or equal to 2.791 
megajoules per kilogram (1200 British 
thermal units per pound). 
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