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(f) APPROPRIATIONS.—There is hereby appropriated 
to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section. 
PART 3—GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED ENERGY 
PROPERTY IN LIEU OF TAX CREDITS 
SEC. 1721. GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED ENERGY PROPERTY IN 
LIEU OF TAX CREDITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Upon application, the Secretary 
of Energy shall, within 60 days of the application and sub-
ject to the requirements of this section, provide a grant 
to each person who places in service specified energy prop-
erty during 2009 or 2010 to reimburse such person for 
a portion of the expense of such facility as provided in 
subsection (b). 
(b) GRANT AMOUNT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amount of the grant 
under subsection (a) with respect to any specified 
energy property shall be the applicable percentage of 
the basis of such facility. 
(2) APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE.—For purposes 
of paragraph (1), the term ‘‘applicable percentage’’ 
means— 
(A) 30 percent in the case of any property 
described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of sub-
section (c), and 
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(B) 10 percent in the case of any other 
property. 
(3)
DOLLAR
LIMITATIONS.—In
the
case
of 
property described in paragraph (2), (6), or (7) of 
subsection (c), the amount of any grant under this 
section with respect to such property shall not ex-
ceed the limitation described in section 48(c)(1)(B), 
48(c)(2)(B), or 48(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, respectively, with respect to such 
property. 
(c) SPECIFIED ENERGY PROPERTY.—For purposes 
of this section, the term ‘‘specified energy property’’ 
means any of the following: 
(1) QUALIFIED
FACILITIES.—Any facility de-
scribed in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (6), (7), (9), 
or (11) of section 45(d) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986. 
(2) QUALIFIED
FUEL
CELL
PROPERTY.—Any 
qualified fuel cell property (as defined in section 
48(c)(1) of such Code). 
(3) SOLAR PROPERTY.—Any property described 
in clause (i) or (ii) of section 48(a)(3)(A) of such 
Code. 
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(4) QUALIFIED
SMALL
WIND
ENERGY
PROP-
ERTY.—Any qualified small wind energy property 
(as defined in section 48(c)(4) of such Code). 
(5) GEOTHERMAL
PROPERTY.—Any property 
described in clause (iii) of section 48(a)(3)(A) of 
such Code. 
(6) QUALIFIED
MICROTURBINE
PROPERTY.— 
Any qualified microturbine property (as defined in 
section 48(c)(2) of such Code). 
(7)
COMBINED
HEAT
AND
POWER
SYSTEM 
PROPERTY.—Any combined heat and power system 
property (as defined in section 48(c)(3) of such 
Code). 
(8) GEOTHERMAL HEATPUMP PROPERTY.—Any 
property
described
in
clause
(vii)
of
section 
48(a)(3)(A) of such Code. 
(d) APPLICATION OF CERTAIN RULES.—In making 
grants under this section, the Secretary of Energy shall 
apply rules similar to the rules of section 50 of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986. In applying such rules, if the 
facility is disposed of, or otherwise ceases to be a qualified 
renewable energy facility, the Secretary of Energy shall 
provide for the recapture of the appropriate percentage of 
the grant amount in such manner as the Secretary of En-
ergy determines appropriate. 
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(e) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN NON-TAXPAYERS.— 
The Secretary of Energy shall not make any grant under 
this section to any Federal, State, or local government (or 
any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality there-
of) or any organization described in section 501(c) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax 
under section 501(a) of such Code. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—Terms used in this section which 
are also used in section 45 or 48 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 shall have the same meaning for purposes 
of this section as when used in such section 45 or 48. 
Any reference in this section to the Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall be treated as including the Secretary’s delegate. 
(g) COORDINATION BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS
OF 
TREASURY AND ENERGY.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall provide the Secretary of Energy with such technical 
assistance as the Secretary of Energy may require in car-
rying out this section. The Secretary of Energy shall pro-
vide the Secretary of the Treasury with such information 
as the Secretary of the Treasury may require in carrying 
out the amendment made by section 1604. 
(h) APPROPRIATIONS.—There is hereby appropriated 
to the Secretary of Energy such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out this section. 
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(i) TERMINATION.—The Secretary of Energy shall 
not make any grant to any person under this section un-
less the application of such person for such grant is re-
ceived before October 1, 2011. 
PART 4—STUDY OF ECONOMIC, EMPLOYMENT, 
AND RELATED EFFECTS OF THIS ACT 
SEC. 1731. STUDY OF ECONOMIC, EMPLOYMENT, AND RE-
LATED EFFECTS OF THIS ACT. 
On February 1, 2010, and every 3 months thereafter 
in calendar year 2010, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to the Committee on Ways and 
Means a written report on the most recent national (and, 
where available, State-by-State) information on— 
(1) the economic effects of this Act; 
(2) the employment effects of this Act, includ-
ing— 
(A) a comparison of the number of jobs 
preserved and the number of jobs created as a 
result of this Act; and 
(B) a comparison of the numbers of jobs 
preserved and the number of jobs created in 
each of the public and private sectors; 
(3) the share of tax and non-tax expenditures 
provided under this Act that were spent or saved, by 
group and income class; 
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(4) how the funds provided to States under this 
Act have been spent, including a breakdown of— 
(A) funds used for services provided to citi-
zens; and 
(B) wages and other compensation for 
public employees; and 
(5) a description of any funds made available 
under this Act that remain unspent, and the reasons 
why. 
TITLE II—ASSISTANCE FOR UN-
EMPLOYED
WORKERS
AND 
STRUGGLING FAMILIES 
SEC. 2000. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Assistance for Unem-
ployed Workers and Struggling Families Act’’. 
Subtitle A—Unemployment 
Insurance 
SEC. 2001. EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMPENSATION PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4007 of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 
U.S.C. 3304 note), as amended by section 4 of the Unem-
ployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 (Public 
Law 110–449; 122 Stat. 5015), is amended— 
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