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(C) an upgrade of the Advanced Photon 
Source to improve brightness and performance. 
(c) ENERGY FRONTIER RESEARCH CENTERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall carry out 
a grant program to provide awards, on a competi-
tive, merit-reviewed basis, to multi-institutional col-
laborations or other appropriate entities to conduct 
fundamental and use-inspired energy research to ac-
celerate scientific breakthroughs related to needs 
identified in— 
(A) the Grand Challenges report of the De-
partment’s Basic Energy Sciences Advisory 
Committee; 
(B) the Basic Energy Sciences Basic Re-
search Needs workshop reports; 
(C) energy-related Grand Challenges for 
Engineering, as described by the National 
Academy of Engineering; or 
(D) other relevant reports identified by the 
Director. 
(2) COLLABORATIONS.—A collaboration receiv-
ing a grant under this subsection may include mul-
tiple types of institutions and private sector entities. 
(3) SELECTION AND DURATION.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—A collaboration under 
this subsection shall be selected for a period of 
5 years. 
(B) REAPPLICATION.—After the end of the 
period described in subparagraph (A), a grantee 
may reapply for selection for a second period of 
5 years on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis. 
(4) NO
FUNDING
FOR
CONSTRUCTION.—No 
funding provided pursuant to this subsection may be 
used for the construction of new buildings or facili-
ties. 
(d) 
ACCELERATOR
RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOP-
MENT.—The Director shall carry out research and devel-
opment on advanced accelerator technologies relevant to 
the development of Basic Energy Sciences user facilities, 
in consultation with the Office of Science’s High Energy 
Physics and Nuclear Physics programs. 
SEC. 605. BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities author-
ized under section 603, and coordinated with the activities 
authorized in section 604, the Director shall carry out a 
program of research, development, and demonstration in 
the areas of biological systems science and climate and en-
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vironmental science to support the energy and environ-
mental missions of the Department. 
(b) BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS SCIENCE ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) ACTIVITIES.—As part of the activities au-
thorized under subsection (a), the Director shall 
carry out research, development, and demonstration 
activities in fundamental, structural, computational, 
and systems biology to increase systems-level under-
standing of complex biological systems, which shall 
include activities to— 
(A) accelerate breakthroughs and new 
knowledge that will enable cost-effective sus-
tainable production of— 
(i) biomass-based liquid transpor-
tation fuels, including hydrogen; 
(ii) bioenergy; and 
(iii) biobased products, 
that support the energy and environmental mis-
sions of the Department; 
(B) improve understanding of the global 
carbon cycle, including processes for removing 
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, through 
photosynthesis and other biological processes, 
for sequestration and storage; and 
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(C) understand the biological mechanisms 
used to destroy, immobilize, or remove contami-
nants from subsurface environments. 
(2) RESEARCH PLAN.— 
(A) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 
year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Director shall prepare and transmit to Congress 
a research plan describing how the activities au-
thorized under this subsection will be under-
taken. 
(B) UTILIZATION OF EXISTING PLAN.—In 
developing the plan in subparagraph (A), the 
Director may utilize an existing research plan 
and update such plan to incorporate the activi-
ties identified in paragraph (1). 
(C) UPDATES.—Not later than 3 years 
after the initial report under this paragraph, 
and at least once every 3 years thereafter, the 
Director shall update the research plan and 
transmit it to Congress. 
(3) BIOENERGY RESEARCH CENTERS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the ac-
tivities under paragraph (1), the Director shall 
support at least 3 bioenergy research centers to 
accelerate basic biological research, develop-
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ment, demonstration, and commercial applica-
tion of biomass-based liquid transportation 
fuels, bioenergy, and biobased products that 
support the energy and environmental missions 
of the Department and are produced from a va-
riety of regionally diverse feedstocks. 
(B) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—The Di-
rector shall ensure that the bioenergy research 
centers under this paragraph are established in 
geographically diverse locations. 
(C) SELECTION AND DURATION.—A center 
established under subparagraph (A) shall be se-
lected on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis for 
a period of 5 years beginning on the date of es-
tablishment of that center. A center already in 
existence on the date of enactment of this Act 
may continue to receive support for a period of 
5 years beginning on the date of establishment 
of that center. 
(4) ENABLING SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY PLAN.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in con-
sultation with other relevant Federal agencies, 
the academic community, research-based non-
profit entities, and the private sector, shall de-
velop a comprehensive plan for federally sup-
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ported research and development activities that 
will support the energy and environmental mis-
sions of the Department and enable a competi-
tive synthetic biology industry in the United 
States. 
(B) PLAN.—The plan developed under sub-
paragraph (A) shall assess the need to create a 
database for synthetic biology information, the 
need and process for developing standards for 
biological parts, components and systems, and 
the need for a federally funded facility that en-
ables the discovery, design, development, pro-
duction, and systematic use of parts, compo-
nents, and systems created through synthetic 
biology. The plan shall describe the role of the 
Federal Government in meeting these needs. 
(C) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—The Sec-
retary shall transmit the plan developed under 
subparagraph (A) to the Congress not later 
than 9 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(5) COMPUTATIONAL
BIOLOGY
AND
SYSTEMS 
BIOLOGY KNOWLEDGEBASE.—As part of the activi-
ties described in paragraph (1), the Director, in col-
laboration with the Advanced Scientific Computing 
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Research program described in section 606, shall 
carry out research in computational biology, acquire 
or otherwise ensure the availability of hardware for 
biology-specific computation, and establish and 
maintain an open virtual database and information 
management system to centrally integrate systems 
biology data, analytical software, and computational 
modeling tools that will allow data sharing and free 
information exchange within the scientific commu-
nity. 
(6) PROHIBITION ON BIOMEDICAL AND HUMAN 
CELL AND HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH.— 
(A) NO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH.—In car-
rying out activities under subsection (b), the 
Secretary shall not conduct biomedical research. 
(B) LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in subsection 
(b) shall authorize the Secretary to conduct any 
research or demonstrations— 
(i) on human cells or human subjects; 
or 
(ii) designed to have direct application 
with respect to human cells or human sub-
jects. 
(C) INFORMATION SHARING.—Nothing in 
this paragraph shall restrict the Department 
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from sharing information, including research 
findings, research methodologies, models, or 
any other information, with any Federal agen-
cy. 
(7) REPEAL.—Section 977 of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16317) is repealed. 
(c) CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AC-
TIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities au-
thorized under subsection (a), the Director shall 
carry out climate and environmental science re-
search, which shall include activities to— 
(A) understand, observe, and model the re-
sponse of the Earth’s atmosphere and bio-
sphere, including oceans and the Great Lakes, 
to increased concentrations of greenhouse gas 
emissions, and any associated changes in cli-
mate; 
(B) understand the processes for seques-
tration, destruction, immobilization, or removal 
of, and understand the movement of, contami-
nants and carbon in subsurface environments, 
including at facilities of the Department; and 
(C) inform potential mitigation and adap-
tation options for increased concentrations of 
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greenhouse gas emissions and any associated 
changes in climate. 
(2) 
SUBSURFACE
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
RE-
SEARCH.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities 
described in paragraph (1), the Director shall 
carry out research to advance a fundamental 
understanding of coupled physical, chemical, 
and biological processes for controlling the 
movement of sequestered carbon and subsurface 
environmental contaminants, including field ob-
servations of subsurface microorganisms and 
field-scale subsurface research. 
(B) COORDINATION.— 
(i) DIRECTOR.—The Director shall 
carry out activities under this paragraph in 
accordance with priorities established by 
the Department’s Under Secretary for 
Science to support and accelerate the de-
contamination of relevant facilities man-
aged by the Department. 
(ii) 
UNDER
SECRETARY
FOR 
SCIENCE.—The Department’s Under Sec-
retary for Science shall ensure the coordi-
nation of the activities of the Department, 
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including activities under this paragraph, 
to support and accelerate the decontamina-
tion of relevant facilities managed by the 
Department. 
(3) NEXT-GENERATION
ECOSYSTEM-CLIMATE 
EXPERIMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities 
described in paragraph (1), the Director, in col-
laboration with other relevant agencies that are 
participants in the United States Global 
Change Research Program, shall carry out the 
selection and development of a next-generation 
ecosystem-climate change experiment to under-
stand the impact and feedbacks of increased 
temperature and elevated carbon levels on eco-
systems. 
(B) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall transmit to the Congress a report con-
taining— 
(i) an identification of the location or 
locations that have been selected for the 
experiment described in subparagraph (A); 
(ii) a description of the need for addi-
tional experiments; and 
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(iii) an associated research plan. 
(4) AMERIFLUX NETWORK COORDINATION AND 
RESEARCH.—As part of the activities described in 
paragraph (1), the Director shall carry out research 
and coordinate the AmeriFlux Network to directly 
observe and understand the exchange of greenhouse 
gases, water vapor, and heat energy within terres-
trial ecosystems and the response of those systems 
to climate change and other dynamic terrestrial 
landscape changes. The Director, in collaboration 
with other relevant Federal agencies, shall— 
(A) identify opportunities to incorporate 
innovative and emerging observation tech-
nologies and practices into the existing Net-
work; 
(B) conduct research to determine the 
need for increased greenhouse gas observation 
Network facilities across North America to 
meet future mitigation and adaptation needs of 
the United States; and 
(C) examine how the technologies and 
practices described in subparagraph (A), and 
increased coordination among scientific commu-
nities through the Network, have the potential 
to help characterize terrestrial baseline green-
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house gas emission sources and sinks in the 
United States and internationally. 
(5) CLIMATE AND EARTH MODELING.—As part 
of the activities described in paragraph (1), the Di-
rector, in collaboration with the Advanced Scientific 
Computing Research program described in section 
606, shall carry out research to develop, evaluate, 
and use high-resolution regional climate, global cli-
mate, Earth, and predictive models to inform deci-
sions on reducing the impacts of changing climate. 
(6) INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT RESEARCH.—As 
part of the activities described in paragraph (1), the 
Director shall carry out research into options for 
mitigation of and adaptation to climate change 
through multiscale models of the entire climate sys-
tem. Such modeling shall include human processes 
and greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and inter-
action among human and Earth systems. 
(7) COORDINATION.—The Director shall coordi-
nate activities under this subsection with other Of-
fice of Science activities and with the United States 
Global Change Research Program. 
(d) USER
FACILITIES
AND
ANCILLARY
EQUIP-
MENT.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall carry out 
a program for the construction, operation, and main-
tenance of user facilities to support the program 
under this section. As practicable, these facilities 
shall serve the needs of the Department, industry, 
the academic community, and other relevant entities. 
(2) INCLUDED FUNCTIONS.—User facilities de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall include facilities which 
carry out— 
(A) genome sequencing and analysis of 
plants, microbes, and microbial communities 
using high throughput tools, technologies, and 
comparative analysis; 
(B) molecular level research in biological, 
chemical, 
environmental, 
and 
subsurface 
sciences, including synthesis, dynamic prop-
erties, and interactions among natural and en-
gineered materials; and 
(C) measurement of cloud and aerosol 
properties used for examining atmospheric proc-
esses and evaluating climate model perform-
ance, including ground stations at various loca-
tions, mobile resources, and aerial vehicles. 
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SEC. 606. ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING RESEARCH 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—As part of the activities author-
ized under section 603, the Director shall carry out a re-
search, development, demonstration, and commercial ap-
plication program to advance computational and net-
working capabilities to analyze, model, simulate, and pre-
dict complex phenomena relevant to the development of 
new energy technologies and the competitiveness of the 
United States. 
(b) COORDINATION.— 
(1) DIRECTOR.—The Director shall carry out 
activities under this section in accordance with prior-
ities established by the Department’s Under Sec-
retary for Science to determine and meet the com-
putational and networking research and facility 
needs of the Office of Science and all other relevant 
energy technology and energy efficiency programs 
within the Department. 
(2) UNDER
SECRETARY
FOR
SCIENCE.—The 
Department’s Under Secretary for Science shall en-
sure the coordination of the activities of the Depart-
ment, including activities under this section, to de-
termine and meet the computational and networking 
research and facility needs of the Office of Science 
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and all other relevant energy technology and energy 
efficiency programs within the Department. 
(c) RESEARCH
TO
SUPPORT
ENERGY
APPLICA-
TIONS.—As part of the activities authorized under sub-
section (a), the program shall support research in high- 
performance computing and networking relevant to energy 
applications, including both basic and applied energy re-
search programs carried out by the Secretary. 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) ADVANCED COMPUTING FOR ENERGY APPLI-
CATIONS.—Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit 
to the Congress a plan to integrate and leverage the 
expertise and capabilities of the program described 
in subsection (a), as well as other relevant computa-
tional and networking research programs and re-
sources supported by the Federal Government, to 
advance the missions of the Department’s applied 
energy and energy efficiency programs, including the 
development of smart grid technologies. 
(2) 
EXASCALE
COMPUTING.—At 
least 
months prior to the initiation of construction or in-
stallation of any exascale-class computing facility, 
the Secretary shall transmit a plan to the Congress 
detailing— 
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(A) the proposed facility’s cost projections 
and capabilities to significantly accelerate the 
development of new energy technologies; 
(B) technical risks and challenges that 
must be overcome to achieve successful comple-
tion and operation of the facility; and 
(C) an assessment of the scientific and 
technological advances expected from such a fa-
cility relative to those expected from a com-
parable investment in expanded research and 
applications at terascale-class and petascale- 
class computing facilities. 
(e) APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND SOFTWARE DEVEL-
OPMENT FOR HIGH-END COMPUTING SYSTEMS.—The Di-
rector shall carry out activities to develop, test, and sup-
port mathematics, models, and algorithms for complex 
systems, as well as programming environments, tools, lan-
guages, and operating systems for high-end computing 
systems (as defined in section 2 of the Department of En-
ergy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 (15 
U.S.C. 5541)). 
(f) HIGH-END COMPUTING FACILITIES.—The Direc-
tor shall— 
(1) provide for sustained access by the public 
and private research community in the United 
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States to high-end computing systems, including ac-
cess to the National Energy Research Scientific 
Computing Center and to Leadership Systems (as 
defined in section 2 of the Department of Energy 
High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 (15 
U.S.C. 5541)); 
(2) provide technical support for users of such 
systems; and 
(3) conduct research and development on next- 
generation computing architectures and platforms to 
support the missions of the Department. 
(g) OUTREACH.—The Secretary shall conduct out-
reach programs and may form partnerships to increase the 
use of and access to high-performance computing mod-
eling and simulation capabilities by industry, including 
manufacturers. 
SEC. 607. FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—As part of the activities authorized 
under section 603, the Director shall carry out a fusion 
energy sciences research and enabling technology develop-
ment program to effectively address the scientific and en-
gineering challenges to building a cost-competitive fusion 
power plant and a competitive fusion power industry in 
the United States. As part of this program, the Director 
shall carry out research activities to expand the funda-
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mental understanding of plasmas and matter at very high 
temperatures and densities. 
(b) ITER.—The Director shall coordinate and carry 
out the responsibilities of the United States with respect 
to the ITER international fusion project pursuant to the 
Agreement on the Establishment of the ITER Inter-
national Fusion Energy Organization for the Joint Imple-
mentation of the ITER Project. 
(c) IDENTIFICATION OF PRIORITIES.—Not later than 
18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report on the 
Department’s proposed research and development activi-
ties in magnetic fusion over the 10 years following the date 
of enactment of this Act under four realistic budget sce-
narios. The report shall— 
(1) identify specific areas of fusion energy re-
search and enabling technology development in 
which the United States can and should establish or 
solidify a lead in the global fusion energy develop-
ment effort; and 
(2) identify priorities for initiation of facility 
construction and facility decommissioning under 
each of those scenarios. 
(d) FUSION MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-
MENT.—The Director, in coordination with the Assistant 
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Secretary for Nuclear Energy of the Department, shall 
carry out research and development activities to identify, 
characterize, and create materials that can endure the 
neutron, plasma, and heat fluxes expected in a commercial 
fusion power plant. As part of the activities authorized 
under subsection (c), the Secretary shall— 
(1) provide an assessment of the need for a fa-
cility or facilities that can examine and test potential 
fusion and next generation fission materials and 
other enabling technologies relevant to the develop-
ment of commercial fusion power plants; and 
(2) provide an assessment of whether a single 
new facility that substantially addresses magnetic 
fusion, inertial fusion, and next generation fission 
materials research needs is feasible, in conjunction 
with the expected capabilities of facilities operational 
as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
(e) ENABLING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.—The 
Secretary shall carry out activities to develop technologies 
necessary to enable the reliable, sustainable, safe, and eco-
nomically competitive operation of a commercial fusion 
power plant. 
(f) FUSION SIMULATION PROJECT.—In collaboration 
with the Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Com-
puting Research program described in section 606, the Di-
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rector shall carry out a computational project to advance 
the capability of fusion researchers to accurately simulate 
an entire fusion energy system. 
(g) INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH AND DE-
VELOPMENT PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall carry out a 
program of research and technology development in iner-
tial fusion for energy applications, including ion beam and 
laser fusion. Not later than 180 days after the release of 
a report from the National Academies on inertial fusion 
energy research, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress 
a report describing the Department’s plan to incorporate 
any relevant recommendations from the National Acad-
emies’ report into this program. 
SEC. 608. HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—As part of the activities authorized 
under section 603, the Director shall carry out a research 
program on the elementary constituents of matter and en-
ergy and the nature of space and time. 
(b) NEUTRINO RESEARCH.—As part of the program 
described in subsection (a), the Director shall carry out 
research activities on rare decay processes and the nature 
of the neutrino, which may— 
(1) include collaborations with the National 
Science Foundation on relevant projects; and 
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(2) utilize components of existing accelerator 
facilities to produce neutrino beams of sufficient in-
tensity to explore research priorities identified by the 
High Energy Physics Advisory Panel or the National 
Academy of Sciences. 
(c) DARK
ENERGY
AND
DARK
MATTER
RE-
SEARCH.—As part of the program described in subsection 
(a), the Director shall carry out research activities on the 
nature of dark energy and dark matter. These activities 
shall be consistent with research priorities identified by 
the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel or the National 
Academy of Sciences, and may include— 
(1) the development of space-based and land- 
based facilities and experiments; and 
(2) collaborations with the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, the National Science 
Foundation, or international collaborations on rel-
evant research projects. 
(d) 
ACCELERATOR
RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOP-
MENT.—The Director shall carry out research and devel-
opment in advanced accelerator concepts and technologies 
to reduce the necessary scope and cost for the next genera-
tion of particle accelerators. 
(e) INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION.—The Direc-
tor, as practicable and in coordination with other appro-
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priate Federal agencies as necessary, shall ensure the ac-
cess of United States researchers to the most advanced 
accelerator facilities and research capabilities in the world, 
including the Large Hadron Collider. 
SEC. 609. NUCLEAR PHYSICS PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—As part of the activities authorized 
under section 603, the Director shall carry out a research 
program, and support relevant facilities, to discover and 
understand various forms of nuclear matter. 
(b) FACILITY CONSTRUCTION
AND UPGRADES.— 
Consistent with the Office of Science’s project manage-
ment practices, the Director shall carry out— 
(1) an upgrade of the Continuous Electron 
Beam Accelerator Facility to a 12 gigaelectronvolt 
beam of electrons; and 
(2) construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope 
Beams. 
(c) ISOTOPE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION FOR 
RESEARCH APPLICATIONS.—The Director shall carry out 
a program for the production of isotopes, including the 
development of techniques to produce isotopes, that the 
Secretary determines are needed for research, excluding 
medical research. In making this determination, the Sec-
retary shall consider any relevant recommendations made 
by Federal advisory committees, the National Academies, 
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and interagency working groups in which the Department 
participates. 
SEC. 610. SCIENCE LABORATORIES INFRASTRUCTURE PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—The Director shall carry out a pro-
gram to improve the safety, efficiency, and mission readi-
ness of infrastructure at Office of Science laboratories. 
The program shall include projects to— 
(1) renovate or replace space that does not 
meet research needs; 
(2) replace facilities that are no longer cost ef-
fective to renovate or operate; 
(3) modernize utility systems to prevent failures 
and ensure efficiency; 
(4) remove excess facilities to allow safe and ef-
ficient operations; and 
(5) construct modern facilities to conduct ad-
vanced research in controlled environmental condi-
tions. 
(b) MINOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—Using operation and mainte-
nance funds or facilities and infrastructure funds 
authorized by law, the Secretary may carry out 
minor construction projects with respect to labora-
tories administered by the Office of Science. 
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(2) ANNUAL
REPORT.—The Secretary shall 
submit to Congress, as part of the annual budget 
submission of the Department, a report on each ex-
ercise of the authority under subsection (a) during 
the preceding fiscal year. Each report shall include 
a summary of maintenance and infrastructure needs 
and associated funding requirements at each of the 
laboratories, including the amount of both planned 
and deferred infrastructure spending at each labora-
tory. Each report shall provide a brief description of 
each minor construction project covered by the re-
port. 
(3) COST VARIATION REPORTS.—If, at any time 
during the construction of any minor construction 
project, the estimated cost of the project is revised 
and the revised cost of the project exceeds the minor 
construction threshold, the Secretary shall imme-
diately submit to Congress a report explaining the 
reasons for the cost variation. 
(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(A) the term ‘‘minor construction project’’ 
means any plant project not specifically author-
ized by law for which the approved total esti-
mated cost does not exceed the minor construc-
tion threshold; and 
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(B) the term ‘‘minor construction thresh-
old’’ means $10,000,000, with such amount to 
be adjusted by the Secretary in accordance with 
the Engineering News-Record Construction 
Cost Index, or an appropriate alternative index 
as determined by the Secretary, once every five 
years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(5) NONAPPLICABILITY.—Sections 4703 and 
4704 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 
2743 and 2744) shall not apply to laboratories ad-
ministered by the Office of Science. 
SEC. 611. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary for the activities of the Office of Science— 
(1) $5,247,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, of 
which— 
(A) $1,875,000,000 shall be for Basic En-
ergy Sciences activities under section 604; 
(B) $667,000,000 shall be for Biological 
and Environmental Research activities under 
section 605; and 
(C) $466,000,000 shall be for Advanced 
Scientific Computing Research activities under 
section 606; 
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(2) $5,614,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, of 
which— 
(A) $2,025,000,000 shall be for Basic En-
ergy Sciences activities under section 604; 
(B) $720,000,000 shall be for Biological 
and Environmental Research activities under 
section 605; and 
(C) $503,000,000 shall be for Advanced 
Scientific Computing Research activities under 
section 606; 
(3) $6,007,000,000 for fiscal year 2013, of 
which— 
(A) $2,187,000,000 shall be for Basic En-
ergy Sciences activities under section 604; 
(B) $778,000,000 shall be for Biological 
and Environmental Research activities under 
section 605; and 
(C) $544,000,000 shall be for Advanced 
Scientific Computing Research activities under 
section 606; 
(4) $6,428,000,000 for fiscal year 2014, of 
which— 
(A) $2,362,000,000 shall be for Basic En-
ergy Sciences activities under section 604; 
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(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘and applied’’ after ‘‘advances in fundamental’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (B); 
(C) by striking the period at the end of 
subparagraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) promoting the commercial application 
of advanced energy technologies.’’; 
(2) in subsection (e)(3), by amending subpara-
graph (C) to read as follows: 
‘‘(C) research and development of ad-
vanced manufacturing process and technologies 
for the domestic manufacturing of novel energy 
technologies; and’’; 
(3) in subsection (e)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (3)(D); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (4) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(5) pursuant to subsection (c)(2)(C)— 
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‘‘(A) ensuring that applications for funding 
disclose the extent of current and prior efforts, 
including monetary investments as appropriate, 
in pursuit of the technology area for which 
funding is being requested; 
‘‘(B) adopting measures to ensure that, in 
making awards, program managers adhere to 
the objectives in subsection (c)(2)(C); and 
‘‘(C) providing as part of the annual report 
required by subsection (h)(1) a summary of the 
instances of and reasons for ARPA-E funding 
projects in technology areas already being un-
dertaken by industry.’’; 
(4) by redesignating subsections (f) through 
(m) as subsections (g), (h), (i), (j), (l), (m), (n), and 
(o), respectively; 
(5) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(f) AWARDS.—In carrying out this section, the Di-
rector may initiate and execute awards in the form of 
grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, cash prizes, 
and other transactions. The Director shall make awards 
designed to overcome the long-term and high-risk barriers 
relating to the goals and means set forth in subsection 
(c) and facilitate submissions, where possible by small 
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businesses and entrepreneurs, pursuant to announcements 
published not less frequently than annually, of funding op-
portunities for— 
‘‘(1) specific areas of technological innovation; 
and 
‘‘(2) broadly defined areas of science and tech-
nology, 
to remain open for periods of one year.’’; 
(6) in subsection (g), as so redesignated by 
paragraph (4) of this section— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 
(2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; 
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as 
so redesignated by subparagraph (A) of this 
paragraph, the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall establish 
and maintain within ARPA-E a staff with sufficient 
qualifications and expertise to enable ARPA-E to 
carry out its responsibilities under this section in 
conjunction with the operations of the rest of the 
Department.’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2)(A), as so redesig-
nated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph— 
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(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘PROGRAM MANAGERS’’ and inserting 
‘‘PROGRAM DIRECTORS’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘program managers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘program directors’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘each of’’. 
(D) in paragraph (2)(B), as so redesig-
nated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph— 
(i) by striking ‘‘program manager’’ 
and inserting ‘‘program director’’; 
(ii) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘, with 
advice under subsection (j) as appro-
priate,’’; 
(iii) by redesignating clauses (v) and 
(vi) as clauses (vi) and (viii), respectively; 
(iv) by inserting after clause (iv) the 
following new clause: 
‘‘(v) identifying innovative cost-shar-
ing arrangements for ARPA-E projects, in-
cluding through use of the authority under 
section 988(b)(3) of the Energy Policy Act 
of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16352(b)(3));’’; 
(v) in clause (vi), as so redesignated 
by clause (iii) of this subparagraph, by 
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striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
and 
(vi) by inserting after clause (vi), as 
so redesignated by clause (iii) of this sub-
paragraph, the following new clause: 
‘‘(vii) identifying mechanisms for com-
mercial application of successful energy 
technology development projects, including 
through establishment of partnerships be-
tween awardees and commercial entities; 
and’’; 
(E) in paragraph (2)(C), as so redesig-
nated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, 
by inserting ‘‘up to’’ after ‘‘shall be’’; 
(F) in paragraph (3)(B), as so redesig-
nated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, 
by striking ‘‘not less than 70, and not more 
than 120,’’ and inserting ‘‘not more than 120’’; 
and 
(G) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) FELLOWSHIPS.—The Director is author-
ized to select exceptional early-career and senior sci-
entific, legal, business, and technical personnel to 
serve as fellows to work at ARPA-E for terms not 
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to exceed two years. Responsibilities of fellows may 
include— 
‘‘(A) supporting program directors in pro-
gram creation, design, implementation, and 
management; 
‘‘(B) exploring technical fields for future 
ARPA-E program areas; 
‘‘(C) assisting the Director in the creation 
of the strategic vision for ARPA-E referred to 
in subsection (h)(2); 
‘‘(D) preparing energy technology and eco-
nomic analyses; and 
‘‘(E) any other appropriate responsibilities 
identified by the Director.’’; 
(7) in subsection (h)(2), as so redesignated by 
paragraph (4) of this section— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2008’’ and inserting 
‘‘2010’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘2011’’ and inserting 
‘‘2013’’; 
(8) by amending subsection (j), as so redesig-
nated by paragraph (4) of this section, to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(j) 
FEDERAL
DEMONSTRATION
OF
TECH-
NOLOGIES.—The Director shall seek opportunities to part-
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(C) a nongovernmental organization with 
expertise in advanced energy technology re-
search, development, demonstration, or com-
mercial application; or 
(D) any other relevant entity the Secretary 
considers appropriate. 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
out this section— 
(1) $110,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; 
(2) $135,000,000 for fiscal year 2012; 
(3) $195,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; 
(4) $210,000,000 for fiscal year 2014; and 
(5) $210,000,000 for fiscal year 2015. 
Subtitle D—Cooperative Research 
and Development Fund 
SEC. 641. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Cooperative Re-
search and Development Fund Authorization Act of 
2010’’. 
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