Title: GRID Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Guaranteeing Resilient Installations for Defense Act or the GRID Act
This bill gives the Department of Energy (DOE) the authority to address the vulnerability of critical defense facilities to electric energy supply disruptions. Specifically, DOE may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with external providers of electric energy to (1) improve the resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure, or (2) reduce such vulnerability.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8053 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8053

  To provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into 
   contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the resilience of 
 defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the vulnerability 
   of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the supply of 
                  electric energy to those facilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 14, 2022

   Mr. Crow (for himself, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Bacon) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into 
   contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the resilience of 
 defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the vulnerability 
   of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the supply of 
                  electric energy to those facilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Guaranteeing Resilient Installations 
for Defense Act'' or the ``GRID Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFENSE CRITICAL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY.

    Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``of the 48 
                contiguous States or the District of Columbia'' and 
                inserting ``State'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph 
                (9); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) Resilience.--The term `resilience' has the meaning 
        given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence 
        and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).'';
            (2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``the 48 contiguous States and the District of 
        Columbia'' and inserting ``any State''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Authority To Address Vulnerabilities.--The Secretary may, to 
the extent that funds are made available for such purposes in advance 
in appropriations Acts, enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
with external providers of electric energy--
            ``(1) to improve the resilience of defense critical 
        electric infrastructure; and
            ``(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense 
        facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption of 
        the supply of electric energy to those facilities.''.
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