A bill to encourage the deployment of clean coal technologies so as to assure the development of additional electric generation and industrial energy capacity.
Clean Coal Technology Deployment Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a Clean Coal Technology Assistance Program; and (2) provide financial assistance to commercial-sized projects using innovative clean coal technologies which require such assistance in order to encourage their commercial deployment. Outlines the criteria for such assistance. Mandates that such assistance be in the form of grants-in-aid.
Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year in the ten-fiscal-year period which begins after the date of enactment of this Act.
Presents guidelines under which clean coal technologies are subject to regulatory treatment. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to consult and coordinate designated clean coal technologies with State authorities. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations implementing this Act within six months after its date of enactment.
Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Research and Development.
Subcommittee on Research and Development. Hearings held.
Subcommittee on Research and Development. Hearings held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Energy Department, OMB.
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