Desalination Water Supply Shortage Prevention Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to make incentive payments to the owners or operators of qualified desalination facilities (facilities first used to produce commercial desalinated water after enactment of this Act), including facilities owned or operated by Indian tribes, for up to ten years to partially offset the cost of electrical energy required to operate such facilities.
Provides that the qualified facilities shall receive 62 cents for every thousand gallons of desalinated water produced and sold, with an adjustment for inflation. Limits to 60% of the amount of funds made available in any fiscal year that the Secretary may provide to the owners or operators of qualified facilities that obtain source water directly from the sea, an estuary, or in-bank extraction wells of sea water origin.
Directs the Secretary, in awarding incentive payments, to give priority to any application for a project that: (1) uses innovative technologies to reduce energy demand; (2) uses renewable energy supplies in the desalination process; (3) provides regional water supply benefits; (4) provides a secure source of new water supplies for national defense activities; (5) reduces the threat of a water supply disruption as a result of a natural disaster or acts of terrorism; (6) uses technologies that minimize damage to marine life; or (7) provides significant water quality benefits.
Directs the Secretary to support research and development of promising novel technology approaches for the cost-effective desalination of water.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee on Water and Power Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on 109-380, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on 109-380, Part I.
Referred sequentially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for a period ending not later than March 31, 2006 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(f), rule X.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than May 26, 2006.
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 272.
Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
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