Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2012 (Engrossed in Senate) — To provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes. · Sec. 3005

Sec. 3005. National goals for production and site identification

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It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act— the Secretary of the Interior shall seek to approve a significant increase in new geothermal energy capacity on public land across a geographically diverse set of States using the full range of available technologies; and the Director of the Geological Survey and the Secretary should identify sites capable of producing a total of 50,000 megawatts of geothermal power, using the full range of available technologies, through a program conducted in collaboration with industry, including cost-shared exploration drilling.