Sec. 4003. GAO Study on fossil loan guarantee incentive program
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall carry out, and submit to Congress a report describing the results of, a study on the effectiveness of the advanced fossil loan guarantee incentive program and other incentive programs for advanced fossil energy of the Department. In carrying out the study under subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the United States shall— solicit industry and stakeholder input; evaluate the effectiveness of the advanced fossil loan guarantee incentive program, alone or in combination with other incentives, in advancing carbon capture and storage technology; review each Federal incentive provided by the Department and other Federal agencies for carbon capture and storage demonstration projects to determine the adequacy and effectiveness of the combined Federal incentives in advancing carbon capture and storage and advanced fossil energy technologies; assess whether combinations of the incentive programs in existence as of the date of enactment of this Act could be effective to advance carbon capture and storage and advanced fossil energy technologies; and evaluate the impact and costs of implementing the recommendations described in the January 2015 National Coal Council report entitled Fossil Forward:
Revitalizing CCS, Bringing Scale and Speed to CCS Deployment on the effectiveness of the advanced fossil loan guarantee program.