Sec. 12. Carbon removal
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Subtitle F of title IX of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16291 et seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, in coordination with the appropriate Federal agencies, shall establish a research, development, and demonstration program to test, validate, or improve technologies and strategies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a large scale. The program may include activities in— direct air capture technologies; bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration; enhanced geological weathering; agricultural and grazing practices; forest management and afforestation; and planned or managed carbon sinks, including natural and artificial.
The program under this section shall identify and develop carbon removal technologies and strategies that consider the following: Land use changes. Ocean acidification. Net greenhouse gas emissions. Commercial viability. Potential for near-term impact. Potential for carbon reductions on a gigaton scale. Economic co-benefits. In carrying out the program under this section, the Secretary shall prioritize technologies and strategies that have the potential to meet emissions reduction goals in the agreement of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Department shall collaborate with the Environmental Protection Agency and other relevant agencies to develop and improve accounting frameworks and tools to accurately measure carbon removal and sequestration methods and technologies across the Federal Government. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, as part of the program carried out under this section, the Secretary shall carry out a program to award competitive technology prizes for carbon dioxide capture from media in which the concentration of carbon dioxide is less than 1 percent by volume (in this subsection, known as dilute media ).
In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall— in accordance with section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, develop requirements for— the prize competition process; minimum performance standards for projects eligible to participate in the prize competition; and monitoring and verification procedures for projects selected to receive a prize award; establish minimum levels for the capture of carbon dioxide from dilute media that are required to qualify for a prize award; and offer prize awards for any of the following:
A design for a promising capture technology that will— be operated on a demonstration scale; and have the potential to achieve significant reduction in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A successful bench-scale demonstration of a capture technology. An operational capture technology on a commercial scale. The Secretary shall encourage and promote crosscutting research and development in bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration within the Department. For activities under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary— $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2018, $15,000,000 of which are authorized to carry out subsection (e); $31,500,000 for fiscal year 2019; $33,075,000 for fiscal year 2019; $34,729,000 for fiscal year 2019; and $36,465,000 for fiscal year 2020. .
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