Sec. 5. 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.) (as amended by section 4(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, including the Secretary of Agriculture, shall establish a research, development, and demonstration program (referred to in this section as the program ) to test, validate, or improve technologies and strategies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a large scale.
The Secretary shall ensure that the program— is cross-cutting in nature; and includes the coordinated participation of the Office of Fossil Energy, the Office of Science, and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The program may include research, development, and demonstration activities relating to— direct air capture and storage 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.
In developing and identifying carbon removal technologies and strategies under the program, the Secretary shall consider— land use changes, including impacts on natural and managed ecosystems; ocean acidification; net greenhouse gas emissions; commercial viability; potential for near-term impact; potential for carbon reductions on a gigaton scale; and economic cobenefits. In this subsection: The term dilute media means media in which the concentration of carbon dioxide is less than 1 percent by volume.
The term prize competition means the competitive technology prize competition established under paragraph (2). Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Enhancing Fossil Fuel Energy Carbon Technology Act of 2019 , the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall establish as part of the program a competitive technology prize competition to award prizes for carbon dioxide capture from dilute media. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary, in accordance with section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3719 ), shall develop requirements for— the prize competition process; and monitoring and verification procedures for projects selected to receive a prize under the prize competition.
To be eligible to be awarded a prize under the prize competition, a project shall— meet minimum performance standards set by the Secretary; meet minimum levels set by the Secretary for the capture of carbon dioxide from dilute media; and demonstrate in the application of the project for a prize— a design for a promising carbon 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 carbon capture technology; or an operational carbon capture technology on a commercial scale.
The direct air capture activities carried out under subsections (c)(1) and
(e)shall be carried out in coordination with, and leveraging lessons learned from, the coal and natural gas technology program established under section 962(b)(1). The Secretary shall collaborate with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies to develop and improve accounting frameworks and tools to accurately measure carbon removal and sequestration methods and technologies across the Federal Government. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section— $45,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, of which $15,000,000 shall be used to carry out subsection (e); $31,500,000 for fiscal year 2021; $33,075,000 for fiscal year 2022; $34,729,000 for fiscal year 2023; and $36,465,000 for fiscal year 2024. . The table of contents for the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–58 ; 119 Stat. 600) (as amended by section 4(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle F of title IX the following: Sec. 969A. Carbon removal. .
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- Pub. L. 109-58
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