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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 1512 (Introduced in House) — To build a clean and prosperous future by addressing the climate crisis, protecting the health and welfare of all Ame... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Table of contents

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The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Title I—National Climate Target Subtitle A—National Target Sec. 101. National goals. Sec. 102. Federal agency plans. Sec. 103. Accountability. Sec. 104. Clean Economy Federal Advisory Committee. Sec. 105. Recommendations for interim goals. Sec. 106. Definitions. Subtitle B—National Academy of Sciences Review Sec. 111. National Academy of Sciences review. Title II—Power Subtitle A—Clean Electricity Standard Sec. 201.
Definitions. Sec. 202. Zero-emission electricity requirement. Sec. 203. Zero-emission electricity credit trading program. Sec. 204. Determination and issuance of quantity of zero-emission electricity credits. Sec. 205. Carbon Mitigation Fund. Sec. 206. State programs. Sec. 207. Report to Congress. Sec. 208. Information collection. Sec. 209. Civil penalties. Sec. 210. Regulations. Subtitle B—Federal Energy Regulatory Reform Part 1—Electricity Transmission Sec. 211. National policy on transmission.
Sec. 212. Review of the effectiveness of policies and incentives to encourage deployment of advanced transmission technologies. Sec. 213. Siting of interstate electric transmission facilities. Sec. 214. Non-transmission alternatives. Sec. 215. Office of Transmission. Sec. 216. Identifying regional transmission needs. Sec. 217. Interregional transmission planning. Sec. 218. Transmission siting assistance program. Part 2—Public Interest and Energy Market Reforms Sec. 220. Market barriers to clean energy development.
Sec. 220A. Office of Public Participation. Sec. 220B. Public interest under the Natural Gas Act. Sec. 220C. Modifications to exercise of the right of eminent domain by holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Subtitle C—Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act Reform Sec. 221. Consideration of energy storage systems. Sec. 222. Coordination of programs. Sec. 223. Promoting consideration and utilization of non-wires solutions. Sec. 224. Contract options for qualified facilities.
Sec. 225. Establishment of community solar programs. Sec. 226. Rural and remote communities electrification grants. Subtitle D—Electricity Infrastructure Modernization and Resilience Sec. 230. 21st century power grid. Sec. 231. Microgrids. Sec. 232. Strategic transformer reserve program. Sec. 233. Department of Energy support to repower communities. Sec. 234. Environmental Protection Agency support to repower communities. Sec. 235. Dam safety. Sec. 236. Clean energy microgrid grant program.
Subtitle E—Clean Electricity Generation Sec. 241. Distributed energy resources. Sec. 242. Grant program for solar installations located in, or that serve, low-income and underserved areas. Sec. 243. Hydropower licensing and process improvements. Sec. 244. Long-term nuclear power purchase agreement pilot program. Sec. 245. Distributed renewable energy. Sec. 246. Power purchase agreements. Sec. 247. Hydropower regulatory improvements. Sec. 248. Study on equitable distribution of benefits of clean energy.
Subtitle F—Low-Income Assistance Sec. 251. LIHEAP authorization. Title III—Efficiency Subtitle A—Energy Saving Building Codes Sec. 301. Energy saving building codes. Subtitle B—Existing Building Retrofits Sec. 311. Energy efficient public buildings. Sec. 312. Grants for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy improvements at public school facilities. Subtitle C—Promoting Energy Efficiency Sec. 321. Removing barriers to efficiency. Sec. 322. Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program.
Sec. 323. Nonprofit energy efficiency pilot program. Sec. 324. Home Wildfire Risk Reduction Rebate Program. Sec. 325. State energy-efficient appliance rebate program. Subtitle D—HOPE for HOMES Sec. 331. Definitions. Part 1—HOPE training Sec. 332. Notice for HOPE Qualification training and grants. Sec. 333. Course criteria. Sec. 334. HOPE Qualification. Sec. 335. Grants. Sec. 336. Authorization of appropriations. Part 2—Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program Sec. 337. Establishment of Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program.
Sec. 338. Partial system rebates. Sec. 339. State administered rebates. Sec. 340. Special provisions for moderate income households. Sec. 341. Evaluation reports to Congress. Sec. 342. Administration. Sec. 343. Treatment of rebates. Sec. 344. Authorization of appropriations. Part 3—General provisions Sec. 345. Appointment of personnel. Sec. 346. Maintenance of funding. Subtitle E—Investing in State Energy Sec. 351. Investing in State energy. Sec. 352. State energy security plans.
Subtitle F—FEMP Sec. 361. Energy and water performance requirement for Federal facilities. Subtitle G—Open Back Better Sec. 371. Facilities energy resiliency. Sec. 372. Personnel. Subtitle H—Benchmarking Sec. 381. Definitions. Sec. 382. Commercial and multifamily building benchmarking and transparency initiative. Sec. 383. National benchmarking requirement. Sec. 384. Exemptions and extensions. Sec. 385. Data transparency and sharing. Sec. 386. Federal implementation and support.
Title IV—Transportation Subtitle A—Greenhouse Gas Pollution Emission Standards Sec. 401. Transportation carbon management. Subtitle B—Cleaner Fuels Sec. 411. Accelerating approval of clean fuels. Sec. 412. Annual deadline for petitions by small refineries for exemptions from renewable fuel requirements. Sec. 413. Information in petition subject to public disclosure. Subtitle C—ZEV Vehicle Deployment Sec. 421. Reauthorization of diesel emissions reduction program. Sec. 422. Pilot program for the electrification of certain refrigerated vehicles.
Sec. 423. Clean School Bus Program. Sec. 424. Clean Cities Coalition Program. Subtitle D—Zero Emissions Vehicle Infrastructure Buildout Part 1—Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Sec. 431. Definitions. Sec. 432. Electric vehicle supply equipment rebate program. Sec. 433. Model building code for electric vehicle supply equipment. Sec. 434. Electric vehicle supply equipment coordination. Sec. 435. State consideration of electric vehicle charging. Sec. 436. State energy plans. Sec. 437.
Transportation electrification. Sec. 438. Federal fleets. Part 2—Electric Vehicles for Underserved Communities Sec. 440A. Expanding access to electric vehicles in underserved and disadvantaged communities. Sec. 440B. Electric vehicle charging equity program. Sec. 440C. Ensuring program benefits for underserved and disadvantaged communities. Sec. 440D. Definitions. Part 3—Electric Vehicle Mapping Sec. 440E. Definitions. Sec. 440F. Electric vehicle charging station mapping program.
Sec. 440G. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle E—Promoting Domestic Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Sec. 441. Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program. Sec. 442. Advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program. Subtitle F—Port Electrification and Decarbonization Sec. 451. Definitions. Sec. 452. Grants to reduce air pollution at ports. Sec. 453. Model methodologies. Sec. 454. Port electrification. Sec. 455. Authorization of appropriations. Title V—Industry Subtitle A—Industrial Technology Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Sec. 501.
DOE Assistant Secretary for manufacturing and industry. Sec. 502. Supporting carbon dioxide geologic sequestration. Sec. 503. Determining reasonable prospect of repayment under title XVII loan program. Sec. 504. Clean energy manufacturing grant program. Subtitle B—Industrial Efficiency Sec. 511. Smart manufacturing leadership. Subtitle C—Federal Buy Clean Program Sec. 521. Definitions. Sec. 522. Embodied emissions transparency. Sec. 523. Reports to Congress. Sec. 524. Establishing buy clean standards for federally funded infrastructure projects.
Sec. 525. Climate Star program. Subtitle D—Industrial efficiency incentives Sec. 531. Purposes. Sec. 532. Sustainable industry rebate program. Sec. 533. Industrial efficiency working group. Title VI—Environmental Justice Subtitle A—Empowering Community Voices Sec. 601. Definitions. Sec. 602. Environmental justice community technical assistance grants. Sec. 603. Interagency Federal Working Group on Environmental Justice. Sec. 604. Federal agency actions to address environmental justice.
Sec. 605. National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Sec. 606. Reducing disproportionate impacts of pollution on environmental justice communities. Sec. 607. Ensuring environmental justice in the disposal of hazardous waste. Sec. 608. Hazardous release community notification. Sec. 609. Environmental justice grant programs. Sec. 610. Environmental justice community solid waste disposal technical assistance grants. Sec. 611. Training of employees of Federal agencies. Sec. 612.
Environmental justice basic training program. Sec. 613. Environmental justice clearinghouse. Sec. 614. Public meetings. Sec. 615. Environmental justice community, State, and Tribal grant programs. Sec. 616. Public health risks associated with cumulative environmental stressors. Sec. 617. Climate Justice Grant Program. Sec. 618. Office of Energy Equity. Subtitle B—Restoring Regulatory Protections Sec. 621. Enhancing underground injection controls for enhanced oil recovery. Sec. 622.
Ensuring safe disposal of coal ash. Sec. 623. Safe hydration is an American right in energy development. Sec. 624. Addressing hazardous air pollution from oil and gas sources. Sec. 625. Closing loopholes and ending arbitrary and needless evasion of regulations. Subtitle C—Infrastructure To Protect Communities Sec. 631. Climate impacts financial assurance and user fees. Sec. 632. Brownfields funding. Sec. 633. Drinking Water SRF funding. Sec. 634. Drinking water system resilience funding.
Sec. 635. PFAS treatment grants. Sec. 636. National Priorities List cleanup. Sec. 637. Lead service line replacement. Subtitle D—Climate Public Health Protection Sec. 641. Sense of Congress on public health and climate change. Sec. 642. Relationship to other laws. Sec. 643. National strategic action plan and program. Sec. 644. Advisory board. Sec. 645. Climate change health protection and promotion reports. Subtitle E—Public Health Air Quality Infrastructure Sec. 651. Health emergency air toxics monitoring.
Sec. 652. Community air toxics monitoring. Sec. 653. Criteria pollutant/NAAQS monitoring network. Sec. 654. Sensor monitoring. Sec. 655. Environmental health disparities research grant programs. Sec. 656. Definitions. Title VII—Super Pollutants Subtitle A—Methane Sec. 701. Controlling methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector. Sec. 702. Controlling flaring. Sec. 703. Emerging oil and natural gas greenhouse gas emission reduction technologies program. Sec. 704. Improving the natural gas distribution system.
Sec. 705. Grants for composting and anaerobic digestion food waste-to-energy projects. Subtitle B—Black Carbon Sec. 711. Definitions. Sec. 712. Reduction of black carbon emissions. Title VIII—Economywide Policies Subtitle A—State Climate Plans Sec. 801. State Climate Plans. Subtitle B—Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator Sec. 811. Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. Subtitle C—Clean Energy Workforce Part 1—Office of Economic Impact, Diversity, and Employment Sec. 821.
Name of office. Sec. 822. Energy workforce development programs. Sec. 823. Authorization. Part 2—Energy Workforce Development Sec. 824. Energy workforce development. Sec. 825. Energy workforce grant program. Sec. 826. Definitions. Subtitle D—National Security Sec. 831. Climate change national security strategy. Sec. 832. Coordination on climate change and national security. Sec. 833. Federal agency implementation plan. Sec. 834. Definitions. Subtitle E—Ensuring Just and Equitable Climate Action Sec. 841.
Worker protections. Sec. 842. Funding for environmental justice communities. Subtitle F—Climate Risk Disclosures Sec. 851. Sense of Congress. Sec. 852. Disclosures relating to climate change. Sec. 853. Backstop. Title IX—Waste Reduction Subtitle A—Clean Air Sec. 901. Definitions. Sec. 902. Clean air. Sec. 903. Environmental justice. Subtitle B—Product Standards and Producer Responsibility Sec. 911. Product standards and producer responsibility. Sec. 912. Federal procurement. Sec. 913.
Task force on extended producer responsibility. Sec. 914. National Academy of Sciences review. Subtitle C—Zero-Waste grants Sec. 921. Definitions. Sec. 922. Grants for zero-waste projects. Sec. 923. Grants for landfill diversion. Sec. 924. Grant applications. Sec. 925. Reporting. Sec. 926. Annual conference. Sec. 927. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle D—Education and Outreach Sec. 931. Definition of Administrator. Sec. 932. Consumer recycling education and outreach grant program.
Sec. 933. Electronic waste education and awareness. Sec. 934. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle E—Critical Minerals Sec. 941. Definitions. Sec. 942. Grants for battery collection, recycling, and reprocessing. Sec. 943. Best practices for collection of batteries. Sec. 944. Voluntary labeling program. Sec. 945. Task force on battery producer responsibility. Sec. 946. Task force on wind and solar recycling. Sec. 947. Studies on disposal and recycling. Sec. 948. Authorization of appropriations.
Title X—Worker and Community Transition Sec. 1001. Definitions. Sec. 1002. Energy and economic transition impact studies. Sec. 1003. Office of Energy and Economic Transition. Sec. 1004. Interagency Energy and Economic Transition Task Force. Sec. 1005. Stakeholder Advisory Committee. Sec. 1006. Assistance for adversely affected communities. Sec. 1007. Community-based transition hub program.
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