Sec. 117. Shoring up electricity generation and reducing evaporation at Bureau of Reclamation facilities
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The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, an assessment of opportunities to install and maintain photovoltaic solar panels (including floating solar panels) at Bureau of Reclamation facilities. The assessment conducted under paragraph
(1)shall— include a description of the economic, environmental, and technical feasibility of installing and maintaining, or contracting with third parties to install and maintain, photovoltaic solar panels at Bureau of Reclamation facilities; identify Bureau of Reclamation facilities with a high potential for the installation and maintenance of photovoltaic solar panels and whether such installation and maintenance would require additional authorization; account for potential impacts of photovoltaic solar panels at Bureau of Reclamation facilities and the authorized purposes of such facilities, including potential impacts related to evaporation suppression, energy yield, dam safety, recreation, water quality, and fish and wildlife; account for potential damage to floating photovoltaic solar panels from weather, water level fluctuations, recreational co-use and other project uses; and account for the availability of electric grid infrastructure, including underutilized transmission infrastructure. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress, and make publicly available (including on a publicly available website), a report containing the results of the assessment conducted under subsection (a).