Sec. 30471. Advanced industrial facilities deployment program
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to carry out this section. The Secretary shall use funds appropriated by subsection
(a)to establish a program to provide financial assistance, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to carry out projects for— the purchase and installation, or implementation, of advanced industrial technology at an eligible facility; retrofits, upgrades to, or operational improvements at an eligible facility to install or implement advanced industrial technology; or engineering studies and other work needed to prepare an eligible facility for activities described in paragraph
(1)or (2). To be eligible to receive financial assistance under the program established under subsection (b), an eligible entity shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including the expected greenhouse gas emissions reductions to be achieved by carrying out the project. In providing financial assistance under the program established under subsection (b), the Secretary shall give priority consideration to projects on the basis of, as determined by the Secretary— the expected greenhouse gas emissions reductions to be achieved by carrying out the project; the extent to which the project would provide the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people within the area in which the eligible facility is located; and whether the eligible entity participates or would participate in a partnership with purchasers of the output of the eligible facility. The Secretary may require an eligible entity to provide not more than 50 percent of the cost of a project carried out pursuant to this section. The Secretary shall reserve $200,000,000 of amounts made available under subsection
(a)for administrative costs of carrying out this section. The term advanced industrial technology means technology or processes designed to accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reduction progress to net-zero at an eligible facility, as determined by the Secretary, including— industrial energy efficiency technologies; equipment to electrify industrial processes; equipment to utilize low- or zero-carbon fuels, feedstocks, and energy sources; low- or zero-carbon process heat systems; and carbon capture, transport, utilization, and storage systems. The term eligible entity means the owner or operator of an eligible facility. The term eligible facility means a domestic, non-Federal, nonpower industrial or manufacturing facility engaged in energy-intensive industrial processes, including production processes for iron, steel, steel mill products, aluminum, cement, concrete, glass, pulp, paper, and industrial ceramics. The term financial assistance means a grant, rebate, or cooperative agreement. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.