Sec. 806. Low-methane intensity natural gas pilot program

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The Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, in coordination with the Secretary of each military department (as such term is defined in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code), may establish a pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility of installations of the Department of Defense using certified low-methane intensity natural gas, including demonstrating the quantities of such gas that are feasible. In carrying out the pilot program, the Director shall select installations of the Department for which the natural gas acquired for such installations shall be certified low-methane intensity natural gas.

The Director may select only installations of the Department that are located within the continental United States to participate in the pilot program. In carrying out the pilot program, the Director shall select not fewer than 5 installations of the Department to participate in the pilot program. If the Director establishes the pilot program, the Director shall carry out the pilot program until the date determined by the Director that is not earlier than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act and not later than five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

In this section: The term certified low-methane intensity natural gas means natural gas produced by facilities and through processes certified by an independent, industry-recognized certifying entity as complying with low-methane intensity standards. The term Department means the Department of Defense. The term Director means the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency. The term low-methane intensity standards means industry-recognized standards— for verifying, quantifying, and diminishing the unintentional release of methane during the production of natural gas below the average amount of methane unintentionally released during such production; and certification of compliance with which is commercially available from independent, industry-recognized certifying entities.

The term pilot program means the pilot program established under subsection (a).