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To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize and improve the carbon capture and storage research, development, and demonstration program of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

April 18, 2007

Mr. UDALL of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science and TechnologyCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize and improve the carbon capture and storage research, development, and demonstration program of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Storage Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007'. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.

(a) Amendments- Section 963 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16293) is amended-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) in the section heading, by striking `research and development' and inserting `and storage research, development, and demonstration'; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) in subsection (a)-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) by striking `research and development' and inserting `and storage research, development, and demonstration'; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) by striking `capture technologies on combustion-based systems' and inserting `capture and storage technologies related to energylectric power generating systems'; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(3) in subsection (b)-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(A) in paragraph (3), by striking `and' at the end; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting `; and'; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(C) by adding at the end the following: CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(5) to expedite and carry out large-scale testing of carbon sequestration systems in a range of geological formations that will provide information on the cost and feasibility of deployment of sequestration technologies.'; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(4) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following: CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(c) Programmatic Activities- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(1) ENERGYFUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNDERLYAND DEMONSTRATION SUPPORTING CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall carry out fundamental science and engineering research (including laboratory-scale experiments, numeric modeling, and simulations) to develop and document the performance of new approaches to capture and store carbon dioxide, or to learn how to use carbon dioxide in products to lead to an overall reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) PROGRAM INTEGRATION- The Secretary shall ensure that fundamental research carried out under this paragraph is appropriately applied to energy technology development activities and the field testing of carbon sequestration and carbon use activities, including-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(i) development of new or improvadvanced technologies for the capture of carbon dioxide; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(ii) development of new or advanced technologies that reduce the cost and increase the efficacy of the compression of carbon dioxide required for the storage of carbon dioxide; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(iii) modeling and simulation of geological sequestration field demonstrations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





and`(iii`(iv) quantitative assessment of risks relating to specific field sites for testing of sequestration technologies; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(v) research and development of new and advanced technologies for carbon use, including recycling and reuse of carbon dioxide. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(2) FIELD VALIDATION TESTING ACTIVITIES- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall promote, to the maximum extent practicable, regional carbon sequestration partnerships to conduct geologic sequestration tests involving carbon dioxide injection and monitoring, mitigation, and verification operations in a variety of candidate geological settings, including-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(i) operating oil and gas fields; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(ii) depleted oil and gas fields; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(iii) unmineable coal seams; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(iv) deep saline formations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





and`(v) deep geologic systems that may be used as engineered reservoirs to extract economical quantities of heat from geothermal resources of low permeability or porosity; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(vi) deep geologic systems containing basalt formations; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(vii) high altitude terrain oil and gas fields. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) OBJECTIVES- The objectives of tests conducted under this paragraph shall be-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(i) to develop and validate geophysical tools, analysis, and modeling to monitor, predict, and verify carbon dioxide containment; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(ii) to validate modeling of geological formations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(iii) to refine storage capacity estimated for particular geological formations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(iv) to determine the fate of carbon dioxide concurrent with and following injection into geological formations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(v) to develop and implement best practices for operations relating to, and monitoring of, injection and storage of carbon dioxide in geologic formations; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(vi) to assess and ensure the safety of operations related to geological storage of carbon dioxide; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





and`(vii) to allow the Secretary to promulgate policies, procedures, requirements, and guidance to ensure that the objectives of this subparagraph are met in large-scale testing and deployment activities for carbon capture and storage that are funded by the Department of Energy; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(viii) to support Environmental Protection Agency efforts, in consultation with other agencies, to develop a scientifically sound regulatory framework to enable commercial-scale sequestration operations while safeguarding human health and underground sources of drinking water. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(3) LARGE-SCALE CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION TESTINGAND DEPLOYMENT-`(A) - CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall conduct not less than 7 initial large-volume sequestration tests for geological containment of carbon dioxide , not including the FutureGen project, for geological containment of carbon dioxide (at least 1 of which shall be international in scope) to validate information on the cost and feasibility of commercial deployment of technologies for geological containment of carbon dioxide. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) DIVERSITY OF FORMATIONS TO BE STUDIED- In selecting formations for study under this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider a variety of geological formations across the United States, and require characterization and modeling of candidate formations, as determined by the Secretary. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(C) SOURCE OF CARBON DIOXIDE FOR LARGE-SCALE SEQUESTRATION DEMONSTRATIONS- In the process of any acquisition of carbon dioxide for sequestration demonstrations under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall give preference to purchases of carbon dioxide from industrial and coal-fired electric generation facilities. To the extent feasible, the Secretary shall prefer test projects from industrial and coal-fired electric generation facilities that would facilitate the creation of an integrated system of capture, transportation and storage of carbon dioxide. Until coal-fired electric generation facilities, either new or existing, are operating with carbon dioxide capture technologies, other industrial sources of carbon dioxide should be pursued under this paragraph. The preference provided for under this subparagraph shall not delay the implementation of the large-scale sequestration tests under this paragraph. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(D) DEFINITION- For purposes of this paragraph, the term `large-scale' means the injection of more than 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or a scale that demonstrably exceeds the necessary thresholds in key geologic transients to validate the ability continuously to inject quantities on the order of several million metric tons of industrial carbon dioxide annually for a large number of years. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(4) LARGE-SCALE DEMONSTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall carry out at least 3 and no more than 5 demonstrations, that include each of the technologies described in subparagraph (B), for the large-scale capture of carbon dioxide from industrial sources of carbon dioxide, at least 2 of which are facilities that generate electric energy from fossil fuels. Candidate facilities for other demonstrations under this paragraph shall include facilities that refine petroleum, manufacture iron or steel, manufacture cement or cement clinker, manufacture commodity chemicals, and ethanol and fertilizer plants. Consideration may be given to capture of carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and electric generation carbon sources that are near suitable geological reservoirs and could continue sequestration. To ensure reduced carbon dioxide emissions, the Secretary shall take necessary actions to provide for the integration of the program under this paragraph with the long-term carbon dioxide sequestration demonstrations described in paragraph (3). These actions should not delay implementation of the large-scale sequestration tests authorized in paragraph (3). CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) TECHNOLOGIES- The technologies referred to in subparagraph (A) are precombustion capture, post-combustion capture, and oxycombustion. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(C) SCOPE OF AWARD- An award under this paragraph shall be only for the portion of the project that carries out the large-scale capture (including purification and compression) of carbon dioxide, as well as the cost of transportation and injection of carbon dioxide. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(5) PREFERENCE IN PROJECT SELECTION FROM MERITORIOUS PROPOSALS- In making competitive awards under this subsection, subject to the requirements of section 989, the Secretary shall give preference to proposals from partnerships among industrial, academic, and government entities. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(56) COST SHARING- Activities under this subsection shall be considered research and development activities that are subject to the cost-sharing requirements of section 988(b), except that the Federal share of a project under paragraph (4) shall not exceed 50 percent. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(d) Authorization of Appropriations- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--`(1) $9IN GENERAL- There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out this section, other than subsection (c)(3) and (4)-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2007;8; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(C) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(D) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2011. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(2) $105SEQUESTRATION- There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out subsection (c)(3)-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





and `(B) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(C) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(D) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2011. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(3) $12CARBON CAPTURE- There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out subsection (c)(4)-- CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(A) $180,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(B) $180,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(C) $180,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; and CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`(D) $180,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.'. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) Table of Contents Amendment- The item relating to section 963 in the table of contents for the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is amended to read as follows: CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





`Sec. 963. Carbon capture and storage research, development, and demonstration program.'. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink