42 U.S.C. § 17113b — Advanced industrial facilities deployment program

(a) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations: Congress appropriated $5,812,000,000 to the Secretary of Energy, to be spent through the Department's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, for fiscal year 2022. This money comes from the general Treasury and stays available for spending through September 30, 2026. (b) Financial assistance: The Secretary must use this money to give financial assistance, awarded competitively, to eligible entities. It can pay for buying and installing advanced industrial technology at an eligible facility; retrofitting, upgrading, or otherwise improving an eligible facility's operations to add that technology; or engineering studies and other prep work needed before either of those things can happen. (c) Application: To get this assistance, an eligible entity must apply the way the Secretary requires, and the application must include the greenhouse gas emissions reductions the project is expected to achieve. (d) Priority: In deciding which projects to fund, the Secretary must give priority, based on the Secretary's own judgment, to projects with the biggest expected greenhouse gas emissions reductions, projects that benefit the most people in the area where the facility sits, and projects where the eligible entity has, or would have, a partnership with the people who buy the facility's output. (e) Cost share: The eligible entity receiving funds must cover at least 50 percent of the project's cost itself. (f) Administrative costs: The Secretary can set aside no more than $300,000,000 of the total appropriation to cover the administrative costs of running this program. (g) Definitions: This section defines four terms. "Advanced industrial technology" is a technology directly used in one of the six industrial-process focus areas listed in section 17113(c), that the Secretary decides is designed to speed up progress toward net-zero emissions at an eligible facility. An "eligible entity" is the owner or operator of an eligible facility. An "eligible facility" is a domestic, non-Federal, nonpower industrial or manufacturing facility running energy-intensive processes — such as making iron, steel, aluminum, cement, glass, paper, or chemicals — or any other energy-intensive process the Secretary names. "Financial assistance" means a grant, rebate, direct loan, or cooperative agreement.