42 U.S.C. § 17244 — Renewable Energy Innovation Manufacturing Partnership
submitted 19 years ago by Pub. L. 110-140 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 487 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates a partnership program for research, development, and demonstrations involving renewable-energy manufacturing. It sets eligibility, project types, competition, cost sharing, disclosure rules, small-business priority, and funding.
(a) The Secretary* must run the Renewable Energy Innovation Manufacturing Partnership Program to assist eligible entities with renewable-technology manufacturing research, development, and demonstrations. (b) The Secretary must annually solicit competitive awards for eligible projects. (c) The purposes are advanced manufacturing processes, materials, and infrastructure; more domestic renewable-technology and component production; and better coordination of federal, state*, and private resources through partnerships. (d) An eligible entity must include one or more substantially participating nonprofit public or private research, development, demonstration, or technology-transfer institutions or National Laboratories, and one or more private renewable-system-component manufacturers or developers, including in solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, storage, or fuel cells. (e) Awards may fund market-opportunity studies; multiyear applied research, development, demonstrations, and deployment for advanced renewable manufacturing; and similar Secretary-approved ventures. (f) The Secretary must set submission, evaluation, and funding criteria. (g) Section 16352 cost sharing applies. (h) For up to five years after an award, the Secretary may withhold information that would qualify under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) as a confidential trade secret or commercial or financial information from a non-government party. (i) Congress says the Secretary should give small renewable-manufacturing businesses priority consideration. (j) The section authorizes $25 million yearly for fiscal years 2008-2013, available until spent.
The Secretary* shall carry out a program, to be known as the Renewable Energy Innovation Manufacturing Partnership Program (referred to in this section as the “Program”), to make assistance awards to eligible entities for use in carrying out research, development, and demonstration relating to the manufacturing of renewable energy technologies.
To carry out the Program, the Secretary shall annually conduct a competitive solicitation for assistance awards for an eligible project* described in subsection (e).
The purposes of the Program are—
to develop, or aid in the development of, advanced manufacturing processes, materials, and infrastructure;
to increase the domestic production of renewable energy technology and components; and
to better coordinate Federal, State*, and private resources to meet regional and national renewable energy goals through advanced manufacturing partnerships.
An entity shall be eligible to receive an assistance award under the Program to carry out an eligible project described in subsection (e) if the entity is composed of—
1 or more public or private nonprofit institutions or national laboratories engaged in research, development, demonstration, or technology transfer, that would participate substantially in the project; and
1 or more private entities engaged in the manufacturing or development of renewable energy system components (including solar energy, wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy, energy storage, or fuel cells).
An eligible entity may use an assistance award provided under this section to carry out a project relating to—
the conduct of studies of market opportunities for component manufacturing of renewable energy systems;
the conduct of multiyear applied research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects for advanced manufacturing processes, materials, and infrastructure for renewable energy systems; and
other similar ventures, as approved by the Secretary, that promote advanced manufacturing of renewable technologies.
The Secretary shall establish criteria and guidelines for the submission, evaluation, and funding of proposed projects under the Program.
Section 16352 of this title shall apply to a project carried out under this section.
The Secretary may, for a period of up to 5 years after an award is granted under this section, exempt from mandatory disclosure under section 552 of title 5 (popularly known as the Freedom of Information Act) information that the Secretary determines would be a privileged or confidential trade secret or commercial or financial information under subsection (b)(4) of such section if the information had been obtained from a non-Government party.
It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should ensure that small businesses engaged in renewable manufacturing be given priority consideration for the assistance awards provided under this section.
There is authorized to be appropriated out of funds already authorized to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2013, to remain available until expended.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 110–140, title VI, § 656, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1703.)
- 2007Enacted · Pub. L. 110-140 · 121 Stat. 1703
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