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42 U.S.C. § 12403

Section 12403 · Hydrogen research and development

Current version, with additions and removals from the November 15, 1990 version.

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Current — October 9, 1996
As of November 15, 1990
(a) Program
(a) Program

The Secretary shall conduct a research and development program, consistent with the comprehensive 5-year program management plan under section 12402 of this title, to ensure the development of a domestic hydrogen fuel production capability within the shortest time practicable consistent with market conditions.

The Secretary shall conduct a hydrogen research and development program relating to production, storage, transportation, and use of hydrogen, with the goal of enabling the private sector to demonstrate the technical feasibility of using hydrogen for industrial, residential, transportation, and utility applications.

(b) Research
(b) Research

In conducting the program authorized by this section, the Secretary shall—

(1) Particular attention shall be given to developing an understanding and resolution of all critical technical issues preventing the introduction of hydrogen into the marketplace.
(1) give particular attention to developing an understanding and resolution of critical technical issues preventing the introduction of hydrogen into the marketplace;
(2) The Secretary shall initiate research or accelerate existing research in critical technical issues that will contribute to the development of more economic hydrogen production and use, including, but not limited to, critical technical issues with respect to production, liquefaction, transmission, distribution, storage, and use (including use of hydrogen in surface transportation).
(2) initiate or accelerate existing research in critical technical issues that will contribute to the development of more economic hydrogen production and use, including, but not limited to, critical technical issues with respect to production (giving priority to those production techniques that use renewable energy resources as their primary source of energy for hydrogen production), liquefaction, transmission, distribution, storage, and use (including use of hydrogen in surface transportation); and

(3) survey private sector hydrogen activities and take steps to ensure that research and development activities under this section do not displace or compete with the privately funded hydrogen research and development activities of United States industry.

(c) Renewable energy priority
(c) Innovative energy technologies

The Secretary shall give priority to those production techniques that use renewable energy resources as their primary source of energy for hydrogen production.

(d) New technologies
The Secretary shall, for the purpose of performing his responsibilities pursuant to this chapter, solicit proposals for and evaluate any reasonable new or improved technology that could lead or contribute to the development of economic hydrogen production storage and utilization.
The Secretary is authorized to evaluate any reasonable new or improved technology, including basic research on highly innovative energy technologies, that could lead or contribute to the development of economic hydrogen production, storage, and utilization.
(d) Renewable energy systems; hybrid systems

The Secretary is authorized to evaluate any reasonable new or improved technology that could lead or contribute to, or demonstrate the use of, advanced renewable energy systems or hybrid systems for use in isolated communities that currently import diesel fuel as the primary fuel for electric power production.

(e) Information
(e) Information
The Secretary shall conduct evaluations, arrange for tests and demonstrations, and disseminate to developers information, data, and materials necessary to support efforts undertaken pursuant to this section, consistent with section 12405 of this title.
The Secretary is authorized to arrange for tests and demonstrations and to disseminate to researchers and developers information, data, and other materials necessary to support the research and development activities authorized under this section and other efforts authorized under this chapter, consistent with section 12405 of this title.
(f) Federal funding

The Secretary shall carry out the research and development activities authorized under this section only through the funding of research and development proposals submitted by interested persons according to such procedures as the Secretary may require and evaluate on a competitive basis using peer review. Such funding shall be in the form of a grant agreement, procurement contract, or cooperative agreement (as those terms are used in chapter 63 of title 31).

(g) Non-Federal funding

The Secretary shall not consider a proposal submitted by a person from industry unless the proposal contains a certification that reasonable efforts to obtain non-Federal funding for the entire cost of the project have been made, and that such non-Federal funding could not be reasonably obtained. As appropriate, the Secretary shall require a commitment from non-Federal sources of at least 50 percent of the cost of the development portion of such a proposal.

(h) Prohibition on duplicative efforts

The Secretary shall not carry out any activities under this section that unnecessarily duplicate activities carried out elsewhere by the Federal Government or industry.

(i) Federal funding consistent with the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

The Secretary shall establish, after consultation with other Federal agencies, terms and conditions under which Federal funding will be provided under this chapter that are consistent with the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures referred to in section 3511(d)(12) of title 19.

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