§17251 Carbon capture

Summary

The Secretary must run a program to show how to capture large amounts of carbon dioxide from factories and other industrial sources. The program should pick a mix of different capture technologies to suit different kinds of industries. Grants or awards can pay only for the parts of projects that do the actual large-scale capture (including cleaning and compressing the CO2), move and inject the CO2, and run full measurement, monitoring, and validation work. The program must be linked with the large-scale CO2 storage tests in section 16293(c) without delaying them. Priority goes to projects that capture a high share and large volume of CO2, and to projects near suitable underground reservoirs that can continue storage and connect to field tests under section 16293 or other Secretary-approved storage projects. The CO2 must be pure enough for safe transport and storage. The cost-sharing rules in section 16352 apply. Congress authorized $200,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2009 through 2013.