42 U.S.C. § 17251: Carbon capture

Summary

The Secretary must run a program to test and demonstrate big systems that remove carbon dioxide from factories and other industrial sources. Awards should support a mix of different capture methods so they work for many kinds of industries. Grants may pay only for the parts of a project that capture and prepare the CO2 (cleaning and compressing), move and inject the CO2, and carry out full measurement, monitoring, and verification. The Secretary must coordinate this program with the large-scale sequestration tests in section 16293(c) without slowing those tests. Priority goes to projects that capture a large share and amount of CO2 and to projects located near usable underground reservoirs that can continue storing CO2 (including field testing under section 16293 or other Secretary-approved storage projects). CO2 meant for storage must be pure enough for safe transport and injection. Cost-sharing rules in section 16352 apply. Congress authorized $200,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2009 through 2013.

Title 42, §17251

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(a)Program establishment

(1)In general

The Secretary shall carry out a program to demonstrate technologies for the large-scale capture of carbon dioxide from industrial sources. In making awards under this program, the Secretary shall select, as appropriate, a diversity of capture technologies to address the need to capture carbon dioxide from a range of industrial sources.

(2)Scope of award

Awards under this section shall be only for the portion of the project that—

(A)carries out the large-scale capture (including purification and compression) of carbon dioxide from industrial sources;

(B)provides for the transportation and injection of carbon dioxide; and

(C)incorporates a comprehensive measurement, monitoring, and validation program.

(3)Preferences for award

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 large-scale carbon dioxide sequestration tests described in section 16293(c) of this title. These actions should not delay implementation of these tests. The Secretary shall give priority consideration to projects with the following characteristics:

(A)Capacity

Projects that will capture a high percentage of the carbon dioxide in the treated stream and large volumes of carbon dioxide as determined by the Secretary.

(B)Sequestration

Projects that capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources that are near suitable geological reservoirs and could continue sequestration including—

(i)a field testing validation activity under section 16293 of this title; or

(ii)other geologic sequestration projects approved by the Secretary.

(4)Requirement

For projects that generate carbon dioxide that is to be sequestered, the carbon dioxide stream shall be of a sufficient purity level to allow for safe transport and sequestration.

(5)Cost-sharing

The cost-sharing requirements of section 16352 of this title for research and development projects shall apply to this section.

(b)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $200,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2009 through 2013.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2020—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “section 16293(c)” for “section 16293(c)(3)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

Short Title

Subtitle A (§§ 701–708) of title VII of Pub. L. 110–140, which is classified principally to this part, is known as the “Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007”. See

Short Title

note set out under section 17001 of this title.

§17251 Carbon Capture

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