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Version 28 · Reported to House without amendment, Part I · Aug 3, 2007
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Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) prohibit loan guarantees for innovative technologies from being less than the minimum amount determined by the Secretary of Energy to be likely to attract nonguaranteed investment adequate to capitalize the project; (2) authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to 100 % of any debt obligation of the borrower to fund an eligible project; and (3) prohibit the Secretary from issuing a rule or regulation establishing a lower percentage limit.
Conditions such loan guarantee upon reasonable assurances by the borrower that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in the performance of construction work financed in whole or in part with the loan will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar work in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor.
Prohibits any appropriation authorized pursuant to the Act from excluding any category of specified eligible projects.
People & committees
Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9] · D–VA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 196.
Committee on Science and Technology discharged.
Committee on Science and Technology discharged.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-309, Part I.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-309, Part I.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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