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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 612
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 116-310
TO REAUTHORIZE CERTAIN PROGRAMS UNDER THE OFFICE OF INDIAN
ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
DECEMBER 10, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on India Affairs,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 2610]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2610) to reauthorize certain programs under the Office of In-
dian Energy Policy and Programs of the Department of Energy and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment (in the nature of a substitute) and rec-
ommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
PURPOSE
The Tribal Energy Reauthorization Act would reauthorize and in-
crease funding, $50 million per Fiscal Year through 2030, for the
Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (OIE) within the De-
partment of Energy; amends definitions of the Energy Policy Act of
1992, to provide for greater flexibility in promoting electrification
throughout Indian Country and Alaska; authorizes $30 million per
Fiscal Year through 2030 for the Department of Energy Loan
Guarantee Program; and, mandates the OIE to submit a report to
Congress on an Indian Energy Arctic Strategy.
BACKGROUND
There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States,
including 231 in Alaska. Many American Indian and Alaska Native
communities lack access to affordable energy and pay some of the
nation's highest prices for energy and electricity. According to the
Department of Energy (DOE), for example, in the Southwest, 14.2
percent of Navajo and Hopi homes are not grid-connected (com-
pared to the national average of 1.4 percent). In Alaska, rural resi-
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