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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 417
115TH CONGRESS } REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-250
RELIABLE INVESTMENT IN VITAL ENERGY
REAUTHORIZATION ACT
MAY 21, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1336]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1336) to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005
to reauthorize hydroelectric production incentives and hydroelectric
efficiency improvement incentives, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amend-
ment, and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1336 is to reauthorize hydroelectric production
incentives and hydroelectric efficiency improvement incentives, and
for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Hydropower is the nation's largest renewable energy resource-
providing reliable and inexpensive power to more than 30 million
homes. In recent years, there has been increased interest in small
hydroelectric project development, and in 2013, legislation was en-
acted to streamline the development of small hydro and conduit hy-
droelectric projects (Public Law 113-23). With only three percent of
the nation's existing 80,000 dams currently generating electricity,
there is growing interest in adding hydropower capacity to non-
powered dams. As outlined in its 2016 report, Hydropower Vision,
the Department of Energy found that hydropower in the United
States could grow from 101 gigawatts (GW) of capacity to nearly
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