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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Op
Calendar No. 357
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 116-197
ADVANCED GEOTHERMAL INNOVATION LEADERSHIP ACT
OF 2019
JANUARY 7, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2657]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2657) to support innovation in advanced geo-
thermal research and development, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Advanced Geothermal Innovation Leadership Act
of 2019 or the AGILE Act of 2019.
SEC. 2. UPDATE TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT.
Section 2501 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (30 U.S.C. 1028) is amended-
(1) by redesignating subsections (a) and (b) as subsections (b) and (d), respec-
tively;
(2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so redesignated) the following:
(a) DEFINITION OF ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS.-In this section, the term
'enhanced geothermal systems has the meaning given the term in section 612 of
the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17191).;
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) (as so redesignated) the following:
(c) UPDATE TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT.-The Secretary of the Inte-
rior, acting through the United States Geological Survey, and in consultation with
the Secretary of Energy, shall update the United States geothermal resource assess-
ment carried out by the United States Geological Survey, including-
(1) with respect to areas previously identified by the Department of Energy
or the United States Geological Survey as having significant potential for hydro-
thermal energy or enhanced geothermal systems energy, by focusing on-
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