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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 55
112TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 112-19
HYDROPOWER IMPROVEMENT ACT
MAY 18, 2011.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 629]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 629) to improve hydropower, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
On page 10, line 21, strike (b)(3) and insert (b)(4).
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 629 is to improve and increase hydropower pro-
duction in the United States.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Hydropower represents approximately two-thirds of the renew-
able electricity generation in the United States and is currently
providing almost seven percent of the country's total energy gen-
eration. About forty-five percent of all hydropower in the United
States is generated at federally-owned facilities. With only three
percent of the nation's approximately eighty thousand federal and
non-federal dams currently generating hydropower there is great
potential to increase hydropower production. Additional hydro-
power can be sited, constructed, and operated in a responsible
manner to reduce or avoid environmental damages. S. 629 seeks to
encourage development of additional hydropower through efficiency
improvements or capacity additions at existing facilities, including
conduits, adding hydropower to non-powered dams, small hydro-
power development, and pumped storage projects.
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