S.Amdt. 1675

SA 1675. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security,
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title V of division B, add the following:

SEC. 25__. APPROPRIATIONS FOR BETTER ENERGY STORAGE
TECHNOLOGY.

(a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise made
available for such purposes, for fiscal year 2022, there is
appropriated to the Secretary of Energy to carry out section
3201 of the Energy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-260), out of
amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$150,000,000, of which--
(1) $50,000,000 shall be for the Office of Electricity to
support competitive grants for long-duration, grid-scale
energy storage demonstrations; and
(2) $100,000,000 shall be for the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy to support a wide range of
energy storage demonstration projects, including projects
relating to bidirectional electrical, thermal, and chemical
storage and battery supply chain activities, of which--
(A) $50,000,000 shall be for the expansion of the
partnership between the Advanced Manufacturing Office and the
Vehicle Technologies Office to develop a domestic battery
supply chain, including critical materials and battery
manufacturing and recycling demonstration projects; and
(B) $35,000,000 shall be for the Water Power Technologies
Office to expand the HydroWIRES program to enhance the
flexibility of hydropower in the United States and pumped
storage hydropower resources, of which $10,000,000 shall be
for modular pumped storage hydropower demonstration projects.
(b) Emergency Designation.--
(1) In general.--The amounts provided under this section
are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2
U.S.C. 933(g)).
(2) Designation in senate.--In the Senate, this section is
designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
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