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– Total Investment: $825 billion over two years

– Clean Energy/Green-Collar Jobs Investment: $148.3 billion

The Senate bill proposes an additional $62.3 billion for a number of stimulus measures that have the potential to promote clean energy and create green jobs, including:

• $7.7 billion for brownfield remediation.
• $24 billion for land and water conservation.
• $11 billion for construction projects that could include green building and energy efficiency standards.
• $1.7 billion for research that could lead to development of new clean technologies.
• $13.9 billion for Pell grants that could support students in the sciences and engineering.
• $4 billion in job training funds that could be directed towards green-collar jobs.

– Total Investment: $550 billion over two years

– Clean Energy/Green-Collar Jobs Investment: $114.5 billion

-- Will save or create 3.7 million jobs

- At least $13 billion in loan guarantees, which will leverage $85 billion in loans.

- $2.2 billion for brownfield remediation.

- $21.7 billion for land and water conservation.

- $3.9 billion for research that could lead to development of new clean technologies.

- $17.6 billion for Pell grants that could support students in the sciences and engineering.

- $4.6 billion in job training funds that could be directed towards green-collar jobs.)

– Will create or retain almost 2 million jobs

Energy
Efficiency
Weatherization

• $19.5 billion for school construction, renovation and modernization, including energy efficiency improvements.
• $3.2 billion to the Department of Defense for facility construction and maintenance, some of which is to be used to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
• $3.6 billion for VA hospital and medical facility construction and improvements. This funding includes $329 million in energy-related construction.
• $2.25 Billion for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program block grant.
• $357 million for renovation of NIST facilities and new laboratories using green technologies
• $4.2 billion is provided for energy efficiency and conservation grants.
• $1.6 billion is provided to DOE for grants to make schools and hospitals, significant users of energy, more energy efficient.
• $500 million for state energy programs.
• $6 billion for repair of federal buildings to increase energy efficiency using green technology.
• $613 million for energy efficiency upgrades and construction of alternative energy projects, including wind and solar power and photovoltaic roof systems, at Department of Defense facilities.
• $50 million for loans and grants to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy development for agricultural producers and rural small businesses.
• $3 billion for energy efficiency upgrades to Department of Defense facilities.
• $250 million for energy efficiency upgrades to Department of Defense health facilities.
• $20 million for energy efficiency upgrades at Bureau of Reclamation facilities.
• $4 million to create a federal Office of Federal High-Performance Green Building.
• $20 million for energy efficiency upgrades to BLM visitor centers.
• $100 million for energy efficiency improvements to US Fish and Wildlife facilities.
• $40 million for energy efficiency retrofits to National Park Service facilities.
• $20 million to BIA for housing energy efficiency improvements.
• $5 billion to HUD for construction and maintenance projects that will improve energy efficiency in public housing.
• $3.5 billion to owners of Section 8 housing to perform energy efficiency improvements.
• $400 million for FBI construction projects.
• $1 billion for construction, modernization, and repair of prison facilities.
• $800 million for construction of Customs and Border Protection facilities.
• $310 million to the National Park Service for construction of facilities.
• $135 million to USGS for maintenance and construction projects.
• $372 million to BIA for construction and maintenance projects.
• $410 million for the construction of Indian health facilities.
• $1.5 billion for construction and renovation of CDC and DHHS.
• $500 million for construction and renovation of NIH facilities.
• $75 million to the Department of State for construction of a training facility.
• $510 million in Native American Housing Block Grants.

Total:$59.9 billion

• $6.0 billion for increasing energy efficiency and conservation in federal buildings.
• $3.5 billion in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants to help state and local governments make investments that make them more energy efficient and reduce carbon emissions.
• $3.4 billion for State Energy Programs, to support residential, commercial, and governmental retrofits.
• $500 million in loan guarantees to help institutions implement sustainable energy infrastructure projects. It is estimated that this will support $5 billion in loans.
• $2.5 billion for a new program to upgrade HUD sponsored low-income housing to increase energy efficiency, including new insulation, windows, and furnaces.
• $1.5 billion for energy sustainability and efficiency grants and loans to help school districts, institutes of higher education, local governments, and municipal utilities implement projects that will make them more energy efficient.
• $5 billion to HUD for public housing building repair and modernization, including critical safety repairs.
• $1.5 billion to the HOME Program to help local communities build and rehabilitate low-income housing using green technologies.
• $500 million to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency at some of the over 42,000 housing units maintained by Native American housing programs.
• $10 million for rural, high-need areas to undertake projects using sustainable and energy-efficient building and rehabilitation practices.
• $20 billion for 21st Century Green High-Performance school construction, renovation, and modernization including energy efficiency improvements.
• $4.5 billion for renovation and energy efficiency improvements in Department of Defense facilities.
• $1.5 billion for renovation of NIH university-based research centers, with priority for upgrades that improve energy efficiency.
• $950 million for renovation of Veterans Affairs facilities including energy efficiency upgrades.

Total: $51.36 billion

• $6 billion for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program; $1 billion should be set aside to leverage private investment in programs focused on large-scale, multi-building retrofit projects that provide job opportunities in urban areas.

• $2.9 billion is available for the Weatherization Assistance Program.

• $6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program to help low-income families reduce their energy costs by weatherizing their homes and make our country more energy efficient.
• $1 billion for LIHEAP to help low-income families pay for home heating and cooling at a time of rising energy costs.
• $300 million to provide consumers with rebates for buying energy efficient Energy Star products to replace old appliances.

Total: $7.5 billion

• $900 million to fully fund the Weatherization Assistance Program.

• Extends the Production Tax Credit, allows renewable electricity producers to elect the investment tax credit in lieu of the production tax credit. Makes it available to any electricity production facility.
• Allows tax credits to offset taxes paid over the previous six years.
• $2.648 billion to DOE for energy efficiency and renewable energy research, development, demonstration and deployment activities.
• $10 billion is provided for new loan guarantees aimed at standard renewable projects such as wind or solar projects and for electricity transmission projects.
• $200 million for loans and grants to assist in the development of new and emerging technologies for the development of advanced biofuels.
• $200 million to the Department of Defense for testing and deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Total: $13 billion

• $8 billion in loan guarantees for renewable energy power generation and transmission projects. Expected to leverage $80 billion in funding.
• $2 billion to DOE for research, development, demonstration, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, including R&D for advanced batteries.
• Authorizes an additional $1.6 billion in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBS.)
• Extends the Production Tax Credit.
• Expands the tax credit for residential renewable energy projects.

• Fix the Production and Investment Tax Credits for the renewable energy industry by making them refundable through 2009 or by allowing credits to offset taxes paid over the previous ten years.

• $10.9 billion for smart-grid related activities, including work to modernize the electric grid, enhance security and reliability, perform energy storage research, development, demonstration and deployment,
  and provide worker training

• $10.9 billion for research and development, pilot projects, and federal matching funds for the Smart Grid Investment Program to modernize the electricity grid.

• Invest $10 billion in upgrading the transmission grid to better connect consumers to renewable energy resources, improve reliability and efficiency, enhance emergency response and reduce the system’s vulnerability to natural disaster and attack.
• Invest $1 billion in “smart grid” and “smart metering” demonstration projects.

• $4.6 billion for Fossil Energy research and development, including $2 billion to construct a power plant using Carbon Capture and Sequestration, $1 billion for DOE Clean Coal Power Initiative and $1.6 billion for a competitive solicitation for projects that demonstrate carbon capture from industrial sources.
• Provides additional $10 tax credit per metric ton of carbon sequestered and stored.
  
  

• $2.4 billion for carbon capture and sequestration technology demonstration projects.

• Invest $1 billion in carbon capture and storage demonstration projects.

• $8.2 billion in grants to states for investments in public transportation.
• $2 billion for grants for investments in high speed rail corridors.
• $250 million for grants to states for investments in intercity passenger rail.
• $850 million for capital grants to Amtrak.
• $60 million for grants to states for the construction of ferry transportation systems.
• Increases the tax exemption allowed for employer-provided public transit benefits.
• Increases the speed requirement on high-speed rail system bonds to exceed speeds of 150 mph.

Total: $11.3 billion

• $1 billion for Capital Investment Grants for new commuter rail or other light rail systems.
• $2 billion to modernize existing transit systems, including renovations to stations, security systems, computers, equipment, structures, signals, and communications.
• $1.1 billion to improve the speed and capacity of intercity passenger rail service.
• Nadler amendment adds $3 billion for public transit

Total: $7.1 billion

• Invest $6 billion in ready-to-go public transit projects across the country.

• $240 million to the Coast Guard for repair of bridges deemed hazardous.
• $500 million to secure high risk critical infrastructure such as dams, tunnels, and bridges.
• $27 billion is included for highway investments, particularly repair and maintenance projects. The vast majority of this funding will be distributed as grants using a formula set in current highway authorization law.
• $5.5 billion for competitive grants to state and local governments for transportation infrastructure investments.
• $40 million for grants to small shipyards.
• $800 million for repair and restoration of roads on park, forest, tribal and other public lands ($160 million to BLM, $60 million to US Fish and Wildlife Service, $180 million to the National Park Service, $280 million to NFS, $120 million to BIA).

Total: $39.54 billion

• $150 million for ready-to-go investments to repair or remove bridges deemed hazardous.
• $15 billion for highway and bridge repair and resurfacing projects.
• $250 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for road, dam, and other infrastructure construction and maintenance projects.

Total: $15.4 billion

• Invest $8 billion to fix the bridges and roads that are crumbling across America.

• $2 billion is provided to DOE in grant funding for the manufacturing of advanced batteries systems and components and vehicle batteries that are produced in the United States
• Expands Investment Tax Credit to include retooling and expanding manufacturing facilities to produce renewable fuels, renewable energy, or smart grid technologies

• $1 billion for the Advanced Battery Loan Guarantee and Grants Program, to support U.S. manufacturers of advanced vehicle batteries and battery systems.
• $1 billion for the Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program.
• $500 million to DOE for energy efficient manufacturing demonstration projects.
• 30% investment tax credit for facilities that manufacture advanced energy.

• $4 billion in loan guarantees to leverage $25 billion in loans for retooling and retraining, so that firms can transition to producing products and component parts for the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors; and for industrial efficiency upgrades such as combined heat & power systems.

• $30 million for the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships to help small and mid-size manufacturers compete globally by providing them with access to technology.

Total: $1.53 billion

• $200 million in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership network.

• $350 million for grants administered through the Clean Cities program of the Department for acquisition and alternative fuel or fuel-cell vehicle.
• $200 million for grants to states to plan and deploy electrical infrastructure projects that encourage the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles and for near term large-scale electrification projects aimed at the transportation sector, including seaports.
• $600 million to replace older motor fleet vehicles owned by the Federal Government with alternative fuel automobiles that will save on fuel costs and reduce carbon emissions.
• $300 million to the Department of Defense to lease alternative-fuel vehicles and purchase batteries and fuel cells for vehicles.
• $300 million for EPA Diesel Emissions Reduction Act programs.
• $200 million for grants to public transit agencies for capital investments that will reduce the energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions of their public transportation systems.
• Expands electric vehicle credit by a) increasing the number of cars allowed to receive the credit to 500,000 and b) creates a new 10% credit on low-speed electric vehicles.

Total: $1.95 billion

• $6 billion to purchase buses and equipment needed to increase public transportation and improve intermodal and transit facilities.
• $400 million to help state and local governments and transit authorities purchase efficient alternative fuel vehicles.
• $600 million to replace older fleet vehicles owned by the federal government with alternative fuel automobiles.
• $200 million for a new grant program to encourage electric vehicle technologies.
• $300 million for grants and loans to state and local governments for projects that reduce diesel emissions, including retrofits to emission exhaust systems on school buses and replacing engines and vehicles.
• Increases alternative fuel property tax credit for businesses to 50%.

Total: $7.5 billion

• $8 billion in incentives to cities and states to replace aging buses and rail cars with new American-made clean energy vehicles.

• $250 million to NASA to enable research and testing of environmentally responsible aircraft.
• $100 million to the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative for biofuels research and development.
• Extends Research and development tax credit to include renewable fuels.

Total: $350 million

• $400 million is for the Advanced Research Project Agency.
• $350 million for research into using renewable energy to power weapons systems and military bases
• $100 million for scientific and technical research and services for NIST to coordinate research and set standards for green building, smart grid. and other energy efficiency technologies.
• Expands R&D tax credit to 20% for clean energy technologies.

Total: $850 million

• $2 billion for clean energy research and development funds to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), allowing the agency to better address the nation’s most urgent energy needs through research and the rapid development of cutting-edge, transformational technologies.

• $9.5 billion to DOE for the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program
• $50 billion to DOE for deployment of new energy technologies

Total: $9.55 billion

• $70 million for the Technology Innovation Program to accelerate research in potentially revolutionary technologies with high job growth potential.

• $1 billion to establish a National Energy Innovation Fund to commercialize the most promising clean energy projects and technologies currently emerging from our nation’s laboratories.

• $500 million to NASA for Earth science missions to provide critical data about the Earth’s resources and climate

• $600 million to NOAA for satellite development and acquisitions, including climate sensors and climate modeling.
• $400 million to NASA for climate change research.
• $200 million to the USGS to repair labs that do earth and climate change research.

Total: $1.2 billion

• $100 million for worker training as part of the Smart Grid investment program.
• $250 million for worker training in high-growth areas, particularly in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors.
• $160 million to upgrade Job Corps training facilities serving at-risk youth while improving energy efficiency and providing career training in the energy efficiency sector.

Total: $510 million

• $500 million for WIA training programs in renewable energy and energy efficiency defined in Green Jobs Act.
• $300 million to upgrade Job Corps training facilities serving at-risk youth to improve energy efficiency and provide career training.
• $100 million for worker training as part of the Smart Grid investment program.

Total: $900 million

• $250 million for the Green Jobs Act.

• $200 million to put approximately 16,000 additional AmeriCorps members to work doing national service, meeting needs of vulnerable populations and communities during the recession.

• $200 million to put approximately 16,000 additional AmeriCorps members to work doing national service, meeting needs of vulnerable populations and communities during the recession.
• $50 million for YouthBuild programs that rehabilitate affordable housing.

Total: $250 million

• $300 million to the Service and Conservation Corps program to create a “Clean Energy Service Corps”

• $65 million to the National Science Foundation for competitive grants to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education

• $100 million to the National Science Foundation to improve instruction in science, math and engineering.

Total: $100 million

• $250 million to immediately provide 25,000 Clean Energy Tomorrow annual scholarships, at $10,000 each, to help students, in these tough economic times, to pursue undergraduate degrees in science, math, or engineering.

• $13.9 billion to increase the Pell Grant maximum award and pay for increases in program costs resulting from increased eligibility and higher Pell Grant awards.

• $17.6 billion for additional Pell Grants for low income students.
• Tax credits for higher educational expenses.

• $9 billion for broadband and wireless services in underserved areas to strengthen the economy and provide business and job opportunities. 50% of funds would go to rural areas.

• $6 billion for broadband and wireless services in underserved areas to strengthen the economy and provide business and job opportunities in every section of America with benefits to e-commerce, education, and healthcare.

• $80 million to the Department of Labor to ensure that worker protection laws are enforced as recovery infrastructure and unemployment insurance investments are carried out.

• $250 million to immediately provide capital to qualified community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to invest in the development of underserved communities.
• $150 million for the Economic Development Assistance Program.

• $250 million to for the Economic Development Assistance Program to address long-term economic distress in urban industrial cores and rural areas distributed based on need and ability to create jobs and attract private investment.
• $1 billion in Community Development Block Grants for community and economic development projects including housing and services for those hit hard by tough economic times.
• $500 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for road, school, and dam maintenance and construction projects.
• $2.1 billion in grants and loan guarantees for businesses and industry through the Rural Community Advancement Program.

• $150 million to support $3 billion in loans and grants to support income and employment expansion through improved business opportunities in rural areas.
• $630 million to support $20 billion in zero-fee or reduced-fee loans to small businesses
• $84 million for loans and critical technical assistance to “micro” borrowers.
• $10 million in BIA loan guarantees for Indian businesses

• $426 million for new direct lending and loan guarantee authorities to make loans more attractive to lenders and free up capital.
• $100 million for Rural Business Enterprise Grants and loan guarantees, which will leverage $2 billion in loans for rural businesses.

• $79 billion for state fiscal stabilization.

• $79 billion for state fiscal stabilization.