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S 1757 112th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Alternative and renewable resources Electric power generation and transmission Government lending and loan guarantees Oil and gas Rural conditions and development

Clean Energy Infrastructure for Rural Communities Act of 2011

Introduced: October 20, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Oct 20, 2011
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Clean Energy Infrastructure for Rural Communities Act of 2011 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make electric loans for transmission facilities primarily for interconnecting renewable energy facilities to a high-voltage transmission line. Revokes the requirement that the rate of an electric loan for renewable energy be equal to the average tax-exempt municipal bond rate of similar maturities.

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary to make and insure loans to improve the economic and environmental climate by encouraging the development and construction of infrastructure to provide access to natural gas in rural communities, and (2) define "natural gas" as unmixed natural gas or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.

What's happening now October 20, 2011

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2