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HR 4499 117th Congress House Taxation

Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity and River Restoration Act of 2021

Introduced: July 16, 2021 See on congress.gov
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Jul 16, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jul 16, 2021
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity and River Restoration Act of 2021

This bill allows a new tax credit for maintaining and enhancing hydroelectric dams that is equal to 30% of the basis of any qualified dam safety, environmental, and grid resilience enhancement property placed in service in a taxable year. It also allows a 30% credit for qualified obsolete river obstruction removal expenditures for demolishing and removing certain nonpowered or hydroelectric dams.

What's happening now July 16, 2021

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4499: Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity and River Restoration Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4499/
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"H.R. 4499: Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity and River Restoration Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4499/.
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H.R. 4499, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-4499/.
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