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H.R. 5906 · 115th Congress

ARPA-E Act of 2018

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FLR LucasSponsor
11 cosponsors · 1 D, 10 R
BBR Babin NDR Dunn CHR Higgins EJD Johnson SKR Knight DLR Lesko RNR Norman LSR Smith RWR Weber RAR Abraham JCR Culberson

9 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

  1. House Introduced May 22, 2018
  2. House Passed Jun 27, 2018

This bill amends the America COMPETES Act to require the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in the Department of Energy (DOE) to overcome the long-term and high-risk technological barriers in the development of transformative science and technology solutions to address energy, environmental, economic, and national security challenges.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 22, 2018

ARPA-E Act of 2018

This bill amends the America COMPETES Act to require the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in the Department of Energy (DOE) to overcome the long-term and high-risk technological barriers in the development of transformative science and technology solutions to address energy, environmental, economic, and national security challenges. (Currently, ARPA-E must overcome barriers in the development of energy technologies.)

The bill expands the goals of ARPA-E to include the development of energy technologies that:

  • provide transformative solutions to improve management of radioactive waste,
  • improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of energy production, and
  • address other challenges within the mission of DOE.

The bill expands the responsibility of ARPA-E to accelerate novel early-stage research to include nonenergy research.

ARPA-E must:

  • include a strategic vision roadmap in each annual report on energy technology projects or advanced technology projects, and
  • ensure that it does not fund an advanced technology project unless the prospective grantee has demonstrated that it has sufficiently attempted to secure private financing or that such project is not independently commercially viable.

Specified categories of proprietary information collected by ARPA-E from award recipients shall be considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: ARPA-E Act of 2018

Latest action (Jun 28, 2018): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: House · Introduced: May 22, 2018

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

  1. House Introduced May 22, 2018
  2. House Passed Jun 27, 2018

No recorded floor vote found.