Survey and Registry

The Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary and State energy offices, shall establish a recoverable waste energy inventory program. The program shall include— Not later than 270 days after December 19, 2007, the Administrator shall publish a rule for establishing criteria for including sites in the Registry. The criteria shall include— On the request of the owner or operator of a source or site included in the Registry, the Secretary shall— Not later than 1 year after December 19, 2007, the Administrator shall establish a Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources, and sites on which the sources are located, that meet the criteria established under subsection (b). The Administrator shall— Any State, electric utility, or other interested person may contest the listing of any source or site by submitting a petition to the Administrator. The Administrator shall register and include on the Registry all sites meeting the criteria established under subsection (b). The Administrator shall— make public— The Administrator shall notify owners or operators of recoverable waste energy sources and sites listed on the Registry prior to publishing the listing. Except as provided in clause (ii), the owner or operator of a source at a site may elect to have detailed quantitative information concerning the site not made public by notifying the Administrator of the election. The information shall be made available to— Information concerning the site shall be included in the total quantity of recoverable waste energy for a State unless there are fewer than 3 sites in the State. Subject to subparagraph (B), as a project achieves successful recovery of waste energy, the Administrator shall— No project shall be removed from the Registry without the consent of the owner or operator of the project if— The Administrator shall not list any source constructed after December 19, 2007, on the Registry if the Administrator determines that the source— Subject to any procedures that are established by the Administrator, an owner, operator, or third-party developer of a recoverable waste energy project that qualifies under standards established by the Administrator may self-certify the sites or sources of the owner, operator, or developer to the Administrator for inclusion in the Registry. To prevent a fraudulent listing, a site or source shall be included on the Registry only if the Administrator reviews and approves the self-certification. As a new energy-consuming industrial facility is developed after December 19, 2007, to the extent the facility may constitute a site with recoverable waste energy that may qualify for inclusion on the Registry, the Administrator may elect to include the facility on the Registry, at the request of the owner, operator, or developer of the facility, on a conditional basis with the site to be removed from the Registry if the development ceases or the site fails to qualify for listing under this part. For each site listed in the Registry, at the request of the owner or operator of the site, the Administrator shall offer, in cooperation with Clean Energy Application Centers operated by the Secretary of Energy, suggestions for optimum means of recovery of value from waste energy stream in the form of electricity, useful thermal energy, or other energy-related products. Each annual report of a State under section 8258(a) of title 42 shall include the results of the survey for the State under this section. There are authorized to be appropriated to— the Secretary—