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Title IV, Subtitle D, of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) directs EPA to establish a recoverable waste energy inventory program

Specifically, EPA must:

Develop an ongoing survey of all domestic major industrial and large commercial combustion sources (as defined by the Administrator) as well as the sites at which the sources are located, and a review of each source for the quantity and quality of waste energy produced.
Publish a rule within 270 days of EISA enactment that establishes the criteria by which sites that have financial paybacks of five years or less, will be listed in a Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources (the Registry).
Establish the Registry within one year of EISA enactment.
Provide an annual report to Congress describing lost opportunities for domestic waste-heat recovery projects and calculating the quantity of lost energy and emission reductions.
Develop a grant program to fund additional efficiency programs in those DOE certified States that have achieved 80 percent or more of the waste heat recovery opportunities.

A copy of the EISA 2007 Title 4, Subtitle D (PDF) (46 pp, 1.5MB) text is available on our Web site.

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