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Taxpayers investing in qualified facilities

Under the second round of credit allocations, qualifying projects must include equipment which separates and sequesters at least 65 percent of the project's total carbon dioxide emissions. An additional $250 million of credits can be allocated to qualified projects that separate and sequester at least 75 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.

Taxpayers investing in qualified facilities

A qualified advanced energy project is a project that re-equips, expands, or establishes a manufacturing facility for the production: (1) property designed to be used to produce energy from renewable resources; (2) fuel cells, microturbines, or an energy storage system for use with electric or hybrid-electric vehicles; (3) electric grids to support the transmission of intermittent sources of renewable energy; (4) property designed to capture and sequester carbon dioxide; (5) property designed to refine or blend renewable fuels or to produce energy conservation technologies; (6) qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, qualified plug in electric vehicles, or components which are designed specifically for use with such vehicles; and (7) other advanced energy property designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Certain electricity produced from wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy, solar energy, small irrigation power, municipal solid waste, or qualified hydropower and sold to an unrelated party

Investments in solar and geothermal energy property, qualified fuel cell power plants, stationary microturbine power plants, geothermal heat pumps, small wind property, and combined heat and power property

Qualified renewable energy projects

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (YN), the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG), the Nez Perce Tribe (NPT); and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

The Mitchell Act specifically directs the establishment of salmon hatcheries, the conduct of engineering and biological surveys and experiments, and the installation of fish protective devices.

With the listing of many of the Columbia River Basin salmon and steelhead populations under the Endangered Species Act, substantial changes have been and will continue to be required of the Mitchell Act Program. The Mitchell Act environmental impact statement (EIS) will be finalized in 2014 and will provide a basis to inform the policy direction for distribution of future Mitchell Act hatchery funding.

Grants may be provided to institutions of higher education (including Sea Grant College, Sea Grant Institute or other institutions), non-profit organizations, commercial organizations, state, local and Indian tribal governments, and individuals

National strategic focus areas for research, education, and outreach include: a safe and sustainable seafood supply; healthy coastal ecosystems; sustainable coastal development; and hazard resilient coastal communities

This program is open to: citizens or nationals of the United States, citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau, or the Federated States of Micronesia, corporations, partnerships, associations, or other non-Federal entities, non-profit or otherwise (including Native American tribes) within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act of 1916, as amended. Federal employees and Fishery Management Councils and their employees are ineligible.

The fishing and aquaculture industries

A qualifying project must constitute either a headquarters facility or an industrial, warehousing, or research activity defined as any trade or business described in the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as:
(…) renewable energy facilities; projects owned by utilities that produce electricity from alternative energy resources; projects owned by utilities that produce electricity from hydropower production.