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S. 3590: Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Revenue Act of 2010

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S. 3590: Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Revenue Act of 2010

111th Congress · introduced 2010-07-14 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2010-07-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Revenue Act of 2010

Plain summary

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Revenue Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration to include carbon dioxide that is converted to a stable form in which it is securely and permanently sequestered; (2) allow a 30% increase in the qualifying advanced coal project tax credit for the incremental cost of carbon capture and sequestration systems; (3) allow an increase in the carbon dioxide sequestration tax credit for the use of new or retrofit electric utility or industrial units to provide for carbon capture and sequestration in secure geologic storage; and (4) allow issuers of qualified carbon sequestration bonds income and excise tax credits for payments of interest with respect to such bonds. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide additional funding for loan guarantees for: (1) constructing or retrofitting new or existing commercial scale electric generation units or industrial facility units for carbon capture and sequestration; and (2) constructing carbon dioxide transmission pipelines to transport carbon dioxide to sequestration sites or to sites where carbon dioxide will be used for hydrocarbon recovery.

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Official text

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Revenue Act of 2010

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] · 1 cosponsors

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-s3590 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111