Exact Language: Funding for the Green Jobs Act in ACES
The exact language from the American Clean Energy and Security Act related to funding for the Green Jobs Act of 2007, which provides workers with training for jobs in the clean energy economy.
Below is the exact language from the American Clean Energy and Security Act related to funding for the Green Jobs Act of 2007, which provides workers with training for jobs in the clean energy economy.
§782(k)(2). ALLOCATION OF EMISSION ALLOWANCES
(2) The Administrator shall auction, pursuant to section 791, 0.75 percent of the emission allowances established for each of vintage years 2012 and 2013 under section 721(a), and shall deposit the proceeds in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Fund established by section 422 of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.
§422. INCREASED FUNDING FOR ENERGY WORKER TRAINING PROGRAM
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.—There is hereby established in the Treasury a separate account that shall be known as the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Fund.
(c) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Subject to subtitle F of title IV, all amounts deposited into the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Fund shall be available to the Secretary to carry out section 171(e)(8) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2916(e)(8)) subject to further appropriation.
