Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Guaranteeing Resilient Installations for Defense Act” or the “GRID Act”.
Guaranteeing Resilient Installations for Defense Act
A BILL
To provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the vulnerability of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the supply of electric energy to those facilities.
Sec. 2 Defense critical electric infrastructure security
Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o–1) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
in paragraph (4), by striking “of the 48 contiguous States or the District of Columbia” and inserting “State”;
by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
“(8) Resilience—The term resilience has the meaning given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).”
in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia” and inserting “any State”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(g) Authority To address vulnerabilities—The Secretary may, to the extent that funds are made available for such purposes in advance in appropriations Acts, enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with external providers of electric energy—
“(1) to improve the resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure; and
“(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption of the supply of electric energy to those facilities.”