Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026

Kathy Castor

Democrat · FL · Representative

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• Gabe Evans (R-CO-8)Original· 2026-02-02

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

2026-06-29

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Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026 This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and expands the pilot Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyber Resilience Program of the Department of Energy (DOE). The program aims to protect energy infrastructure through collaboration between the federal government and the energy sector and enhancing DOE’s emergency response capabilities. Specifically, the bill expands the program objectives to include enhancing collaboration between the government and the energy sector to address threats to energy systems, advancing the collective understanding of national security risks and vulnerabilities associated with the energy sector that may be exploited by adversaries, and helping the energy sector increase its understanding of tactics of adversaries that present risks to the energy sector. The bill allows DOE to establish an Energy Threat Analysis Center at one or more physical locations for program activities. The bill also eliminates technical assistance provided under the program to small electric utilities. Under the bill, the decision to provide assistance or information under the program to a governmental or private entity is at the sole discretion of the Secretary of Energy and is unreviewable. The bill authorizes the Secretary to (1) enter into and perform contracts, grants, and other transactions with public agencies, private organizations, and persons to carry out the program; and (2) establish and utilize preapproved national security contracting mechanisms, model partnership agreements, and expedited review procedures for purposes of entering into such transactions. In addition, the bill exempts the program from certain public disclosure and other transparency requirements.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7305 Reported in House (RH)] <DOC> Union Calendar No. 563 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7305 [Report No. 119-646] To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the Department of Energy's Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyberresilience Program to provide operational support for energy sector cybersecurity and resilience. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 2, 2026 Ms. Castor of Florida (for herself and Mr. Evans of Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce May 12, 2026 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 2, 2026] _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the Department of Energy's Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyberresilience Program to provide operational support for energy sector cybersecurity and resilience. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. ENERGY SECTOR OPERATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CYBERRESILIENCE PROGRAM. Section 40125(c) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (42 U.S.C. 18724(c)) is amended-- (1) in paragraph (1)-- (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (E) as subparagraphs (B) through (F), respectively; (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, the following: ``(A) to strengthen the collective defense, response, and resilience of the United States energy sector-- ``(i) by enhancing collaboration between the government and the energy sector to analyze threats to the energy sector and to deny, disrupt, and mitigate operational impacts to energy systems-- ``(I) by exchanging information at the classified and unclassified level, collectively analyzing potential and realized threats, and providing recommendations to mitigate these threats that benefit the broader energy sector; and ``(II) by increasing operational collaboration through establishing the technical infrastructure necessary to house, access, and perform advanced analytics and experimentation to enable analysis, discovery, alerts, and collaboration activities of intelligence-driven and intelligence- informed technical data and knowledge, threat information and to share actionable insights and threat mitigation; ``(ii) by advancing the collective understanding of national security risks and vulnerabilities associated with the energy sector that may be exploited by adversaries; and ``(iii) by increasing the energy sector's understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, procedures, indicators of compromise, capabilities, and activities that present risks to the energy sector;''; (C) in subparagraph (D), as so redesignated, by striking ``sector;'' and inserting ``sector; and''; (D) in subparagraph (E), as so redesignated, by striking ``; and'' and inserting ``.''; and (E) by striking subparagraph (F), as so redesignated; (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (7); (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: ``(2) Energy threat analysis center.--The Secretary may carry out any activity of the program developed and carried out under paragraph (1) through an Energy Threat Analysis Center, which may be established at one or more physical locations. ``(3) No right or benefit.-- ``(A) Secretarial authority.--The provision of assistance or information under the program developed and carried out under paragraph (1) to a governmental or private entity shall be at the sole and unreviewable discretion of the Secretary. ``(B) Provision of assistance or information.--The provision of assistance or information under the program developed and carried out under paragraph (1) to a governmental or private…

entity shall not create a right or benefit, substantive or procedural, for any other governmental or private entity to similar assistance or information. ``(4) Nonapplicability of faca.--The program developed and carried out under paragraph (1) shall not be considered an advisory committee under chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code. ``(5) Exemption from disclosure.--Information shared by or with the Federal Government or a State, Tribal, or local government under the program developed and carried out under paragraph (1) shall be-- ``(A) deemed voluntarily shared information and exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, and any State, Tribal, or local provision of law requiring disclosure of information or records; and ``(B) withheld, without discretion, from the public under section 552(b)(3)(B) of title 5, United States Code, and any State, Tribal, or local provision of law requiring disclosure of information or records. ``(6) Transaction authority.-- ``(A) In general.--In addition to any other authority granted to the Secretary under any other provision of law, the Secretary is authorized to enter into and perform contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, and other transactions with public agencies, private organizations, and persons to carry out the program developed and carried out under paragraph (1). ``(B) Minimizing delays.--The Secretary may establish and utilize pre-approved national security contracting mechanisms, model partnership agreements, and expedited review procedures for purposes of entering into transactions under subparagraph (A).''; and (4) in paragraph (7), as so redesignated, by striking ``2022 through 2026'' and inserting ``2027 through 2031''. Union Calendar No. 563 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7305 [Report No. 119-646] _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the Department of Energy's Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyberresilience Program to provide operational support for energy sector cybersecurity and resilience. _______________________________________________________________________ May 12, 2026 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

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