**[[Energy Policy Act of 2005]{.underline}]{.smallcaps}**

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# **[Title I: Energy Efficiency]{.underline}**

-   Establishes requirements for energy and water savings in
    Congressional Buildings.

-   Requires annual reduction in the consumption of energy by federal
    buildings.

-   Strengthens requirements that federal managers procure energy
    efficient products.

-   Extends the Energy Savings Performance Contracts program.

-   Encourages business and industry to enter into voluntary programs
    with the Department of Energy to reduce energy consumption by not
    less than 2.5% annually.

-   Establishes energy efficiency standards for federal buildings.

-   Authorizes \$1.23 billion for three years for weatherization
    assistance.

-   Encourages States to periodically revise and upgrade their energy
    conservation plans.

-   Authorizes the expenditure of up to \$250 million over five years to
    provide rebates to consumers purchasing energy efficient appliances.

-   Creates a grant program to help States and Local governments
    encourage the construction of energy efficient public buildings.

-   Establishes a model building energy code compliance program.

-   Establishes educational programs to heighten consumer awareness of
    the benefits of energy efficiency and energy conservation.

-   Establishes energy conservation standards for a number of products
    including commercial refrigerators, freezers, and
    refrigerator-freezers, battery chargers, distribution transformers,
    commercial clothes washers, dehumidifiers, commercial ice makers and
    commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment.

-   Encourages electric and natural gas utilities to reduce energy
    consumption

-   Extends Daylight Saving Time by four weeks -- three weeks in the
    spring and one week in November \-- to reduce energy consumption by
    the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil for each day of the
    extension. The new times go into effect one year after the bill is
    enacted. Congress also directed DOE to conduct a study of possible
    energy savings. If the study does not report adequate savings,
    Congress has the option to return to the original Daylight Savings
    Time schedule. Studies indicate that the proposal to adopt Daylight
    Savings Time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in
    November will also lower crime and traffic fatalities and allow for
    more recreation time and increased economic activity.

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# **[Title II: Renewable Energy]{.underline}**

# Provides for an ongoing assessment of renewable energy resources.

-   Extends existing authority for incentive programs for production of
    renewable electricity by nonprofit electric utilities.

-   Requires the Federal government to purchase a set amount of electric
    energy from renewable resources.

-   Requires an update of energy plans for insular areas.

-   The use of biomass from Federal or Indian lands is encouraged by the
    creation of two grant programs to produce electric energy or heat
    from biomass and to improve biomass utilization technology.

-   The program encourages removal of hazardous fuels from the highest
    risk areas on Federal and Indian lands and development of new
    technologies to use biomass.

-   Updates the Geothermal Steam Act by amending the leasing provisions
    to provide for a competitive leasing system.

-   Also directs other actions that will facilitate new development of
    geothermal resources.

-   Reforms the hydropower licensing process of the Federal Power Act.

-   Allows a 2-MW hydropower project in Montana to go forward.

-   Amends the State of Alaska's authority over its small hydropower
    projects. 

-   Sets a 7.5-billion gallon renewable fuels standard by 2012 and
    exempts California from this standard during the summer months.

-   Addresses the need for protection and improvement of electric power
    transmission and distribution lines in the insular areas.

-   Authorizes projects in the insular areas, on a cost-share basis with
    local utilities, to reduce dependence on fossil fuels used in the
    generation of electricity.

-   Provides incentives for the increased production of hydropower.

-   Provides incentives for hydroelectric efficiency improvements.

-   Revives a DOE program to develop small hydropower projects.

**[Title III: Oil and Gas]{.underline}**

-   Provides permanent authority to operate the Strategic Petroleum
    Reserve and other energy programs. Authorizes the Secretary of
    Energy to fill the SPR to a one billion barrel capacity and provides
    guidance to the Secretary in choosing appropriate sites to enable
    the SPR to be filled to this capacity.

-   Permanently authorizes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve
    (NHOR).  Established in 2000, the NHOR holds two million barrels of
    emergency fuel stocks stored at commercial tank farms.  Two million
    barrels would give Northeast consumers adequate supplies for
    approximately 10 days, the time required for ships to carry heating
    oil from the Gulf of Mexico to New York Harbor. 

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-   Authorizes the federal government to continue to receive physical
    quantities of oil and gas royalty-in-kind payments provided the
    Secretary determines that receiving royalties in-kind provides
    benefits to the United States greater than or equal to those that it
    would have received in-value. 

-   Marginal property production incentives: Requires the Secretary
    Requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations defining
    offshore marginal wells and to provide relief. If the Secretary
    finds this to be impracticable, the Secretary shall report to
    Congress within 18 months explaining why such a finding was made.

-   Provides incentives for natural gas production from deep wells in
    the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. There is a trigger based
    on the market price of natural gas determined at the Secretary's
    discretion which limits the granting of relief.

-   Authorizes that the suspension of royalties for leases in water
    depths greater than 400 meters in the Planning Areas outlined in
    section (a) shall be established at volumes and in distances
    enumerated in subsection (b).  This section authorizes that
    Secretary to have discretion based upon market price in placing
    limitations upon royalty relief granted.

-   Provides Alaska offshore royalty suspension at the Secretary's
    discretion in order to promote increased production and encourage
    production of marginal resources, reduce or eliminate any royalty or
    net profit share set forth in a lease.

-   Amends the leasing provisions for the National Petroleum
    Reserve-Alaska to provide additional time for bringing oil and gas
    into production in a manner the protects the harsh but fragile
    arctic environment. Provides new authority for developing oil and
    gas facilities as efficient units to minimize surface impacts.

-   Establishes a long term effort to improve coordination and
    collection of scientific information needed by industry and
    regulatory agencies for developing and conserving public resources
    on the North Slope of Alaska by directing the Secretary of the
    Interior to work in cooperation with the State of Alaska, North
    Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and other federal
    agencies.

-   Provides a five-year, \$20,000,000 annual authorization to the
    Secretary of the Interior to develop a program to remediate,
    reclaim, and close, orphaned, abandoned, or idled wells on Federal
    land. Includes a pilot project to permit a new oil and gas lessee to
    reclaim and close old abandoned sites and be reimbursed through
    royalty credits.

-   Amends the Naval Petroleum Reserve Production Act by transferring
    leasing provisions for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from
    the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1981 to the
    Naval Petroleum Reserve Production Act.

-   Directs the Secretary of the Interior in cooperation with the State
    of Alaska, North Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
    and other federal agencies, to establish a long term effort to
    improve coordination and collection of scientific information needed
    by regulatory and land management agencies in managing public
    resources on the North Slope of Alaska.  

-   Provides a five-year, \$20,000,000 annual authorization to the
    Secretary of the Interior to develop a program to remediate,
    reclaim, and close, orphaned, abandoned, or idled wells on Federal
    land.

-   Combined hydrocarbon leasing -- This section amends the Mineral
    Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue
    separately, for the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease for
    oil and gas. It also requires a lease for tar sand to be issued
    using the same bidding process, annual rental, and posting period as
    a lease issued for oil and gas.

-   Alternate energy-related uses on the outer Continental Shelf: This
    section seeks to protect the economic and land use interests of the
    United States through the management and oversight of alternate
    energy-related projects on the Outer Continental Shelf.  This
    section establishes Department of the Interior management and
    oversight and provides for interagency coordination in the siting
    and permitting of alternate-energy activities.  This section does
    not override any existing authority, but seeks to fills in a gap in
    the law with respect to alternate energy projects. This section also
    provides for a 27% sharing of any royalties, bonuses, and rentals
    for these projects in distances of three miles seaward of state
    waters.        

-   Preservation of geological and geophysical data: This section
    directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a data preservation
    program, working in cooperation with the States to archive
    geological, geophysical, and engineering data and samples related to
    oil and gas development.

-   Oil and gas lease acreage limitations: Amends the Mineral Leasing
    Act provision relating to the limitation on the amount of acreage
    that can be held by a person under lease in any one state.

-   Requires the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the National
    Academy of Public Administration to perform a review of Federal
    onshore oil and gas leasing practices and report to Congress within
    18 months.

-   Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to improve
    administration of Federal oil and gas leasing programs including the
    improvement of inspection and enforcement of oil and gas
    activities.  It also requires the development and implementation of
    best management practices.

-   Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and the Secretary of
    Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to improve
    coordination and consultation on oil and gas leasing activities.

-   Creates a pilot project to improve Federal permit coordination in
    six western BLM offices. This section requires the Secretary of the
    Interior to establish a Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project
    that requires that relevant federal agencies deploy staff to work
    with BLM land managers as a team on all environmental permits and
    land use planning documents in order to coordinate and improve
    Federal decision-making with respect to the permits. The section
    directs the Secretary of the Interior to assign such additional
    personnel to the six BLM offices as necessary to ensure effective
    implementation of the Pilot Program.

-   Energy facility rights-of-way and corridors on Federal land: This
    section requires the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to
    public lands, and the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to
    National Forest System lands, to designate utility corridors in
    Western States and to incorporate such corridors into land use and
    resource management plans within 24 months following enactment of
    the section. The section also requires the Secretary of Energy to
    develop a memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of the
    Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Defense
    to coordinate applicable Federal authorizations and environmental
    reviews related to a proposed or existing utility facility.

-   Oil shale leasing: This section requires the Secretary of the
    Interior to make lands available, within one year, to lease for the
    purpose conducting research and development activities that will
    lead to new technology for producing oil from oil shale.  The
    Secretary is also required to complete a programmatic environmental
    impact statement within 18 months on leasing public lands for
    commercial leasing. It also requires a report analyzing a potential
    program for leasing oil shale for commercial development and to
    update resource information by conducting a National Oil Shale
    Assessment.

-   Coastal impact assistance program: : Provides \$250 million per year
    for fiscal years 2007 through 2010 to six energy-producing states in
    a formula based upon each states' proximity to production. These
    states: Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Alaska and
    California shall use this funding for a specific number of coastal
    restoration, conservation and other uses.

-   Clarifies FERC's exclusive jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act
    for siting, construction, expansion and operation of import/export
    facilities located onshore or in State waters.  This section does
    not provide FERC eminent domain authority over siting LNG
    facilities.

-   Codifies FERC's Hackberry policy.  In Hackberry, FERC allowed for
    sole propriety ownership of an LNG terminal (eliminating open access
    requirements) as a way to encourage site development.

-   Allows FERC to grant new storage capacity market-based rate
    treatment, notwithstanding the fact the applicant may have market
    power, if (1) it is in the public interest, (2) it is needed storage
    capacity, and (3) customers are adequately protected. 

-   Establishes FERC as the lead agency for NEPA purposes and provides
    FERC authority to set schedules for required Federal
    authorizations.  Agencies with jurisdiction over natural gas
    infrastructure are encouraged to coordinate their proceedings with
    the timeframe established by FERC.  If a schedule deadline is not
    met, the President may issue a decision. 

-   Directs FERC to maintain a consolidated record all decisions made
    related to natural gas infrastructure permitting.

-   Provides the D.C. Circuit Court exclusive jurisdiction to review
    allegations of failure to meet the FERC established schedule for
    natural gas infrastructure.

-   Provides exclusive jurisdiction to a Circuit Court of Appeals where
    a natural gas infrastructure project is proposed to review an order
    or action by a Federal or State agency acting pursuant to Federal
    law required to permit natural gas infrastructure.

-   Codifies the pre-NEPA filing process to encourage LNG terminal
    applicants to cooperate with State and local officials. Allows an
    affected State to file an advisory report on local and safety
    considerations to the FERC and requires FERC to respond specifically
    to the issues raised before authorizing an LNG terminal.

-   Allows the State Commission where an LNG terminal is located to
    perform safety inspections and notify the FERC of any violations.
    The appropriate agency is directed to take action and report that to
    the State Commission.

-   Directs FERC to enter a memorandum of understanding with the
    Department of Defense regarding LNG siting near an active military
    installation and requires DoD concurrence for an LNG terminal sited
    on an active military installation.

-   Increases penalties under the Natural Gas Act and Natural Gas Policy
    Act, parallel to increases in the Federal Power Act (\$5,000 to
    \$1,000,000).  This section also creates a civil penalty under
    Natural Gas Act. 

-   Amends the Natural Gas Act to ban any "manipulative or deceptive
    device or contrivance" (as those terms are used in section 10(b) of
    the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78j (b))), in
    connection with jurisdictional natural gas transactions, that are in
    violation of FERC rules.

-   Authorizes FERC to establish an electronic information system to
    provide information about the price or transportation costs of
    natural gas in interstate commerce.  This section requires FERC to
    exempt from disclosure information the disclosure of which would be
    detrimental to the operation of an effective market or which would
    jeopardize system security.  This section shall not affect the
    CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction with respect to commodities under the
    Commodity Exchange Act.  This section provides that FERC shall not
    compete with private sector publishers of energy prices.

-   Amends the CZMA by establishing a 270-day period in which the
    Secretary of Commerce must close the decision record.  The Secretary
    may stay the 270-day clock for up to 60 days to acquire supplemental
    information regarding the consistency determination or clarifying
    information from a party to the proceeding related to information
    already in the record.  The section provides that the Secretary has
    90 days after the record is closed (90 days after the 270 to 330
    days, if stayed 60 days) to issue a decision or explain why it
    cannot, in which case the Secretary has an additional 45 days to
    issue a decision.  In total, this section allows for 1 year and 100
    days for the Secretary to complete action on an appeal of a
    consistency determination.

-   Directs the Secretary of Energy, in cooperation and consultation
    with Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Homeland Security,
    FERC, and Governors of coastal states, to convene at least 3 forums
    to discuss LNG siting issues such as siting, safety, and emergency
    response.  The purpose of the forums is to identify and develop best
    practices related to LNG and to foster cooperative efforts. 

-   Directs the Department of the Interior to perform a comprehensive
    inventory of oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.
    This inventory shall be done with available technology, except
    drilling, but including 3-D seismic technology. This inventory will
    help the nation better understand the extent of the resources on the
    Outer Continental Shelf.

-   Bans traders convicted of market manipulation from serving as
    directors or officers of utility companies.

**[Title IV: Coal]{.underline}**

-   Provides funding for the generation of electricity critical research
    related to the use of the country's most abundant fossil resource
    for coal.

-   Authorizes a Clean Coal Power Initiative, providing \$200 million
    annually for clean coal research in coal-based gasification and
    combustion technologies. The Secretary of Energy is directed to set
    increasingly restrictive emission targets over the life of the
    program to develop state-of-the-art technology.

-   Creates a program of loan guarantees and direct grants to deploy
    clean coal generating equipment for greater energy efficiency and
    environmental performance characteristics than current operating
    technology.

-   Amends several provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act governing the
    Federal Coal Leasing Program, including those pertaining to: lease
    modifications to avoid the bypass of coal; mining requirements for
    logical mining units; payment of advance royalties; and the deadline
    for submission of a coal lease operation and reclamation plan.

# **[Title V: Indian Energy]{.underline}**

# This title, referred to as the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self Determination Act of 2005, assists Indian Tribes in the development of Indian energy resources by increasing Tribes' internal capacity to develop their own resources. 

-   Provides grants, low-interest loans, loan guarantees and technical
    assistance, and streamlines the approval process for Tribal leases,
    agreements, and rights-of-way so that outside parties have more
    incentive to partner with Tribes in developing energy resources.

-   Included in this title are provisions creating an Office of Indian
    Energy Policy and Programs within the Department of Energy to
    support the development of tribal energy resources.

-   Makes Dine Power Authority, a Navajo Nation enterprise, eligible for
    funding under this title.

-   Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote
    energy efficiency for Indian housing.

-   The title also provides a complete substitute for title 26 of the
    Energy Policy Act of 1992.

-   Sections 2602 and 2603 instructs the Secretary of Interior to
    develop an Indian energy resource development program to provide
    grants and low-interest loans to tribes to develop and utilize their
    energy resources and to enhance the legal and administrative ability
    of tribes to manage their resources.

-   Section 2602 also directs DOE to develop a program to support and
    implement research projects that provide tribes with opportunities
    to participate in carbon sequestration practices.

-   Section 2602 creates a DOE loan guarantee program and directs the
    Energy Secretary to give priority to any project using new
    technology, such as coal gasification, carbon capture and
    sequestration or renewable energy-based electricity generation.

-   The DOE Secretary shall provide guarantees for no more than \$2
    billion at any time.

-   Section 2604 establishes a process by which an Indian tribe, upon
    demonstrating its technical and financial capacity and receiving
    approval of their Tribal Energy Resource Agreement, could negotiate
    and execute energy resource development leases, agreements and
    rights-of-way with third parties without first obtaining the
    approval of the Secretary of the Interior. 

-   Section 2604 also requires the Department of Interior to conduct a
    periodic review of tribal activities under the TERA and requires the
    tribes to monitor the activities of their business partners.

-   Section 2606 authorizes WAPA to make power allocations to meet the
    firming and reserve needs of Indian-owned energy projects and
    acquire power generated by Indian tribes for firming and reserve
    needs, so long as the rates and terms are competitive.

-   Section 2607 authorizes a study of wind and hydropower potential
    along the Missouri River.

**[Title VI: Nuclear Matters]{.underline}**

-   Provides for programs to ensure that nuclear energy remains a major
    component of the Nation's energy supply. 

-   Price Anderson liability protection is extended through 2025 for
    both NRC licensees and DOE contractors.

-   Coverage is indexed for inflation, and non-profit contractors of the
    Department are made subject to payment of penalties assessed for
    nuclear safety violations.

-   Nuclear Regulatory Commission scholarship and fellowship programs,
    including employee retention programs for those individuals with
    hard to find or critical skills.

-   Provides for the export of high enriched uranium to Canada, Belgium,
    France, Germany or the Netherlands for the sole purpose of producing
    medical isotopes until a low enriched uranium alternative is
    commercially viable and available.

-   Requires the DOE to propose a permanent disposal facility to
    Congress for Greater Than Class C waste with one year of enactment.

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-   Establishes standby support framework through the DOE for new
    nuclear plant construction against regulatory or judicial delays for
    six reactors.  This standby support would cover the delay before
    plant is put into operation.

-   If NRC determines that a conflict of interest exists when the
    Commission proposes to enter into an arrangement with a DOE
    laboratory, NRC will be required to take steps to mitigate the
    conflict, if feasible.

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-   A research, development, and construction project is authorized for
    a new test reactor to be constructed at the Idaho National
    Laboratory.

-   The reactor will serve as a national test bed for advanced reactor
    technologies that provide improved attributes over existing plants,
    and for co-generation of hydrogen by nuclear energy.

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-   Strengthens security of nuclear facilities, including improved
    federal oversight of plant security and the expansion of federal
    statutes for sabotage of nuclear facilities.

-   The medical isotope provision is narrowly tailored to ensure that
    the 40,000 procedures a day that are scheduled for patients in the
    United States who require medical isotopes are not delayed and
    remain cost effective.

# **[Title VII: Vehicles and Fuels]{.underline}**

-   Strengthens the requirement that federal vehicle fleets use
    alternate fuels in those vehicles that are capable of using such
    fuels and requires the Secretary of Energy report to the congress on
    the use of alternative fuels.

-   Authorizes appropriations for implementation and enforcement of
    federal fuel economy standards.

-   Creates a federal/industry research partnership to improve aircraft
    engine and locomotive railroad fuel efficiency and environmental
    performance.

-   Directs the Secretary of Energy to develop a program to encourage
    energy conservation through the use of bicycles as a substitute for
    vehicular transportation.

-   Establishes a program to promote the reduction of engine idling in
    heavy vehicles (trucks and locomotives) to reduce fuel consumption
    and air emissions.

-   Establishes a program to encourage the purchase of stationary and
    vehicular hydrogen fuel cell systems.

-   Requires "dual-fueled" vehicles acquired under the Energy Policy Act
    of 1992 (EPAct) to be operated on alternative fuels, includes
    certain low-speed electric vehicles in EPAct, provides additional
    credits for medium and heavy duty alternative fuel vehicles, and
    increases incentives for the purchase and use hybrid vehicles and
    for investment in alternative fuel infrastructure. Also provides an
    alternative compliance mechanism based on petroleum displacement and
    includes new provisions on lease condensates.

-   Authorizes \$200 million for an advanced vehicle program. This
    program, operating under the current Department of Energy "Clean
    Cities" program, would provide grants to state and local governments
    to acquire alternative fueled and fuel cell vehicles, hybrids and
    other vehicles, including ultra-low sulfur diesel vehicles.

**[Title VIII: Hydrogen]{.underline}**

-   Directs the Secretary to conduct a broad-based research program
    supporting private sector efforts in hydrogen and fuel cell
    development, including production, storage, distribution and use of
    hydrogen; and fuel cell applications for transportation and
    stationary uses.

-   Sets a goal of enabling the private sector to make a
    commercialization decision on fuel cell vehicle production hydrogen
    for transportation by 2015.

-   Requires enhanced public education and university research in
    fundamental sciences, application design and systems concepts,
    including materials, subsystems, manufacturability, maintenance and
    safety.

-   Directs the Secretary to transfer critical hydrogen and fuel cell
    technologies to the private sector and to foster the exchange of
    non-proprietary information.

-   Establishes demonstration programs for hydrogen technologies and
    fuel cell vehicles for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles.

-   Supports the timely development of safety codes and standards
    related to fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen energy systems, and
    stationary fuel cells.

# **[Title IX: Research and Development]{.underline}**

-   Creates the Next Generation Lighting Initiative, a public-private
    partnership to develop advanced solid-state lighting devices.  These
    devices are longer lasting and more energy efficient and
    cost-effective than incandescent or fluorescent lighting.  

-   Establishes the National Building Performance Initiative to
    integrate Federal, State, and voluntary private sector efforts to
    reduce the costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and
    renovation of buildings to improve energy efficiency.

-   Requires the Secretary to conduct research and development efforts
    to ensure the reliability, efficiency, and environmental integrity
    of the nation's electrical transmission and distribution systems.

-   Requires the Secretary to conduct cutting-edge research and
    development in renewable energy, including bioenergy from celluosic
    feedstocks, concentrating solar power, ocean energy, and
    cogeneration of hydrogen and electricity from renewable sources.

-   Requires the Secretary to support education in nuclear engineering
    and nuclear-related technologies through grants to university
    departments for research and support for facilities.

-   Requires the Secretary to investigate new techniques to reduce the
    volume and toxicity of spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

-   Creates a program to study measures to improve the safety and
    security of nuclear facilities from natural disasters and deliberate
    attacks.

-   Directs the Secretary to survey industrial applications of large
    radioactive sources and to establish a research program aimed at
    developing alternatives to these sources that would reduce safety,
    environmental, and proliferation risks associated with these large
    sources.

-   Establishes a program to research and develop technologies to
    capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and to
    safely store these emissions so that they are permanently isolated
    from the atmosphere.

-   Encourages research and development on methane hydrates, an
    unconventional form of fossil fuel that exists in potentially huge
    reserves off shore of U.S. coastal areas.           

# **[Title X: Department of Energy Management]{.underline}**

-   Creates a new Assistant Secretary position and expresses the sense
    of the Congress that the position should be used to improve
    management of Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy, and grants
    the Secretary of Energy authority to enter into other transactions
    as appropriate to further research, development, or demonstration
    goals of the Department.

-   Creates a new Undersecretary for Science to advise the Secretary on
    fundamental science research and basic research needed to support
    the Department's missions

# **[Title XI: Personnel and Training]{.underline}**

-   Requires establishment of training guidelines for electric energy
    industry personnel and centers for building technologies and power
    plant operations training.          

-   Directs increased activity by the Department of Energy to improve
    recruitment of under-represented groups into energy professions.

-   Establishes research fellowships for energy research to encourage
    and support outstanding young scientists and engineers and
    outstanding senior researchers.

**[Title XII: Electricity]{.underline}**

-   Improves grid reliability, promotes transmission infrastructure
    development and security, reduces regulatory uncertainty, and
    increases consumer protections.

-   Establishes mandatory reliability rules for the transmission
    system. 

-   Authorizes FERC to exercise limited jurisdiction over unregulated
    transmitting utilities to ensure open access to the transmission
    grid; protects transmission access for native load customers; and
    terminates FERC's proposed rulemaking on Standard Market Design.

-   Directs FERC to issue rules on transmission pricing policies and
    authorizes FERC to approve a participant funding cost allocation
    plan as long as it results in just and reasonable rates.

-   Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). 
    It prospectively repeals the requirement for mandatory purchase from
    qualifying facilities by electric utilities if a competitive market
    exists and establishes new criteria for qualifying cogeneration
    facilities. 

-   Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) to
    encourage investment in the nation's electricity infrastructure.

-   Bans market manipulation; prohibits false statements; addresses
    market transparency; increases penalties for violations of the
    Federal Power Act; changes the refund effective date from 60 days
    after the date of filing to the date of filing; protects consumers
    against unfair trade practices; protects utility customers affected
    by the Enron bankruptcy from unfair contract termination fees by
    authorizing FERC to review the issue.

-   Amends Section 203 of the Federal Power Act by expanding FERC's
    jurisdiction to include acquisition of generation facilities that
    are subject to FERC jurisdiction for ratemaking purposes. Applies to
    transactions valued in excess of \$10,000,000 and requires FERC to
    consider whether a proposed merger would result in
    cross-subsidizations of non-utility associate companies to the
    detriment of the utility consumers. Requires FERC to adopt rules for
    the expeditious consideration of applications.

-   Allows courts to ban traders convicted of market manipulate from
    holding officer or director positions in electric utility companies.

 **[Title XIII: Energy Policy Tax Incentives]{.underline}**

***Oil and Gas Production and Enhanced Refining***

Natural gas distribution lines treated as 15-year property. Gas
distribution lines must be depreciated over 20 years under present law.
Provision shortens the depreciation period to 15 years for any gas
distribution lines the original use of which occurred after April 11,
2004 and before January 1, 2011. The provision does not apply to any
property which the taxpayer or a related party had entered into a
binding contract for the construction thereof or self-constructed on or
before April 11, 2005.

**Cost: \$1.019 billion**

Amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures. The provision
allows geological and geophysical amounts incurred in connection with
oil and gas exploration in the United States to be amortized over two
years. In the case of abandoned property, any remaining basis may no
longer be recovered in the year of abandonment of a property as all
basis is recovered over the two-year amortization period. The provision
is effective for geological and geophysical costs paid or incurred in
taxable years beginning after the date of enactment.

**Cost: \$974 million**

Expensing for refinery investments. Allows taxpayers to expense
(depreciate immediately) 50 percent of the cost of refinery investments
which increase the capacity of an existing refinery by at least 5
percent or increase the throughput of qualified fuels by at least 25
percent. Qualified fuels include oil from shale and tar sands. As a
condition of eligibility, refineries of liquid fuels must report to the
IRS on refinery operations (e.g., production and output).

**Cost: \$406 million**

Determination of small refiner exception to oil depletion deduction.
Presently, a producer may qualify as an independent producer for this
purpose if its refining operations, runs, do not exceed 50,000 barrels
on any day in the taxable year during which independent producer status
is claimed. The provision increases the current 50,000-barrel-per-day
limitation to 75,000. It also changes the refinery limitation on actual
daily production to an average daily production for the taxable year.

**Cost: \$158 million**

Arbitrage rules not to apply to prepayment for natural gas. Arbitrage is
the profit that results from investing the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds
in higher yielding taxable securities. Tax law generally requires a
rebate of arbitrage profits to the U.S. This provision would create a
safe harbor exception to the general rule that tax-exempt bond-financed
prepayments violate the arbitrage restrictions. The exception applies to
certain prepaid natural gas contracts, i.e., any contracts to acquire
natural gas for resale by a utility owned by a governmental unit where
the amount of gas to be purchased under the contract does not exceed the
certain limits. The limit is the sum of (1) the average annual natural
gas purchased by customers of the utility within the service area during
a 5 year testing period, and (2) the amount of natural gas that is
needed to fuel transportation of the natural gas to the governmental
utility. This provision would apply to all contracts issued after the
date of enactment.

**Cost: \$53 million**

Natural gas gathering lines treated as 7-year property. Uncertainty in
the current law concerning what the appropriate recovery period is for
natural gas gathering lines has lead to litigation. This provision
clarifies the law, establishing a statutory seven-year recovery period
and a class life of 14 years for natural gas gathering lines the
original use of which commences with the taxpayer after April 11, 2005.
In addition, no adjustment will be made to the allowable amount of
depreciation with respect to this property for purposes of computing a
taxpayer's alternative minimum taxable income.

**Cost: \$16 million**

Cooperative pass-through of the expensing related to costs to comply
with EPA sulfur regulations for small refiners. The American Job
Creation Act of 2004 included a provision to allow taxpayers to expense
certain costs for investments to comply with EPA low sulfur diesel
regulations. Provision allows the deduction to be passed-through to
members of a cooperative if the cooperative makes an election on their
tax return.

**Cost: \$7 million**

***Electricity Reliability***

Transmission property treated as fifteen-year property. Assets used in
the transmission and distribution of electricity for sale and related
land improvements are assigned a 20-year recovery period. This provision
shortens the recovery period to 15-years for certain assets used in the
transmission of electricity for sale and related land improvements. For
purposes of the provision, section 1245 property used in the
transmission at 69 or more kilovolts of electricity for sale, the
original use of which commences with the taxpayer after April 11, 2005,
will qualify for the new recovery period. The provision does not apply
to any property which the taxpayer or a related party had entered into a
binding contract for the construction thereof or self-constructed on or
before April 11, 2005.

**Cost: \$1.239 billion**

Nuclear decommissioning. Modifies the rules for qualified nuclear
decommissioning funds, which are funds created by a taxpayer, restricted
to certain kinds of investments, and used exclusively for payment of
decommissioning costs. The proposal repeals the cost of service
requirement for contributions to a qualified fund. The proposal permits
the transfer of pre-1984 decommissioning costs to a qualified fund.
Finally, it requires that new ruling amount be made in any tax year in
which the powerplant is granted a license renewal.

**Cost: \$1.293 billion**

Treatment of electric cooperative income (85/15 test). The rules for
tax-exempt electric cooperatives require that 85 percent of the
cooperative's income consists of amounts collected from members of the
cooperative to meet losses and expenses of providing service to its
members (85/15 test). This test has made it difficult for cooperatives
to participate in electricity market deregulation and open access
transmission of electricity. In the Jobs Bill, the 85/15 test was
modified to exclude certain income related to electricity restructuring
from the 85/15 test. Those changes expire on 12/31/06. The provision
makes the Jobs Bill changes permanent.

**Cost: \$277 million**

Sales of electricity transmission property to implement restructuring
policy. The Jobs Bill included a provision to allow a longer recognition
period for electric utilities that sell their transmission assets to a
FERC-approved independent transmission company. Rather than paying tax
on any gain from the sale in the year that the sale is completed,
utilities will have 8 years to pay the tax on any gain from the sale.
The rule expires at the end of 2006. Provision allows sales during 2007
to qualify for the 8-year recognition.

**Raises: \$19 million**

Production tax credit for nuclear power facilities. No tax credit for
electricity produced at nuclear power facilities under present law.
Provision establishes a production tax credit for new nuclear power
facilities. Credit amount is 1.8 cents per kWh for electricity produced
over an 8-year period.

**Cost: \$278 million**

5-year NOL for electric transmission equipment. A taxpayer may claim a
net operating loss carryback to each of the 5 years preceding the
taxable year of such loss up to 20 percent of the cost of electric
transmission capital expenditures and pollution control capital
expenditures. Applies to losses incurred in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

**Cost: \$52 million**

***Renewable and Clean Energy Incentives***

Extension and modification of renewable electricity production credit
(Section 45). Provision extends placed-in-service date by two years
(through December 31, 2007) for qualifying facilities: wind facilities;
closed-loop biomass facilities; open-loop biomass facilities; geothermal
facilities; small irrigation power facilities; landfill gas facilities;
and trash combustion facilities. Placed-in-service dates for solar
facilities and refined coal facilities are not altered. Qualifying
facilities receive credits per kWh for electricity produced over a 10
year period. Hydropower and Indian coal are added as new qualifying
energy resources. Provision is generally effective on date of enactment.

**Cost: \$2.747 billion**

Pass through to cooperatives. Section 45 allows eligible cooperatives to
elect to pass any portion of the renewable electricity production credit
to their patrons. An eligible cooperative is defined as a cooperative
organization that is owned more than 50 percent by agricultural
producers or entities owned by agricultural producers. (included in
Section 45 score)

Clean renewable energy bonds. Provision creates new category of tax
credit Bonds Clean Renewable Energy Bonds ("CREBs"). CREBs are defined
as bond issued by qualified issuer if, in addition to other
requirements, 95 percent of proceeds are used to finance capital
expenditures incurred for facilities qualifying for tax credit under
section 45. Qualified issuers include governmental bodies (including
Indian tribal governments) and mutual or cooperative electric companies.
Provision is effective for bonds issued after December 31, 2005.

**Cost: \$411 million**

***Clean Coal***

Credit for investment in clean coal facilities. No tax credit for clean
coal facilities under present law. Provision establishes three
investment tax credits for clean coal facilities: a 15 percent and 20
percent investment tax credit for clean coal facilities producing
electricity; and a 20 percent credit for industrial gasification
projects. Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) projects get a
20 percent investment tax credit and other advanced coal-based projects
that produce electricity get a 15 percent credit. The Secretary may
allocate up to \$800 million for IGCC projects and up to \$500 million
for other advanced coal-based technologies and up to \$350 million for
industrial gasification. Also clarifies that lignite is a qualifying
coal.

**Cost: \$1.612 billion**

84-month amortization for pollution control facilities. This provision
provides a 7 year recovery period for the cost of certain certified air
pollution control facilities used in connection with an electric
generation plant which is primarily coal fired and which was not in
operation before January 1, 1976. Under present law, plants that were in
operation before January 1, 1976 may amortize these costs over 60
months.

**Cost: \$1.147 billion**

Modification of credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source.
The provision makes the credit for producing fuel from a
non-conventional source part of the general business credit, so that
unused credits may be carried back one year and forward 20 years.

**Cost: \$88 million**

Extension of credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source for
facilities producing coke or coke gas. Coke is a fuel from the residue
of coal left after distillation or other feedstock (such as petroleum).
The provision also adds a production credit for qualified facilities
that produce coke or coke gas. Qualified facilities must have been
placed in service before January 1, 1993, or after June 30, 1998, and
before January 1, 2010. The production credit may be claimed beginning
on the later of January 1, 2006, or the date such facility is placed in
service and ending on the date which is four years after such period
began. The credit expires in January 1, 2010 or four years after the
facility was placed in service, whichever is later.

**Cost: \$101 million**

***Energy Efficiency and Conservation Measures***

Alternative technology vehicle credits.

Fuel cell vehicles: the amount of credit for the purchase of a fuel cell
vehicle is determined by a base credit amount that depends upon the
weight class of the vehicle and in the case of automobiles or light
trucks, an additional credit amount that depends upon the rated fuel
economy of the vehicle compared to a base fuel economy.

Alternative Fuel Vehicles: The provision permits the credit to offset
the excess of the regular tax over the alternative minimum tax

Hybrid vehicles and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles: The amount
of credit is the sum of two components: a fuel economy credit amount
that varies with the rated fuel economy of the vehicle compared to a
2002 model year standard and a conservation credit based on the
estimated lifetime fuel savings of a qualifying vehicle compared to a
comparable 2002 model year vehicle.

Effective date -- The provision applies to vehicles placed in service
after December 31, 2005, in the case of qualified fuel cell motor
vehicles, before January 1, 2015; in the case of qualified hybrid motor
vehicles that are automobiles and light trucks and in the case of
advanced lean-burn technology vehicles, before January 1, 2011; in the
case of qualified hybrid motor vehicles that are medium and heavy
trucks, before January 1, 2010; and in the case of qualified alternative
fuel motor vehicles, before January 1, 2011.

**Cost: \$874 million**

Termination of code section 179A: Repeals section 179A sunsets after
December 31, 2005.

**Raises: \$2 million**

Small producer biodiesel and ethanol credit. Adds to the biodiesel fuels
credit a small

agri-biodiesel producer credit of 10-cents-per-gallon for up to 15
million gallons of

agri-biodiesel produced by producers with annual capacity not exceeding
60 million gallons. Effective for taxable years after date of enactment
and sunsets December 31, 2008. Limit on production capacity for small
ethanol producers increased from 30 million to 60 million gallons,
effective for taxable years after date of enactment.

**Cost: \$181 million**

Credit for installing of alternative fuel refueling property. The
provision permits taxpayers to claim a 30% credit for the cost of
installing clean-fuel vehicle refueling property to be used in a trade
or business of the taxpayer or installed at the principal residence of
the taxpayer. Under the provision clean fuels are any fuel at least 85%
of the volume of which consists of ethanol, natural gas, compressed
natural gas, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and
hydrogen and any mixture of diesel fuel and biodiesel containing at
least 20% biodiesel.

Effective date. - The provision is effective for property placed in
service December 31, 2005 and before January 1, 2010.

**Cost: \$71 million**

Diesel-water fuel emulsion. A special tax rate of 19.7 cents per gallon
is provided for diesel fuel blended with water into a diesel-water fuel
emulsion to reflect the reduced Btu content per gallon resulting from
the water. The diesel-water emulsion fuels eligible for the special rate
must consist of at least 14% water. The person claiming entitlement must
be registered with the Secretary. Claims for refunds based on the
incentive rate may be filed quarterly if such person can claim at least
\$750. If the person cannot claim at least \$750 at the end of quarter,
the amount can be carried over to the next quarter to determine if the
person can claim at least \$750. If the person cannot claim \$750 at the
end of the taxable year, the person must claim a credit on the person's
income tax return.

Effective date.-The provision is effective on January 1, 2006

**Cost: Negligible**

Extend excise tax provisions and income tax credit for biodiesel and
create similar incentives for renewable diesel. The conference agreement
extends the income tax credit, excise tax credit, and payment provisions
through December 31, 2008. The conference agreement also creates a
similar income tax credit, excise tax credit and payment system for
renewable diesel, however there is no credit for small producers of
renewable diesel. Renewable diesel means diesel fuel derived form
biomass using thermal depolymerization process.

Effective date. -- The extension of incentives is effective on the date
of enactment. The renewable diesel provisions are effective for fuel
sold or used after December 31, 2005.

**Cost: \$194 million**

Credit for residential energy efficient property purchases. Provides
credit, equal to

30 percent of qualifying expenditures, for purchase for qualified
photovoltaic property and solar water heating property used exclusively
for purposes other than heating swimming pools and hot tubs. Provision
also provides a 30 percent credit for the purchase of qualified fuel
cell power plants and applies to property placed in service after
December 31, 2005 and prior to January 1, 2008.

**Cost: \$31 million**

Credit for business installation of qualified fuel cells, stationary
microturbine power plants, and solar. Provides a 30 percent business
energy credit for purchase of qualified fuel cell power plants for
businesses and a 10 percent credit for purchase of qualifying stationary
microturbine power plants. Additionally, a 30 percent credit for
purchase of qualifying solar energy property is provided. Credits apply
to periods after December 31, 2005 and before January 1, 2008.

**Cost: \$222 million**

Credit for energy efficient existing homes. Provides 10% investment tax
credit for expenditures with respect to improvements to building
envelope. Allows credits for purchases of advanced main air circulating
fans, natural gas, propane, or oil furnaces or hot water boilers, and
other qualified energy efficient property. Credit applies to property
placed in service after December 31, 2005 and prior to January 1, 2008.

**Cost: \$556 million**

Business credit of energy efficient new homes. Provides credit to
eligible contractor for construction of a qualified new energy-efficient
home.

Credit applies to manufactured homes meeting Energy Star Standards and
other homes meeting a 50 percent standard. Credit applies to homes which
are purchased after December 31, 2005 and prior to January 1, 2008.

**Cost: \$28 million**

Energy efficient commercial building deduction. The provision allows a
deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings that reduce annual
energy and power consumption by 50 percent compared to the American
Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE) standard. The deduction would equal the cost of energy
efficient property installed during construction, with a maximum
deduction of \$1.80 per square foot of the building. In addition, a
partial deduction of 60 cents per square foot would be provided for
building subsystems.

**Cost: \$243 million**

Energy efficient appliances. Provision establishes tax credit for the
manufacture of efficient dishwashers, clothes washers, and
refrigerators. Credits vary depending on the efficiency of the unit.
Effective for appliances manufactured in 2006 and 2007.

**Cost: \$180 million**

Research and development credit for energy research. Provision modifies
the 20% research and development tax credit. Taxpayers' expenditures to
qualified research consortia with respect to energy-related research
would be eligible for the credit. Other modifications to the credit with
respect to energy-related research are included.

**Cost: \$92 million**

NAS study. Provision directs the Treasury Secretary to enter into an
agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of
the health, environmental, security, and infrastructure costs and
benefits associated with production and consumption of energy.

**Cost: No score.**

Recycling study. Provision directs the Treasury Secretary, in
consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to conduct a study to
determine and quantify the energy savings, achieved through recycling
activities, including electronic waste, and to identify tax incentives
to carry out this incentive.

**Cost: No score.**

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Reinstates the Oil Spill Liability Trust
Fund tax. The tax applies on April 1, 2006, or later, if the Secretary
estimates that, as of the close of that quarter, the unobligated balance
in the Oil Spill Liability Trust fund will be less that \$2 billion.

**Raises: \$2.508 billion**

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust (LUST )Fund. The LUST Trust Fund
tax is extended at the current rate through September 30, 2011. Also,
dyed fuel is subject to the LUST tax and without refund.

**Raises: \$349 million**

Section 197 modification. This provision modifies the recapture rules
for amortizable section 197 intangibles. Under the provision, if
multiple section 197 intangibles are sold or disposed of in a single
transaction or series of transactions, the seller must calculate
recapture as if all of the section 197 intangibles were a single asset.
Thus, any gain on the sale or disposition of the intangibles is
recaptured as ordinary income to the extent of ordinary depreciation
deductions previously claimed on any of the section 197 intangibles.

**Raises: \$171 million**

Tire excise tax modification and tire study. It clarifies that a super
single tire is not designed to steer the vehicle, and is made effective
as if included in the JOBS Act.

**Raises: negligible effect**

**[Title XV: Ethanol and Motor Fuels]{.underline}**

-   Requires that by 2012, at least 7.5 billion gallons per year of
    renewable fuel be blended into the nation's gasoline supply.

-   Allows production of renewable fuel from such traditional sources as
    corn and other crops or from plants, grasses, agricultural residues
    and waste products. The bill includes incentives for the production
    of renewable fuel from these "non-traditional" sources, allowing
    greater credits for ethanol derived from cellulosic biomass or
    waste.

-   Authorizes loan guarantees and grants for the construction of
    facilities to process and convert municipal solid waste and
    cellulosic biomass into fuel ethanol and other commercial
    byproducts.

-   Includes increased funding to \$6 million over five years
    (2006-2010) for the Department of Transportation to continue its
    work on improving Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

-   Includes a study, to be done by the National Highway Traffic Safety
    Administration (NHTSA), to look into alternatives to the CAFE
    program and examine the amount of fuel consumed by automobiles.

-   Enhances the federal leaking underground storage tank program to
    improve tank inspection, remediate spills of oxygenated fuels and
    prevent future releases of gasoline into ground water.

-   Gives the EPA administrator, in the event of an extreme and unusual
    supply emergency, (i.e., a Gulf of Mexico hurricane impacts refinery
    production and distribution; unexpected pipeline disruption) the
    ability to temporarily waive certain requirements thereby avoiding
    potential supply shortages and price spikes.

**[Title XVI: Climate Change]{.underline}**

-   Requires the preparation of a national strategy to promote the
    deployment and commercialization of greenhouse gas intensity
    reducing technologies and practices within 18 months of the date of
    enactment.

-   Creates a program to assist deployment of technologies that will
    help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in developing
    countries.

**[Title XVII: Incentives for Innovative Technologies]{.underline}**

-   Creates a unified, comprehensive loan guarantee program for
    encouraging the commercialization of a broad spectrum of new
    technologies that provide clean, renewable energy at no cost to the
    taxpayers.

-   The technologies have to avoid, reduce or sequester air pollutants
    or man-made greenhouse gasses, and the technology has to be new or
    significantly improved over what is available in the marketplace.

-   The guarantees can only be for 80 percent of the cost of a project
    -- the developers will share in the risk.

-   Constructs the program in accordance with the Federal Credit Reform
    Act.

-   Requires the cost of the guarantee to be paid in advance through
    appropriations or payment from those seeking the loan guarantee in
    the amount determined by CBO to reflect the risk of default.

**[Title XVIII: Studies]{.underline}**

Sec.1601. Energy and water saving measures in congressional buildings.

Sec.1602. Increased hydroelectric generation at existing Federal
facilities.

Sec.1603. Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline.

Sec.1604. Renewable energy on Federal land.

Sec.1605. Coal bed methane study.

Sec.1606. Backup fuel capability study.

Sec.1607. Indian land rights-of-way.

Sec.1608. Review of Energy Policy Act of 1992 programs.

Sec.1609. Study of feasibility and effects of reducing use of fuel for
automobiles.

Sec.1610. Hybrid distributed power systems.

Sec.1611. Mobility of scientific and technical personnel.

Sec.1612. National Academy of Sciences report.

Sec.1613. Report on research and development program evaluation
methodologies.

Sec.1614. Transmission system monitoring study.

Sec.1615. Interagency review of competition in the wholesale and retail
markets for electric energy.

Sec.1616. Study on the benefits of economic dispatch.

Sec.1617. Study of rapid electrical grid restoration.

Sec.1618. Development of cogeneration.

Sec.1619. Study on inventory of petroleum and natural gas storage.

Sec.1620. Natural gas supply shortage report.

Sec.1621. Split-estate Federal oil and gas leasing and development
practices.

Sec.1622. Resolution of Federal resource development conflicts in the
Powder River Basin.

Sec.1623. Study of energy efficiency standards.

Sec.1624. Telecommuting study.

Sec.1625. Oil bypass filtration technology.

Sec.1626. Total integrated thermal systems.

Sec.1627. University collaboration.

Sec.1628. Reliability and consumer protection assessment.

Sec.1801. Study on inventory of petroleum and natural gas storage.

Sec.1802. Study of energy efficiency standards.

Sec.1803. Telecommuting study.

Sec.1804. LIHEAP Report.

Sec.1805. Oil bypass filtration Technology.

Sec.1806. Total integrated thermal systems.

Sec.1807. Report on energy integration with Latin America.

Sec.1808. Low-volume gas reservoir study.

Sec.1809. Investigation of gasoline prices.

Sec.1810. Alaska natural gas pipeline.

Sec.1811. Coal bed methane study.

Sec.1812. Backup fuel capability study

Sec.1813. Indian land rights-of-way.

Sec.1814. Mobility of scientific and technical personnel.

Sec.1815. Interagency review of competition in the wholesale and retail
markets for electric

> energy.

Sec.1816. Study of rapid electrical grid restoration.

Sec.1817. Study of distributed generation.

Sec.1818. Natural gas supply shortage report.

Sec.1819. Hydrogen participation study.

Sec.1820. Overall employment in a hydrogen economy.

Sec.1821. Study of best management practices for energy research and
development

> programs.

Sec.1822. Effect of electrical contaminants on reliability of energy
production systems.

Sec.1823. Alternative fuels reports.

Sec.1824. Final action on refunds for excessive charges.

Sec.1825. Fuel cell and hydrogen technology study.

Sec.1826. Passive solar technologies.

Sec.1827. Study of link between energy security and increases in vehicle
miles traveled.

Sec.1828. Science study on cumulative impacts of multiple offshore
liquefied natural gas

> facilities.

Sec.1829. Energy and water saving measures in congressional buildings.

Sec.1830. Study of availability of skilled workers.

Sec.1831. Review of Energy Policy Act of 1992 programs.

Sec.1832. Study on the benefits of economic dispatch.

Sec.1833 Renewable energy on Federal land.

Sec.1834 Increased hydroelectric generation at existing Federal
facilities.

Sec.1835 Split estate Federal oil and gas leasing and development
practices.

Sec.1836. Resolution of Federal resource development conflicts in the
Powder River Basin.

Sec.1837. National security review of international energy requirements.

Sec. 1838. Used oil re-refining study.

Sec. 1839. Transmission system monitoring.

Sec. 1840. Report identifying and describing the status of potential
hydropower facilities.