In the Red Act of 2016

Summary: In the Red Act of 2016 This bill authorizes and appropriates specified funds to the Department of Education (ED) for FY2016-FY2025 and each succeeding year for grants: (1) to waive tuition and fees for eligible students at community colleges, and (2) to waive or reduce tuition and fees for low-income students at four-year historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions. It amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct ED to establish a program to refinance outstanding federal student loans for borrowers of Direct Loan program loans disbursed before July 1, 2016, and Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program loans. (FFELs were not disbursed after June 30, 2010.) The bill modifies, for academic year 2018-2019 and succeeding years, the calculation of the mandatory add-on amount used to determine the total maximum Federal Pell Grant award. It also amends various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to, among other things: (1) expand the expenses eligible for the American Opportunity Tax Credit to include the amount of a Federal Pell Grant used to pay for living expenses; and (2) include, as a qualified scholarship excludible from gross income, any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant. Finally, the bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal royalty relief for: (1) deep gas wells in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and (2) deep water oil and gas leases in the central and western Gulf of Mexico.

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        Congress. Such regulations shall also grant the option to 
        deduct as expenses intangible drilling and development costs in 
        the case of wells drilled for any geothermal deposit (as 
        defined in section 613(e)(2)) to the same extent and in the 
        same manner as such expenses are deductible in the case of oil 
        and gas wells. This subsection shall not apply with respect to 
        any costs to which any deduction is allowed under section 59(e) 
        or 291.
            ``(2) Exclusion.--
                    ``(A) In general.--This subsection shall not apply 
                to amounts paid or incurred by a taxpayer in any 
                taxable year in which such taxpayer is a major 
                integrated oil company (within the meaning of section 
                167(h)(5)).
                    ``(B) Amortization of amounts not allowable as 
                deductions under subparagraph (a).--The amount not 
                allowable as a deduction for any taxable year by reason 
                of subparagraph (A) shall be allowable as a deduction 
                ratably over the 60-month period beginning with the 
                month in which the costs are paid or incurred. For 
                purposes of section 1254, any deduction under this 
                subparagraph shall be treated as a deduction under this 
                subsection.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to amounts paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 
31, 2015.

SEC. 512. LIMITATION ON PERCENTAGE DEPLETION ALLOWANCE FOR OIL AND GAS 
              WELLS.

    (a) In General.--Section 613A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Application With Respect to Major Integrated Oil Companies.--
In the case of any taxable year in which the taxpayer is a major 
integrated oil company (within the meaning of section 167(h)(5)), the 
allowance for percentage depletion shall be zero.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.

SEC. 513. LIMITATION ON DEDUCTION FOR TERTIARY INJECTANTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 193 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Application With Respect to Major Integrated Oil Companies.--
            ``(1) In general.--This section shall not apply to amounts 
        paid or incurred by a taxpayer in any taxable year in which 
        such taxpayer is a major integrated oil company (within the 
        meaning of section 167(h)(5)).
            ``(2) Amortization of amounts not allowable as deductions 
        under paragraph (1).--The amount not allowable as a deduction 
        for any taxable year by reason of paragraph (1) shall be 
        allowable as a deduction ratably over the 60-month period 
        beginning with the month in which the costs are paid or 
        incurred.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to amounts paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 
31, 2015.

SEC. 514. MODIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF MAJOR INTEGRATED OIL COMPANY.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (5) of section 167(h) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Certain successors in interest.--For purposes 
                of this paragraph, the term `major integrated oil 
                company' includes any successor in interest of a 
                company that was described in subparagraph (B) in any 
                taxable year, if such successor controls more than 50 
                percent of the crude oil production or natural gas 
                production of such company.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) In general.--Subparagraph (B) of section 167(h)(5) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting 
        ``except as provided in subparagraph (C),'' after ``For 
        purposes of this paragraph,''.
            (2) Taxable years tested.--Clause (iii) of section 
        167(h)(5)(B) of such Code is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``does not apply by reason of 
                paragraph (4) of section 613A(d)'' and inserting ``did 
                not apply by reason of paragraph (4) of section 613A(d) 
                for any taxable year after 2004'', and
                    (B) by striking ``does not apply'' in subclause 
                (II) and inserting ``did not apply for the taxable 
                year''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.

SEC. 515. REPEAL OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DEEP WATER AND DEEP GAS 
              ROYALTY RELIEF.

    (a) In General.--Sections 344 and 345 of the Energy Policy Act of 
2005 (42 U.S.C. 15904, 15905) are repealed.
    (b) Administration.--The Secretary of the Interior shall not be 
required to provide for royalty relief in the lease sale terms 
beginning with the first lease sale held on or after the date of 
enactment of this Act for which a final notice of sale has not been 
published.

SEC. 516. COORDINATION OF AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY CREDIT AND LIFETIME 
              LEARNING CREDIT WITH PELL GRANTS NOT USED FOR QUALIFIED 
              TUITION AND RELATED EXPENSES.

    (a) In General.--Section 25A(g)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) Adjustment for certain scholarships, etc.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The amount of qualified tuition 
                and related expenses otherwise taken into account under 
                subsection (a) with respect to an individual for an 
                academic period shall be reduced (before the 
                application of subsections (b), (c), and (d)) by the 
                sum of any amounts paid for the benefit of such 
                individual which are allocable to such period as--
                            ``(i) a qualified scholarship which is 
                        excludable from gross income under section 117,
                            ``(ii) an educational assistance allowance 
                        under chapter 30, 31, 32, 34, or 35 of title 
                        38, United States Code, or under chapter 1606 
                        of title 10, United States Code, and
                            ``(iii) a payment (other than a gift, 
                        bequest, devise, or inheritance within the 
                        meaning of section 102(a)) for such 
                        individual's educational expenses, or 
                        attributable to such individual's enrollment at 
                        an eligible educational institution, which is 
                        excludable from gross income under any law of 
                        the United States.
                    ``(B) Coordination with pell grants not used for 
                qualified tuition and related expenses.--For purposes 
                of subparagraph (A), the amount of any Federal Pell 
                Grant under section 401 of the Higher Education Act of 
                1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a) shall be reduced (but not below 
                zero) by the amount of expenses (other than qualified 
                tuition and related expenses) which are taken into 
                account in determining the cost of attendance (as 
                defined in section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 
                1965, as in effect on the date of the enactment of this 
                subparagraph) of such individual at an eligible 
                educational institution for the academic period for 
                which the credit under this section is being 
                determined.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.

SEC. 517. EXPANSION OF PELL GRANT EXCLUSION FROM GROSS INCOME.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (1) of section 117(b) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
            (1) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, 
        or'',
            (2) by striking ``received by an individual as a 
        scholarship'' and inserting the following: ``received by an 
        individual--
                    ``(A) as a scholarship'', and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) as a Federal Pell Grant under section 401 of 
                the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.