ernment Impact Aid Assistance Fund established by 
subsection (d) to provide timely financial assistance 
to entities that are eligible under paragraph (2) and 
that are directly impacted by the exploration for or 
production of oil and gas on the Coastal Plain under 
this subtitle. 
(2) ELIGIBLE
ENTITIES.—The North Slope 
Borough, the City of Kaktovik, and any other bor-
ough, municipal subdivision, village, or other com-
munity in the State of Alaska that is directly im-
pacted by exploration for, or the production of, oil 
or gas on the Coastal Plain under this subtitle, as 
determined by the Secretary, shall be eligible for fi-
nancial assistance under this section. 
(b) USE
OF
ASSISTANCE.—Financial assistance 
under this section may be used only for— 
(1) planning for mitigation of the potential ef-
fects of oil and gas exploration and development on 
environmental, social, cultural, recreational, and sub-
sistence values; 
(2) implementing mitigation plans and main-
taining mitigation projects; 
(3) developing, carrying out, and maintaining 
projects and programs that provide new or expanded 
public facilities and services to address needs and 
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problems associated with such effects, including fire- 
fighting, police, water, waste treatment, medivac, 
and medical services; and 
(4) establishment of a coordination office, by 
the North Slope Borough, in the City of Kaktovik, 
which shall— 
(A) coordinate with and advise developers 
on local conditions, impact, and history of the 
areas utilized for development; and 
(B) provide to the Committee on Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate an annual report on the status of co-
ordination between developers and the commu-
nities affected by development. 
(c) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any community that is eligi-
ble for assistance under this section may submit an 
application for such assistance to the Secretary, in 
such form and under such procedures as the Sec-
retary may prescribe by regulation. 
(2) NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH COMMUNITIES.—A 
community located in the North Slope Borough may 
apply for assistance under this section either directly 
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to the Secretary or through the North Slope Bor-
ough. 
(3) APPLICATION ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall work closely with and assist the North Slope 
Borough and other communities eligible for assist-
ance under this section in developing and submitting 
applications for assistance under this section. 
(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Im-
pact Aid Assistance Fund. 
(2) USE.—Amounts in the fund may be used 
only for providing financial assistance under this 
section. 
(3) DEPOSITS.—Subject to paragraph (4), there 
shall be deposited into the fund amounts received by 
the United States as revenues derived from rents, 
bonuses, and royalties from Federal leases and lease 
sales authorized under this subtitle. 
(4) LIMITATION
ON
DEPOSITS.—The total 
amount in the fund may not exceed $11,000,000. 
(5) INVESTMENT
OF
BALANCES.—The Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in the 
fund in interest bearing government securities. 
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(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To pro-
vide financial assistance under this section there is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary from the Coastal 
Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund 
$5,000,000 for each fiscal year. 
Subtitle C—Oil Shale 
SEC. 161. REPEAL. 
Section 433 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2008 is repealed. 
TITLE II—CONSERVATION AND 
EFFICIENCY 
Subtitle A—Tax Incentives for Fuel 
Efficiency 
SEC. 201. CREDIT FOR NEW QUALIFIED PLUG-IN ELECTRIC 
DRIVE MOTOR VEHICLES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart B of part IV of sub-
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section: 
‘‘SEC. 30D. NEW QUALIFIED PLUG-IN ELECTRIC DRIVE 
MOTOR VEHICLES. 
‘‘(a) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT.—There shall be al-
lowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter 
for the taxable year an amount equal to the sum of the 
credit amounts determined under subsection (b) with re-
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spect to each new qualified plug-in electric drive motor ve-
hicle placed in service by the taxpayer during the taxable 
year. 
‘‘(b) PER VEHICLE DOLLAR LIMITATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The amount determined 
under this subsection with respect to any new quali-
fied plug-in electric drive motor vehicle is the sum 
of the amounts determined under paragraphs (2) 
and (3) with respect to such vehicle. 
‘‘(2) BASE AMOUNT.—The amount determined 
under this paragraph is $3,000. 
‘‘(3) BATTERY CAPACITY.—In the case of a ve-
hicle which draws propulsion energy from a battery 
with not less than 5 kilowatt hours of capacity, the 
amount determined under this paragraph is $200, 
plus $200 for each kilowatt hour of capacity in ex-
cess of 5 kilowatt hours. The amount determined 
under this paragraph shall not exceed $2,000. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION WITH OTHER CREDITS.— 
‘‘(1) BUSINESS CREDIT TREATED AS PART OF 
GENERAL BUSINESS CREDIT.—So much of the credit 
which would be allowed under subsection (a) for any 
taxable year (determined without regard to this sub-
section) that is attributable to property of a char-
acter subject to an allowance for depreciation shall 
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be treated as a credit listed in section 38(b) for such 
taxable year (and not allowed under subsection (a)). 
‘‘(2) PERSONAL CREDIT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this 
title, the credit allowed under subsection (a) for 
any taxable year (determined after application 
of paragraph (1)) shall be treated as a credit 
allowable under subpart A for such taxable 
year. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATION BASED ON AMOUNT OF 
TAX.—In the case of a taxable year to which 
section 26(a)(2) does not apply, the credit al-
lowed under subsection (a) for any taxable year 
(determined after application of paragraph (1)) 
shall not exceed the excess of— 
‘‘(i) the sum of the regular tax liabil-
ity (as defined in section 26(b)) plus the 
tax imposed by section 55, over 
‘‘(ii) the sum of the credits allowable 
under subpart A (other than this section 
and sections 23 and 25D) and section 27 
for the taxable year. 
‘‘(d) NEW QUALIFIED PLUG-IN ELECTRIC DRIVE 
MOTOR VEHICLE.—For purposes of this section— 
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘new qualified 
plug-in electric drive motor vehicle’ means a motor 
vehicle (as defined in section 30(c)(2))— 
‘‘(A) the original use of which commences 
with the taxpayer, 
‘‘(B) which is acquired for use or lease by 
the taxpayer and not for resale, 
‘‘(C) which is made by a manufacturer, 
‘‘(D) which has a gross vehicle weight rat-
ing of less than 14,000 pounds, 
‘‘(E) which has received a certificate of 
conformity under the Clean Air Act and meets 
or exceeds the Bin 5 Tier II emission standard 
established in regulations prescribed by the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency under section 202(i) of the Clean Air 
Act for that make and model year vehicle, and 
‘‘(F) which is propelled to a significant ex-
tent by an electric motor which draws electricity 
from a battery which— 
‘‘(i) has a capacity of not less than 4 
kilowatt hours, and 
‘‘(ii) is capable of being recharged 
from an external source of electricity. 
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‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The term ‘new qualified 
plug-in electric drive motor vehicle’ shall not include 
any vehicle which is not a passenger automobile or 
light truck if such vehicle has a gross vehicle weight 
rating of less than 8,500 pounds. 
‘‘(3) OTHER
TERMS.—The terms ‘passenger 
automobile’, ‘light truck’, and ‘manufacturer’ have 
the meanings given such terms in regulations pre-
scribed by the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency for purposes of the administra-
tion of title II of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521 
et seq.). 
‘‘(4) BATTERY CAPACITY.—The term ‘capacity’ 
means, with respect to any battery, the quantity of 
electricity which the battery is capable of storing, ex-
pressed in kilowatt hours, as measured from a 100 
percent state of charge to a 0 percent state of 
charge. 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF NEW QUALIFIED 
PLUG-IN ELECTRIC DRIVE MOTOR VEHICLES ELIGIBLE 
FOR CREDIT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a new quali-
fied plug-in electric drive motor vehicle sold during 
the phaseout period, only the applicable percentage 
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of the credit otherwise allowable under subsection 
(a) shall be allowed. 
‘‘(2) PHASEOUT PERIOD.—For purposes of this 
subsection, the phaseout period is the period begin-
ning with the second calendar quarter following the 
calendar quarter which includes the first date on 
which the number of new qualified plug-in electric 
drive motor vehicles manufactured by the manufac-
turer of the vehicle referred to in paragraph (1) sold 
for use in the United States after the date of the en-
actment of this section, is at least 60,000. 
‘‘(3) APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE.—For purposes 
of paragraph (1), the applicable percentage is— 
‘‘(A) 50 percent for the first 2 calendar 
quarters of the phaseout period, 
‘‘(B) 25 percent for the 3d and 4th cal-
endar quarters of the phaseout period, and 
‘‘(C) 0 percent for each calendar quarter 
thereafter. 
‘‘(4) CONTROLLED GROUPS.—Rules similar to 
the rules of section 30B(f)(4) shall apply for pur-
poses of this subsection. 
‘‘(f) SPECIAL RULES.— 
‘‘(1) BASIS
REDUCTION.—The basis of any 
property for which a credit is allowable under sub-
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section (a) shall be reduced by the amount of such 
credit (determined without regard to subsection (c)). 
‘‘(2) RECAPTURE.—The Secretary shall, by reg-
ulations, provide for recapturing the benefit of any 
credit allowable under subsection (a) with respect to 
any property which ceases to be property eligible for 
such credit. 
‘‘(3) 
PROPERTY
USED
OUTSIDE
UNITED 
STATES, ETC., NOT QUALIFIED.—No credit shall be 
allowed under subsection (a) with respect to any 
property referred to in section 50(b)(1) or with re-
spect to the portion of the cost of any property 
taken into account under section 179. 
‘‘(4) ELECTION
NOT
TO
TAKE
CREDIT.—No 
credit shall be allowed under subsection (a) for any 
vehicle if the taxpayer elects to not have this section 
apply to such vehicle. 
‘‘(5) PROPERTY USED BY TAX-EXEMPT ENTITY; 
INTERACTION WITH AIR QUALITY AND MOTOR VEHI-
CLE SAFETY STANDARDS.—Rules similar to the rules 
of paragraphs (6) and (10) of section 30B(h) shall 
apply for purposes of this section.’’. 
(b) COORDINATION WITH ALTERNATIVE MOTOR VE-
HICLE CREDIT.—Section 30B(d)(3) of such Code is 
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amended by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(D) EXCLUSION OF PLUG-IN VEHICLES.— 
Any vehicle with respect to which a credit is al-
lowable under section 30D (determined without 
regard to subsection (c) thereof) shall not be 
taken into account under this section.’’. 
(c) CREDIT MADE PART OF GENERAL BUSINESS 
CREDIT.—Section 38(b) of such Code is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ each place it appears at 
the end of any paragraph, 
(2) by striking ‘‘plus’’ each place it appears at 
the end of any paragraph, 
(3) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (31) and inserting ‘‘, plus’’, and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(32) the portion of the new qualified plug-in 
electric drive motor vehicle credit to which section 
30D(c)(1) applies.’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1)(A) Section 24(b)(3)(B) of such Code is 
amended by striking ‘‘and 25D’’ and inserting 
‘‘25D, and 30D’’. 
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(B) Section 25(e)(1)(C)(ii) of such Code is 
amended by inserting ‘‘30D,’’ after ‘‘25D,’’. 
(C) Section 25B(g)(2) of such Code is amended 
by striking ‘‘and 25D’’ and inserting ‘‘, 25D, and 
30D’’. 
(D) Section 26(a)(1) of such Code is amended 
by striking ‘‘and 25D’’ and inserting ‘‘25D, and 
30D’’. 
(E) Section 1400C(d)(2) of such Code is 
amended by striking ‘‘and 25D’’ and inserting 
‘‘25D, and 30D’’. 
(2) Section 1016(a) of such Code is amended 
by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (35), by 
striking the period at the end of paragraph (36) and 
inserting ‘‘, and’’, and by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(37) to the extent provided in section 
30D(f)(1).’’. 
(3) Section 6501(m) of such Code is amended 
by inserting ‘‘30D(f)(4),’’ after ‘‘30C(e)(5),’’. 
(4) The table of sections for subpart B of part 
IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of such Code is 
amended by adding at the end the following new 
item: 
‘‘Sec. 30D. New qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.’’. 
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