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(B) provide for the collection of data relat-
ing to greenhouse gas emissions and effects; and
(C) are necessary for the operation of the
database;
(2)(A) distribute additional responsibilities and
activities identified under this title to Federal depart-
ments or agencies in accordance with the missions
and expertise of those departments and agencies; and
(B) maximize the use of available resources of
those departments and agencies; and
(3) provide for the comprehensive collection and
analysis of data on greenhouse gas emissions relating
to product use (including the use of fossil fuels and
energy-consuming appliances and vehicles).
(b) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.—The memorandum of
agreement entered into under subsection (a) shall, at a min-
imum, retain the following functions for the designated
agencies:
(1) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.—The Secretary of
Energy shall be primarily responsible for developing,
maintaining, and verifying the registry and the emis-
sion reductions reported under section 1605(b) of the
Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13385(b)).
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(2) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.—The Secretary
of Commerce shall be primarily responsible for the de-
velopment of—
(A) measurement standards for the moni-
toring of emissions; and
(B) verification technologies and methods to
ensure the maintenance of a consistent and tech-
nically accurate record of emissions, emission re-
ductions, and atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases for the database.
(3) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.—The
Administrator shall be primarily responsible for—
(A) emissions monitoring, measurement,
verification, and data collection under this title
and title IV (relating to acid deposition control)
and title VIII of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
7651 et seq.), including mobile source emissions
information from implementation of the cor-
porate average fuel economy program under
chapter 329 of title 49, United States Code; and
(B) responsibilities of the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to completion of the
national inventory for compliance with the
United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change, done at New York on May 9, 1992.
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(4) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall be primarily responsible
for—
(A) developing measurement techniques
for—
(i) soil carbon sequestration; and
(ii) forest preservation and reforest-
ation activities; and
(B) providing technical advice relating to
biological carbon sequestration measurement and
verification standards for measuring greenhouse
gas emission reductions or offsets.
(c) DRAFT MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT.—Not later
than 15 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the
President, acting through the Director of the Office of Na-
tional Climate Change Policy, shall publish in the Federal
Register, and solicit comments on, a draft version of the
memorandum of agreement described in subsection (a).
(d) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW.—The final version of the
memorandum of agreement shall not be subject to judicial
review.
SEC. 1104. NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS DATABASE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—As soon as practicable after the
date of enactment of this Act, the designated agencies, in
consultation with the private sector and nongovernmental
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organizations, shall jointly establish, operate, and maintain
a database, to be known as the ‘‘National Greenhouse Gas
Database’’, to collect, verify, and analyze information on
greenhouse gas emissions by entities.
(b) NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS DATABASE COMPO-
NENTS.—The database shall consist of—
(1) an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions;
and
(2) a registry of greenhouse gas emission reduc-
tions.
(c) COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after
the date of enactment of this Act, the designated agen-
cies shall jointly promulgate regulations to implement
a comprehensive system for greenhouse gas emissions
reporting, inventorying, and reductions registration.
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The designated agencies
shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable,
that—
(A) the comprehensive system described in
paragraph (1) is designed to—
(i) 
maximize 
completeness, 
trans-
parency, and accuracy of information re-
ported; and
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(ii) minimize costs incurred by entities
in measuring and reporting greenhouse gas
emissions; and
(B) the regulations promulgated under
paragraph (1) establish procedures and protocols
necessary—
(i) to prevent the reporting of some or
all of the same greenhouse gas emissions or
emission reductions by more than 1 report-
ing entity;
(ii) to provide for corrections to errors
in data submitted to the database;
(iii) to provide for adjustment to data
by reporting entities that have had a sig-
nificant organizational change (including
mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture), in
order to maintain comparability among
data in the database over time;
(iv) to provide for adjustments to re-
flect new technologies or methods for meas-
uring or calculating greenhouse gas emis-
sions; and
(v) to account for changes in registra-
tion of ownership of emission reductions re-
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sulting from a voluntary private trans-
action between reporting entities.
(3) BASELINE
IDENTIFICATION
AND
PROTEC-
TION.—Through regulations promulgated under para-
graph (1), the designated agencies shall develop and
implement a system that provides—
(A) for the provision of unique serial num-
bers to identify the verified emission reductions
made by an entity relative to the baseline of the
entity;
(B) for the tracking of the reductions associ-
ated with the serial numbers; and
(C) that the reductions may be applied, as
determined to be appropriate by any Act of Con-
gress enacted after the date of enactment of this
Act, toward a Federal requirement under such
an Act that is imposed on the entity for the pur-
pose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
SEC. 1105. GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION REPORTING.
(a) IN GENERAL.—An entity that participates in the
registry shall meet the requirements described in subsection
(b).
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—