Gasoline Price Reduction and Refinery Tax Fairness Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4611
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Decision making
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Depreciation and amortization
Electronic government information
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy policy
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Executive Office of the President
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas industry
Gas pipelines
Geographic information systems
Geology
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government regulation
Imports
Income tax
Law
Licenses
Machinery
Maps
National forests
Natural gas
Natural gas reserves
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum industry
Petroleum pipelines
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: 
Gasoline Price Reduction and Refinery Tax Fairness Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to define &quot;oil and gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations or transmission facilities&quot; as all field activities or operations associated with exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations, or transmission facilities, including activities necessary to prepare a site for drilling and for the movement and placement of drilling equipment, whether or not such field activities or operations may be considered to be construction activities.
 
Directs the President to establish the Office of Federal Energy Project Coordination (Office) within the Executive Office of the President.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) perform an internal review of Federal onshore oil and gas leasing and permitting practices; and (2) implement certain best management practices to ensure timely action on oil and gas leases and applications for permits to drill on lands otherwise available for leasing.
 
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to: (1) enter into a prescribed Memorandum of Understanding regarding oil and gas leasing on public lands; and (2) establish a joint data retrieval system and a joint Geographic Information System mapping system.
 
Amends the Energy Act of 2000 to require the Secretary of the Interior's inventory of all Federal onshore lands to identify restrictions or impediments to oil and gas resource development of such lands.
 
Directs each Federal agency head to require the agency, before it takes action that could have a significant adverse effect on the supply of domestic energy resources from Federal public land, to act in compliance with a certain Executive Order that identifies actions to expedite energy-related projects.
 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to set a deadline for expeditious consideration of applications for permits for oil and gas leases.
 
Requires a Federal agency, in issuing any rule or order relating to gasoline production and distribution, to include a detailed analysis of the effects the rule or order would have on gasoline supply and seek to ensure that no rule or order is issued that will increase U.S. dependence on foreign sources of oil.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for accelerated depreciation for refinery machinery.
 
Requires each Federal agency with the authority to do so to approve or disapprove (with specified explanations) within 180 days of its receipt any application for approval of an action affecting the siting or operation of U.S. refineries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Introduced in House