Energy Science Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4500
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2004-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Air pollution control
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Arctic and polar regions
Armed Forces and National Security
Arsenic
Auditing
Authorization
Biological research
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
Black colleges
Boundaries
Bridges
Building construction
Building laws
Building materials
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Catalysis
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Coastal zone
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commercialization
Communication in science
Competitive bidding
Compressed natural gas
Computer software
Computers
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Energy
Diesel motor
Disciplining of employees
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric appliances
Electric batteries
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Energy transportation
Engineering
Engines
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Ethics
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal employees
Fibers
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Fissionable materials
Fossil fuels
Fuel cells
Gas in submerged lands
Genetic research
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Groundwater
Heating
Heavy metals
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Incineration
Independent power producers
Indian education
Industrial buildings
Industrial pollution
Industrial research
Information networks
Information technology
Infrastructure
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
International cooperation in science
Inventions
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Latin America
Lighting
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine transportation
Mathematics
Methane
Mexico
Mining engineering
Minorities
Minorities in government
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Minority employment
Motor vehicles
Nanotechnology
Native Americans
Natural gas
Natural gas reserves
Nitrogen
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear physics
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Ocean energy resources
Office buildings
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Patents
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum reserves
Physics
Planning
Plants
Potable water
Promotions
Prospecting
Proteins
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Radar
Radioactive pollution
Radioactive wastes
Railroads
Recruiting of employees
Refuse as fuel
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research and development
Research centers
Research ethics
Research grants
Roads and highways
Salaries
Saline waters
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
Small business
Soil pollution
Solar energy
Subcontractors
Submarine oil well drilling
Sunset legislation
Supercomputers
Sustainable development
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Telecommunication systems
Tennessee
Terrorism
Texas
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water purification
Water supply
Western Hemisphere
Wind power
Women
Women in government
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: 
Energy Science Act of 2004 - Authorizes appropriations through FY 2008 for the following:(1) energy efficiency and conservation; (2) distributed energy and electric energy systems; (3) renewable energy; (4) nuclear energy; (5) fossil energy; and (6) the Office of Science. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to conduct programs of energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application (R&D) focused upon specified energy technologies, including: (1) a Next Generation Lighting Initiative; (2) a National Building Performance Initiative; (3) a secondary electric vehicle battery use program: (4) an Energy Efficiency Science Initiative; (5) electric motor control technology; and (6) Advanced Energy Technology Transfer Centers. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to develop research programs in the following energy technologies: (1) hybrid distributed power systems; (2) high power density industry program; (3) micro-cogeneration energy technology; (4) distributed energy technologies; and (5) after-treatment technologies for industrial reciprocating engines.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct R&D in the following areas: (1) diversified bioenergy programs; (2) concentrated solar power; and (3) renewable energy in public buildings.
 
Directs the Secretary to implement specified nuclear energy R&D, including: (1) advanced fuel recycling technology; (2) university nuclear science and engineering support; and (3) reactor design security.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct R&D in: (1) specified aspects of oil and gas research; (2) coal mining technologies; and (3) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee. Establishes in the Treasury the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund.
 
Prescribes guidelines for United States participation in ITER (the international burning plasma fusion research project).
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) present an R&D plan to Congress for a fusion energy sciences program; and (2) report on the Spallation Neutron Source as part of the annual budget submission of the Department of Energy. 
 
Requires the Secretary to support and establish: (1) science and energy facilities and infrastructure; (2) catalysis research and development; (3) nanoscale science and engineering research; (4) advanced scientific computing for energy missions; (5) genomes to life program; and (6) fission and fusion energy materials research program.
 
Prescribes implementation guidelines to establish: (1) the Energy-Water Supply Program; (2) the United States-Mexico Energy Technology Cooperation Program; (3) the Western Hemisphere Energy Cooperation Program; and (4) a biological nitrogen fixation program.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Arctic Engineering Research Center to improve the overall performance of roads, bridges, residential, commercial, and industrial structures, and other infrastructure in the Arctic region.
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) establish National Energy Research and Development Advisory Boards to perform external technical review of departmental programs; (2) designate a Technology Transfer Coordinator to perform oversight of and policy development for technology transfer activities at the Department; and (3) establish a Technology Infrastructure Program.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to establish a Department of Energy Science and Technology Scholarship Program. 
 
Directs the Secretary to require the Director of each National Laboratory to designate a small business advocate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and the Budget, 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: 2004-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and the Budget, 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: 2004-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and the Budget, 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: 2004-06-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and the Budget, 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: 2004-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Introduced in House