Securing Transportation Energy Efficiency for Tomorrow Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1491
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Aircraft engines
Airports
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Bicycles
Brownfields
Canada
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Car pools
Commerce
Commercialization
Commuting
Compressed natural gas
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dams
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Fringe benefits
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Great Lakes
Heating
High technology
Highway finance
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Illinois
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indiana
Industrial parks
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intermodal transportation
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
Methanol
Michigan
Minnesota
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
New York State
Ohio
Oil pollution
Pennsylvania
Petroleum in submerged lands
Propane
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Railroads
Real estate development
Renewable natural resources
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Shipbuilding
Solar energy
State laws
Submarine oil well drilling
Sulphur
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Traffic engineering
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: 
Securing Transportation Energy Efficiency for Tomorrow Act of 2003 - Amends Federal law to authorize the Administrator of General Services to establish a program for the procurement and installation of photovoltaic solar electric systems for electric production in public buildings.
 
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to evaluate the energy infrastructure of the Capitol Complex to determine how it could be augmented to become more energy efficient, using photovoltaic solar energy systems, district-heating, and other unconventional and renewable energy resources.
 
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to carry out a demonstration program for the development of brightfield sites (brownfield sites redeveloped through the incorporation of solar energy technologies).
 
Amends Federal transportation law to: (1) direct the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to establish a program of grants to State and local governments for fuel conservation projects; (2) authorize the Secretary to make grants for fuel cell bus technology projects; (3) direct the Secretary to establish a Conserve By Bicycling pilot program for projects to encourage the use of bicycles in place of motor vehicles; (4) require environmental impact statements for Federal-aid highway and transit projects to consider energy impacts as an environmental project consequence; and (5) direct the Secretary to establish a specified public-private research partnership dedicated to advancement of railroad technology, efficiency, and safety owned by the Federal Railroad Administration and operated in the private sector.
 
Amends Federal transportation law to direct: (1) the Secretary to establish a pilot clean airport bus replacement and fleet expansion grant program; and (2) the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish a public-private research partnership to develop a clean ground demonstrator engine utilizing specified National Aeronautics and Space Administration-developed technologies.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a public-private research partnership to develop and demonstrate technologies that increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, and lower costs of marine transportation, as well as the efficiency of intermodal transfers.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to study and report to Congress on the potential for reduced fossil fuel consumption through an increase in U.S. hydropower capabilities.
 
Encourages specified adjacent States to continue to prohibit off-shore drilling in the Great Lakes for oil and gas, and other adjacent States and the Canadian Province of Ontario to prohibit such drilling.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income as a qualifying transportation fringe benefit a commuting allowance of $75 per month for individuals who bicycle, carpool, or car-share to work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, International Relations, and Financial Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E604-606)
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House