Energy Policy Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-6
Sponsor: Rep. Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Affordable housing
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Aircraft
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Animal diseases
Animals
Antitrust law
Apartment houses
Arctic and polar regions
Arkansas
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Aviation fuels
Bankruptcy
Biomass energy
Black colleges
Block grants
Building construction
Business records
Buy American
Canada
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Cattle
Civil service retirement
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Coastal engineering
Coastal zone
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Collective bargaining
Columbia River development
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional hearings
Congressional investigations
Congressional office buildings
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Continental shelf
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dairy industry
Data banks
Debtor and creditor
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Depreciation and amortization
Deregulation
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Diesel motor
EBB Terrorism
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric appliances
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Electric vehicles
Electrification
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emissions trading
Employee training
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Energy research
Energy security
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Engineering
Engineers
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Excise tax
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Farm manure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal employees
Federal office buildings
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Fishery management
Food relief
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Fossil fuels
Free ports and zones
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Gas pipelines
Gasoline
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Government lending
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Great Lakes
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Health
Heating
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Holding companies
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Import restrictions
Income tax
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian lands
Infrastructure
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
International relief
Iraq
Irrigation
Judges
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Land use
Law
Legal fees
Liability for nuclear damages
Liability insurance
Licenses
Lighting
Manufacturing industries
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Middle East and North Africa
Mine safety
Minorities
Minority education
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
National parks
Natural gas
Negotiations
New England
New York State
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
North America
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Oxygen
Oxygenates
Pacific area
Pennsylvania
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Potable water
Power marketing administrations
Presidential appointments
Propane
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Public-private partnerships
Radioactive wastes
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroads
Rebates
Recruiting of employees
Recycling of waste products
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse as fuel
Remote sensing
Renewable natural resources
Rent
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Right-of-way
Rural economic development
Sabotage
Sanctions (International law)
Scholarships
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Sea level
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
Senate Judiciary
Sewage sludge
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Energy Policy Act of 2003 - Amends Federal energy law with respect to specified areas of Federal energy policy. Provides for private development of energy resources on previously proscribed Federal lands.
Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to energy conservation, energy assistance, and energy efficiency programs, including the Energy Star programs.
Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 2003 - Sets forth a statutory framework for the expedited approval, construction, and operation of an Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Project as an alternative to the framework provided in the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976.
Instructs the President to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to full capacity.
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to repeal the temporary funding and exercise of authorities governing the SPR (thus making permanent the authority to operate the SPR and other energy programs).
Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary of Energy to implement a program for the recovery of unproven oil and natural gas reserves.
Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to extend to August 1, 2017, the authority to indemnify Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees, Department of Energy (DOE) contractors, and nonprofit educational institutions.
Amends the Federal Power Act to set forth implementation guidelines for: (1) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) establishment of incentive-based transmission rate treatments to promote capital investment in electric energy transmission facilities in interstate commerce; (2) the siting of interstate electrical transmission facilities; and (3) open access transmission by unregulated transmitting utilities.
Creates a statutory mechanism for electric reliability standards incorporating Electric Reliability Organizations to establish and enforce reliability standards for the bulk-power system, subject to FERC review.
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2003 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act.
Amends the Federal Power Act to: (1) direct FERC to promulgate market transparency rules governing sales of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce, or transmission services in interstate commerce; (2) prohibit round trip trading; and (3) extend FERC jurisdiction to certain interstate sales of electric energy that violate FERC rules.
Requires the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules that prohibit in the absence of consumer consent: (1) the change of selection of an electric utility ("slamming"); and (2) the sale of goods and services to an electric consumer ("cramming").
Establishes a safe harbor for renewable fuels containing methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) that is used for or intended as a motor vehicle fuel.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a loan guarantee program for private sector construction of facilities to process and convert municipal solid waste into fuel ethanol and other commercial byproducts.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct energy research and development programs concerning: (1) energy efficiency; (2) distributed energy and electric energy systems; and (3) renewable, fossil, and nuclear energy.
Targets the following areas for program implementation: (1) bioenergy programs; (2) renewable energy in public buildings; (3) nuclear energy research programs; (4) advanced fuel recycling technology; (5) university nuclear science and engineering support; (6) fossil energy research, including coal mining technologies; and (7) technologies for ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources.
Provides loan guarantees for: (1) a certain coal gasification project that produces power in deregulated energy generation markets; (2) a petroleum coke gasification polygeneration project; and (3) the owner of a specified experimental plant on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Energy determines, including interest rates and upfront payments.
Outer Continental Shelf Shallow Water Deep Gas Royalty Relief Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to suspend royalties under existing leases for natural gas produced from deep wells on oil and gas lease tracts in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to: (1) mandate that a specified statutory bidding system be used on certain prospective oil or gas lease sales located on tracts within certain Planning Areas in the Gulf of Mexico and all tracts in a frontier area offshore Alaska; and (2) extend the royalty-suspension authority of the Secretary of the Interior to the planning areas offshore Alaska.
National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to implement a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program.
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, and the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980 to permit easements for specified activities not otherwise authorized when such activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas, or other minerals; or (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas.
Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Security Act of 2003 - Sets forth an oil and gas leasing program for lands within the Coastal Plain. Repeals the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980.
Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal the 160-acre limitation for coal leases; (2) authorize further extension of the diligent development period for mining plans beyond the statutory forty-year maximum; and (3) prohibit requirement of financial assurance for certain coal leases.
Prescribes implementation guidelines for: (1) corridor designations needed or useful for oil and gas pipelines and electricity transmission and facilities on Federal lands in specified Western States; (2) electricity transmission rights-of-way through a specified National Forest and other public lands; and (3) wind energy development projects on public lands.
Energy Tax Policy Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to credits and deductions pertaining to energy conservation, distribution, and production.
Prescribes tax treatment of corporate expatriation.
Amends specified statutes relating to Federal housing mortgage insurance to increase mortgage insurance incentives for energy efficient housing.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
(Sec. 2) Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should take all actions necessary in the areas of conservation, efficiency, alternative source, technology development, and domestic production to reduce the United States dependence on foreign energy sources from 58 percent to 45 percent by January 1, 2013.
 

Division A: Energy and Commerce 
- Energy Policy Act of 2003 - 
Title I: Energy Conservation - Subtitle A: Federal Leadership in Energy Conservation 
- (Sec. 11001) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to prescribe energy and water savings measures in congressional buildings, including metering of energy use and Federal building performance standards.
 
(Sec. 11006) Repeals sunset provisions affecting Federal authority to enter into energy savings performance contracts (thereby granting permanent extension to such authority).
 
(Sec. 11007) Instructs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to enter into voluntary agreements with persons in industrial sectors that consume significant amounts of primary energy per unit of physical output to reduce the energy intensity of their production activities.
 
(Sec. 11009) Instructs the Secretary to establish an Advanced Building Efficiency Testbed demonstration program for advanced engineering systems, components, and materials to enable innovations in building technologies.
 
(Sec. 11010) Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to mandate increased use of recovered mineral component in Federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete.
 
(Sec. 11011) Amends Federal law governing Public Buildings, Property, and Works, to authorize use of photovoltaic energy in public buildings. 
 
(Sec. 11012) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the President and Congress on the energy conservation implications of the widespread adoption of telecommuting by Federal employees.
 

Subtitle B: Energy Assistance and State Programs
 - (Sec. 11021) Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 and the Energy Conservation and Production Act to extend through FY 2006 low-income home energy assistance and weatherization programs.
 
(Sec. 11022) Amends EPCA to increase from ten percent to 25 percent mandatory state energy efficiency goals in calendar year 2010 as compared to calendar year 1990.
 
(Sec. 11023) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) a State energy efficient appliance rebate program; (2) Federal grants to the States for energy efficient public buildings; and (3) for a low income community energy efficiency pilot program.
 

Subtitle C: Energy Efficient Products
 - (Sec. 11041) Amends EPCA to: (1) establish a program to identify and promote energy-efficient products and buildings (Energy Star Program) at the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (2) direct the Secretary to implement a consumer education program for homeowners and small business owners on energy efficiency benefits of air conditioning, heating, and ventilation systems; and (3) prescribe rulemaking procedures for standby mode electric energy consumption and energy labeling.
 
 
Title II: Oil and Gas - Subtitle A : Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline
 - Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 2003 - (Sec. 1204) Prescribes guidelines for expedited approval, construction, and operation of an Alaska natural gas transportation project other than the Alaska natural gas transportation system. Authorizes pipeline expansion to facilitate such project.
 
(Sec. 12007) Establishes the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects as an independent office in the Executive branch to: (1) coordinate the expeditious discharge of Federal agency activities with respect to such projects; and (2) enter into a Joint Surveillance and Monitoring Agreement with the State of Alaska to monitor construction of the Alaska natural gas transportation project. 
 
Prohibits: (1) any terms and conditions proposed by a Federal officer or agency; or (2) any modification or abrogation of an authorization issued to an Alaska natural gas transportation project if the Federal Coordinator determines that it would prevent or significantly impair expeditious project construction and operation.
 
(Sec. 12009) Establishes State of Alaska jurisdiction over in-state delivery of natural gas.
 
(Sec. 12014) Establishes the Alaska Pipeline Construction Training Program which authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award grants to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development to develop a training plan for adult and dislocated workers (including Alaska Natives) in the skills required to construct and operate an Alaska gas pipeline system.
 

Subtitle B: Strategic Petroleum Reserve
 - (Sec. 12101) Instructs the President to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to full capacity.
 
(Sec. 12102) Instructs the Secretary to transmit to Congress a plan to expand the SPR to one billion barrels.
 
(Sec. 12103) Amends EPCA to repeal the temporary funding and exercise of authorities governing the SPR and the summer fill and fuel budgeting programs (thus making permanent the authority to operate the SPR and such energy programs).
 

Subtitle C: Hydraulic Fracturing
 - (Sec. 12201) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exclude from the definition of underground injection: (1) the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage; and (2) the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil or gas production activities.
 

Subtitle D: Unproven Oil and Natural Gas Reserves Recovery Program 
- (Sec. 12301) Instructs the Secretary to implement a program to demonstrate technologies for the recovery of oil and natural gas reserves from specified reservoirs that may focus upon coal-bed methane, deep drilling, natural gas production from tight sands, natural gas production from gas shales, innovative production techniques (including horizontal drilling, fracture detection methodologies, and three-dimensional seismic), and enhanced recovery techniques.
 

Subtitle E: Miscellaneous
 - (Sec. 12401) Requires Federal Administrative appeals relating to interstate pipeline construction projects to employ as the exclusive record for all purposes the record compiled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
 
(Sec. 12402) Directs FERC to issue rules authorizing or establishing an electronic information system to provide the public with timely access to information concerning the market price of natural gas sold in interstate commerce.
 
(Sec. 12404) Instructs the Secretary to establish a Complex Well Technology Testing Facility at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center to increase the range of extended drilling technology to 50,000 feet, so that more energy resources can be realized with fewer drilling facilities.
 

Title III: Hydroelectric - Subtitle A: Alternative Conditions
 - (Sec. 13001) Amends the Federal Power Act to prescribe guidelines for hydroelectric licensing proposals for alternative conditions and requirements governing project works within a Federal reservation.
 

Subtitle B: Additional Hydropower
 - (Sec. 13201) Requires the Secretary to make incentive payments to the owner or operator of: (1) a qualified hydroelectric facility; and (2) hydroelectric facilities at existing dams to make capital improvements directly related to improving facility efficiency by at least three percent.
 
(Sec. 13203) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act to redefine an &quot;existing dam&quot; as one constructed before March 4, 2003.
 
(Sec. 13204) Instructs the Secretary to study and report to designated congressional committees on cost-effective opportunities to increase hydropower generation at existing federally-owned or operated water regulation, storage, and conveyance facilities. 
 

Title IV: Nuclear Matters - Subtitle A : Price-Anderson Act Amendments
 - Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2003 - (Sec. 14002) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to extend to August 1, 2017, the authority to indemnify Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees, Department of Energy (DOE) contractors, and nonprofit educational institutions.
 
(Sec. 14004) Prescribes guidelines governing DOE liability limits with respect to contractors and with respect to accidents outside the United States.
 
(Sec. 14008) Treats a combination of certain-sized modular reactors as a single facility.
 
(Sec. 14011) Sets forth NRC guidelines for the secure transfer of nuclear materials.
 
(Sec. 14012) Directs the President to study and report to Congress and the NRC on the types of threats that pose an appreciable risk to the security of various classes of NRC- licensed facilities.
 
Instructs the NRC to establish an operational safeguards response evaluation program that ensures the physical protection capability and operational safeguards response for sensitive nuclear facilities.
 
(Sec. 14013) Requires the NRC, before entering into an indemnification agreement regarding a utilization facility, to consult with the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security on whether facility location and design provide adequate protection of public health and safety if subjected to a terrorist attack.
 
Requires the NRC, before issuing a license or license renewal for a sensitive nuclear facility, to consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security concerning emergency evacuation plans for nearby communities.
 
(Sec. 14014) Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action to recover from a contractor of the Secretary amounts paid under an agreement of indemnification for public liability resulting from intentional misconduct on the part of senior contractor personnel (including a subcontractor or supplier).
 
(Sec. 14015) Repeals the automatic remission of civil penalties for designated nonprofit institutions.
 

Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Matters
 - (Sec. 14022) Requires that: (1) transcript recordings be made available to the public if an NRC quorum is present to discuss official business: and (2) an NRC training and fellowship program be established to address shortages of individuals with critical nuclear safety regulatory skills.
 
(Sec. 14025) Exempts from the statutory pension offset an annuitant who was formerly a NRC employee and is rehired as consultant to the NRC if the annuitant's skills are critical to NRC duties.
 
(Sec. 14026) Authorizes guards at certain NRC nuclear facilities to carry firearms and make warrantless arrests to protect facility property.
 
(Sec. 14029) Authorizes appropriations for cooperative research, development, and special demonstration projects for the uranium mining industry.
 
(Sec. 14031) Cites conditions under which the NRC may issue an export license for highly enriched uranium for medical isotope production. 
 
(Sec. 14032) Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary to report to Congress on reducing the threat resulting from the theft or diversion of highly enriched uranium.
 
(Sec. 14033) Encompasses within the Act's whistleblower protections Federal employees of either DOE or NRC, including all contractor and subcontractor employees. Permits whistleblower complaints to be brought directly in U.S. district court if the Secretary of Labor fails to issue a final order within the statutory time frame.
 
(Sec. 14034) Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing any license, approval, or authorization for the export or reexport, or the transfer or retransfer, of nuclear materials and technology to any government identified by the Secretary of State as engaged in state sponsorship of terrorist activities.
 
(Sec. 14036) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) transmit to Congress a plan for the transfer to the Secretary of full title and full responsibility for the possession, transportation, disposal, stewardship, maintenance, and monitoring of all facilities, property, and radioactive waste at the Western New York Service Center in West Valley, New York; and (2) determine the feasibility of developing commercial nuclear energy production facilities at existing DOE sites.
 

Title V: Vehicles and Fuels - Subtitle A: Energy Policy Act Amendments
 - (Sec. 15011) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to set forth a statutory mechanism for the Secretary to allocate credits for : (1) substantial contribution toward use of dedicated vehicles or neighborhood electric vehicles in noncovered fleets; and (2) alternative fuel infrastructure.
 
(Sec. 15013) Instructs the Secretary to report to Congress on the effect of specified provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 upon: (1) development of alternative fueled vehicle technology; (2) the availability of alternative fueled vehicles in the market; (3) the cost of alternative fueled light duty motor vehicles; and (4) the availability, cost, and use of alternative fuels and biodiesel.
 
(Sec. 15014) Requires the General Services Administration to allocate across the entire fleet the incremental costs of alternative fuel vehicles.
 

Subtitle B: Advanced Vehicles 
- (Sec. 15022) Instructs the Secretary to establish and report to Congress on a competitive grant pilot program administered through the Clean Cities Program of DOE to provide geographically dispersed project grants to State and local governments, or metropolitan transportation authorities, for: (1) the acquisition of alternative fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles, or fuel cell vehicles and ultra-low sulfur diesel vehicles; and (2) the infrastructure necessary to directly support such vehicles. 
 

Subtitle C: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Heavy-Duty Vehicles
 - (Sec. 15033) Directs the Secretary to fund hydrogen infrastructure demonstration sites for fuel cell bus operation in order to enable the widespread utilization of fuel cell buses. 
 

Subtitle D: Miscellaneous
 - (Sec. 15041) Directs the Secretary to establish a public-private research partnership to develop and demonstrate locomotive technologies that increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, and lower costs.
 
(Sec. 15042) Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress on EPA experience with the trading of mobile source emission reduction credits for use by owners and operators of stationary source emission sources to meet emission offset requirements within a nonattainment area.
 
(Sec. 15043) Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on potential fuel savings resulting from use of idle reduction technologies.
 
Directs the Administrator of EPA to review: (1) mobile source air emissions models used under the Clean Air Act to determine whether they accurately reflect the emissions resulting from long-duration idling (updating such models as appropriate); and (2) the appropriate emissions reductions credit that should be allotted under such Act for the use of advanced idle reduction technologies, and whether such credits should be subject to an emissions trading system.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on where heavy duty and other vehicles stop for long duration idling.
 
(Sec. 15044) Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Administrator of EPA jointly to study and report to Congress on the impact of aircraft emissions on air quality in nonattainment areas, identifying ways to promote fuel conservation measures for enhanced fuel efficiency and emissions reductions. 
 
(Sec. 15045) Directs the Secretary to accelerate efforts to improve diesel combustion and after-treatment technologies for use in diesel fueled motor vehicles.
 
(Sec. 15046) Amends EPCA to authorize the Secretary to grant waivers of the statutory mandate for dual fueled vehicle operation for specified geographic areas.
 
(Sec. 15047) Directs the Secretary to conduct studies that target: (1) total integrated thermal systems; (2) oil bypass filtration technology; and (3) natural gas condensate.
 
 (Sec. 15050) Requires the Administrator of General Services to study and report to Congress on the merits of establishing performance measures to guide reduction of petroleum consumption by Federal fleets. 
 
(Sec. 15051) Establishes within the Department of Transportation the &quot;Conserve by Bicycling Program&quot;, comprising ten pilot projects dispersed geographically throughout the United States.
 

Title VI: Electricity - Subtitle A: Transmission Capacity
 - (Sec. 16011) Amends the Federal Power Act to set forth implementation guidelines for: (1) FERC establishment of incentive-based transmission rate treatments to promote capital investment in electric energy transmission facilities in interstate commerce; and (2) the siting of interstate electrical transmission facilities (including a mandatory triennial study and report by the Secretary on electric transmission congestion).
 

Subtitle B: Transmission Operation - 
(Sec. 16021) Authorizes FERC to require unregulated transmitting utilities to provide open access transmission.
 
(Sec. 16022) Expresses the sense of Congress regarding regional transmission organizations that: (1) all transmitting utilities in interstate commerce should voluntarily become members of independently administered regional transmission organizations that have operational control of interstate transmission facilities and neither own nor control generation facilities used to supply electric energy for sale at wholesale; and (2) FERC should provide a return on equity sufficient to attract new investment capital for expansion of transmission capacity to any transmitting utility that becomes a member of a FERC-approved operational regional transmitting organization.
 
Authorizes the appropriate Federal regulatory authority to enter into a contractual arrangement transferring control and use of all or part of a Federal utility's transmission system to a FERC-approved regional transmission organization.
 
(Sec. 16023) Sets forth the service obligations of load-serving entities. 
 

Subtitle C: Reliability 
- (Sec. 16031) Creates a statutory mechanism for FERC jurisdiction to establish and enforce electric reliability standards governing: (1) Electric Reliability Organizations; (2) regional entities; and (3) all users, owners and operators of the bulk-power system.
 
Urges the President to negotiate agreements with Canada and Mexico to provide effective compliance with reliability standards and the effectiveness of the Electric Reliability Organization in the United States and Canada or Mexico.
 
Exempts Alaska and Hawaii from the electric reliability requirements.
 
 
Subtitle D: PUHCA Amendments
 - (Sec. 16043) - Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2003 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA).
 
(Sec. 16043) Requires Federal and State access to the books and records of public utility holding companies and their affiliates and subsidiaries.
 

Subtitle E: PURPA Amendments
 - (Sec. 16061) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to prescribe real-time pricing and time-of-use metering standards.
 
(Sec. 16062) Terminates certain purchase and sale requirements pertaining to cogeneration and small power production facilities.
 
(Sec. 16063) Prescribes implementation guidelines for mandatory time-based metering and communications.
 

Subtitle F: Renewable Energy
 - (Sec. 16071) Amends PURPA to require each electric utility to make net metering service available upon customer request.
 
(Sec. 16072) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Secretary to assign specified percentages of appropriated funds to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed-loop biomass technologies (dedicated energy crops) to generate electricity, if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities in any given year.
 
(Sec. 16073) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to develop and report to Congress recommendations on opportunities to develop renewable energy on certain public lands under their respective jurisdictions.
 
(Sec. 16074) Instructs the Secretary to review and report annually to Congress on assessments of renewable domestic energy resources, including solar, wind, biomass, ocean, geothermal, and hydroelectric energy resources.
 

 Subtitle G: Market Transparency, Round Trip Trading Prohibition, and Enforcement
 - (Sec. 16081) Amends the Federal Power Act to: (1) direct FERC to promulgate rules establishing an electronic information system for price transparency and participation in markets, including the availability and market price of sales in interstate commerce of electric energy at wholesale and transmission of electric energy; and (2) prohibit round trip trading.
 
(Sec. 16081) Increases criminal penalties for violations of the Act.
 

Subtitle H: Consumer Protections
 - (Sec. 16091) Changes the refund effective date in FERC ratemaking proceedings to the date of the filing of the complaint.
 
(Sec. 16092) Subjects to FERC refund authority a non-public utility entity that makes a spot market sale of electric energy in violation of FERC rules.
 
(Sec. 16093) Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue rules protecting the privacy of electric consumers from the disclosure of consumer information obtained in connection with the sale or delivery of electric energy to them.
 
(Sec. 16094) Requires the FTC to promulgate rules that prohibit in the absence of consumer consent: (1) the change of selection of an electric utility (&quot;slamming&quot;); and (2) the sale of goods and services to an electric consumer (&quot;cramming&quot;).
 

Subtitle I: Merger Review Reform and Accountability
 - (Sec. 16101) Instructs the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees on: (1) the extent to which certain FERC authorities are duplicative, and how to eliminate them; and (2) FERC orders issued within the preceding year that impose a condition upon the disposition of public utility facilities, and the alternative authorities for such orders.
 

Subtitle J: Study of Economic Dispatch
 - (Sec. 16111) Instructs the Secretary to study and report to Congress and the States on: (1) procedures used by electric utilities to perform economic dispatch (defined as the operation of generation facilities to produce energy at the lowest cost to reliably serve consumers, recognizing any operational limits of generation and transmission facilities); (2) possible procedure revisions to improve the ability of nonutility generation resources to offer their output for sale for the purpose of inclusion in economic dispatch; and (3) potential benefits to consumers if such revisions were implemented.
 

Title VII: Motor Fuels - Subtitle A: General Provisions
 - (Sec. 17101) Amends the Clean Air Act to set forth implementation guidelines for a renewable fuels program.
 
Directs the Administrator of EPA to promulgate regulations ensuring that gasoline sold or dispensed to consumers in the 48 contiguous States contains specified volumes of renewable fuel for specified calendar years.
 
(Sec. 17102) Establishes a safe harbor for renewable fuels containing methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) that is used for or intended as a motor vehicle fuel.
 
(Sec. 17103) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to merchant producers of MTBE in order to assist them in making the transition from producing MTBE to producing other fuel additives.
 
(Sec. 17104) Eliminates the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline.
 
Requires the Administrator of EPA to establish, for each refinery or importer, standards for toxic air pollutants from reformulated gasoline that maintain the reduction of the average annual aggregate emissions of such pollutants produced or distributed during specified calendar years.
 
(Sec. 17106) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to conduct and publish the results of a monthly survey of renewable fuels demand in the motor vehicle fuels market.
 
(Sec. 17107) Directs the Administrator of EPA and the Secretary to jointly study and report to Congress on motor vehicle fuel requirements .
 
(Sec. 17108) Instructs the Secretary to establish a loan guarantee program for construction of private sector facilities to process and convert municipal solid waste into fuel ethanol and other commercial byproducts.
 

Subtitle B: MTBE Cleanup
 - (Sec. 17201) Authorizes funding for MTBE cleanup as the Administrator of EPA deems necessary to protect human health, welfare, and the environment from underground storage tank releases of fuel containing fuel oxygenates.
 
Restricts such actions to site assessment (including exposure assessment), corrective action, inspection of underground storage tank systems, and groundwater monitoring.
 

Title VIII: Automobile Efficiency
 - (Sec. 18001) Authorizes appropriations for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to implement and enforce average fuel economy standards.
 
(Sec. 18002) Directs the NHTSA Administrator to study and report to Congress on the feasibility and effects of reducing the use of fuel for automobiles by a significant percentage by model year 2012.
 

Division B: Science
 - (Sec. 20001) Instructs the Secretary to conduct a prescribed program of energy research, development, demonstration (RD&D), and commercial application including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) distributed energy and electric energy systems; (3) renewable energy; (4) fossil energy; (5) nuclear energy; and (6) hydrogen.
 

Title I: Research and Development - Subtitle A: Energy Efficiency - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21101) Authorizes appropriations for RD&D, and commercial application activities targeting energy efficiency and conservation.
 

Part 2: Lighting Systems
 - (Sec. 21111) Instructs the Secretary to implement a Next Generation Lighting Initiative to support RD&D activities related to advanced solid-state lighting technologies based on white light emitting diodes. Prescribes implementation guidelines.
 

Part 3: Buildings
 - (Sec. 21121) Instructs the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish an interagency group to develop a National Building Performance Initiative to integrate Federal, State, and voluntary private sector efforts to reduce the costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and renovation of commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential buildings.
 
(Sec. 21122) Directs the Secretary to conduct an RD&D program on advanced control devices to improve the energy efficiency of electric motors used in heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and comparable systems.
 

Part 4: Vehicles
 - (Sec. 21132) Directs the Secretary to conduct an RD&D and commercial application program for the secondary use of batteries.
 

Part 5: Energy Efficiency Science Initiative
 - (Sec. 21141) Requires the Secretary to establish and report to Congress on an Energy Efficiency Science Initiative for grants to be competitively awarded and subject to peer review for research relating to energy efficiency.
 

Part 6: Advanced Energy Technology Transfer Centers
 - (Sec. 21151) Directs the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit institutions, State and local governments, or universities (or consortia thereof), to establish a geographically dispersed network of Advanced Energy Technology Transfer Centers.
 

Subtitle B: Distributed Energy and Electric Energy Systems - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21201) Authorizes appropriations for distributed energy and electric energy systems activities, including micro-cogeneration energy technology.
 

Part 2: Distributed Power
 - (Sec. 21211) Instructs the Secretary to develop and transmit to Congress a strategy for a comprehensive RD&D and commercial application program to develop hybrid distributed power systems that combine: (1) specified renewable electric power generation technologies; and (2) nonintermittent electric power generation technologies suitable for use in a distributed power system.
 
(Sec. 21212) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) establish a comprehensive RD&D and commercial application program to improve energy efficiency of high power density facilities, including data centers, server farms, and telecommunications facilities; and (2) make competitive, merit-based grants to consortia for development of micro-cogeneration energy technology.
 

Part 3: Transmission Systems - 
(Sec. 21221) Directs the Secretary to develop, implement, and report to Congress on a comprehensive RD&D and commercial application program to promote improved reliability and efficiency of electrical transmission systems. 
 

Subtitle C: Renewable Energy - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21301) Authorizes appropriations for renewable energy RD&D and commercial application activities.
 

Part 2: BioEnergy - 
 (Sec. 21311) Instructs the Secretary to conduct a RD&D and commercial application program for bioenergy.
 

Part 3: Miscellaneous Projects - 
 (Sec. 21321) Instructs the Secretary to conduct RD&D and commercial application programs for: (1) ocean energy, including wave energy; (2) the combined use of renewable energy technologies with one another and with other energy technologies, including the combined use of wind power and coal gasification technologies; and (3) hydrogen carrier fuels.
 
(Sec. 21322) Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration program for innovative technologies for renewable energy sources in government buildings.
 

Subtitle D: Nuclear Energy - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21401) Authorizes appropriations for nuclear energy RD&D and commercial application activities that target: (1) nuclear infrastructure support; (2) advanced fuel recycling program; and (3) university programs.
 
Prohibits such funds from being used for decommissioning the Fast Flux Test Facility.
 

Part 2: Nuclear Energy Research Programs
 - (Sec. 21411) Instructs the Secretary to implement the following nuclear energy research programs: (1) nuclear energy research initiative; (2) nuclear energy plant optimization program; (3) nuclear power 2010 program; (4) generation IV nuclear energy systems initiative; and (5) nuclear infrastructure support.
 

Part 3: Advanced Fuel Recycling 
- (Sec. 21421) Instructs the Secretary to conduct and report on an advanced fuel recycling technology research and development program to evaluate proliferation-resistant fuel recycling and transmutation technologies which minimize environmental or public health and safety impacts as an alternative to certain aqueous reprocessing technologies.
 

Part 4: University Programs
 - (Sec. 21431) Requires the Secretary support a program to invest in human resources and infrastructure in the nuclear sciences and engineering and related fields (including health physics and nuclear and radiochemistry), consistent with departmental missions related to civilian nuclear research and development.
 

Part 5: Geological Isolation of Spent Fuel
 - (Sec. 21441) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of deep borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
 

Subtitle E: Fossil Energy - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21501) Authorizes appropriations for fossil energy RD&D and commercial application activities.
 
 
Mandates that specified percentages of certain royalties, rents, and bonuses derived from certain Federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases be deposited into the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) fuel cell proton exchange membrane technology; (2) coal mining technologies; and (3) the Office of Arctic Energy.
 
Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this section for either Fossil Energy Environmental Restoration, or Import/Export Authorization.
 

Part 2: Research Programs
 - (Sec. 21511) Directs the Secretary to conduct an RD&D and commercial application program for: (1) specified coal and power systems; (2) specified oil and gas research; (3) fuel cells for low-cost, high-efficiency, fuel-flexible, modular power systems; and (4) coal mining technologies.
 

Part 3: Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources
 - ( Sec. 21521) Instructs the Secretary to implement an RD&D and commercial application program for ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production, and safe operations and environmental mitigation (including reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration of carbon).
 
Confers upon the Secretary ultimate responsibility and oversight of all program aspects. 
 
(Sec. 21523) Directs the Secretary to: (1) increase the supply of onshore unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources and to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of their exploration and production, while improving safety and minimizing environmental impacts; and (2) establish the Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee and the Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee.
 
(Sec. 21526) Expresses the sense of Congress that ultra-deepwater technology developed under this Act is to be developed primarily for production of ultra-deepwater natural gas and other petroleum resources of the United States, and that this priority is to be reflected in the terms of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
 
(Sec. 21527) Establishes in the Treasury the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund.
 
(Sec. 21528) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review and assess the suitability of Federal technology programs for use in ultradeep drilling RD&D and commercial application; and (2) solicit organizations knowledgeable of the technology needs of the ultradeep drilling industry and select the most qualified applicant to manage a technology transfer program.
 

Subtitle F: Science - Part 1: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 21601) Authorizes appropriations for RD&D and commercial application activities of the Office of Science (DOE).
 

Part 2: Fusion Energy Sciences
 - (Sec. 21611) Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate an agreement for United States participation in ITER (international burning plasma fusion research project). Prescribes implementation guidelines.
 
(Sec. 21613) Instructs the Secretary to transmit an implementation plan to Congress that reflects United States policy for a fusion energy sciences RD&D program in order to ensure that the United States is competitive with other nations in providing fusion energy for its own needs and the needs of other nations, including by demonstrating electric power or hydrogen production for the United States energy grid utilizing fusion energy at the earliest date possible.
 

Part 3: Spallation Neutron Source
 - ( Sec. 21622) Requires the Secretary, as part of DOE annual budget submission, to report on the Spallation Neutron Source (Department Project 99-E-334, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee), including a description of the achievement of milestones, a comparison of actual costs to estimated costs, and any changes in estimated project costs or schedule.
 
Delimits the total amount obligated by DOE for such program.
 

Part 4: Miscellaneous
 - (Sec. 21631) Directs the Secretary to develop, implement and transmit, with the President's budget request to Congress, a strategy for the nonmilitary energy laboratories and facilities of the Office of Science.
 
(Sec. 21632) Authorizes allocation of appropriations for research regarding precious metal catalysis.
 
(Sec. 21633) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) implement a Nanotechnology Research and Development Program; (2) support a program to advance the Nation's computing capability across a diverse set of grand challenge computationally based science problems related to departmental missions; (3) support an RD&D and commercial application program on biological nitrogen fixation; and (4) establish a DOE Science and Technology Scholarship Program designed to recruit and prepare students for careers in DOE.
 

Part 5: Genomes to Life
 - (Sec. 21641) Requires the Secretary to establish an RD&D program (including competitive, merit-reviewed grants) in genetics, protein science, and computational biology of microbes and plants.
 

Subtitle G: Energy and Environment
 - (Sec. 21701) Authorizes appropriations for United States-Mexico energy technology cooperation.
 
(Sec. 21702) Requires the Secretary to establish an RD&D and commercial application program in collaboration with entities in Mexico and the United States to promote energy efficient, environmentally sound economic development along the United States-Mexico border.
 
(Sec. 21703) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make a single grant to a qualified institution to examine and develop the feasibility of burning post-consumer carpet in cement kilns as an alternative energy source; (2) provide loan guarantees for a specified project to produce energy from a plant using integrated gasification combined cycle technology; and (3) provide loan guarantees for at least one petroleum coke gasification polygeneration project.
 
(Sec. 21706) Directs the Secretary to conduct a program to assist in implementation of specified biopower and biofuels projects.
 
(Sec. 21707) Authorizes appropriations for a coal technology loan to the owner of a specified experimental plant on such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines.
 
 (Sec. 21708) Authorizes appropriations for a report on the results of a study regarding establishment of a test center for next-generation fuel cells at an institution of higher education which has available a continuous source of hydrogen and access to the electric transmission grid.
 
(Sec. 21709) Directs the Secretary to establish a fuel cell transit bus demonstration program in three geographically dispersed localities.
 

 Subtitle H: Management
 - (Sec. 21801) Prescribes requirements for availability of funds, cost sharing, merit review of proposals and external technical review of departmental programs.
 
(Sec. 21805) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) designate a Technology Transfer Coordinator to perform oversight and policy development for DOE technology transfer activities; (2) establish a Technology Transfer Working Group, consisting of representatives of the National Laboratories and single-purpose research facilities; and (3) require the Director of each National Laboratory to designate a small business advocate and assistance program.
 
(Sec. 21813) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the feasibility of promoting collaborations for energy projects between large and small institutions of higher education through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
 
(Sec. 21814) Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to provide that Federal royalties received by certain Federal laboratories may be used by them for educational assistance.
 

Title II: Department of Energy Management 
- (Sec. 22001) Instructs the Secretary to report to Congress on the assumption of DOE regulatory and enforcement responsibilities by: (1) the NRC with respect to nuclear safety; and (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with respect to DOE nonmilitary energy laboratories.
 
(Sec. 22002) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to replace the position of Director of the Office of Science with the position of Assistant Secretary.
 
(Sec. 22003) Directs the Secretary to report biennially to Congress on equal employment opportunity practices at DOE National laboratories.
 
(Sec. 22004) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary of Energy should develop and implement more stringent procurement and inventory controls, including controls on the purchase card program, to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds by employees and contractors of DOE; and (2) DOE's Inspector General should continue to closely review purchase card purchases and other procurement and inventory practices at the Department.
 

Title III: Clean School Buses
 - (Sec. 23001) Directs the Secretary to establish and report to Congress on: (1) a pilot program for awarding grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the demonstration and commercial application of alternative fuel school buses and ultra-low sulfur diesel school buses; (2) cooperative agreements with private sector fuel cell bus developers for the development of fuel cell-powered school buses; and (3) awarding grants on a competitive basis for the demonstration and commercial application of retrofit technologies for diesel school buses.
 
(Sec. 23004) Authorizes appropriations for school bus grants and for retrofit grants.
 

Division C: Resources - Title I: Indian Energy
 - (Sec. 30101) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretaries of the Interior and of Energy to make available to Indian tribes, tribal consortia, and Native Corporations scientific and technical data for use in the development and management of energy resources on Indian land and on land conveyed to a Native Corporation.
 
Prescribes implementation guidelines governing leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way involving Indian energy development or transmission, including rights-of-way for pipelines or electric transmission or distribution lines.
 

Title II: Oil and Gas
 - (Sec. 30201) Sets forth statutory parameters within which all royalty accruing to the United States shall, on the demand of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid in oil or gas.
 
(Sec. 30202) Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Mineral Leasing Act to prescribe guidelines for fair market rental value determinations for public lands and forest service rights-of-way.
 
(Sec. 30203) Amends the Energy Act of 2000 to mandate an inventory that identifies specified restrictions to oil and gas development on onshore Federal lands.
 
(Sec. 30204) Outer Continental Shelf Shallow Water Deep Gas Royalty Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant royalty relief for natural gas produced under leases for deep water production in certain parts of the Gulf of Mexico, and in certain Planning Areas offshore Alaska.
 
 Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to: (1) mandate that a specified bidding system be used on certain prospective oil or gas lease sales located on tracts within certain Planning Areas in the Gulf of Mexico and all tracts in a frontier area offshore Alaska; and (2) extend the royalty-suspension authority of the Secretary of the Interior to the planning areas offshore Alaska.
 
(Sec. 30205) Cites circumstances under which the Secretary of the Interior shall reduce the royalty rate on oil production from marginal property.
 
(Sec. 30206) Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall: (1) review and report to Congress on Federal onshore oil and gas leasing and permitting practices; and (2) employ certain management practices and administrative procedures regarding oil and gas leasing on public lands.
 
(Sec. 30209) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to exempt from its oil and gas lease acreage limitation any lease committed to a federally approved unit or cooperative plan, or communitization agreement, or for which royalty, including compensatory royalty or royalty-in-kind, was paid in the preceding calendar year. 
 
(Sec. 30210) Prescribes procedural guidelines governing Federal reimbursement and royalty credits for orphan well reclamation. Shields from liability reclamation actions for orphan wells undertaken in accordance with a reclamation plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
 
(Sec. 30211) National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) implement a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program to archive and provide a national catalog of geologic, geophysical, and engineering data, maps, well logs, and samples; and (2) establish a data archive system for the storage, preservation, and archiving of prescribed related data.
 
(Sec. 30212) States that the Secretary of the Interior shall require compliance with Executive Order No. 13211, as a prerequisite to any action that could adversely affect the supply of domestic energy resources from Federal public lands.
 
(Sec. 30213) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize reimbursement for the costs of analyses, documentation, and studies required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 pertaining to specified leases.
 
(Sec. 30214) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permit easements for specified activities not otherwise authorized when such activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas, or other minerals; or (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas.
 
(Sec. 30215) Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to revise procedural guidelines governing deadlines and decision on appeals to the Secretary of the Interior regarding consistency with State management programs.
 
(Sec. 30216) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Task Force established pursuant to Executive Order to monitor and assist agency efforts to expedite review of actions and to monitor and assist creation of mechanisms to coordinate Federal, State, tribal, and local permitting in certain geographic areas should remain in existence until the President finds that it is no longer needed.
 
(Sec. 30217) Expresses the sense of Congress that such Task Force should implement and report to Congress on its pilot project to expedite decision making and initiate a long-term view on energy resources management in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
 
(Sec. 30218) Instructs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing the position of Facilitator for Energy Development to coordinate Federal agency actions relating to energy project permitting.
 
(Sec. 30219) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) issue an exploration and development lease for any area containing any combination of tar sand and oil or gas (or both); and (2) waive, suspend, or alter any due diligence requirement to promote any resource covered by a combined hydrocarbon lease.
 
(Sec. 30220) Declares that a lessee may withhold from payment any royalty due and owing to the United States under any lease under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil or gas production from a covered lease tract if, on or before the date that the payment is due and payable, the lessee makes a payment to the State of 44 cents for every $1 of royalty withheld.
 
Deems royalty so withheld as paid for purposes of satisfaction of the lessee's royalty obligations to the United States.
 

Title III: Biomass Energy
 - (Sec. 30301) Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make grants to implement a biomass commercial use grant program.
 

Title IV: Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy
 - Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Security Act of 2003 - (Sec. 30403) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program for exploration and production of oil and gas resources of the Arctic Coastal Plain. 
 
 
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 to repeal its prohibition against production of oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, including any leasing or development leading to such production. 
 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) designate a maximum total of Coastal Plain acreage as a &quot;Special Area &quot; if the Secretary determines that such lands require special management and regulatory protection; and (2) exclude leasing in a Special Area, but permit the use of horizontal drilling technology from lease sites located outside a Special Area. 
 
 
States that this Act constitutes the Secretary's sole authority to close Coastal Plain lands to oil and gas leasing, exploration, development, and production.
 
(Sec. 30404) Directs the Secretary to offer for lease, in the first lease sale under this Act, at least 200,000 acres in those tracts considered to have the greatest potential for discovery of hydrocarbons.
 
(Sec. 30405) Authorizes the Secretary to grant lands on the Coastal Plain lands to the highest responsible qualified bidder upon payment of a bonus to the Secretary. Conditions subsequent transfers upon the Secretary's approval.
 
 
(Sec. 30406) Prescribes lease terms and conditions. 
 
(Sec. 30407) Mandates that Coastal Plain environmental protection guidelines use the &quot;no significant adverse effect&quot; standard to govern authorized activities, including: (1) site-specific assessment and mitigation; (2) regulations to protect Coastal Plain fish, wildlife resources, and subsistence users; (3) compliance with Federal and State environmental laws; and (4) facility consolidation planning.
 
(Sec. 30408) Expedites to 90 days the period of judicial review of any complaint regarding any provision or any action of the Secretary under this title. 
 
 
Limits to compliance with the terms of this Act any judicial review of a decision by the Secretary to conduct a lease sale, including the environmental analysis of such a sale.
 
Shields actions of the Secretary from judicial review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement. 
 
(Sec. 30409) Sets forth an oil and gas leasing revenue allocation formula under which 50 percent shall be paid to the State of Alaska, and the balance into the Treasury.
 
 
Permits the use of bonus payments for low-income home energy assistance. 
 
(Sec. 30410) Declares Title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (governing transportation and utility systems in and across conservation system units) inapplicable to rights-of-way and easements issued by the Secretary for oil and gas transportation across the Coastal Plain.
 
(Sec. 30411) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) include rights-of-way and easements within the leasing program for lands across the Coastal Plain; and (2) convey the surface estate of specified lands to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, and the remaining subsurface estate beneath those lands to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. 
 
(Sec. 30412) Establishes the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to provide limited financial assistance to eligible entities impacted directly by Coastal Plain oil and gas exploration or production.
 

Title V: Hydropower 
- (Sec. 30501) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) study and report to Congress on increasing electric power production capability of existing facilities; and (2) study operational methods and water scheduling techniques for increased efficiencies in hydroelectric power projects.
 
(Sec. 30503) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to shift Bureau of Reclamation project loads to off-peak periods to minimize the amount of electric power consumed for water pumping purposes. Requires consent of affected irrigation customers for such pumping adjustment.
 

Title VI: Geothermal Energy
 - (Sec. 30601) Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to revamp its leasing procedures. 
 
(Sec. 30602) Prescribes procedural guidelines under which lands leased exclusively for qualified development and direct utilization of low temperature geothermal resources shall be leased to the first qualified applicant.
 
 
Permits existing lessees to convert earlier leases to reflect the revised requirements of this Act.
 
(Sec. 30603) Revises statutory royalty percentages from a range of ten up to 15 percent to: (1) 3.5 percent of the gross proceeds from the sale of electricity produced by geothermal resources; and (2) 0.75 percent of the gross proceeds from the sale of items produced by direct use of such resources. Reduces such percentages by half again for any qualified geothermal energy lease with respect to commercial production of heat or energy from specified facilities, or qualified expansion geothermal energy.
 
 
Mandates that 100 percent of such royalties received by the United States be paid to the host States. 
 
(Sec. 30604) Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture, respectively, submit to Congress a joint memorandum of understanding regarding leasing and permitting for geothermal development of public lands under their respective jurisdictions.
 
(Sec. 30605) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse certain persons for the costs of project-level analysis, documentation, or related study required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to a lease.
 
(Sec. 30607) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to update and submit to Congress the 1978 Assessment of Geothermal Resources.
 
(Sec. 30608) Modifies guidelines governing: (1) cooperative or unit plans of development or operation of geothermal fields; and (2) royalties on byproducts.
 
(Sec. 30610) Repeals authorities of the Secretary to readjust terms, conditions, rentals, and royalties.
 
(Sec. 30611) Credits certain annual rentals towards royalty payments.
 
(Sec. 30612) Revamps lease terms and work commitment requirements.
 
 
 
 Title VII: Coal
 - Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2003 - (Sec. 30702) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal the 160-acre limitation placed upon coal leases.
 
(Sec. 30703) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish a mining plan period lasting more than 40 years upon a determination that the longer period: (1) will ensure maximum economic recovery of a coal deposit; or (2) is in the interest of orderly, efficient, or economic development of a coal resource.
 
(Sec. 30704) Revises the statutory formula for the payment of advance royalties. Extends from ten years to twenty years the lease term for which advance royalties may be accepted in lieu of the condition of continued operation.
 
(Sec. 30704) Eliminates the deadline for submission of a coal lease operation and reclamation plan.
 
(Sec. 30706) Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from requiring a surety bond or any other financial assurance to guarantee payment of deferred bonus bid installments with respect to any coal lease issued and based upon a cash bonus bid.
 
(Sec. 30707) Requires the Secretary to review and identify for Congress: (1) coal assessments on public lands; and (2) restrictions or impediments to development of those resources. 
 

Title VIII: Insular Areas Energy Security
 - (Sec. 30801) Amends Federal law to prescribe guidelines for mandatory comprehensive energy plans for certain insular areas of the United States.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to U.S. territories to implement projects that protect electric power transmission and distribution lines from hurricane and typhoon damage.
 

Title IX: Miscellaneous Provisions 
- (Sec. 30901) Instructs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to report to certain congressional committees on corridor designations for energy facility rights-of-way and corridors on Federal lands, addressing: (1) the location of existing rights-of-way and designated and de facto corridors for oil and gas pipelines and electric transmission and distribution facilities on Federal lands; (2) opportunities for additional oil and gas pipeline and electric transmission capacity within such rights-of-way and corridors; and (3) prompt review of applications for additional corridors on Federal lands for oil and gas pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution facilities.
 
(Sec. 30902) Instructs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to: (1) issue all necessary documentation for siting and construction of a high-voltage electricity transmission line right-of-way running through the Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest (California) and adjacent Forest Service lands; (2) give preference to any application or pre-application proposal submitted before December 31, 2002, over all other applications and proposals for the same or similar right-of-way submitted on or after that date; and (3) submit to the Congress, a memorandum of understanding regarding processing new applications within their respective jurisdictions for linear rights of way on public lands for electrical transmission lines and oil or gas pipelines.
 
(Sec. 30904) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Federal agencies should enhance the use of energy efficient technologies in the management of natural resources; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior shall, within ten years after enactment of this Act, seek to have located on public lands approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity.
 
(Sec. 30909) States that Congress encourages State prohibitions against off-shore drilling in the Great Lakes.
 
Division D: Tax - Energy Tax Policy Act of 2003 - Title I: Conservation - (Sec. 41001) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax credits for the following: (1) residential solar energy property; (2) nonbusiness qualified fuel cell power plants; (3) energy efficiency improvements to existing homes; (4) construction of new energy efficient homes; and (5) combined heat and power system property. 
 
(Sec. 41007) Allows the nonrefundable personal energy credits added by this Act for residential solar energy property, individual fuel power plant, and energy efficient improvements to existing homes to offset both the regular tax and the alternative minimum tax. 
 
(Sec. 41008) Repeals: (1) the 4.3-cent per gallon diesel fuel excise taxes on railroads and inland waterway transportation which remain in the General Fund; and (2) phaseouts for qualified electric vehicle credit and the deduction for clean fuel-vehicles. 
 
(Sec. 41009) Reduces the motor fuel excise tax on certain mixtures of diesel fuel.
 
(Sec. 41011) Allows an alternative motor vehicle tax credit for the purchase of certain new qualified fuel cell motor vehicles and new advanced lean burn technology motor vehicles. 
 

Title II: Reliability 
- (Sec. 42001) Treats natural gas gathering lines as 7-year property, and treats natural gas distribution lines and electric transmission property as 15-year property.
 
(Sec. 42004) Provides for: (1) expensing capital costs incurred in complying with Environmental Protection Agency sulfur regulations; (2) an income tax credit for production of low sulfur diesel fuel; (3) an increase from 50,000 to 75,000 barrels the average daily refinery runs to qualify certain small refiners for exclusion from a specified formula for the oil depletion deduction; (4) a special rule for sales or dispositions to implement FERC or State electric restructuring policy; (5) modifications to the special rules for nuclear decommissioning costs; and (6) the treatment of certain income of rural electric cooperatives. 
 
(Sec. 42010) Makes arbitrage rules inapplicable to prepayments for natural gas.
 

Title III: Production 
- (Sec. 43001) Establishes a specified tax credit for producing oil and gas from marginal wells. 
 
(Sec. 43002) Suspends the limit on percentage depletion deductions based on 65 percent of overall taxable income for tax years between December 31, 2003, and January 1, 2007. Extends the suspension of the 100 percent net-income limitation for marginal wells an additional three years. 
 
(Sec. 43003) Allows any delay rental payment in connection with the development of oil or gas wells within the United States to be allowed as a deduction (amortized) ratably over two years. 
 
(Sec. 43004) Allows any geological and geophysical expenses in connection with the development of oil or gas wells within the United States to be allowed as a deduction (amortized) ratably over two years. 
 
(Sec. 43005) Permits taxpayers to claim a tax credit for production of certain non-conventional fuels produced at specified wells. Permits production from any well drilled after December 31, 1979, and before January 1, 1993, to claim a credit through 2006. 
 
(Sec. 43006) Makes the alternative minimum tax limitation inapplicable to the business energy credits added by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 43007) Repeals temporarily, for two years, the alternative minimum tax preference for intangible drilling or development costs for oil and gas wells for taxpayers other than integrated oil companies. 
 
 (Sec. 43008) Modifies, for two years, the ratable reduction in the enhanced oil recovery credit for a controlled group. 
 

Title IV: Corporate Expatriation 
- (Sec. 44001) Treats as a domestic corporation a foreign incorporated entity treated as an inverted domestic corporation, with respect to inversion transactions completed after March 4, 2003 and before January 1, 2005. 
 
(Sec. 44002) Expresses the sense of Congress that passage of legislation to fix the underlying problems with our tax laws is essential and should occur as soon as possible, so U.S. corporations will not face the current pressures to engage in inversion transactions. 
 

Division E : Clean Coal
 - (Sec. 50001) Authorizes appropriations for a clean coal power initiative conditioned upon a report by the Secretary of Energy to certain congressional committees detailing a ten-year implementation plan. Sets forth technical and financial criteria for the initiative.
 
(Sec. 50004) Instructs the Secretary to award competitive, merit-based grants to universities for the establishment of Centers of Excellence for Energy Systems of the Future, particularly those that show the greatest potential for advancing new clean coal technologies.
 

Division F: Hydrogen
 - (Sec. 60002) Instructs the Secretary to transmit to Congress a coordinated plan for DOE programs directly related to fuel cells or hydrogen. Prescribes program activities and targets.
 
(Sec. 60004) Directs the President to establish an interagency task force chaired by the Secretary to work toward a fuel infrastructure for hydrogen and hydrogen-carrier fuels,
 
(Sec. 60005) Establishes the Hydrogen Technical and Fuel Cell Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on hydrogen programs and activities.
 
(Sec. 60008) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2008 for this division.
 
(Sec. 60009) Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) a matching funds program to assist fuel cell deployment at prominent National Parks; and (2) an Advanced Power System Technology Incentive Program for deployment of certain advanced power system technologies and to improve and protect certain critical governmental, industrial, and commercial processes.
 

Division G: Housing
 - (Sec. 70001) Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize assistance for capabilities regarding the provision of energy-efficient, affordable housing and residential energy conservation measures.
 
(Sec. 70002) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase funding for public services concerning energy conservation or efficiency.
 
(Sec. 70003) Amends specified statutes governing Federal housing mortgage insurance to increase mortgage insurance incentives for energy efficient housing. 
 
(Sec. 70004) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide within its financial assistance formula for the public housing capital fund the improvement of energy and water-use efficiency by certain measures, and integrated utility management and capital planning to maximize energy conservation and efficiency measures.
 
(Sec. 70005) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to include installation of specified energy and water conserving fixtures and fittings among eligible uses for grants for energy-conserving improvements in assisted housing. 
 
(Sec. 70006) Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Implementation Act to declare that the Board members of the Inter-American Foundation representing the United States should use their voice and vote to encourage the Bank to finance projects related to clean and efficient energy, including energy conservation measures that prevent, control, or reduce environmental pollutants or contaminants.
 
 
(Sec. 70007) Requires a public housing agency to purchase energy-efficient appliances that are Energy Star products or FEMP-designated products unless it is not cost-effective to do so.
 
(Sec. 70008) Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to energy efficiency standards. 
 
(Sec. 70009) Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to report to Congress on development and implementation of an integrated energy strategy to reduce utility expenses through cost-effective energy conservation and efficiency measures and energy efficient design and construction of public and assisted housing.

action_date: 2003-07-31
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Energy Policy Act of 2003 - 
Division A: Reliable and Diverse Power Generation and Transmission
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Title I: Regional Coordination
 - States that it is Federal policy to encourage States to coordinate their energy policies on a regional basis in order to provide reliable, affordable energy services to the public while minimizing the impact of providing energy services on communities and the environment. Instructs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to: (1) provide technical assistance to such State regional organizations; and (2) convene an annual conference to promote regional coordination on energy policy and infrastructure issues.
 

Title II: Electricity
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Subtitle A: Amendments to the Federal Power Act
 - Amends the Federal Power Act to: (1) mandate that a holding company in a holding company system that includes a transmitting utility or an electric utility company acquire authorization of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) prior to purchasing, acquiring, merging or consolidating, with certain utilities; (2) empower FERC to approve or revoke market-based rates; and (3) authorize FERC to require unregulated transmitting utilities to provide open access transmission. 
(Sec. 206) Grants FERC jurisdiction over an electric reliability organization, any regional entities, and all users, owners, and operators of the bulk-power system, for purposes of approving and enforcing compliance with reliability standards. Prescribes implementation guidelines. 
(Sec. 207) Instructs FERC to: (1) issue rules establishing an electronic information system that timely disseminates the availability and price of wholesale electric energy and transmission services; and (2) ensure that transmitting utilities provide transmission service to intermittent generators so as not to unduly prejudice or disadvantage such generators. 

Subtitle B: Amendments to the Public Utility Holding Company Act
 - Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2003 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Prescribes implementation guidelines for Federal and State access to books and records of holding companies. 
(Sec. 234) Establishes the Electric Energy Market Competition Task Force as an inter-agency task force to review competition in the wholesale and retail electric energy markets. 
(Sec. 235) Instructs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the success of the Federal and State governments to: (1) prevent anticompetitive practices and other abuses by public utility holding companies, including cross-subsidization and other market power abuses; and (2) promote competition and efficient energy markets for the benefit of consumers. 

Subtitle C: Amendments to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), to adopt standards governing: (1) real-time pricing and time-of-use metering; (2) distributed generation; (3) distribution interconnections; (4) minimum fuel and technology diversity; and (5) fossil fuel efficiency. 
(Sec. 244) Repeals mandatory purchase and sale requirements governing cogeneration and small power production facilities. Mandates net metering service upon electric consumer request. 

Subtitle D: Consumer Protections
 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to: (1) prescribe certain consumer information disclosure requirements incumbent upon electric utility vendors; (2) prohibit such vendors from disclosing or permitting access to electric consumer information obtained from their customers without such customers' approval; and (3) issue proscriptions against unfair trade practices known as "slamming" and "cramming." 
(Sec. 253) Establishes within the Department of Justice the Office of Consumer Advocacy. 

Subtitle E: Renewable Energy and Rural Construction Grants
 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise guidelines governing renewable energy production incentive payments and to include incremental hydropower. 
(Sec. 262) Directs the Secretary to review and report annually regarding assessments of renewable energy resources. Directs the President to ensure that Federal electric energy consumption falls within prescribed minimum levels. 
(Sec. 264) Amends PURPA to prescribe guidelines for a Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard under which retail electric suppliers submit renewable energy credits to the Secretary. 
(Sec. 265) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy to develop guidelines for a cost-share demonstration program for wind and solar energy facilities on Federal land. 

Subtitle F: General Provisions
 - Amends the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act to grant the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration additional borrowing authority to: (1) provide funds for financing the construction, acquisition, and replacement of the transmission system of the Bonneville Power Administration; and (2) implement the authorities of the Administrator under the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act. 

Title III: Hydroelectric Relicensing
 - Amends the Federal Power Act to prescribe guidelines for alternative mandatory conditions for project works, including fishways within any Federal reservation. 

Title IV: Indian Energy
 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Director of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs to establish programs within such Office to: (1) assist Indian tribes in meeting energy education, research and development, planning, and management needs; and (2) set forth a loan guarantee program for Indian tribes for energy development, including electrical generation plants, and transmission and delivery mechanisms for electricity produced on Indian land. 
(Sec. 402) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish within the Department of Energy (DOE) an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. 
(Sec. 404) Sets forth a statutory framework within which an Indian tribe may grant leases for siting energy facilities on tribal lands. 
(Sec. 406) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on: (1) energy consumption and renewable energy development potential on Indian land; (2) Federal power allocations and Federal power sales by the Federal Power Marketing Administrations to Indian tribes within their service areas; and (3) the feasibility of a demonstration project that would use wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration. 

Title V: Nuclear Power
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Subtitle A: Price-Anderson Act Reauthorization
 - Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) extend to August 1, 2012, the authority of DOE to indemnify Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees, including nonprofit educational institutions licensees; (2) make permanent DOE authority to indemnify contractors; and (3) revise liability limits. 
(Sec. 507) Repeals the authority of the Secretary to determine whether nonprofit educational institutions should receive automatic remission of civil monetary penalties for violations of DOE safety regulations. 
Replaces the exemption granted specified research contractors and suppliers regarding civil monetary penalties for violations of DOE safety regulations with a limitation placed upon the total amount of fees paid within any one-year period under the pertinent contract. 

Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions
 - Amends the USEC Privatization Act to revise guidelines governing: (1) sales of uranium from the DOE stockpile; and (2) Federal transfers. 
(Sec. 512) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to reauthorize reimbursement of thorium licensees. 
(Sec. 513) Prohibits reactivation of the Fast Flux Test Facility if the Secretary has determined, in a record of decision, that the program can be implemented at existing operating facilities. 
(Sec. 514) Establishes: (1) the Nuclear Power 2010 Program; (2) the Office of Spent Nuclear Fuel Research; and (3) a decommissioning pilot program for the sodium-cooled fast breeder experimental test-site reactor (Arkansas). 

Subtitle C: Growth of Nuclear Energy
 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide that in the case of a combined construction and operating license, the duration of the operating phase of the license period shall not be less than the duration of the operating license if application had been made for separate construction and operating licenses. 

Subtitle D : NRC Regulatory Reform
 - Sets forth antitrust review guidelines for licenses proposed by the NRC. 
(Sec. 532) Amends Federal bankruptcy law to preclude assets held by an NRC licensee from being used to satisfy creditor claims until decontamination and decommissioning of the nuclear power reactor is completed to NRC satisfaction. 

Subtitle E: NRC Personnel Crisis
 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to exempt NRC annuitants with critical skills from certain Federal pension offset requirements. 
(Sec. 542) Instructs the NRC to implement a training and fellowship program to address shortages of individuals with critical safety skills. 

Division B: Domestic Oil And Gas Production And Transportation
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Title VI: Oil And Gas Production
 - Amends the the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to make permanent the authorities relating to: (1) domestic supply availability (including operation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve); and (2) standby energy (including operation of the summer fill and fuel budgeting programs). 
(Sec. 602) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to take specified actions to ensure timely action on Federal onshore leasing programs for oil and gas. 
(Sec. 604) Instructs such Secretary to establish a remediation, reclamation, and closure program for orphaned oil and gas wells on Federal lands. 
(Sec. 605) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a technical assistance program to help oil and gas producing States remedy environmental problems caused by orphaned and abandoned exploration or production well sites; and (2) evaluate the impact of Federal and State tax and royalty policies on oil and gas resources development, and upon revenues to Federal, State, local and tribal governments. 
(Sec. 609) Directs the President to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to full capacity as soon as practicable and to ensure that the fill rate minimizes impacts on petroleum markets. 
(Sec. 610) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas production (creating a fracture in a reservoir rock, and injecting fluids and propping agents, for the purposes of reservoir stimulation related to oil and gas production activities). 

Title VII: Natural Gas Pipelines
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Subtitle A: Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline
 - Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 2003 - Prescribes guidelines under which FERC is authorized to act on an application for the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction and operation of an Alaska natural gas transportation project (other than the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System). 
(Sec. 707) Establishes the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects to coordinate the expeditious discharge of all activities by Federal agencies in connection with an Alaska natural gas transportation project. 
(Sec. 709) States that a facility receiving natural gas from the Alaska natural gas transportation project for delivery to consumers within the State of Alaska shall be deemed to be a local distribution facility and, therefore, shall not be subject to FERC jurisdiction. 
(Sec. 710) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to provide Federal loan guarantees for construction of a Alaska natural gas transportation project. 
Instructs the Secretary to conduct a study of alternative approaches to the construction and operation of such project if no application has been filed within 18 months after the date of enactment of this title. 
(Sec. 714) Expresses the sense of the Senate that an Alaska natural gas transportation project will provide significant economic benefits to the United States and Canada. Urges pipeline project sponsors to use steel that is manufactured or produced in North America and to negotiate a project labor agreement to expedite construction of the pipeline. 
(Sec. 715) Instructs the Secretary of Labor to establish within the State of Alaska a pipeline construction training program for Alaskan residents. 

Subtitle B: Operating Pipelines
 - Directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to establish an interagency task force to develop an interagency memorandum of understanding to expedite the environmental review and permitting of natural gas pipeline projects. 

Subtitle C: Pipeline Safety
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Part I: Short Title: Amendment Of Title 49
 - Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2003 - States that references in this subtitle shall be considered to be made to a provision of title 49, United States Code. 

Part II: Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2003
 - Sets forth a statutory framework for pipeline safety, including: (1) implementation of the safety improvement recommendations contained in the Department of Transportation Inspector General's Report; (2) Federal agency response to National Transportation Safety Board pipeline safety recommendations; (3) a pipeline integrity inspection program; and (4) a public education program that includes emergency preparedness and community right-to-know. 
(Sec. 771) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to establish the Pipeline Integrity Technical Advisory Committee to advise the Secretaries of Transportation and of Energy on the development and implementation of a mandatory 5-year research, development, and demonstration program regarding pipeline safety. 
(Sec. 774) Prohibits discrimination against pipeline employees providing pipeline safety information (whistleblower protection). 
(Sec. 779) Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to conduct a study on the natural gas pipeline transmission network in New England and natural gas storage facilities associated with that network. 

Part III : Pipeline Security Sensitive Information
 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold certain pipeline security sensitive information. Sets forth guidelines for conditional release of such information. 

Division C: Diversifying Energy Demand and Improving Efficiency
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Title VIII: Fuels and Vehicles
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Subtitle A: CAFE Standards, Alternative Fuels, and Advanced Technology
 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue, according to specified deadlines, increased average fuel economy standards for automobiles determined on the basis of the maximum feasible average fuel economy levels. 
(Sec. 802) Sets forth: (1) expedited procedures for a congressionally mandated increase in fuel economy standards if the Secretary of Transportation fails to issue final regulations within designated deadlines; and (2) revised considerations for decisions on maximum feasible average fuel economy. 
(Sec. 805) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) Federal agency procurement of alternative fueled and hybrid light duty trucks; and (2) the exclusive use of alternative fuels in the Federal fleet of dual fueled vehicles. 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) expand DOE research on hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles and on diesel fueled vehicles; and (2) implement a fuel cell demonstration program. 
(Sec. 812) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to instruct the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to conduct a survey of renewable fuels consumption in the domestic motor vehicle fuels market, and to publish such survey results monthly. 
(Sec. 814) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Transportation to jointly establish a pilot program for awarding grants for the demonstration and commercial application of alternative fuel school buses and ultra-low sulfur diesel school buses. 
(Sec. 815) Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a fuel cell bus development and demonstration program. 
(Sec. 817) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) a temporary biodiesel credit expansion; and (2) credits for new hybrid motor vehicles, dedicated alternative fuel vehicles, and infrastructure. 
(Sec. 820) Amends the Clean Air Act to set forth a renewable fuel program. 
(Sec. 820A) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to set forth Federal agency purchasing requirements for ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel. 
(Sec. 820B) Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide loan guarantees to private institutions to construct facilities for the processing and conversion of municipal solid waste into fuel ethanol and other commercial byproducts. 

Subtitle B: Additional Fuel Efficiency Measures
 - Amends Federal transportation law to prescribe baseline average fuel economy standards for the Federal fleet of new automobiles. 
(Sec. 824) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) to instruct the Secretary to: (1) initiate an analytical study of the potential fuel savings resulting from long duration idling of main drive engines in heavy-duty vehicles; and (2) develop a program with timetables for domestic sales of hydrogen-fueled fuel cell vehicles by 2010. 

Subtitle C: Federal Reformulated Fuels
 - Federal Reformulated Fuels Act of 2003 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to: (1) permit the use of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund (LUST) for remediation of contamination of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and other ether fuel additives; (2) instruct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a resource center for bedrock bioremediation; and (3) authorize such Administrator to establish a soil remediation program regarding MTBE contamination. 
(Sec. 833) Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) proscribe the use of MTBE in motor vehicle fuel in certain States; (2) provide Federal grants for MTBE merchant producer conversion assistance and eligible production facilities; (3) eliminate the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline; (4) require the Administrator to promulgate regulations governing emissions of toxic air pollutants; and (5) instruct the Administrator to publish for public comment a draft analysis of the changes in emissions of air pollutants and air quality due to the use of motor vehicle fuel and fuel additives resulting from implementation of this Act. 

Title IX: Energy Efficiency and Assistance to Low Income Consumers
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Subtitle A: Low Income Assistance and State Energy Programs
 - Authorizes increased funding for: (1) Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Programs; (2) weatherization assistance; and (3) State energy conservation programs. 
(Sec. 903) Establishes the High Performance Schools Program in the Department of Energy. 
(Sec. 904) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants to units of local government, private, non-profit community development organizations, and Indian tribe economic development entities to improve energy efficiency, identify and develop alternative renewable and distributed energy supplies, and increase energy conservation in low-income rural and urban communities. 
(Sec. 905) Authorizes such Secretary to allocate funds to States that establish a State energy efficient appliance rebate program. 

Subtitle B: Federal Energy Efficiency
 - Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NECPA) to: (1) revise the energy reduction goals mandated for Federal buildings; (2) mandate metering of energy use in Federal buildings; (3) prescribe guidelines for Federal procurement of energy efficient products; (4) make permanent the energy savings performance contract program; (5) establish the Federal Energy Bank to make loans to Federal agencies for designated energy efficiency projects; and (6) prescribe guidelines for energy and water savings measures in congressional buildings. 
(Sec. 913) Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to revise Federal building energy efficiency performance standards. 

Subtitle C: Industrial Efficiency and Consumer Products
 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to enter into voluntary agreements with persons in industrial sectors to reduce the energy intensity of production activities that consume significant amounts of primary energy per unit of physical output. 
(Sec. 922) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to: (1) include within its purview the authority to set standards for commercial products as well as consumer products; (2) establish at the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency a program to identify and promote energy-efficient products and buildings; (3) direct the Secretary to initiate rulemaking procedures for standby mode electric energy consumption; and (4) mandate a consumer education program on energy efficiency benefits of air conditioning, heating, and ventilation maintenance. 

Subtitle D: Housing Efficiency
 - Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize Federal assistance for energy efficient, affordable housing and residential energy conservation measures that benefit low-income families. 
(Sec. 933) Amends the National Housing Act to increase the FHA mortgage insurance incentives for energy efficient housing. 
(Sec. 935) Amends NECPA to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to finance energy conserving improvements to certain assisted multifamily housing projects that are subject to mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plans. 
(Sec. 936) Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to authorize Board members representing the United States to use their voice and vote to encourage the North American Development Bank to finance projects related to clean and efficient energy. 
(Sec. 938) Requires public housing agencies to purchase specified energy-efficient appliances when such purchase is cost-effective. 
(Sec. 939) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to: (1) direct the Secretaries of HUD and of Agriculture to promulgate energy efficiency standards for rehabilitation and new construction of public and assisted housing funded by HOPE VI revitalization grants; and (2) replace the CABO energy efficiency standard with the 2000 International Energy Conservation Code. 
(Sec. 940) Instructs the Secretary of HUD to create an energy management office to implement an integrated strategy to reduce utility expenses through cost-effective energy conservation and efficiency measures in public and assisted housing. 

Subtitle E: Rural and Remote Communities
 - Rural and Remote Community Fairness Act - Sets forth a Federal grant program to assist rural and remote communities meet their needs for efficient housing, and for reasonably priced and environmentally sound energy, water, wastewater, bulk fuel, telecommunications, and utility services. 
(Sec. 948) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to local government units and Indian entities for: (1) increasing energy efficiency; (2) siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; or (3) providing or modernizing electric facilities (gives preference to renewable energy facilities). 
(Sec. 949) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission to fund the power cost equalization program. 
(Sec. 950) Prescribes implementation guidelines for block grants to local government units, eligible Indian tribes, and Native American groups for rural recovery community development. 

Division D: Integration of Energy Policy and Climate Change Policy
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Title X: National Climate Change Policy
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Subtitle A: Sense of Congress
 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should demonstrate international leadership and responsibility in reducing the health, environmental, and economic risks posed by climate change by: (1) taking responsible action to ensure significant and meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases emissions; (2) creating flexible international and domestic mechanisms, including joint implementation, technology deployment, tradable credits for emissions reductions and carbon sequestration projects that reduce, avoid, and sequester greenhouse gas emissions; and (3) participating in international negotiations, including putting forth a proposal to the Conference of the Parties, in order to secure United States participation in a future binding climate change treaty that protects the economic interests of the United States, and recognizes the shared international responsibility for addressing climate change, including developing country participation. 

Subtitle B: Climate Change Strategy
 - Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2003 - Directs the President to develop and report to Congress on a National Climate Change Strategy that incorporates prescribed criteria. 
(Sec. 1014) Establishes the Office of National Climate Change Policy within the Executive Office of the President to achieve long-term Strategy goals while minimizing adverse economic and social impacts. 
Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Interagency Task Force whose members jointly assist in Strategy development. 
(Sec. 1015) Establishes the Office of Climate Change Technology within DOE to manage an energy technology research and development program that directly supports the Strategy, including: (1) implementation and integrated assessment of alternative climate change response scenarios; and (2) an international carbon dioxide sequestration monitoring and data program to make available technical and economic data. 

Subtitle C: Science and Technology Policy
 - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to instruct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to advise the Director of the Office of National Climate Change Policy on science and technology matters relating to global climate change. 

Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions
 - Requires each Federal agency that submits a Statement of Energy Effects (relating to actions that significantly affect energy supply, distribution, or use), to also submit an estimate of the change in net annual greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the proposed action and any reasonable alternatives to such action. 
(Sec. 1032) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to publish estimated annual net greenhouse gas emissions from all federally owned, leased, or operated facilities and emission sources. 

Title XI: National Greenhouse Gas Database
 - Mandates establishment of a Memorandum of Agreement entered into by designated Cabinet Secretaries to maintain statutory and regulatory authorities, functions, and programs that provide for: (1) data collection concerning greenhouse gas emissions and effects; and (2) operation of such database. Shields such Memorandum from judicial review. 
(Sec. 1104) Prescribes guidelines for designated agencies to jointly establish the National Greenhouse Gas Database on greenhouse gas emissions. 

Division E: Enhancing Research, Development, and Training
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Title XII: Energy Research and Development Programs
 - Energy Science and Technology Enhancement Act of 2003 - 
Subtitle A : Energy Efficiency
 - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) energy research, demonstration, and technology deployment programs to enhance energy efficient housing, industrial energy efficiency, transportation energy efficiency, and energy efficient distributed generation; and (2) research grants relating to: (a) Energy Efficiency Science Initiative; (b) Next Generation Lighting Initiative for advanced solid-state lighting technologies based on white light emitting diodes; (c) a public-private research partnership for locomotive technologies that increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, improve safety, and lower costs; (d) high power density facilities, including data centers, server farms, and telecommunications facilities; and (e) precious metal catalysis. 

Subtitle B: Renewable Energy
 - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of Energy to conduct energy research, development, demonstration, and technology deployment programs to enhance the use of renewable energy and bioenergy programs. 
(Sec. 1223) Hydrogen Future Act of 2003 - Amends the Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990 to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a major energy source in: (1) isolated areas in which other energy sources are either not available or are very expensive; (2) foreign economic development in order to avoid environmental damage from increased fossil fuel use; (3) hydrogen production methods that minimize greenhouse gas production; and (4) foreign countries to increase the global market for hydrogen technologies and to foster global economic development without harmful environmental effects. 
Instructs the Secretary to establish an interagency task force to develop a demonstration plan for integrated systems and components for: (1) hydrogen production, storage, and use in Federal, State, and local government buildings and vehicles; (2) hydrogen-based infrastructure for fleet transportation systems that include zero-emission vehicles; and (3) hydrogen-based distributed power generation, including the generation of combined heat, power, and hydrogen. 

Subtitle C: Fossil Energy
 - Authorizes appropriations for enhanced fossil energy research and development including: (1) core fossil research and development; (2) commercial applications of advanced lignite and coal-based technologies applicable to new or existing power plants; (3) advanced safe and efficient coal mining technologies; (4) ultra-deepwater and unconventional resource exploration and production technologies; (5) new natural gas transportation technologies; (6) Office of Arctic Energy; and (7) a loan to the owner of a certain clean coal technology experimental plant constructed under a specified DOE cooperative agreement on such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines, including interest rates and upfront payments. 

Subtitle D: Nuclear Energy
 - Authorizes appropriations for the following programs: (1) enhanced nuclear energy research and development; (2) nuclear sciences and engineering support; (3) sabbatical fellowship and visiting scientist programs to foster University-National Laboratory interactions; (4) Nuclear Energy Research Initiative; (5) Nuclear Energy Plant Optimization Program; and (6) Nuclear Energy Technology Development Program. 

Subtitle E: Fundamental Energy Science
 - Authorizes appropriations for the following programs: (1) enhanced programs in fundamental energy science; (2) nanoscale science and engineering; (3) advanced scientific computing for energy missions; advanced scientific computing and genome research; and (4) fusion energy sciences program and planning. 

Subtitle F: Energy, Safety, and Environmental Protection
 - Authorizes appropriations for a research, demonstration, and technology deployment program pertaining to: (1) critical energy infrastructure protection; and (2) restoration of groundwater contaminated by energy activities, including oil and gas production, surface and underground mining of coal, and in-situ extraction of energy resources. 

Title XIII: Climate Change Science and Technology
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Subtitle A: Department of Energy Programs
 - Authorizes appropriations for a comprehensive research program to understand and address the effects of energy production and use on the global climate system, including climate modeling, carbon cycling, and ecological processes. 
(Sec. 1302) Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to include within statutory research and demonstration goals: (1) solutions to the effective management of greenhouse gas emissions by the development of technologies and practices designed to reduce and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; and (2) a long-term climate technology strategy designed to demonstrate a variety of technologies to achieve greenhouse gas stabilization. 

Subtitle B: Department of Agriculture Programs
 - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) implement carbon sequestration research programs and designate research consortia to implement such programs; (2) develop benchmark standards for measuring carbon content of soils and plants; (3) develop certain programs to monitor the carbon sequestering benefits of conservation practices and net changes in greenhouse gas emissions; (4) conduct carbon storage and sequestration accounting research in collaboration with other Federal agencies; and (5) make competitive grants for pilot program demonstration and assessment of carbon storage and sequestration accounting. 

Subtitle C: International Energy Technology Transfer
 - Authorizes appropriations for the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to establish an Interagency Working Group on Clean Energy Technology Exports whose focus centers upon expanding energy markets and transferring clean energy technology to partner countries that are expected to experience the most significant growth in energy production and associated greenhouse gas emissions over the next 20 years. 
(Sec. 1322) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for a pilot financial assistance program for energy production facilities outside the United States whose output is consumed outside the United States, and whose deployment will result in specified greenhouse gas reductions (international energy deployment projects). 

Subtitle D: Climate Change Science and Information
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Part I: Amendments to the Global Change Research Act of 1990
 - Amends the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to: (1) redesignate the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences as the Committee on Global Change Research; (2) revise Committee membership; (3) establish a Subcommittee on Global Change Research; and (4) establish as a priority of Federal global research the provision of information that is relevant for effective decisions and strategies for measuring and adapting to global change. 
(Sec. 1334) Instructs the Chairman of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology to submit to Congress a strategic plan for the United States Global Climate Change Research Program. 
(Sec. 1335) Amends Federal law relating to the United States Global Change Research Program to establish in the Office of Science and Technology Policy an integrated program office for the global change research program. 
(Sec. 1336) Requires the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences to list priority areas for research and development on climate change that are not being addressed by Federal agencies. Instructs the National Science Foundation to include such list as part of its annual request for appropriations. 

Part II: National Climate Services and Monitoring
 - Amends the National Climate Program Act to authorize increased appropriations. 
(Sec. 1345) Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) submit to certain congressional committees a plan of action for a National Climate Service under the National Climate Program; (2) conduct international research in the Pacific region that will increase understanding of climate variability in the Asia-Pacific sector, including regional aspects of global environmental change; and (3) establish an atmospheric monitoring and verification program for greenhouse gases. 
(Sec. 1348) Amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to provide funding for Arctic research grants. 
(Sec. 1349) Authorizes appropriations for a research program on potential abrupt climate change. 

Part III: Ocean and Coastal Observing System
 - Instructs the President to establish an integrated ocean and coastal observing system that provides for long-term, continuous, and real-time observations of the oceans and coasts. Authorizes appropriations. 

Subtitle E: Climate Change Technology
 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Commerce to perform research to develop enhanced measurements, calibrations, standards, and technologies to promote reduced production of greenhouse gases associated with global warming; (2) instruct the Director of such Institute to establish a research program on global climate change standards and processes, with the goal of providing scientific and technical knowledge applicable to greenhouse gas reduction; and (3) authorize such Director to support new &quot;green&quot; manufacturing technologies and techniques by small manufacturers. 

Subtitle F: Climate Adaptation and Hazards Prevention
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Part I: Assessment and Adaptation
 - Instructs the President to establish within the Department of Commerce a National Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Program for regional impacts regarding increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and climate variability. 
(Sec. 1372) Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) conduct regional assessments of coastal area vulnerability to hazards associated with climate change, climate variability, sea level rise, and fluctuation of Great Lakes water levels, including impacts on Arctic regions and the Central, Western, and South Pacific regions; (2) submit to Congress a national coastal adaptation plan, comprised of individual regional adaptation plans that address coastal impacts associated with climate change, sea level rise, or climate variability; (3) provide coastal adaptation grants; (4) establish a 4-year pilot program to provide financial assistance to coastal communities most adversely affected by the impact of climate change or climate variability that are located in States with federally approved coastal zone management programs; and (5) establish the Barrow Arctic Research Center as a joint research facility to support climate change and other scientific research activities in the Arctic. 

Part II: Forecasting and Planning Pilot Programs
 - Authorizes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to establish pilot project grants to explore the integrated use of remote sensing sources and other geospatial information to address needs to forecast a plan for adaptation to coastal zone and land use changes that may result as a consequence of global climate change or climate variability. 
(Sec. 1383) Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) conduct air quality studies within specific regions, including the effects of in situ emissions of air pollutants and their precursors; and (2) establish a program to provide operational air quality forecasts and warnings for specific regions. 

Title XIV: Management of DOE Science and Technology Programs
 - Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) require specified commitments from non-Federal sources for certain research, development, demonstration and deployment projects; and (2) establish an advisory board to oversee Department research and development programs in specified energy areas. 
(Sec. 1406) Amends the Department of Organization Act to establish in DOE: (1) an Under Secretary for Energy and Science, to serve as the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of Energy; and (2) an Office of Science, headed by an Assistant Secretary of Science, to implement fundamental science and engineering research functions. 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership for departmental missions in nuclear energy should be at the Assistant Secretary level. 
(Sec. 1407) Instructs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to: (1) appoint a Technology Transfer Coordinator to perform oversight and policy development for DOE technology transfer activities; (2) establish a Technology Partnership Working Group; and (3) establish a Technology Infrastructure Program. 
(Sec. 1409) Directs the Secretary to require the Director of each National Laboratory to: (1) appoint a small business advocate; and (2) establish a small business assistance program. 
(Sec. 1413) Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit a biennial status report to Congress and the President on technology readiness and barriers to technology transfer; and (2) establish a collaborative research, development, and deployment program to promote energy efficient, environmentally sound economic development along the United States-Mexico border that: (A) mitigates hazardous waste; (B) promotes energy efficient materials processing technologies that minimize environmental damage; and (C) protects air quality and the public health. 

Title XV: Personnel and Training
 - Directs the Secretary to: (1) monitor workforce trends and establish traineeship grants when skilled technical personnel shortfalls occur in energy technology industries; (2) establish postdoctoral and senior research fellowships in energy research; (3) develop model employee training guidelines to support electric supply system reliability and safety; and (4) establish a National Center on Energy Management and Building Technologies to facilitate improved energy efficiency and indoor air quality in industrial, commercial and residential buildings. 
(Sec. 1505) Amends the Department of Energy Science Education Enhancement Act to direct the Secretary to: (1) prioritize activities designed to encourage women and minority students to pursue scientific and technical careers; and (2) promote increased participation of historically Black colleges or universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, or tribal colleges in activities that increase their capacity to train science or engineering personnel. 
(Sec. 1506) Instructs the Secretary to establish a National Power Plant Operations Technology and Education Center to address the need for training and educating certified operators for electric power generation plants. 
(Sec. 1507) Instructs the Secretary of Labor to hire additional experienced mine inspectors to maintain the number of Federal mine inspectors at or above authorized levels. 

Division F: Technology Assessment and Studies - Title XVI: Technology Assessment - 
Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to create a Science and Technology Assessment Service as an information clearinghouse for Congress regarding national science and technology policy issues. 

Title XVII: Studies
 - Mandates reports to Congress concerning: (1) Federal agency reviews regarding regulatory barriers to both market entry for emerging energy technologies, and to market development for existing energy technologies; (2) an assessment by the Secretary of Energy regarding the economic implications of Hawaii's dependence upon oil as its principal source of energy; (3) the feasibility of a new electric transmission system on the Amtrak right-of-way in the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New Rochelle, New York, including the Amtrak right-of-way between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and (4) updated plans concerning renewable energy and energy efficiency plans for insular areas. 
(Sec. 1705) Establishes the Consumer Energy Commission to study significant nationwide price spikes in major consumer energy products, including electricity, gasoline, home heating oil, natural gas, and propane since 1990. 
(Sec. 1706) Mandates studies and reports to Congress regarding: (1) environmental impact of natural gas or other energy transmission infrastructure proposed for construction across the Great Lakes; (2) DOE route selection procedures for shipment of spent nuclear fuel among research nuclear reactor facilities; (3) reduction of energy use through cost-effective improvements in municipal water and wastewater treatment; and (4) research projects at DOE nuclear facilities relating to hydrogen production, fuel cell development, or other energy production technology enhancements. 

Division G: Energy Infrastructure Security
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Title XVIII: Critical Energy Infrastructure
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Subtitle A: Department of Energy Programs
 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to establish critical energy infrastructure programs. 

Subtitle B: Department of the Interior Programs
 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Outer Continental Shelf Energy Infrastructure Security Program to: (1) provide funds to OCS Production States for security against threats to critical OCS energy infrastructure facilities; and (2) support necessary public services or transportation for the safety and operation of critical energy infrastructure activities. 

Division H: Energy Tax Incentives
 - Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2003 - 
Title XIX : Extension and Modification of Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit
 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify the renewable electricity production tax credit to include: (1) credits for electricity produced from biomass, swine, and bovine waste nutrients; (2) geothermal and solar energy; and (3) small irrigation power, municipal biosolids, and recycled sludge. 

Title XX: Alternative Motor Vehicles and Fuels Incentives
 - Provides an incentives program for alternative vehicle and alternative fuels, including credits for: (1) installation of alternative fueling stations and for retail sales of alternative fuels as motor vehicle fuel; (2) small ethanol producers; (3) allowing the alcohol fuels credit to be transferred and offset motor fuels tax liability; and (4) biodiesel used as fuel. 
(Sec. 2009) Grants general business credits for commercial power takeoff vehicles. 
(Sec. 2010) Modifies the incentives for alternative vehicles and fuels. 

Title XXI: Conservation and Energy Efficiency Provisions
 - Sets forth certain conservation and energy efficiency credits for: (1) the construction of new energy efficient homes; (2) the installation of energy efficient appliances; (3) residential energy efficient property; (4) business installation of qualified fuel cells and stationary microturbine power plants; (5) combined heat and power system properties; and (6) energy efficiency improvements to existing homes. 
(Sec. 2110) Allows a deduction against tax for qualified new or retrofitted water submetering devices. 
Establishes a three-year recovery period for: (1) depreciation of qualified energy management devices; and (2) qualified water submetering devices. 

Title XXII: Clean Coal Incentives
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Subtitle A: Credit for Emission Reductions and Efficiency Improvements in Existing Coal-Based Electricity Generation Facilities
 - Establishes clean coal incentives, including credits for emission reductions and efficiency improvements in existing coal-based generation facilities. 

Subtitle B: Incentives for Early Commercial Applications of Advanced Clean Coal Technologies
 - Allows as a credit against tax: (1) investment in qualifying advanced clean coal technology; and (2) production from a qualifying advanced clean coal technology unit. 

Subtitle C: Treatment of Persons Not Able To Use Entire Credit
 - Prescribes guidelines for the treatment of persons not able to use the entire tax credit for a qualifying advanced clean coal technology unit. 

Title XXIII: Oil and Gas Provisions
 - Revises oil and gas guidelines, including: (1) establishing a credit for oil and gas production from marginal wells; (2) permitting the expensing of capital costs incurred in complying with EPA sulfur regulations; (3) establishing an environmental tax credit; (4) extending the marginal production income limit; and (5) treating natural gas distribution lines as 15-year property. 

Title XXIV: Electric Utility Restructuring Provisions
 - Sets forth a special rule for sales or dispositions to implement the electric restructuring policy of either FERC or a State government. 

Title XXV: Additional Provisions
 - Extends accelerated depreciation and wage credit benefits on Indian reservations. 
(Sec. 2502) Requires the Comptroller General to submit to Congress an ongoing analysis of this Act relating to: (1) the efficacy of incentives for alternative motor vehicles and fuels, and for conservation and energy efficiency; and (2) tax benefits conferred upon recipients. 
(Sec. 2503) Sets forth business related credits for production of Alaska natural gas. 
(Sec. 2504) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that any gasoline or diesel fuel sold at a duty-free sales enterprise shall be considered as entered for consumption into the customs territory of the United States. 
(Sec. 2505) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat as an involuntary conversion a qualified disposition to implement a bovine tuberculosis eradication program; (2) permit expensing of dairy property reclamation costs; (3) grant an excise tax exemption to agricultural aerial applicators; and (4) exempt from ticket taxes transportation provided by seaplanes. 

Division I: Iraq Oil Import Restriction
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Title XXVI: Iraq Oil Import Restriction
 - Iraq Petroleum Import Restriction Act of 2003 - Prohibits direct or indirect import from Iraq of Iraqi-origin petroleum and petroleum products. 
 (Sec. 2604) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should make all appropriate efforts to ensure that the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people are not negatively affected by this Act and should encourage through public, private, domestic and international means the direct or indirect sale, donation or other transfer to appropriate nongovernmental health and humanitarian organizations and individuals within Iraq of food, medicine and other humanitarian products. 

Division J: Miscellaneous
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Title XXVII: Miscellaneous Provision
 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Senate Judiciary Committee should continue to hold regular hearings on judicial nominees and should schedule hearings expeditiously on the nominees submitted by the President on May 9, 2001, and resubmitted on September 5, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Motion by Senator Frist to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the conference report to accompnay H. R. 6 was not invoked (Roll Call Vote No. 456) entered in Senate.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Cloture on the conference report to accompany H. R. 6 not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 57 - 40. Record Vote Number: 456.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S15326-15335)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Conference report considered in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S15213-15216)
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Cloture motion on the conference report to accompany H.R. 6 presented in Senate.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Conference report considered in Senate by motion.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of conference report to accompany H. R. 6 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S15111-15123, S15140-15179)
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 246 - 180 (Roll No. 630).
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 246 - 180 (Roll No. 630).
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Mr. Tauzin brought up conference report H. Rept. 108-375 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 443. (consideration: CR 11/19/2003 H11405-11432)
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Rule H. Res. 443 passed House.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 443 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 6 with 1 hour of general debate.
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conference report H. Rept. 108-375 filed. Filed late, pursuant to previous special order. (text of conference report: CR H11207-11356)
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 108-375 filed. Filed late, pursuant to previous special order.(text of conference report: CR H11207-11356)
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Mr. Moran (KS) asked unanimous consent that managers on the part of the House have until 6:00 a.m. on Nov. 18 to file a conference report on H.R. 6. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 188 - 210 (Roll No. 618). (consideration: CR H11009)
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Mr. Filner moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H11008-11009)
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: POSTPONED ROLL CALL VOTE - At the conclusion of debate on the Filner motion to instruct conferees, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Filner demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion until a later time.
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: POSTPONED ROLL CALL VOTE.
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Filner motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: Mr. Filner moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H10521-10528; text: CR H10521)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 182 - 232 (Roll no. 598). (consideration: CR 10/31/2003 H10210)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: POSTPONED ROLL CALL VOTE - At the conclusion of debate on the Johnson motion to instruct conferees, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Barton demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion until a later time.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the E. B. Johnson motion to instruct conferees.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Ms. Johnson, E. B. moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H10090-10106; text: CR H10090)
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 346 - 59 (Roll no. 571). (consideration: CR H9965-9966)
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: POSTPONED ROLL CALL VOTE - At the conclusion of debate on the Markey motion to instruct conferees, the Speaker put the question on adoption of the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded the yeas and nays and the Speaker postponed further proceedings on the adoption of the motion until a later time.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Markey (MA) motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Mr. Markey moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H9777-9780; text: CR H9777-9778)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 229 - 182 (Roll no. 540). (consideration: CR H9440-9441)
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: POSTPONED ROLL CALL VOTE - At the conclusion debate on the Capps motion to instruct conferees, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Capps demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion until a later time.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Capps motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Mrs. Capps moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H9336-9346; text: CR H9336)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote. (consideration: CR H9171)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Inslee motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Mr. Inslee moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H9168-9171; text: CR H9168)
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Conference held.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Conference committee actions: Conference held.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Ways and Means for consideration of Division D of the House bill and Division H and I of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Thomas, McCrery, and Rangel.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for consideration of secs. 11001-11004, 11006, 11009-11011, 12001-12012, 12014, 12401, 12403, 13001, 13201, 13202, 15021-15024, 15031-15034, 15041, 15043, 15051, 16012, 16021, 16022, 16023, 16031, 16081, 16082, 16092, 23001-23004, 30407, 30410, and 30901 of the House bill and secs. 102, 201, 205, 301, 701-783, 812, 814, 816, 823, 911-916, 918-920, 949, 1214, 1261-1262, and 1351-1352 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Young (AK), Petri, and Oberstar.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees Provided that Mr. Lampson is appointed in lieu of Mr. Hall of Texas for consideration of sec. 21708 and Division F of the House bill, and secs. 824 and 1223 of the Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees Provided that Mr. Costello is appointed in lieu of Mr. Hall of Texas for consideration of Division E of the House bill, and modifications committed to conference.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Science for consideration of secs. 11009, 11025, 12301-12312, 14001-14007, 14009-14015, 14029, 15021-15024, 15031-15034, 15041, 15045, Division B, sec. 30301, Division E, and Division F of the House bill and secs. 501-507, 509, 513-516, 770-772, 807-809, 814-816, 824, 832, 1001-1022, Title XI, Title XII, Title XIII, Title XIV, secs. 1502, 1504-1505, Title XVI, and secs. 1801-1805 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Boehlert, Biggert, and Hall.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees Provided that Mr. Kind is appointed in lieu of Mr. Rahall for consideration of Title IV of Division C of the House bill, and modifications committed to conference.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Resources for consideration of secs. 12005, 12007, 12011, 12101, 13001, 21501, 21521-21530, Division C, and sec. 60009 of the House bill and secs. 201, 265, 272, 301, 401-407, 602-606, 609, 612, 705, 707, 712, 721, 1234, 1351-1352, 1704, and 1811 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Pombo, Cubin, and Rahall.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Judiciary for consideration of secs. 12008, 12401, 14014, 14026, 14027, 14028, 14033, 16012, 16045, 16084, 30101, 30210, and 30408 of the House bill and secs. 206, 209, 253, 531-532, 708, 767, 783, and 1109 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Sensenbrenner, Smith (TX), and Conyers.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Government Reform for consideration of secs. 11002, 11005, 11006, 11010, 11011, 14025, 14033, and 22002 of the House bill and secs. 263, 805, 806, 914-916, 918, 920, 1406, and 1410 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Davis, Tom, Murphy, and Tierney.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Financial Services for consideration of Division G of the House bill and secs. 931-940 and 950 of the Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference: Oxley, Ney, and Waters.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and the Workforce for consideration of secs. 11021, 12014, 14033, and 30406 of the House bill and secs. 715, 774, 901, 903, 1505, and 1507 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: McKeon, Johnson, Sam, and Miller, George.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Armed Services for consideration of secs. 11005, 11010, 14001-14007, 14009-14015, 21805 and 21806 of the House bill and secs. 301, 501-507, 509, 513, 809, 821, 914, 920, 1401, 1407-1409, 1411, 1801, and 1803 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hunter, Weldon (PA), and Skelton.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Agriculture for consideration of secs. 30202, 30208, 30212, Title III of Division C, secs. 30604, 30901, and 30903 of the House bill and secs. 265, 301, 604, 941-948, 950, 1103, 1221, 1311-1313, and 2008 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Goodlatte, Lucas (OK), and Stenholm.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Energy and Commerce for consideration of the House bill and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Tauzin, Bilirakis, Barton (TX), Upton, Stearns, Gillmor, Shimkus, Dingell, Waxman, Markey, Boucher, and Rush.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 176 - 211 (Roll no. 476). (consideration:  CR H7953)
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Dingell motion to instruct conferees, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Dingell demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion until a later time.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Dingell motion to instruct conferees.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Mr. Dingell moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration:  CR H7922; text:  CR H7922)
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Mr. Tauzin asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. (consideration:  CR H7922-7930)
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Senate appointed conferee(s) Domenici; Nickles; Craig; Campbell; Thomas; Grassley; Lott; Bingaman; Dorgan; Graham FL; Wyden; Johnson; Baucus under authority of the order of July 31, 2003.
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 84 - 14. Record Vote Number: 317.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 84 - 14. Record Vote Number: 317.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (CR 8/1/2003 S10569-10570)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 85.
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 247 - 175 (Roll no. 145).
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 247 - 175 (Roll no. 145).
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 171 - 250 (Roll no. 144).
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dingell motion to recommit with instructions.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Mr. Dingell moved to recommit with instructions to Energy and Commerce. (consideration: CR H3329-3331; text: CR H3329)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: VITIATED RECORDED VOTE - The Chair put the question on the support for the demand for a recorded vote on the Schakowsky amendment and announced that an insufficient number had arisen and subsequently announced the previous voice vote on which the ayes had prevailed would stand.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Reynolds amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Cantor amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Rahall amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Rahall demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Rahall amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Kind amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Kind demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Kind amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Capps amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration:  CR H3309-3332)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Schakowsky amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Tauzin demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Schakowsky amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the amendment offered by Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the amendment offered by Mr. Bluemenauer.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Barrett (SC) amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration:  CR H3231-3279)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Reynolds amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Nadler amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Udall (NM) amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Udall (NH) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Udall (NM) amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Brown (OH) amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Brown (OH) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Brown (OH) amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Oberstar amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Davis amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Davis demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Davis, Tom amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Vitter amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Markey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Markey amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Peterson (PA) amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Wilson (NM) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Wilson (NM) amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - At the conclusion of debate on the Dingell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Boucher demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Dingell amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Boehlert amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a later time.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provsions of H. Res. 189, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Boehlert amendment.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with ninety minutes of debate on H.R. 6.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Michael K. Simpson to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 189 and Rule XXIII.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 6 with 1 hour and 30 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Rule provides for a structured rule providing one hour and 30 minutes of general debate with 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairmen and ranking minority members of each of the following Committees: Science, Resources, and Ways and Means. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. Makes in order amendments printed in the Rules Committee report (H. Rept. 108-70). Provides that the amendments may be offered only in the order printed in the report, offered only by a Member designated, considered as read, debatable for ...
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 189. (consideration:  CR H3087-3194; text of measure as introduced:  CR H3108-3192)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Rule H. Res. 189 passed House.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 189 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 6 with 1 hour and 30 minutes of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Rule provides for a structured rule providing one hour and 30 minutes of general debate with 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairmen and ranking minority members of each of the following Committees: Science, Resources, and Ways and Means. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. Makes in order amendments printed in the Rules Committee report (H. Rept. 108-70). Provides that the amendments may be offered only in the order printed in the report, offered only by a Member designated, considered as read, debatable for ...
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Resources, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House