American-Made Energy Freedom Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3917
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Animal breeding
Animals
Arctic and polar regions
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Coastal zone
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Interior
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy conservation
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Excise tax
Export controls
Fiber optics
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel cells
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Impact aid
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian lands
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Leases
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum pipelines
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reclamation of land
Revenue sharing
Right-of-way
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Water pollution control
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
American-Made Energy Freedom Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase tax credits for cellulosic biomass ethanol; (2) extend the energy credit for solar and fuel cell property; (3) extend and modify the credits for residential energy efficient property and for certain liquid fuel derived from coal; and (4) establish the American-Made Energy Trust Fund to implement designated sections of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, including climate change technology deployment.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska.
 
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 to repeal the prohibition against production of oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and any leasing or development leading to such production.
 
Prescribes procedures for: (1) lease sales; (2) grants of leases; and (3) Coastal Plain environmental protection; (4) rights-of-way and easements for the transportation of oil and gas across the Coastal Plain. 
 
Directs the Secretary to convey: (1) the surface estate of specified lands to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation; and (2) the remaining subsurface estate of specified lands to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. 
 
Establishes the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to specified entities directly impacted by oil and gas production and exploration on the Coastal Plain.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate