Fuel Choices for American Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4409
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Authorization
Automobile industry
Automobile tires
Automobiles
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Consumer education
Corporation taxes
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric batteries
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Higher education
Hydrogen
Imports
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investment tax credit
Job creation
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Mass rapid transit
Materials
Methane
Methanol
Minimum wages
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Nanotechnology
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Paper and paper products
Petroleum
Planning
Postal service
Propane
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Quality of products
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Right-of-way
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Service stations
Standards
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teaching materials
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Transportation research
Trucks
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Fuel Choices for American Security Act of 2005 - Instructs Director of the Office of Management and Budget to publish an action plan in the Federal Register that targets oil savings for specified years.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Energy and of Transportation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator), to promulgate regulations to implement the standards set forth in the Director's action plan. 
 
Requires the head of each federal agency to establish an oil usage baseline and develop a specified plan to reduce oil consumption. 
 
Directs the Postmaster General to report to Congress on annual fleetwide fuel savings and cost savings associated with eliminating Saturday mail delivery.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a national media campaign to decrease domestic oil consumption. 
 
Amends federal transportation law to set forth a national tire efficiency program.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to establish an idling reduction tax credit.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a research and development program for electric drive transportation technology.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to establish a lightweight material research and development program.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary to accelerate hybrid technology improvements by using loan guarantees that target automobile manufacturers and suppliers.
 
Amends the IRC to allow: (1) an advanced technology motor vehicles manufacturing credit; and (2) a qualified flexible fuel hybrid and plug-in hybrid motor vehicle credit.
 
Terminates the limitation on the number of qualified hybrid and advanced lean burn technology vehicles eligible for alternative motor vehicle credit. 
 
Directs the Secretary to issue regulations requiring each federal agency to achieve by FY2015 at least a 20% reduction in its fleet petroleum consumption.
 
Amends the IRC to: (1) establish a fuel-efficient tax credit for private fleets; and (2) subject heavy vehicles to the depreciation limitation imposed upon certain luxury automobiles. 
 
Prescribes: (1) a production schedule for passenger cars that are either fuel choice enabling motor vehicles, or alternative fuel automobiles; and (2) calculations for flexible fuel vehicle economy.
 
Requires the Secretary to transmit an action plan to Congress to ensure: (1) an increasing supply by non-oil fuels of the total domestic ground transportation fuel demand; and (2) nationwide inclusion of at least 10 % ethanol in the domestic ground transportation fuel supply by December 31, 2015.
 
Amends the IRC to increase the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit.
 
Amends federal transportation law to establish the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe the minimum quantity of renewable fuel derived from cellulosic biomass for specified calendar years.
 
Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to designate Transit-Oriented Development Corridors in certain urbanized areas.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) repeal the geographical limitation on the Sugar Cane Ethanol Program; (2) authorize preprocessing and harvesting demonstration grants for transportation fuel produced from biomass (in lieu of ethanol production); (3) direct the Secretary to establish a loan guarantee program for conversion of municipal solid waste into transportation fuel produced from biomass (in lieu of ethanol); and (4) instruct the Administrator to fund demonstration projects for producing transportation fuel produced from biomass (in lieu of ethanol).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7680)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1293)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2005-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10366)