Bioenergy Innovation, Optional Fuel Utilization, and Energy Legacy (BIOFUEL) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5372
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Authorization
Automobile engines
Automobile industry
Bank loans
Biomass energy
Bonds
Business records
Carbon cycle
Cellulose
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to research
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Liens
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Oils and fats
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Small business
Solar energy
Standards
Storage
Strategic materials
Subsidies
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Bioenergy Innovation, Optional Fuel Utilization, and Energy Legacy (BIOFUEL) Act of 2006 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the schedule for the volume of renewable fuels, the volume for cellulosic biomass, and the volume of biodiesel.
 
Amends federal transportation law to require manufacturers of new dual fueled automobiles to ensure that the percentage of the total of such automobiles, manufactured and distributed in commerce for sale in the United States, meets prescribed percentages for specified model years.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to require motor fuel retailers in each geographic region the Secretary establishes, when flexible-fuel vehicle market penetrations reach a certain level, to install an E-85 fuel pump or pumps at their retail fuel facilities.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Fund to implement a related grant program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a renewable energy strategic feedstock reserve program to purchase and store agricultural commodities with their producers.
 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to: (1) redefine bioenergy as ethanol derived from cellulosic feedstocks; and (2) reauthorize the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to enable eligible farmers, ranchers, and certain domestic entities controlled by them to create or expand facilities designed to convert agricultural commodities into fuel.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a lender to obtain an unsubordinated interest in a borrower's farming or ranching operation as a prerequisite to a federal loan guarantee.
 
Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to declare eligible for credit assistance certain associations of farmers, producers, or harvesters of aquatic products engaged in commercial activities related to renewable energy products.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a research and development program related to: (1) ethanol production; (2) extraction of energy from biological sources; (3) biomass gasification; and (4) new vehicle efficiency technologies. 
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a biofuels production facility grant program.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that Congress should enact policies that: (1) reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and (2) encourage systems that compensate American agricultural producers for the beneficial role that they play in reducing greenhouse gases and sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend tax credits for ethanol and biodiesel; (2) increase tax credits for refueling property for ethanol and biodiesel; and (3) increase the small ethanol producer credit.
 
Revises requirements for infrastructure bonds for facilities producing motor vehicle fuel from biomass.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7503)
action_date: 2006-06-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E904-905)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Science, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Science, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Science, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Science, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Science, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House