Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-388
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power transmission
Electric utility rates
Emissions trading
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fluorocarbons
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Intellectual property
Laboratories
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nitrogen oxides
Nuclear power plants
Pollution measurement
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Sulphur
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Trade secrets
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a national strategy to promote greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices through research and development programs conducted by National Laboratories, other Federal research facilities, universities, and the private sector. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Climate Change Technology to coordinate Federal climate change activities and programs to promote such strategy; and (2) a permanent Climate Change Technology Program to assist the Committee in the interagency coordination of climate change technology research, development, and demonstration, and deployment to reduce greenhouse gas intensity.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish the Climate Change Science Program to assist the Committee in the interagency coordination of climate change science research.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct an inventory and evaluation of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies to determine suitable commercialization and deployment technologies; (2) use inventory results for guidance in such commercialization; (3) establish a Climate Change Technology Working Group to identify major statutory, regulatory, and economic barriers to such commercialization; and (4) establish within the Department of Energy a Climate Credit Board to implement the greenhouse gas intensity reducing technology deployment program, using energy credit financial support for eligible projects.
 
Requires the President to establish a national greenhouse gas registry to serve as the depository for data on greenhouse gas emissions and emission reductions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1426-1428)
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate