Energy Policy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-10
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Affiliated corporations
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Aquifers
Archives
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Arsenic
Automobile engines
Awards, medals, prizes
Bicycles
Biological research
Biological warfare
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
Black colleges
Building construction
Building laws
Building materials
Business records
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Carbon cycle
Catalysis
Cellulose
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coal
Coastal zone
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Computer simulation
Conferences
Congress
Congressional office buildings
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Consumer goods
Consumer protection
Continental shelf
Corporate mergers
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Diesel motor
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Education
Electric appliances
Electric batteries
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Electric vehicles
Electronics
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy crops
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy security
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Executives
Export controls
Exports
Farm manure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Federal-Indian relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fishery management
Fishing
Flood control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forest products
Fossil fuels
Fraud
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Fuel storage
Gas appliances
Gas companies
Gas in submerged lands
Gas pipelines
Geology
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grain
Grants-in-aid
Groundwater
Guam
Gulf of Mexico
Hawaii
Health
Heating
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
History
Holding companies
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Hydrology
Idaho
Imports
Indemnity
Independent power producers
Independent regulatory commissions
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian education
Indian lands
Indoor air pollution
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Interstate compacts
Interstate relations
Irrigation
Israel
Job creation
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Landfills
Law
Legumes
Liability for nuclear damages
Licenses
Lighting
Liquefied natural gas
Local laws
Lumber trade
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marshall Islands
Materials
Mathematics
Methane
Microbiology
Micronesia
Middle East and North Africa
Military bases
Minerals
Mining engineering
Mining royalties
Minorities
Missouri River development
Montana
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Nanotechnology
Natural gas
Navigation
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Northern Mariana Islands
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear exports
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear industry
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear security measures
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Ombudsman
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Palau Islands
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Plants
Plumbing
Potable water
Potatoes
Power marketing administrations
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Public meetings
Public utility regulation
Public-private partnerships
Puerto Rico
Radioactive wastes
Radioisotopes in medicine
Railroad engineering
Rebates
Recycling of waste products
Refrigeration
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Revenue sharing
Right of privacy
Right-of-way

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Sets forth a program to spur diverse energy research and development, including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) oil and gas; (4) coal; (5) Indian energy; (6) nuclear matters; (7) vehicles and motor fuels; (8) hydrogen; (9) electricity infrastucture; and (10) federal loan guarantees for commercial projects that target energy pollutant reduction.
 
Establishes federal programs that target energy savings in public facilities.
 
Establishes energy assistance programs that include: (1) weatherization assistance; (2) state energy programs; (3) energy efficient appliance rebates; and (4) low income community energy efficiency.
 
Establishes programs for energy efficient products including energy conservation initiatives and energy efficiency in housing.
 
Sets forth renewable energy initiatives that address: (1) renewable energy resources and production; (2) renewable content of motor vehicle fuel; (3) federal agency purchasing requirements for ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel fuel; (4) a sugar cane ethanol program; (5) an advanced biofuels technology program; (6) a biomass commercial utilization program; (7) geothermal energy enterprises; and (8) hydroelectric power projects.
 
Sets forth an oil and gas program that includes: (1) the Petroleum Reserve and home heating oil; (2) oil and gas production incentives; (3) oil and gas activities on federal land; (4) a coastal impact assistance program; (5) natural gas enterprises; and (6) federal coalbed methane regulation.
 
Sets forth a Clean Coal Power Initiative campaign that includes grants to universities to establish Centers of Excellence for Energy Systems of the Future.
 
Modifies statutory constraints governing federal coal leases, including acreage limitations, mining plans, and advance royalty payments.
 
Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to establish the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs to promote Indian tribal energy resource development through a program of grants and loans.
 
Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify and extend indemnification authority and liability limits for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees and Department of Energy (DOE) contractors. 
 
Addresses general nuclear matters, including: (1) extension of indemnification authority; (2) treatment of modular reactors; (3) medical isotope production; (4) safe disposal of greater-than-class-C radioactive waste; (5) a prohibition on nuclear exports to countries that sponsor terrorism; and (5) a DOE decommissioning pilot program. 
 
 Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project, a prototype plant that includes a nuclear reactor, to generate electricity and to produce hydrogen.
 
Revises requirements governing: (1) federal agency use of alternative fuels by dual-fueled vehicles; and (2) alternative compliance.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a cost-shared, public-private research partnership involving the federal government, railroad carriers, locomotive manufacturers and equipment suppliers, and the Association of American Railroads, to develop and demonstrate railroad locomotive technologies that increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, and lower costs of operation.
 
Establishes within the Department of Transportation the Conserve by Bicycling Program.
 
Prescribes guidelines for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review reduction of engine idling of heavy-duty vehicles.
 
Directs the Secretary to initiate a project, in partnership with diesel engine, diesel fuel injection system, and diesel vehicle manufacturers and diesel and biodiesel fuel providers, to provide biodiesel testing in advanced diesel engine and fuel system technology.
 
Sets forth a program of federal and state procurement of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen energy systems.
 
Revamps the Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990 to create a statutory framework to: (1) promote development and commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technology in partnership with industry; (2) establish the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Task Force; (3) direct the Secretary to provide for the transfer of critical hydrogen and fuel cell technologies to the private sector; and (4) create a hydrogen supply and fuel cell demonstration program.
 
Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act of 2005 - Prohibits appropriations authorized in this Act for energy efficiency research and development from being used for: (1) issuance or implementation of energy efficiency regulations; (2) the weatherization program established under the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA); (3) a state energy conservation plan established under ECPA; or (4) a federal energy management measure implemented under the National Energy Conservation Policy Act. 
 
Directs the Secretary to implement initiatives that target research, development, and commercial application in: (1) energy efficiency; (2) distributed energy and electric energy systems; (3) renewable energy; (4) nuclear energy; (5) fossil energy; (6) science; and (8) international cooperation within the Western Hemisphere and with Israel.
 
Sets forth guidelines governing DOE management, including creation of: (1) a national energy research and development advisory boards; (2) a Technology Transfer Working Group; and (3) a Technology Infrastructure Program.
 
Prescribes guidelines for recruitment and training of skilled technical personnel in energy technology industries and educational programs in science and mathematics.
 
Electricity Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Power Act to grant Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulatory jurisdiction over an Electric Reliability Organization. Prescribes guidelines for electric reliability standards, including electric transmission infrastructure, operation and transmission rates.
 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to: (1) require electric utilities to make net metering and smart metering available upon consumer request; and (2) terminate mandatory purchase and sale requirements pertaining to cogeneration and small power production utilities.
 
Amends the Federal Power Act to: (1) direct FERC to promulgate market transparency rules governing sales of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce, and transmission services in interstate commerce; and (2) prohibit energy market manipulation.
 
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 121.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Domenici. With written report No. 109-78. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Domenici. With written report No. 109-78. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ordered to be reported an original measure.