Energy Basic and Applied Sciences Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-612
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2005-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Acid rain
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Authorization
Biological research
Biomass energy
Black colleges
Building construction
Building laws
Building materials
Buy American
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Catalysis
Cellulose
Chemistry
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
College teachers
Commerce
Commercialization
Communication in science
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Energy
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric appliances
Electric batteries
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy security
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Engines
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Exports
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal employees
Feedstock
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fossil fuels
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Genetic research
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government statistics
Heat pumps
Heating
Heavy metals
High technology
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Idaho
Indian education
Industrial pollution
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Lighting
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Materials
Mercury
Methane
Minorities
Minorities in government
Minority education
Motor vehicles
Native Americans
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Negotiations
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear physics
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear security measures
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Physics
Planning
Planning-programming-budgeting
Prospecting
Proteins
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Radioactive pollution
Recruiting of employees
Recycling of waste products
Refuse as fuel
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research and development
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Small business
Smog
Soil pollution
Solar energy
Steel
Submarine oil well drilling
Sunset legislation
Supercomputers
Superconductivity
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties
Waste reduction
Water pollution control
Wind power
Women
Women in government
Women's education
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: 
Energy Basic and Applied Sciences Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct programs of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application (R&D) in high energy physics and nuclear physics, biological and environmental research, basic energy sciences, advanced scientific and computing research, and fusion energy sciences.
 
Sets a deadline for construction of a Rare Isotope Accelerator.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an R&D program in: (1) genetics, protein science, and computational biology; (2) catalysis science; and (3) advanced scientific computing research.
 
Instructs the Secretary to plan to implement U.S. policy for a fusion energy sciences program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Science and Technology Scholarship Program. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish advisory committees to advise the Department's applied programs in: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) nuclear energy; and (4) fossil energy.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an R&D program in: (1) vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes; (2) renewable energy research; (3) civilian nuclear energy research; (4) fuel recycling technology; (5) fossil energy production, upgrading, conversion, and consumption; (6) oil and gas research; (7) fuel cells; and (8) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Introduced in House