Energy For Our Future Act

Bill: 109-hr-4384
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Authorization
Automobile industry
Automobile tires
Automobiles
Bikeways
Biomass energy
Coal
Coke industry
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Consumer education
Continental shelf
Cost effectiveness
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Electric appliances
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Electric vehicles
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental technology
Equipment and supplies
Farm manure
Federal aid to transportation
Federal preemption
Fibers
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Gas pipelines
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Gulf of Mexico
Home repair and improvement
Hydroelectric power
Income tax
Indian lands
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mass rapid transit
Methane
Minimum wages
Minorities
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicles
Municipal solid waste
Native Americans
Natural gas
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear power
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas royalties
Pedestrians
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum refineries
Plants
Propane
Prospecting
Refuse as fuel
Research and development tax credit
Right-of-way
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
Social Welfare
Solar energy
Standards
State laws
Storage
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Trees
Wages
Water Resources Development
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Energy For Our Future Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, relating to alternative motor vehicle credit, to: (1) repeal the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles eligible for the credit; and (2) allow a composite energy efficient motor vehicle manufacturing tax credit consisting of an initial investment credit, a fuel economy achievement credit, and an eligible components research and development credit. 
Instructs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) designate transit-oriented development corridors in urban areas; and (2) award grants to a state or local governments to construct or improve transit facilities, bicycle transportation facilities, and pedestrian walkways in such a corridor.
 
Amends federal transportation law to prescribe phased increases in automobile fuel economy standards.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to the limitation on the depreciation of certain luxury automobiles.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Transportation to implement a national passenger car and light truck tire efficiency program.
 
Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to double the appropriations authorized for weatherization assistance.
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Energy Star program.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the credit for: (1) renewable electricity production; and (2) residential energy efficient property.
 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to prescribe: (1) efficiency resource standards for retail electricity and natural gas suppliers; (2) federal renewable portfolio standards; and (3) a revised standard for net metering.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal requirements for: (1) oil and gas royalties in-kind; (2) marginal property production incentives; (3) incentives for natural gas production from deep wells in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico; (4) royalty relief for deep water production; (5) comprehensive inventory of OCS oil and natural gas resources; (6) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources; and (7) specified tax incentives.
 
Repeals the Alaska Offshore Royalty suspension.
 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to declare certain preemptions of state law inapplicable to state regulation of energy consumption or water use during a specified time period.
 
Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to restore the former procedure for appeals from consistency determinations revised by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
 
Amends the Federal Power Act to repeal provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 governing the siting of interstate electric transmission facilities.
 
Amends the Natural Gas Act to repeal the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to coordinate federal permits and other authorizations and compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
 
Amends federal transportation law to repeal the preemption of state law relating to automobile fuel economy standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in House