Natural Gas Price Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-726
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Air pollution control
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Appellate courts
Authorization
Automobile industry
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
California
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Cellulose
Coal
Coastal zone
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Continental shelf
Cooperative societies
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Decision making
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Electric appliances
Electric batteries
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Electronic government information
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy crops
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy security
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Exports
Federal Trade Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Food service
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forest products
Fossil fuels
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas companies
Gas in submerged lands
Gas pipelines
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Gulf of Mexico
Heating
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Hydrocarbons
Hydrogen
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labeling
Laboratories
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Licenses
Lighting
Louisiana
Lumber trade
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Methane
Montana
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
National forests
Natural gas
Natural gas reserves
New Mexico
Offshore structures
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Oklahoma
Paper and paper products
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Pipeline siting
Potable water
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utility regulation
Refrigeration
Regional planning
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Signs and signboards
Solar energy
Standards
State laws
Submarine oil well drilling
Subsidies
Technological innovations
Television
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Utah
Vending machines
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wood
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
 Natural Gas Price Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to prescribe implementation guidelines for broad-based energy conservation and energy efficiency programs that include: (1) reducing residential demand and expanded appliance and equipment efficiency standards; (2) deployment for distributed generation, solar energy technologies, and biomass; (3) hydrogen and fuel cell initiative; and (4) demand side management that provides smart metering and net metering. 
 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to cite circumstances for the termination of mandatory sale and purchase requirements with respect to electric power from a qualifying cogeneration facility or a qualifying small power production facility.
 
 Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations to revise the permitting requirements of the Clean Air Act. Prescribes guidelines for expedited review of preconstruction requirements under such Act. 
 
Sets forth a broad-based oil and gas lease production program that includes: (1) royalty relief for deep water production; (2) coastal impact assistance program; (3) Rocky Mountain gas production; (4) gas methane research; (5) gas hydrate production incentives; and (6) marginal property production incentives.
 
Directs the President to establish an Office of Federal Energy Project Coordination.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) review current Federal onshore oil and gas leasing and permitting practices; and (2) establish a Federal permit streamlining pilot project.
 
Prescribes guidelines for an energy infrastructure that includes: (1) siting, construction, and operation of natural gas importation and exportation, including offshore facilities; (2) natural gas pipeline infrastructure; and (3) natural gas storage facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate