End the Pain at the Pump Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6165
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
California
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coastal zone
Commerce
Commuting
Continental shelf
Debt
Diesel motor
Easements
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Excise tax
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Florida
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Grants-in-aid
Impact aid
Income tax
Investment advisers
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military base closures
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Offshore structures
Oil and gas leases
Partnerships
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recruiting of employees
Reefs
Right-of-way
Science, Technology, Communications
State employees
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
End the Pain at the Pump Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an excise tax credit between June 1, 2008, and May 30, 2011, for individuals commuting to work in a vehicle fueled primarily by gasoline or diesel fuel; (2) treat the income of partners performing investment management services as ordinary income and set forth tax rules for the treatment of partnership acquisition indebtedness and other partnership interests; and (3) require the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of employee compensation deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan of a nonqualified entity when there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such compensation.

Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upon request of a state governor, to provide financial assistance to hire additional personnel with expertise in federal refinery authorizations.

Directs the President to: (1) appoint a federal coordinator to implement federal refinery authorizations; and (2) designate certain closed military installations as potentially suitable refinery construction sites.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program in the Coastal Plain of Alaska.

Repeals the prohibition against producing oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Sets forth requirements for the sale of oil and natural gas leases in the Coastal Plain, environmental protection, and transportation easements. Establishes the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to specified jurisdictions in Alaska.

Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revise the outer Continental Shelf leasing program.

Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for a natural resources enhancement program for the management of fish, wildlife, and natural resources.

 Terminates existing federal laws prohibiting the spending of appropriated funds to conduct oil and natural gas leasing or the issuance of a lease to any individual for any area of the outer Continental Shelf.

Rigs to Reefs Act of 2008 - Amends the OCSLA to authorize the Secretary to use decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for artificial reef and scientific research.

Allows the cancellation and exchange of certain oil and gas leases within 100 miles of the coastline within the California or Florida Adjacent Zones.

Repeals: (1) the requirement to conduct a comprehensive inventory of outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources; (2) the coastal impact assistance program; and (3) the Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005.

Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal emission requirements with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House