DRIVE Act

Bill: 110-hr-670
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Airports
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Automobile engines
Automobile industry
Automobile tires
Automobiles
Awards, medals, prizes
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Commuting
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Consumer education
Corporation taxes
Cost effectiveness
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric batteries
Electric utilities
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy supplies
Engineers
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Higher education
Highway use tax
Hydrogen
Imports
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investment tax credit
Job creation
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Lease and rental services
Legislation
Magnetic levitation vehicles
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Materials
Methane
Methanol
Metropolitan areas
Military vehicles
Minimum wages
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle registration
Municipal solid waste
Nanotechnology
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Paper and paper products
Parking facilities
Petroleum
Planning
Propane
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Quality of products
Railroad freight operations
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Revolving funds
Right-of-way
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Service stations
Small business
Standards
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teaching materials
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Traffic congestion
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Transportation research
Trucks
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Dependence Reduction through Innovation in Vehicles and Energy Act or DRIVE Act - Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to publish in the Federal Register an oil savings target and action plan for specified calendar years. Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a national media campaign to decrease oil consumption in the United States over the next decade. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to develop: (1) a fuel efficiency program for passenger car and light truck tires; (2) a program to designate Transit-Oriented Development Corridors; and (3) pilot projects to save oil by reducing vehicle miles traveled.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) develop a testing and assessment program to determine the fuel economy of heavy duty vehicles; (2) establish a near-term electric transportation deployment program; and (3) implement a fuel and technology neutral program to reduce tailpipe emissions. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe average heavy duty vehicle fuel economy standards.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to make loan guarantees for eligible projects to improve hybrid technologies or to encourage production of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.
 
Requires a specified graduated percentage of passenger cars manufactured by light-duty motor vehicles manufacturers to be fuel choice enabling motor vehicles or alternative fuel automobiles.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an advanced technology motor vehicles manufacturing tax credit; (2) allow a flexible fuel vehicle tax credit; (3) extend the alternative vehicle tax credit for new qualified hybrid motor vehicles; (4) allow a fuel-efficient tax credit for private fleets; (5) subject heavy vehicles to the depreciation limitation for certain luxury automobiles; (6) increase the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property tax credit; (7) provide a graduated tax credit for plug-in hybrid electric passenger and light truck vehicles; and (8) allow an idling reduction tax credit for heavy-duty diesel-powered on-highway vehicles.
 
Establishes the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to obligate sums from the Fund for the Clean Cities grant program to increase the availability to consumers of ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe minimum annual quantities of renewable fuel from cellulosic biomass. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) require at least a 20% reduction in the federal fleets' petroleum consumption (including that at least 30% of federal vehicles required to be alternative fuel vehicles be flexible fuel hybrid or flexible fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles); (2) submit to Congress an action plan calling for a specified graduated percentage of the nation's ground fuel demand to be supplied by fuels derived from sources other than oil; and (3) carry out a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle prize program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E193)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House