Future Fuels Act

Bill: 110-hr-2296
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobile insurance
Automobile tires
Bikeways
Commerce
Commuting
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Consumer education
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government publications
Government publicity
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Minimum wages
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Nitrogen oxides
Parking facilities
Pedestrians
Research and development
Research grants
Right-of-way
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Smog
Standards
Subcontractors
Tax credits
Taxation
Technological innovations
Traffic congestion
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
User charges
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
 Future Fuels Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment credit to eligible manufacturers for an advanced technology motor vehicle.
 
Amends federal transportation law to revise the fuel economy calculations for manufacturing incentives for dual fueled and gaseous fuel dedicated automobiles.

Sets forth a calendar schedule for an increased percentage of alternative fueled automobiles or flexible fuel vehicles.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out: (1) evaluation projects to determine how technology can best be applied to assess mileage-based road user charges on major highways at peak-commuting times; and (2) a national evaluation pilot project to assess how offering commuters the option to receive the cash value of their workplace parking place, if any, instead of free parking can reduce oil usage, lessen highway congestion, and expand travel alternatives.
 
 
Instructs the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to: (1) establish an incentives program for insurance providers to sell automobile insurance policies on a per-mile basis; (2) designate at least 20 transit-oriented development corridors in urbanized areas by 2015, and 50 by 2025; (3) award transit grants to construct or improve transit facilities, bicycle transportation facilities, and pedestrian walkways in such corridors, including capital projects; and (4) establish a transit-oriented development corridors research and development program for best practices and performance criteria.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a national tire fuel efficiency program for tires designed for use on passenger cars and light trucks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in House