Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act

Bill: 110-hr-6139
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Biomass energy
Civil actions and liability
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Military base closures
Military bases
Minorities
Petroleum refineries
Presidential appointments
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recruiting of employees
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upon the request of a state governor, or in the case of Native American tribes or tribal territories, the designated leader of the tribe or tribal community, to provide financial assistance to hire additional personnel to assist the state or tribe or tribal community with expertise in fields relevant to consideration of federal refinery authorizations.
 
Requires a federal agency responsible for refinery authorization to provide, upon the request of a state governor, or in the case of Native American tribes or tribal territories, the designated leader of the tribe or tribal community, technical, legal, or other nonfinancial assistance to facilitate state or tribal consideration of such authorizations.
 
Directs the President to appoint a federal coordinator to facilitate such authorizations.

Requires the coordinator, upon the request of an applicant seeking a federal refinery authorization, to establish a memorandum of agreement, executed by relevant federal and state agencies, setting forth the most expeditious coordinated schedule possible for completion of all such authorizations.

Instructs the President to designate at least three closed military installations as potentially suitable for the construction of a refinery. Requires that at least one such site be designated as potentially suitable for construction of a refinery to refine biomass in order to produce biofuel.

Requires the redevelopment authority, in preparing or revising the redevelopment plan for each such designated installation, to consider the feasibility and practicability of siting a refinery on the installation.

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal certain requirements regarding refinery revitalization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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