Main Street U.S.A. Energy Security Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6001
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Biomass energy
Bonds
California
Carbon dioxide
Cellulose
Coal
Coastal zone
Commerce
Continental shelf
Corporation taxes
Department of Energy
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Engineers
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Fishery management
Florida
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Manufacturing industries
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military base closures
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
Natural gas
Nature conservation
Nuclear energy
Nuclear exports
Nuclear industry
Nuclear power plants
Ocean energy resources
Offshore structures
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum refineries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radioactive wastes
Recruiting of employees
Reefs
Reformulated gasoline
Research and development
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
State employees
Tax administration
Tax credits
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Main Street U.S.A. Energy Security Act of 2008 - 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 a federal refinery authorization; and (2) designate certain closed military installations as potentially suitable refinery construction sites.
 

 
Sets forth an oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of 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 management of fish, wildlife, and natural resources.
 
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary to use decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for artificial reef and scientific research.
 
Redesignates as the Energy and Mineral Schools Reinvestment Act specified law governing mining and petroleum schools. Revises requirements for the funding of certain state-chartered petroleum or mining schools. 
 

 
National Geo Fund Act of 2008 - Instructs the Secretary to establish: (1) a fuel production program using strategic unconventional resources and CO2 enhanced recovery; and (3) a grant program to produce geothermal and geopressure oil and gas.

Grants the lessee of an existing oil and gas lease located completely within 100 miles of the coastline of California or Florida Adjacent Zones the option, without compensation, of exchanging such lease for a new oil and gas lease having a primary term of five years.
 
Amends OCSLA to: (1) repeal the coastal impact assistance program; and (2) provide conditional funds for the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.
 

 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) revise incentives for innovative technologies; (2) authorize construction of nuclear power plants by 2010 (Nuclear Power 2010 Program); and (3) instruct the Secretary of Labor to promulgate implementing regulations for a nuclear energy workforce program.
 
Creates an interagency working group to recommend coordinated federal promotion of increased domestic nuclear manufacturing capacity and export of domestic nuclear energy products and services.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualifying nuclear power manufacturing tax credit.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Energy to establish a National Nuclear Energy Council; and (2) the President to establish a High Level Waste Authority with jurisdiction over nuclear waste contracts.

Sets forth a program to develop coal-to-liquid manufacturing on federal land.
 
Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify tax credits for: (1) renewable energy; (2) electricity produced from marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; (3) electricity produced from the production of substitute natural gas from refined coal or petcoke; (4) new clean renewable energy bonds; (5) residential energy efficient property; (6) plug-in hybrid vehicles; (7) production of cellulosic ethanol; and (8) alternative fuels and vehicles.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) implement a research and development program for blending transportation fuels derived from coal-to-liquids with transportation fuels derived from renewable sources; and (2) maintain four Bioenergy Research Centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House