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OPERA

Bill: 111-hr-5506
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Oil Pollution Environmental Review Act or OPERA - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the head of any federal agency to treat the issuance of any exploration plans, development production plans, development operation coordination documents, and lease sales required under federal law for offshore drilling activity on the outer Continental Shelf as a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment for the purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and requiring detailed environmental analysis of proposed actions and reasonably foreseeable subsequent actions.
 
Defines &quot;offshore drilling activity&quot; as drilling for oil or gas under a lease, or conducting a major geophysical seismic survey, under such Act, including for exploration, development, or production of oil or gas. 
 
Repeals a provision requiring the Secretary of the Interior to approve a plan for geological and geophysical exploration in the outer Continental Shelf within 30 days of its submission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Department of Defense Alternative Energy Mapping Act

Bill: 111-hr-5507
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Government information and archives
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Department of Defense Alternative Energy Mapping Act - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to: (1) prepare maps of military installations and eligible adjacent property that classify locations on the installations and property as acceptable, unacceptable, or unassessed regarding their suitability for placement of geothermal, wind, solar photovoltaic, or solar thermal trough systems; (2) enter into agreements with entities involved in the production or installation of alternative energy systems to utilize their expertise and to share the costs of preparing such maps; and (3) disseminate such maps to Congress, the states in which the installations are located, local governments having jurisdiction over adjacent land, and the owners of adjacent private property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
American Solar Energy Pilot Leasing Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5508
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy revenues and royalties
Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Nevada
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
American Solar Energy Pilot Leasing Act of 2010 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to: (1) designate specified federal land in Nevada under the administrative jurisdiction of BLM that is identified as a solar development zone as a solar pilot project area; (2) conduct lease sales and issue leases for commercial solar energy development on such land; and (3) include work requirements and mandatory milestones to ensure that diligent development is carried out under such a lease and to reduce speculative behavior. Prohibits (with exceptions) new easements, special-use permits, or rights-of-way on such land from the date of enactment of this Act until the date of the issuance of a lease for such land.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the duration of leases issued; (2) include provisions in such a lease requiring the lease holder to furnish a reclamation bond or other form of security and to restore the land or conduct mitigation activities upon completion of authorized activities; (3) establish and ensure compliance with best management practices to ensure the sound, efficient, and environmentally responsible development of solar resources on the land in a manner that would minimize and mitigate impacts to habitat and ecosystem function; and (4) establish royalties, fees, rentals, bonuses, and any other appropriate payments to ensure a fair return to the United States for any lease issued. Sets forth provisions governing royalty rates and proceeds distribution.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Renewable Energy Mitigation and Fish and Wildlife Fund, which shall be available to the Secretary for providing amounts to states or other interested parties for mitigating impacts of renewable energy on public land and carrying out activities authorized under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) within Lincoln County, Nevada, to give highest priority consideration to implementation of the solar lease sales provided for under this Act; and (2) to evaluate other solar development proposals in the County not provided for under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Aiding Those Facing Foreclosure Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5510
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Financial crises and stabilization
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Aiding Those Facing Foreclosure Act of 2010 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to use otherwise unobligated amounts under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to enable nonprofit counseling intermediaries and nonprofit legal organizations to provide legal assistance to homeowners of owner-occupied homes consisting of from one to four dwelling units whose mortgages are in default or delinquency, in danger of default or delinquency, or subject to or at risk of foreclosure (including any deed in lieu of foreclosure or short sale).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 210 - 145 (Roll no. 655).
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 210 - 145 (Roll no. 655).
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8768)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5510.
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8623-8629; text of measure as introduced: CR H8623)
action_date: 2010-12-17
text: Mr. Capuano moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Transaction Account Guarantee Program Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5511
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-8]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Transaction Account Guarantee Program Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to establish the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) Program to provide a full guarantee for funds held in noninterest-bearing transaction accounts of insured depository institutions participating in the TAG Program.
 
Requires an insured depository institution that wishes to participate in the TAG Program to submit an application to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Allows an insured depository institution to opt-out of the TAG Program.
 
Directs the FDIC to levy assessments on those insured depository institutions participating in the TAG Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Booker T. Washington Boundary Expansion Act

Bill: 111-hr-5512
Sponsor: Rep. Perriello, Thomas S.P. [D-VA-5]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Racial and ethnic relations
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Booker T. Washington Boundary Expansion Act - Amends federal law relating to the establishment of the Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia to expand the boundary of the Monument to include specified lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Spilled Oil Royalty Collection Act

Bill: 111-hr-5513
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Spilled Oil Royalty Collection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to declare that any royalty under an oil and gas lease on submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf, except a deepwater lease, shall apply to all oil that is saved, removed, sold, or discharged, without regard to whether any of the oil is unavoidably lost or used on, or for the benefit of, the lease.
 
Declares that: (1) royalty shall apply to all oil discharged under a deepwater lease, at a rate of not less than 12.5% fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in amount or value of any oil that is discharged; and (2) such royalty shall apply without regard to whether any of the oil is thereafter unavoidably lost.
 
Declares April 15, 2010, the effective date of this Act (five days before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4445)
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
National Activity Based Total Accountability Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5514
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
National Activity Based Total Accountability Act of 2010 - Requires each state government that receives federal financial assistance in a federal fiscal year to submit a state fiscal accounting report for such fiscal year to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that includes: (1) a one-page summary listing the total funding and expenditures of each budget entity of the state government; and (2) a unit-cost summary for each such entity that includes a statement of funds available, a line-item listing for each agency activity that the entity began, attempted, continued, or completed, and a reconciliation of funds available with adjusted expenditures. Sets forth formulae for determining unit-cost and adjusted expenditures.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) publish each report on an OMB website; (2) ensure that such state reports use a standardized form that permits the comparison of information; (3) establish a uniform system for classifying programs and activities; (4) identify conduct for each agency activity that constitutes a completed instance of such activity; and (5) identify performance measures for each agency activity.
 
 Requires the Director to inform each federal agency if a state fails to file such report and requires the agency to withhold 10% of any federal financial assistance provided to such state for the next fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Powering America for Tomorrow Act

Bill: 111-hr-5515
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Powering America for Tomorrow Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to designate one or more regions within the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection to be represented by specified regional transmission planners. 
 
Sets forth application and approval procedures for regional transmission planners.
 

 
Prescribes: (1) a regional transmission plan design; and (2) a regional transmission planning process. 
 
Requires the federal power marketing administrations and transmitting utilities in a designated region to integrate their transmission plans with the regional transmission plans required under this Act, and to otherwise participate in a regional transmission planning process.
 
Directs FERC to require that: (1) all regional high voltage electric transmission cost allocation processes and methodologies adhere to a clear and consistent set of specified regulatory principles; and (2) regional transmission planners coordinate planning across regional boundaries within an Interconnection.
 
Authorizes a regional transmission planner, as part of a plan submitted to FERC, to identify regional transmission projects required by, and consistent with, the public convenience and necessity.
 
Instructs FERC, in issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity, to give substantial deference to any proposed finding of public convenience and necessity in the plan submitted by a regional transmission planner.
 
Excludes from review for any environmental assessment or environmental impact statement required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 any proposed finding by a regional transmission planner of public convenience and necessity with respect to a regional transmission project.
 
Retains state exclusive authority over the siting of any transmission facility that is not a part of a regional transmission project. 
 
Specifies federal siting authority with respect to any transmission facility identified as part or all of a regional transmission project for which a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been issued.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Access to Appropriate Immunizations for Veterans Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5516
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Access to Appropriate Immunizations for Veterans Act of 2010 - Includes within authorized preventive health services available to veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) immunizations against infectious diseases, including each immunization on the recommended adult immunization schedule established by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
 
Requires the inclusion, in an annual report from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on VA preventive health services, of programs conducted to ensure that veterans have received each immunization on such immunization schedule at the appropriate time.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and implement quality measures and metrics to ensure that veterans receiving VA medical services receive each immunization at the time indicated on the schedule. Requires statistics related to such quality measures and metrics to be included in the annual report described above. Provides deadlines for the establishment and implementation of the measures and metrics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1072)
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Every Veteran Counts Act

Bill: 111-hr-5517
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Every Veteran Counts Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to include on each questionnaire used in a decennial census a question regarding whether an individual is a veteran, a spouse of a veteran, or the dependent of a veteran. Authorizes the Secretary to include such a question in any survey conducted during the interval between each census of population.
 
Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress identifying the laws or programs administered by the VA for which population data or any other information obtained from any census or survey: (1) was used by the VA during the year most recently ended; and (2) will be used by the VA after the close of such year and before the date data from the next decennial census is obtained.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficient Heat Pump Tax Parity Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5518
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2010-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Oil and gas
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: 
Energy Efficient Heat Pump Tax Parity Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow, for periods ending before January 1, 2017, an energy tax credit for investment in equipment that uses natural gas to heat and cool a structure; and (2) allow a residential energy efficient property tax credit for 30% of the qualified natural gas heat pump property expenditures for a taxpayer's residence. Defines &quot;qualified natural gas heat pump property&quot; as equipment that uses natural gas as an energy source to heat and cool a dwelling unit and that has a specified heating and cooling performance measure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast Jobs Preservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-5519
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2010-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accidents
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: 
Gulf Coast Jobs Preservation Act - Terminates the moratorium on deepwater drilling set forth in the Minerals Management Service Notice to Lessees No. 2010-N04, dated May 30, 2010, and declares without force or effect any suspension of deepwater drilling operations issued in connection with such moratorium.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) act expeditiously to ensure that deepwater drilling operations are conducted in compliance with federal law; and (2) identify additional measures to ensure the safety of deepwater drilling, based on the most accurate information available about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Oil Spill Responsibility Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-5520
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2010-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accidents
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: 
Oil Spill Responsibility Act of 2010 - Finds that BP p.l.c. (BP) confessed under oath before Congress to being the responsible party for the discharge of oil in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion on and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon.
 
Requires BP immediately to pay the United States $25 billion as partial compensation for removal costs and damages for which BP is liable.
 
 
States that a specified limitation on damages under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 shall not apply with respect to the explosion on and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon.
 
Prohibits the construction of this Act as limiting the liability of BP for such amount. 
 
Requires amounts paid by BP under this Act to be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury and made available to the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse any person for removal costs and damages incurred as a result of the explosion on and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2010-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4252)