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Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2009-01-09 00:00:00

Heavy Duty Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a competitive research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program to provide between three and seven grants of up to $3 million per year each to applicants to carry out projects to advance research and development and to demonstrate technologies, including plug-in hybrid technology, for advanced heavy duty hybrid vehicles. Requires each grant recipient to be required to complete two phases: (1) phase one, research and demonstration of advanced hybrid technology by producing or retrofitting one or more advanced heavy duty hybrid vehicles; and (2) phase two, demonstration of advanced manufacturing processes and technologies by producing or retrofitting 50 advanced heavy duty hybrid vehicles. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct research into alternative power train designs for use in advanced heavy duty hybrid vehicles; and (2) establish a pilot program through the National Laboratories and Technology Centers of the Department of Energy to research and test the effects on the domestic electric power grid of the widespread use of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including plug-in hybrid vehicles that are advanced heavy duty hybrid vehicles. Authorizes appropriations for FY2010-FY2012. Amends the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 to direct the Secretary to conduct an applied research program on energy storage systems to support vehicles with a gross weight over 16,000 pounds.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-01-14 00:00:00

Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Energy the Accelerated Retirement of Inefficient Vehicles Program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) authorize the issuance of a redeemable voucher, with limitations, to the registered owner of an eligible high fuel consumption automobile for the purchase of a new or used fuel efficient automobile upon transfer of the eligible automobile title to a participating dealer, dismantler, or scrap recycling facility; (2) allow a dealer, dismantler, or scrap recycling facility to participate in the program if they agree to scrap the eligible high fuel consumption automobile, issue a voucher to its owner, and meet all applicable requirements; (3) require dealers to accept such vouchers as partial payment for the purchase of a new or used fuel efficient automobile; and (4) make payments to dealers who accepted vouchers between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2014. Authorizes the use of vouchers to acquire single-passenger transit fare credits. Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations that allow operators of bus and rail public transit systems to redeem properly issued vouchers to offset the purchase price of annual transit passes or any other form of individual transit fare credit designated by the transit system operator. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Congress
Date: 2009-02-25 00:00:00

Authorizes the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the House of Representatives to carry out a series of demonstration projects to promote the use of innovative technologies in reducing energy consumption and promoting energy efficiency and cost savings in the House of Representatives.Authorizes the CAO to enter into contracts with entities that have developed new methods of using energy more efficiently, generating electric power in a more sustainable manner, or improving the efficiency and lowering the costs of existing renewable power systems, consistent with regulations promulgated by the Committee on House Administration for CAO contracts. Requires the CAO, upon completion of each project, to report to the Committees on House Administration and Appropriations, including the CAO's analysis of the extent to which the project reduced energy consumption and promoted energy efficiency and cost savings. Authorizes appropriations.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-09 00:00:00

Innovative Vehicle Act - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to include: (1) ultra efficient vehicles within the meaning of "advanced technology vehicle"; (2) ultra efficient vehicle manufacturers as eligible recipients of advanced vehicles manufacturing facility funding awards; (3) facilities for the manufacture of ultra efficient vehicles among facilities that are given priority for such awards; and (4) a firm that manufactures ultra efficient vehicles or components of such vehicles within the meaning of "covered firm." Defines "ultra efficient vehicle" to mean a fully closed compartment vehicle designed to carry at least two adult passengers that achieves: (1) at least 75 miles per gallon while operating on gasoline or diesel fuel; or (2) the equivalent while operating as a hybrid electric-gasoline or electric-diesel vehicle or as a fully electric vehicle. Requires the Secretary of Energy to reconsider applications for assistance under the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program that were timely filed but rejected because the vehicles to which the proposal related were ultra efficient vehicles and not advanced technology vehicles.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Social welfare
Date: 2009-03-09 00:00:00

Clean Energy Corps Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to direct the Corporation for National and Community Service to make grants to states and eligible entities for the creation or expansion of Clean Energy Corps programs, possibly including residential programs, with the following goals: (1) to promote clean energy use and preserve, protect, and sustain the environment; (2) to provide young adults with opportunities to become better citizens, students, and workers through meaningful service to their communities and the nation; (3) to mobilize youth and young adults, especially disadvantaged youth, to promote energy conservation and mitigate threats to the environment; and (4) to provide a pathway to responsible adulthood and productive, unsubsidized employment in the private sector. Authorizes Corps programs to implement activities that: (1) meet an identifiable public need with specific emphasis on projects in support of energy conservation, infrastructure and transportation improvement, and emergency operations; and (2) provide opportunities for youth and young adults to be trained for careers related to such activities, including those in the emerging field of green collar jobs. Limits enrollment of program participants to: (1) individuals between 18 and 25 years of age, in general; (2) individuals between 14 and 21 for summer programs; and (3) a limited number of special Corpsman over 25 with special skills. Requires Corps programs that receive assistance to ensure that at least 50% of the participants are economically disadvantage youth.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-12 00:00:00

Open Fuel Standard Act of 2009 or the OFS Act - Requires each light-duty automobile manufacturer's annual covered inventory to comprise at least: (1) 50% fuel choice-enabling automobiles in years 2012-2014; and (2) 80% fuel choice-enabling automobiles in 2015, and in each subsequent year. Defines "fuel choice-enabling automobile" as: (1) a flexible fuel automobile capable of operating on gasoline, E85, and M85; or (2) an automobile capable of operating on biodiesel fuel. Authorizes a manufacturer to request an exemption from such requirement from the Secretary of Transportation.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2009-03-17 00:00:00

Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Transportation the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, for FY2009-FY2011, to: (1) encourage a dealer, dismantler, and scrap recycler to participate in the Program; (2) authorize the issuance of a redeemable voucher by a participating dealer to the registered owner of a high polluting automobile for the purchase of a new fuel efficient automobile upon transfer of the eligible automobile title to a participating dealer, dismantler, or scrap recycler; (3) require participating dealers to accept such vouchers as partial payment for the purchase of a new fuel efficient automobile; and (4) electronically transfer funds to a participating dealer upon receipt of a voucher and relevant certifications from the dealer. Requires any dealer receiving a certificate of title to any eligible high polluting automobile in exchange for a CARS voucher to certify to the Secretary that: (1) such title has been retired or otherwise extinguished and not re-issued; and (2) the dealer has received from a dismantler or recycler a certification that such automobile, engine, and drive train will be crushed or shredded within a certain period, will be processed prior to crushing or shredding to ensure removal and appropriate disposition of specified products, and has not been, and will not be, registered, sold, leased, exchanged, distributed, or otherwise operated at any time as an automobile in the United States or in any foreign country. Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations that allow operators of bus and rail public transit systems to redeem the allowable value of properly issued vouchers to offset the purchase price of annual or monthly transit passes or any other form of individual transit fare credit designated by the transit system operator. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act. Directs the Secretary, for model year 2011, to revise the Program to provide for the issuance of vouchers to offset the purchase of a new battery electric automobile or a new plug-in electric drive automobile.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-17 00:00:00

National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund Act - Establishes within the Department of Energy (DOE) the National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund to provide funds to local governments for use in making loans to homeowners for the costs of conducting a qualified home energy audit and implementing, acquiring, and installing certified energy savings improvements. Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish procedures and techniques for home energy audits that: (1) establish priorities for selection of energy savings improvements based on their cost-effectiveness, payback period, and contribution to energy savings; (2) measure the energy requirement of individual dwellings and the rate of return of the total energy savings investment in a dwelling; and (3) account for interaction among energy savings measures. Sets forth requirements concerning loan eligibility and repayment. Limits the total loan amount to a single homeowner to $10,000.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-26 00:00:00

Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include as "covered equipment" outdoor luminares and outdoor high light output lamps, as defined in this Act. Specifies the lighting efficiency, lumen maintenance, and light level production capability required for each outdoor luminare manufactured on or after January 1 of 2011, 2013, and 2015. Requires the Secretary of Energy (DOE), by January 1, 2017, to issue a final rule amending such efficiency standards to establish standards at the maximum level that is technically feasible and economically justified. Requires each outdoor high light output lamp manufactured on or after January 1, 2012, to have a lighting efficiency of at least 45 lumens per watt. Sets forth provisions governing energy efficiency test procedures for such luminares and lamps. Provides that state standards that are adopted on or before January 1, 2015, pursuant to a requirement to adopt efficiency standards for reducing outdoor lighting energy use enacted prior to January 31, 2008, shall not be preempted.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-03-26 00:00:00

Energy Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Automobile Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual and business taxpayers: (1) a tax credit for up to $2,000 of the cost of replacing a passenger automobile with another passenger automobile that is at least 20% more fuel efficient; and (2) tax deductions for state and local taxes and loan interest for the replacement automobile.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-30 00:00:00

Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) Program Act - Requires: (1) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for single-family and multifamily residences; (2) the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for commercial buildings; and (3) the program to implement such policies to be known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) program. Requires the REEP program to: (1) facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings to achieve maximum cost-effective energy efficiency improvements and significant improvements in water use and other environmental attributes; and (2) provide financial assistance to states, to be administered through the State Energy Program, for management and accomplishment of the program's objectives at the individual building level. Authorizes states and local agencies to offer free or low-cost building audits, incentives, technical assistance, training, incentive financing, and other forms of assistance to individual building owners. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to assist states and local agencies in establishing revolving loan funds or other forms of financial assistance. Sets forth: (1) REEP program elements; and (2) requirements for states to follow in order to receive program funding. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to support the implementation, through state REEP programs, of alternative means of creating incentives for, or reducing financial barriers to, improved energy and environmental performance in buildings. Authorizes states and local REEP programs to make per-building direct expenditures for retrofit improvements, or the equivalent in indirect financial support, for specified residential program awards, commercial program awards, and awards for historic buildings. Authorizes appropriated funding provided to a state energy program that is not specifically required to be expended for a different federally designated purpose to be used to support a REEP program.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-03-30 00:00:00

Establishes the Best-in-Class Appliances Deployment Program to reward retailers for increasing the sales of high-efficiency installed building equipment, consumer electronics, and household appliance models, with the goal of reducing life-cycle costs for consumers, encouraging innovation, and maximizing energy savings. Requires that the program include: (1) bounties to retailers for replacing and recycling old, inefficient, and environmentally harmful appliances; and (2) bonuses to manufacturers for developing new Superefficient Best-in-Class Products. Directs the Secretary of Energy to ensure that not more than one bonus payment is provided to distributors and retailers per unit of eligible models sold. Allows the Secretary to make distributors eligible to receive the incentive for sales that are not to end-users in addition to retailers if the Secretary determines that, for a particular product category, distributors are well situated to increase sales of Best-in-Class Products. Makes any product that is eligible for an energy efficient appliance tax credit ineligible for a payment to a manufacturer under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to require that retailers and distributors disclose publicly and to consumers their participation in the program under this Act. Directs the Secretary to make cost-effectiveness a top priority in designing and administering this Act, but allows the cost-effectiveness of the rewards to manufacturers, in aggregate, to be lower than that of the rewards to retailers and distributors. Defines "cost-effectiveness" as a measure of aggregate energy cost savings over the life of the product as a ratio to the cost of the rewards.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-04-23 00:00:00

American Renewable Biomass Heating Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2013 the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property; (2) expand the definition of energy-efficient building property for purposes of such credit to include boilers and furnaces; and (3) increase the limit on such credit in 2009 and 2010 from $1,500 to $6,000.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-05-06 00:00:00

Vehicle Efficiency Heightening Investment Credit to Lift our Economy Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the purchase of up to 15 fleet vehicles in a taxable year. Specifies the credit amount for each fleet vehicle depending upon its fuel economy value. Defines "fleet vehicle" as a passenger automobile, nonpassenger automobile, or work truck. Terminates such credit after 2010.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-05-07 00:00:00

United States-China Energy Cooperation Act - Authorizes the Department of Energy (DOE) to make grants to encourage cooperation between the United States and China in joint ventures involving: (1) joint energy and climate change policy education programs; and (2) joint research, development, or commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration technology, improved energy efficiency, or renewable energy sources. Requires joint ventures to be composed of both: (1) Chinese and United States private business entities; (2) Chinese academic persons (who reside and work in China) and U.S. academic persons; or (3) Chinese and U.S. federal, state, or local government entities.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-05-12 00:00:00

Financing Advanced and Superconducting Transmission Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) accelerated depreciation of qualified advanced electric transmission property placed in service before January 1, 2017; and (2) an energy tax credit for investment in qualified high efficiency transmission property or qualified advanced electric transmission property.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Energy
Date: 2009-05-13 00:00:00

State and Local Fleet Efficiency Act - Recognizes state or local government authority to require fleet owners or operators to acquire only new fleet vehicles that: (1) utilize natural gas as a fuel; (2) are flexible fuel vehicles that operate on gasoline, E85, and M85; or (3) meet a technology or performance-based characteristic that is commercially available. Provides that nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall limit such authority to establish purchase requirements for fleets operating within the proper jurisdiction if such requirements further any policy regarding climate change, the control of air pollution, energy independence, or local economic benefits. Defines "fleet" as a group of 20 or more light duty motor vehicles or medium-duty or heavy-duty motor vehicles carrying 14 or more passengers operating primarily in a metropolitan area with a population of more than 250,000 that are: (1) centrally dispatched; or (2) centrally fueled, or capable of being centrally fueled, and owned, operated, leased, or otherwise controlled by a governmental entity or other person meeting specified criteria.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2009-06-26 00:00:00

Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act of 2009 or the IMPACT Act of 2009 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of Commerce to award grants to states to establish revolving loan funds to provide loans to small and medium-sized manufacturers for producing clean energy technology and energy efficient products and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing facilities; and (2) include within the activities of Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology the establishment of a clean energy manufacturing supply chain initiative.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-07-28 00:00:00

Heavy Duty Hybrid Truck Incentives Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2014 the tax credit for the purchase of a new qualified hybrid motor vehicle; (2) increase the incremental cost levels for computing credit amounts for such vehicles; (3) allow a 10% credit for comparable vehicles that achieve an increased city fuel economy; and (4) allow a credit for electric vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of not less than 8,500 pounds.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-07-29 00:00:00

Idling Reduction Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for 50% of the cost of a qualified idling reduction device, up to $3,000. Defines "qualified idling reduction device" as any device that is: (1) used for highway transportation in combination with a trailer or semi-trailer to provide services that would otherwise require the operation of the main drive engine while the vehicle is temporarily parked or stationary; and (2) determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce long-duration idling.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-07-31 00:00:00

Corrosion Prevention Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a two-year business-related tax credit for 50% of net expenditures for engineering design, materials, and application and installation of corrosion prevention and mitigation technology for energy-related property comprised primarily of metals susceptible to corrosion.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-07-31 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax exemption of the interest on bonds issued to finance renewable energy resource facilities, conservation and efficiency facilities and projects, and zero emission vehicles and related facilities or projects.
Topic: Energy — Conservation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2009-09-29 00:00:00

Building Energy Tax Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 35% of the cost of energy conservation commercial building property installed as part of a commercial building energy project within the jurisdiction of a state energy credit agency. Requires a building, to be eligible for such credit, to achieve an energy consumption rate of not more than 60% of the rate established by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 90.11-2207 for commercial buildings.