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Bill· HRH.R. 4819 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1979
Gasohol Motor Fuel Act of 1979 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to promote the development and use of alcohol-blended fuels in the United States. Directs the Secretary to study the most suitable raw materials for the production of alcohol-blended fuels. Requires that such study emphasize alternative fuel sources to petroleum and natural gas, and evaluate the efficiency of various production and distribution systems. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within six months after the enactment of this Act concerning the results of such study. Directs the Secretary to set production goals for alcohol-blended fuel development within six months after the completion of the study. Directs the Secretary to require that motor fuel sold in 1981 be one percent alcohol-blended. Sets increasing percentage requirements for succeeding years ending in 1990 where motor fuel shall be ten percent alcohol-blended. Empowers the Secretary to enforce the provisions of this Act and enumerates the enforcement procedures and penalties. Requires that all facilities constructed to distill alcohol for motor fuel use shall use fuel sources which are renewable. Directs the Secretary to establish, within six months after the enactment of this Act, procedures for the certification of alcohol distilling facilities. Requires the Secretary to give first priority for fuel sources to operate such distillation facilities to renewable energy resources. Grants last priority for fuel sources to petroleum, petroleum derivatives and natural gas. Empowers the Secretary to waive the preference for renewable resources upon a finding that they are economically or technically infeasible for use as fuel sources to power distillation facilities.
Bill· HRH.R. 4815 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit distilled spirits plants to be established solely for producing, processing, storing, using, and distributing distilled spirits exclusively for fuel use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to exempt such distilled spirits plants from the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to distilled spirits, wines, and beers (except requirements pertaining to the payment of the excise tax) when necessary to facilitate the production of fuel. Permits distilled spirits to be withdrawn free of tax from the bonded premises of a distilled spirit plant exclusively for fuel use. Prohibits distilled spirits to be withdrawn, used sold, or disposed of for any purpose other than fuel use. Specifies that the term "distilled spirits" does not include distilled spirits produced from petroleum, natural gas, or coal.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 374 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1979
Establishes in the House of Representatives a Select Committee on Energy which shall conduct a full and complete investigation and review of: (1) the development of sources of energy other than oil; (2) proposals for energy conservation; (3) the powers and duties of the proposed Energy Mobilization Board; (4) the powers and duties of the proposed Energy Security Corporation; (5) methods to provide for the energy needs of older Americans and low-income Americans at reasonable prices; (6) the impact of the President's proposals on energy on older and low-income Americans; and (7) any matters referred by the Speaker of the House for review and investigation. Requires the select committee to report to the House, not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this resolution, the results of its investigation and review, including such recommendations as it deems advisable.
Bill· SS. 1519 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Directs the Secretary of Energy to defer repayment of certain reimbursable costs incurred by the Southwestern Power Administration and to waive certain interest costs. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1944 to limit for the purpose of determining rates, the period for ascertaining the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power generated at reservior projects under the control of the Department of the Army and delivered to the Secretary of the Interior.
Bill· SS. 1520 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the refund of excise tax on gasoline which is used to produce gasohol.
Bill· HRH.R. 4797 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to exempt motor gasoline from mandatory price and allocation regulation.
Bill· HRH.R. 4808 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish and maintain a data collection program for monitoring the supply and demand levels of middle distillates on a monthly basis in each state. Specifies that such program provide for: (1) the collection of relevant demand and supply data; (2) making such data available to Congress, State agencies and the public; and (3) the review and adjustment of such data and projections.
Bill· HRH.R. 4807 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Department of Energy Civilian Programs 1980 Authorization Act - Title I: Research and Development - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for the following programs: (1) fossil energy coal, oil and gas programs; (2) specified conservation programs; (3) solar technology and applications programs; (4) biomass research and development programs; (5) nuclear fission energy and fusion programs; (6) geothermal energy research and development programs; (7) low head hydroelectric development programs; (8) electric energy systems programs; (9) energy storage systems programs; (10) basic energy sciences programs; (11) supply research and development; (12) high energy physics programs; (13) nuclear physics programs; (14) uranium enrichment process development programs; (15) environmental research and development programs; and (16) energy research and development. Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a high-level liquid nuclear waste management demonstration project at the Western New York Service Center in West Valley, New York. Specifies the nature of the activities to be carried out at such project and authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal year 1980 to carry out such activities. Prohibits funds authorized and appropriated in subsequent fiscal years for such project from being used by the Secretary until the Secretary, the State of New York, and other appropriate persons enter contracts and other agreements for the transfer of title to such waste, the utilization by the Secretary of Center facilities and property, the sharing of project costs, and other matters relevant to the conduct of such project. Requires the Secretary to consult with specified Federal and State agencies and the commercial operator of the Center in carrying out such project. Directs the Secretary to submit annual reports to specified congressional committees on activities conducted in connection with such project. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for supply research and development plant and capital equipment for specified projects. Stipulates that the Federal share of each plant and capital equipment construction project, with respect to Department of Energy civilian research and development programs, shall be funded exclusively from an account separate from operating expenses. Allows operating expenses to be used for: (1) any construction project having a total estimated Federal cost of $500,000 or less; (2) the conceptual design of any project; (3) the procurement and installation of individual components fabricated for research and development or testing; (4) experimental test equipment to conduct specific investigations; and (5) solar heating and cooling demonstrations. Requires that the Department notify the appropriate committees of each of the Houses 60 days in advance of commencing construction for major projects where it is in the national interest to initiate construction in advance of the next annual budget cycle. Prohibits any appropriated funds authorized by this Act from being obligated for expenditure or expended for long lead procurement, land acquisition, or construction for specified plant and capital equipment projects where the estimated total Federal cost of the project is greater than $50,000,000 unless the Congress is notified and a 60-day waiting period expires. Prohibits monies to be used to place, bury, or store in any subsurface geologic repository any irradiated nuclear fuel assembly from any nuclear reactor unless the geologic repository is designated so that all fuel assemblies can be easily and economically retrieved. Title II: Regulatory and Related Functions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for expenses to the Economic Regulatory Administration, the Office of Hearings and Appeals, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Energy Information Administration, and for Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan functions. Title III: Commercialization and Related Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for expenses for specified renewable resources and conservation activities. Title IV: Power Marketing, Federal Leasing and Other Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for the Alaska Power Administration, the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Western Area Power Administration. Authorizes the Bonneville Power Administration to make expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund to provide for energy conservation and the use of renewable energy sources. Authorizes appropriations for specified Federal leasing and fuel data gathering and analysis programs. Title V: Nuclear Assessments, Spent Fuel Disposition, Operations, and Decontamination and Decommissioning - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for uranium resource assessment operating expenses, capital investment, construction, fuel disposition functions, and decontamination and decommissioning functions. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for the Secretary of Energy to conduct studies and to select temporary sites for the interim storage of spent fuel for nuclear power reactors licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, consistent with existing law, foreign commercial reactors. Requires that the Secretary submit a report to the Congress and the President concerning the construction of any away-from-reactor facility. Stipulates that the views and comments of the Governor of any State in which there is located a spent fuel storage facility site are to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary to investigate whether it is appropriate to fund 90 percent of the cost of cleanup of the uranium mill tailing site at Edgemont, South Dakota (which is under the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority) under the provisions of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978. Requires that a report on the appropriate legislative recommendations and the views and recommendations of the Tennessee Valley Authority be submitted to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to arrange for the removal of spent nuclear fuel of domestic origin from countries potentially ineligible for additional nuclear exports pursuant to specified provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Authorizes appropriations for such activities. Title VI: Other Renewable Resources and Conservation Activities - Authorizes appropriations for other renewable resources and conservation activities involving: (1) analysis and technology transfer functions regarding buildings and community systems; (2) energy extension services; (3) appropriate technology; (4) urban waste energy conservation; (5) fossil energy; (6) solar applications; and (7) industrial energy conservation. Title VII: Other Departmental Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for: (1) operating expenses and capital investment for specified uranium enrichment programs and projects; (2) commercial waste management operating expenses; and (3) Departmental administrative activities operating expenses, construction, and capital equipment acquisition and fabrication not related to construction. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, State utility commissions, and the public, to develop a civilian nuclear reactor operator training program. Directs the Secretary to conduct research on critical aspects of man-machine interactions in the operations of such reactors. Directs the Secretary to submit to the President and specified congressional committees a report on the national program for management of commercial high level waste and spent fuel, including identification of the sites being considered for license as permanent repositories for such waste or spent fuel. Directs the Secretary to use the Department's domestic energy research, development, and demonstration activities in support of its international energy program and to coordinate such international program with programs of the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, and other agencies responsible for international energy activities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for such international program, part of which is to be allocated to the design of an international program concentrating on the problems of less developed countries and part of which is to be used to implement high priority projects identified in such international program. Requires that such international activities be performed within the framework of the Development Coordination Committee and in cooperation with the Agency for International Development. Title VIII: Provisions Regarding Use of Funds - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for any program in excess of the amount actually authorized for that program under this Act and any reprogramming that decreases certain authorizations by more than five percent, or $10,000,000, whichever is less, unless the Congress is notified and a 30-day waiting period expires. Sets forth limitations on the use of amounts appropriated pursuant to this Act regarding management support services and unexpended balances. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to allow the Department to use certain revenues received from uranium enrichment services, when permitted in an annual appropriation Act. Limits the use of such revenues to the payment of the cost incurred in providing such services. Requires that all monies, other than enrichment revenues and certain other receipts, collected by the Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in fiscal year 1980 and thereafter shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Requires that the Secretary submit to the Congress an annual report concerning enrichment service revenues. Limits the Department's use of operating funds for research, development and demonstration projects and authorizes the Department to transfer funds to other agencies to perform work for the Department. Allows authorizations in this Act for construction line item projects to remain effective without fiscal year limitation through fiscal year 1982. Authorizes appropriations to pay for automatic pay increases. Limits the Department's travel expenses. Prohibits the Department from using funds appropriated under this Act for renovation, furnishing, or repair of facilities to provide temporary or permanent space for personnel relocated as a result of the establishment of the Department. Limits the use of funds available for direct and indirect purchases of gasoline in amounts in excess of 80 percent of the amount purchased by the Department in fiscal year 1979. Exempts from the provisions of this Act any authorization for appropriations in any other law for fiscal year 1980 for any military application of nuclear energy, for research and development in support of the armed forces, or for the common defense and security of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 4802 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Energy Research and Development Savings Bond and Trust Fund Act of 1979 - Establishes as a goal the reduction of imported energy sources by one-half of the current total imports by the year 1990. Seeks to provide at least $50,000,000,000 for the financing of energy research and development for the next ten years as the method for reaching such goal by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue energy research and development savings bonds. Stipulates that the proceeds of such issue shall be deposited in the Energy Research and Development Trust Fund to be established under this Act. Sets forth terms and conditions of such issue and directs the Secretary to coordinate the administration of such bond program with existing programs for the issuance of United States savings bonds and Treasury savings certificates. States that the face amount of such issuance shall not exceed in the aggregate $50,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time. Establishes the Energy Research and Development Trust Fund as the source of funds for the program of accelerated energy-related research, development, and demonstration described in the Energy Research and Development Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4799 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Basic Fuel Assistance Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), in cooperation with the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the Community Services Administration (CSA), and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to establish a Community outreach and information program to assist and encourage the low-income elderly and others eligible for assistance under this Act in obtaining Federal, State, or local energy-related assistance, including energy audits, counseling, educational services, alternate energy technologies, and weatherization. Establishes a program to provide assistance to such persons for meeting primary residential fuel costs. Sets forth criteria for determining the amount of such assistance, and requirements for eligibility. Directs the Secretary of HEW to contract with specified State agencies to administer and distribute such assistance payments, and authorizes reimbursement of 90 percent of the costs of such program administration. Sets forth a system of making payments to fuel suppliers supplying fuel to eligible recipients. Requires suppliers to keep full records and submit them to the Comptroller General as needed for auditing purposes. Prohibits suppliers from refusing to sell fuel to eligible participants solely on the basis of their participation in the basic fuel assistance program. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Directs the Director of CSA to establish a crisis intervention program to supplement the basic fuel assistance program with evacuations, emergency shelter, home repair, or payment of bills. Authorizes the appropriation of $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982, for such crisis intervention program.
Bill· HRH.R. 4798 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration to extend direct loans to individuals and small business concerns for the purchase and installation of wood and coal burning stoves. Requires that such stoves be used to heat a building currently heated by oil in a State where a shortage of heating oil has been declared by the Governor. Prohibits the term of any such loan from exceeding five years. Sets the interest rate on such loans at the prevailing rate for small business disaster loans. Prohibits an individual whose income exceeds 120 percent of the State median income from receiving such a loan.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 378 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Requires each importer, producer, refiner, distributor, and supplier of crude oil or refined petroleum products to submit monthly reports to the Secretary of Energy on its total refining capacity, the percentage of such capacity currently utilized, its crude oil supplies, the location of such supplies, and its inventory of refined petroleum products. Directs the Secretary to publish such information.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 358 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should establish and actively pursue a national energy plan that emphasizes and demands the use of domestic coal as a means of displacing current foreign energy imports. Declares that the President should establish a task force to examine modifications in the implementation of the Clean Air Act that could increase coal use without violating national ambient air quality standards. Declares that the appropriate House committee should review current regulations of the Office of Surface Mining of the Department of the Interior to insure that such regulations conform with the original intent of Congress in passing the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1977. States that the President should submit to Congress within 60 days of enactment of a plan which will achieve the goals of this resolution.
Bill· SS. 1517 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Energy Development Surtax Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on the first seller of crude oil a surtax equal to 80 percent of the net taxable oil income of such seller. Allows a credit against such tax equal to one- third of the excess of the qualified production costs of the taxpayer over the production base. Limits the amount of such credit to the amount of the tax imposed, providing for a carryover to the succeeding taxable year of 50 percent of the excess of such credit amount. Defines "qualified development costs" as exploration and development costs including: (1) intangible drilling and development costs; (2) geological and geophysical costs; (3) expenditures for construction of depreciable assets; (4) expenditures for lease equipment; and (5) other costs for the drilling and equipping of wells, but does not include costs for lease or land acquisition. Sets a formula for the computation of the production base. Requires records and information from each person liable for such surtax, and a monthly statement of specified quantity and price items from the purchaser of domestic crude oil to the first seller liable for such tax. Requires a certification to the purchaser by the operator of the well from which such crude oil was produced of the pre-decontrol price with respect to such crude oil. Prescribes criminal penalties for willful failure to provide such information. Requires partnerships, estates, and trusts to furnish each partner or beneficiary a written statement containing specified information with respect to the first sale or purchase of domestic crude oil.
Bill· SS. 1513 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Emergency Energy Production Council Act of 1979 - Establishes the Emergency Energy Production Council to assist in the development, production, use, or transportation of any form of energy. Sets forth membership requirements for such Council. Sets forth the functions of such Council and authorizes it to adopt energy actions in the form of recommendations to the President which, if approved by the President and submitted to and approved by Congress, shall have the power of law. Provides that such energy actions may include: (1) facilitating the construction or operation of any energy production, transportation, refinement, research and development, or conservation facility; (2) abolishing or modifying Federal agency rules or regulations relating to energy production and development; or (3) proposing projects to be carried out directly by Federal agencies for energy-related activities. Sets forth sanctions to be taken against State or local governments for failure to comply with such energy actions, consisting of the withholding of Federal-aid highway funds. Provides for a limited and expeditious procedure for judicial review of energy actions adversely affecting any person. Sets forth administrative provisions for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 1509 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Mandatory Synfuel Consumption and Oil Conservation Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to promote the development of a synthetic fuels industry in the United States. Directs the Secretary to set production goals for the production of such fuels for each of calendar years 1985 through 1990. Requires that domestic refiners of crude petroleum products include, as part of the raw material feed into their refining processes, specified percentages of synthetic fuel. Requires such refiners to make annual reports to the Secretary on the percentage of synthetic fuel used in refinery operations during the preceding year. Imposes civil penalties for violations of such requirements, and sets forth procedures for the assessment and collection of such penalties.
Bill· SS. 1516 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Energy Mobilization Act of 1979 - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to provide for expeditious development of domestic energy resources in order to overcome the nation's dependence on foreign sources of energy supplies. Title II: Energy Mobilization Board - Establishes the Energy Mobilization Board and authorizes it to provide financial assistance to energy projects in the form of guarantees of private sector loans to both commercial-scale and smaller research-scale plants designed to achieve specified production goals for a synthetic fuel industry. Sets forth requirements concerning membership, staff, and general powers of such Board. Authorizes the Board to create up to ten regional boards to assist in the development of smaller synthetic fuels projects. Authorizes such regional boards to guarantee loans of up to 85 percent of the total capital cost of such projects, with the total guarantee authority of each such board being set by the Energy Mobilization Board. Sets forth requirements concerning financing and composition of such boards. Exempts the Energy Mobilization Board from all Federal, State, and local taxation except as specified. Title III: Priority Energy Projects - Priority Energy Project Act of 1979 - Directs the Board to designate priority energy projects based on specified criteria. Exempts such designations from the impact statement provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1979. Stipulates that if the Board fails to make a designation within 60 days of receiving a designation request from a person proposing an energy project, the proposed project shall automatically be given priority project status. Directs the Board to publish a Project Decision Schedule containing deadlines for all Federal actions relating to such projects. Sets the total time allowed for completion of all final agency action and the issuance of all final agency decisions as to licenses, permits, and other authorizations at one year from the date on which notice of designation of a priority energy project is published in the Federal Register. Directs the President to make any decisions or perform any actions in the event that an agency or department fails to meet its deadline. Provides that in the event the Board refuses to grant to a Federal agency or to a priority energy project a deadline extension under the provisions of this Act, upon petition to the President, such agency or project may request a deadline extension not exceeding 120 days. Sets forth criteria for the granting of such requests by the President. Provides for the coordination of the actions of Federal, State, and local governments. Directs the Board to transmit to the Governor of a State in which a priority energy project is to be located a mandatory decision schedule setting deadlines for State and local authorities to complete their actions relating to such project. Sets forth procedures authorizing the President to waive State or local law provisions causing delay in implementing the State decision schedule. Title IV: Major Natural Gas Pipeline Projects - Directs the Board to designate, upon application by a major natural gas pipeline project, each such applicant project as a project for expedited processing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Stipulates that such mandatory designation is not to be construed as a "major Federal action" for the purposes of the environmental impact statement provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Directs the Board to publish a project certification schedule containing deadlines for all action by the FERC concerning certification of such project under the Natural Gas Act of 1938. Authorizes extension of other modifications of such deadlines in limited circumstances. Directs the President to make any decisions as to certificate approval or denial in the event the FERC has not acted in accordance with its decision schedule. Authorizes the Board to establish deadlines for Federal agency action that are shorter than the minimum periods required under existing legislation. Title V: Judicial Review and Miscellaneous Provisions - Limits Judicial review of decisions of the Board made under this Act to claims alleging that an action taken pursuant to this Act will deny constitutional or statutory rights or exceed statutory jurisdiction, authorities, or limitations. Sets time limits for filing appeals or petitions for review of actions taken pursuant to this Act, and bars any challenges to such actions which are not in conformance with these provisions. Stipulates that such challenges shall be brought in the United States courts of appeals for the circuit where the project would be located, and grants exclusive original jurisdiction to such courts in such matters. Directs such courts to give precedence to such matters over all other matters on the docket. Authorizes the Supreme Court, exclusively, to review interlocutory judgments or orders of the court of appeals pursuant to this Act and directs the Supreme Court to give precedence to such matters to the greatest extent practicable. Prohibits the granting of injunctive relief against the issuance of any right-of-way, permit, lease, or other authorization pursuant to this Act except in conjunction with a final judgment on a claim filed under this Act. Terminates the Board's authority to designate priority energy project and major natural gas pipeline projects ten years after the date of enactment of this Act. Title VI: Financial Assistance - Empowers the Board to provide financial assistance to energy projects designed to make a significant contribution to the achievement of national energy independence, which projects would not otherwise receive sufficient financing from other sources. Sets forth criteria for selecting such projects. Limits the aggregate amount of assistance made or committed under this title to any one business concern or affiliated concerns to $3,000,000,000. Authorizes the Board to provide loan guarantees to any lender lending funds to any business concern contributing to the accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Sets forth requirements for such guaranties. Authorizes the Board to build and jointly operate with private industry experimental synthetic fuel and alternate energy technology plants to develop technologies designed to assist in meeting the national production goal of one million barrels of oil per day by 1985. Directs the Board to request proposals for such projects and to select up to ten such projects for financial assistance. Limits the total amount of financial assistance through loan guarantees that the Board may have outstanding at any one time to $100,000,000,000 and limits the amount of new or renewed guarantees in any calendar year to $20,000,000,000. Terminates the Board authority to provide financial assistance ten years after the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that every applicant for financial assistance under this Act provide as a condition precedent to receipt of such assistance, access to such information in its control as the Board may require for the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Board to establish recordkeeping procedures to be followed by recipients of such assistance. Authorizes the President to appoint an advisory panel to study and report to the President, the Congress, and the Board concerning the effects of such loan guarantee program on the Nation's capital markets. Title VII: Capitalization and Finance - Authorizes the Board to have capital stock of $1,000,000,000 and to issue and have outstanding notes and other obligations necessary to finance the demonstration plants authorized to be build under this Act. Provides for the budgetary treatment of receipts and disbursements of the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with purchases and redemptions of, and income from, capital stock. Provides for the disposition of all moneys of the Board which are not otherwise utilized. Sets forth requirements relating to fiscal year, audits, and reports to be made to Congress and the President. Title VIII: Purchase Assistance - Directs the President to designate the Board as his agent for purchasing synthetic oil for storage in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to be used by Federal agencies or resold to private purchasers for use in the United States. Sets forth requirements concerning contracts for purchases of, or commitments to purchase, such fuels and stipulates that such purchases, commitments, and resales may be made without regard to existing legal limitations. Stipulates that purchases of, or commitments to purchase, such fuels are to be made by sealed bidding procedures except in specified circumstances, and states that the Board retains the right to refuse delivery of such fuels so long as the seller is paid the difference between the market price and the contract price. Title IX: Supports for Synthetic Gas Production - Authorizes the Board to provide financial assistance for a project conducted by a business concern whose rates are regulated by a State or local regulatory body only if a certificate of necessity for the project has been issued and the regulatory body, the Board, and the regulated business have entered an agreement allowing quarterly rate adjustments which would provide a minimum level of coverage of annualized interest charges sufficient to assure repayment of the Board's investment and restore such business concern's credit rating. Authorizes all pipeline companies transporting synthetic and natural gas mixtures to charge an averaged price for such gas. Title X: Unlawful Acts and Penalties - Establishes criminal penalties for the making of false statements, forgery, misappropriation of funds, and unauthorized activities in violation of this Act, and imposes liability upon any defendant for any profit or gain acquired as a result of such unlawful activity. Precludes suits from being brought against the Board or its officers, employees, or agents for violations of this Act except by the Attorney General of the United States. Title XI: General Provisions - Exempts the operations of the Board from the public contract and public buildings and works provisions of the United States Code. Exempts the Board from the securities laws of the United States.
Bill· SS. 1508 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Federal Energy Authority Act of 1979 - Title I: Federal Energy Authority - Establishes a nonprofit government corporation to be known as the Federal Energy Authority which shall be responsible for the construction and operation of facilities for the production of synthetic oil and gas from oil shale and coal. Sets forth provisions relating to the board of directors, to be appointed by the President, officers and employees, the general authority of the corporation, and reporting, recordkeeping and audits. Establishes in the United States Treasury the Federal Energy Authority Fund and authorizes the appropriation of $6,000,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Title II: Synthetic Fuels Production - Directs the Authority to establish at least three demonstration synthetic fuel production facilities for shale oil, coal oil, and coal gasification, each capable of producing a minimum of 100,000 barrels per day of synthetic fuel or equivalent. Authorizes the sale of such fuels and directs the Authority to establish competitive prices for such fuels. Requires that all proceeds from such sales be deposited in the Fund.
Bill· HRH.R. 4789 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Directs the Secretary of Energy to construct and operate national demonstration facilities for the conversion of garbage and other solid waste materials into fuels. Sets forth requirements for the siting and operating of such facilities, and specifies that one such facility shall be located in New Jersey.
Bill· HRH.R. 4784 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Accelerated Solar Energy Utilization Act of 1979 - Title I: Establishment of National Solar Goal - Establishes a national goal for the increased use of Solar energy and renewable energy resources as a part of the Nation's total energy supply in the year 2000. Title II: Establishment of Solar Energy Development Bank - Establishes a Government corporation in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to be known as the Solar Energy Development Bank to provide subsidies of long-term low-interest loans made for the purchase and installation of solar energy systems in residential and commercial structures. Sets forth requirements for eligibility for such subsidies, and other terms and conditions thereto. Establishes a seven member advisory board to make annual reports to the Congress and the President on the operation of the program established by this Act and to advise the President of the Solar Bank and the Secretary of HUD. Permits the Solar Bank to utilize the services of HUD personnel. Imposes criminal penalties for the furnishing of false or misleading information by applicants for loans subsidized under this Act, and for the misuse of such loan funds. Directs the Solar Bank to inform financial institutions and builders and owners of residential and commercial structures of such program and to actively seek their participation. Authorizes the Bank to train employees of such institutions in the operation of this Act. Title III: Tax Credits for Solar Energy and Woodburning Stoves - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify expenditures for woodburning stoves for the 15 percent residential energy conservation tax credit. Allows an additional 15 percent investment tax credit for process heat solar property. Allows a tax credit for certain builders for constructing buildings using passive solar elements. Title IV: Exemption from Certain Excise Taxes Made Permanent for Gasohol and Similar Alcohol Mixtures - Amends the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to make the exemption from motor fuels excise taxes for gasoline mixed with alcohol and alcohol mixed with special fuel a permanent exemption. Title V: Increased Secondary Financing for Dwellings with Solar Energy Systems - Amends the National Housing Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to increase the maximum principal obligation amounts for residences fitted with solar energy systems.
Bill· HRH.R. 4791 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to declare national goals for the domestic production of synthetic fuels and synthetic chemical feedstocks. Directs the Secretary of Energy to acquire for use or resale by the United States Government not less than 1,000,000 barrels per day crude oil equivalent of synthetic fuels and synthetic chemical feedstocks within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for purchases of such fuels and feedstocks and to provide for the development and production thereof for national defense preparedness. Sets forth terms and conditions for such contracts. Directs the Secretary to install additional equipment and facilities in federally-owned industrial facilities and to organize corporations for the purposes of achieving the goals set forth under this Act. Directs the Secretary to require suppliers to provide such fuels and feedstocks and to install Government-owned equipment in privately-owned industrial facilities when the President deems it necessary for national defense purposes. Establishes in the United States Treasury a synthetic fuel fund for the purpose of carrying out the programs authorized by this Act. Directs each Federal officer and agency responsible for issuing permits or other authorizations for construction or operation of synthetic fuel and synthetic chemical feedstock facilities to expedite actions necessary for such issuance or authorization, upon receipt of a timely application from prospective applicants. Directs Federal agencies involved in the approval of such projects to submit to the Secretary: (1) a compilation of all significant actions required by such agency before rendering a decision on such projects; (2) a compilation of all actions required of the applicant; (3) a tentative schedule for completing agency and applicant actions; and (4) all necessary application forms required for such approval. Directs the Secretary to publish a Facility Decision Schedule setting deadlines for all such actions. Authorizes the President to act in lieu of any Federal agency failing to meet its deadline. Authorizes the Secretary to establish deadlines for Federal agency action which are shorter than the minimum period required under existing legislation in cases of exceptional national need. Requires the Secretary to certify the proper completion of all Federal agency actions and approvals necessary to the completion of such projects. Directs the Secretary to notify the Governor of any State selected for the siting of such projects and to request the Governor to supply information as to significant State and local actions required before such projects can be completed. Authorizes the Secretary to propose a voluntary decision schedule to assist State and local authorities in coordinating their actions with Federal actions. Directs the Secretary to recommend to a State Governor and to the Congress actions to alleviate or prevent any delays in a project schedule created or threatened by any State or local government. Limits judicial review of Federal agency actions made under this Act to claims alleging that an action taken pursuant to this Act will deny constitutional or statutory rights or exceed statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations. Sets time limits for filing appeals or petitions for review of actions taken pursuant to this Act, and bars any challenges to such actions which are not in conformance with these actions. Stipulates that such challenges shall be brought in the United States courts of appeals for the circuit where the project would be located, and grants exclusive original jurisdiction to such courts in such matters. Directs such courts to give precedence to such matters over all other matters on the docket. Authorizes the Supreme Court to review interlocutory judgments or orders of the court of appeals pursuant to this Act and directs the Supreme Court to give precedence to such matters to the greatest extent practicable. Amends the Government Corporation Control Act to include corporations formed pursuant to this Act within the definition of 'wholly owned Government corporation.'
Bill· HRH.R. 4776 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Amends the Energy Conservation in Existing Buildings Act of 1976 to increase the labor cost limitations for weatherization materials for which financial assistance may be provided under such Act in areas where the Secretary of Energy determines that there is an insufficient number of volunteers, training participants, and public service workers available to work on weatherization projects. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to waive the requirement relating to assurances that applicants for weatherization assistance will use such funds to supplement, and not supplant, State and local funds where he makes the determination described above. Makes inapplicable the limitation on the amount of weatherization assistance allowed to be used for repair to a dwelling to make such weatherization effective if the State policy advisory council requests the Secretary of Energy to increase such amount.
Bill· HRH.R. 4771 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Department of Energy Review Act of 1979 - Requires an immediate comprehensive review by Congress of the operations, funding, and personnel management practices of the Department of Energy.
Bill· HRH.R. 4766 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Makes the United States liable for damages, arising from certain nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site, to: (1) individuals who resided in the affected area (A) for a period of one year between January 1, 1951, and October 31, 1958, or (B) between June 30, 1962, and July 31, 1962; (2) civilian or military participants during the Baneberry detonation on December 18, 1970; and (3) a qualified sheep herd. Limits the amount of attorney fees which can be received with respect to such actions.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 355 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should promptly enact the President's April 5, 1979, proposal providing for solar energy tax credits and that such enactment should take effect retroactively to such date.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 161 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Calls for the immediate resignation of James Schlesinger as Secretary of the Department of Energy.
Bill· HRH.R. 4749 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1979
Energy Development Tax Incentive Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional excise tax upon major oil producers based upon the extent that such producers make investments to acquire significant ownership interests (ten percent voting stock interest) in business enterprises which are unrelated to the exploration for, development, production, transportation, or sale of energy or energy products. Provides that such tax shall be equal to 100 percent of the cost of such investment, but shall not exceed the producer's windfall profits (reduced by any windfall profits tax) for the taxable period. Defines "major producer" as a corporation, or controlled group of corporations, which produces or has an economic interest in a total of at least 30,000,000 barrels of crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquids within the United States during the calendar year 1976. Terminates such tax after December 31, 1986.
Bill· HRH.R. 4748 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1979
Energy Antimonopoly Act of 1979 - Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit any entity, or subsidiary thereof, which produced or had an interest in a total of 35,000,000 barrels of crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquids in 1976 from acquiring control or a majority of the assets of any other entity whose assets exceed $100,000,000.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 160 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should adopt as policy the elimination of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' power to control the supply and price of oil.
Bill· SS. 1478 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Home Heating Oil Supply Protection Act of 1979 - Declares the policy of the Congress that refined petroleum products, including home heating oil, should be produced, distributed, and marketed in the manner most beneficial to consumers. Prohibits petroleum refiners and distributors from terminating or failing to renew any marketing relationship with retailers or other distributors and prohibits such refiners and distributors from reducing the allocated supply of such refined petroleum products in the relevant geographic market area except in accordance with specified provisions which require prior notification of such termination, nonrenewal, or reduction in supply. Authorizes retailers or distributors to maintain civil actions in the appropriate United States district court against refiners or distributors engaging in such conduct. States that nothing in this Act shall be deemed to create immunity from civil or criminal liability or defenses to actions under the antitrust laws for any individual, corporation, or other business organization.
Bill· SS. 1470 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Mandatory Oil Import Control Act of 1979 - Prohibits the importation of crude oil or petroleum into the United States except under a license issued by the Secretary of Energy. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations for allocating crude oil and petroleum product import sales. Limits the importation of such oil and products under such licenses to the aggregate number of barrels by category of crude oil and petroleum products imported into the United States during calendar year 1978. Sets forth requirements for issuing such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to increase the amount of licensed imports cases of national emergency as determined by the President to insure access by the United States Armed Forces to needed supplies of such items. Authorizes the President to decrease the amount of licensed imports below the 1978 levels if required by treaty or international agreement. Terminates the provisions of this Act on December 31, 1985.
Bill· HRH.R. 4733 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Petroleum Company Holdings Act of 1979 - Makes it unlawful for any major petroleum producer, petroleum transporter, major refiner, or major marketer to own or control any interest or asset which is not in the petroleum industry or not directly related thereto. Directs such entities to file with the Federal Trade Commission such information and reports as the Commission may request. Directs such entities to submit for the Commission's approval a plan for divestment of the interests prohibited to be held under this Act, and directs the Commission upon granting such approval to take such actions as may be necessary to enforce such plan. Authorizes the Commission to sue in the United States district courts for such relief as appropriate to assure compliance with this Act. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4715 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
International Synthetic Fuels Cooperation Act of 1979 - Authorizes the President to invite foreign governments to join in the establishment of an international research and development program for synthetic fuels. Provides for an international meeting to create an ad hoc intergovernmental commission to establish such program and create a permanent international organization to administer such program. Declares that such program shall be carried out through one or more research and development centers taking full advantage of any adequate existing facilities. Stipulates that such centers emphasize coal liquefaction. Provides for the sharing of costs and energy production techniques among participating countries. Directs the Secretary of Energy to assess the U.S. synthetic fuel needs and the capabilities of other countries for participation in such program.
Bill· HRH.R. 4722 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Amends the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to make permanent the exemption of gasohol from the excise tax on motor fuels.
Bill· SS. 1455 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1979
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue coal leases on other Federal lands in the State of New Mexico to the owner of a specified coal lease upon surrender of such lease.
Bill· SS. 1449 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1979
Requires the President to implement within 60 days after the enactment of this Act a program to ration the purchase of gasoline by the issuance of coupons under procedures specified in the Standby Gasoline Rationing Plans Numbered 1 and 6, which were submitted by the President to Congress pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4705 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1979
Oil Imports Act of 1979 - Title I: Oil Importation - Prohibits the importation of crude oil or other petroleum products into the United States unless permitted by, purchased from, or manufactured from crude oil purchased by the American Oil Import Corporation, to be established under this Act. Sets forth requirements for issuing import permits for the importation of crude oil and petroleum products. Directs the Corporation to issue permits for such imports in cases of national emergency to insure access by the Armed Forces of the United States to needed oil supplies. Requires that crude oil and petroleum products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be purchased from the Corporation. Grants to the Corporation exclusive purchasing authority for crude oil and petroleum product imports, and sets forth requirements regarding such purchase authority. Title II: American Oil Import Corporation - Establishes a nonprofit corporation to be known as the American Oil Import Corporation, to be managed by a Board of Directors to be appointed by the President. Establishes an Advisory Board to the Corporation, composed of officers of specified Federal agencies and departments, to meet periodically with the Directors to share information of the activities of the Corporation pertaining to the various departments and agencies represented. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Corporation and confers upon the Corporation nonprofit status. Establishes a Public Energy Fund in the Treasury of the United States into which shall be deposited revenues from activities of the Corporation. Provides that such funds, including appropriated funds as authorized by the Congress, shall be used by the Corporation for carrying out this Act. Sets forth specified reporting, record-keeping, and audit requirements on the Corporation. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Makes it a crime for any officer, employee, or person acting for or on behalf of the United States or any department or agency thereof to prematurely disclose information concerning crude oil or petroleum products required to be withheld from publication until a fixed time or speculate directly or indirectly in any such product by buying or selling the same in quantity before such information is made public through regular official channels. Repeals the standby purchase authority of the President under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
Bill· HRH.R. 4700 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1979
Requires the President to submit to the Congress, not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, a report on the feasibility of nationalizing the oil industry. Requires such report to include information on: (1) the costs and benefits of nationalizing the oil industry; (2) the effect of nationalizing the oil industry on allocations of oil, on inflation, and on productivity; (3) the ability to give priority in providing oil to particular groups of consumers by nationalizing the oil industry; (4) the impact of nationalizing the oil industry on the distribution of oil to different income classes, races, geographical areas, and industries and the distribution of oil to males and females; and (5) the efficiency and economy of scale in the transportation, refinement, and allocation of oil from the nationalization of oil. Establishes the Commission on the Nationalization of the Oil Industry to prepare and submit to the President the report required pursuant to this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4697 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1979
Prohibits Federal-aid highway funding for States which make it unlawful for a vehicle with an overall gross weight of less than 80,000 pounds or an overall length of less than 60 feet to use the Interstate System or any highway which the Secretary of Transportation determines provides immediate access to any portion of the Interstate System. Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study of fuel savings resulting from such uniform standards and to report the results of such study to Congress within one year.
Bill· HRH.R. 4693 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1979
Petroleum and Natural Gas Decontrol Act of 1979 - Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to repeal, at the close of the first calendar month beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, any authority under such Act to promulgate regulations, issue orders, and to enforce such regulations and orders. Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to repeal the ceiling prices on natural gas established by such Act at the close of the first calendar month beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. Repeals specified other natural gas allocation and price control authorities.
Bill· HRH.R. 4652 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1979
Regional Utility Rate Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, in consultation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, State regulatory authorities, and other appropriate State agencies, to study the need for increased cooperation among State agencies involved in retail electric ratemaking. Specifies factors to be considered in conducting such study. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on such study by September 1, 1980.
Bill· HRH.R. 4682 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1979
Competition in Gasoline Marketing Act of 1979 - Prohibits any refiner, producer, or marketer of motor fuel: (1) within six months after enactment from operating, acquiring, or controlling, either directly or indirectly, any service station; and (2) within two years after enactment from owning or controlling any interest in a service station. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4671 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1979
Oil Industry Nationalization Act - Directs the President to acquire by purchase, exchange, or other means all of the rights, title, and interest of such oil companies to such oil properties as the President deems necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act. Permits the President to institute, in the name of the United States, a proceeding in any court of the United States for the acquisition of any oil property or properties. Stipulates that upon filing of a declaration of taking in such proceeding and deposit in the court of the estimated compensation set forth in the declaration of taking, all right, title, and interest to such property shall be in the United States, and the United States, subject to court orders, may immediately take possession of such property. Directs the President, acting through the Department of Energy, after acquisition of any oil property, to administer such property, including operation of any plants and facilities on such property, and shall deposit into the miscellaneous receipts of the United States Treasury all funds received from the sale of oil products. Directs the President to take such action as he considers necessary to carry out the objectives of this Act, including: (1) providing for the orderly transfer and administration of oil property acquired from an oil company; and (2) providing for the appointment of any individual who holds a position of employment with such oil company, carries out any function with respect to such property, and requests such appointment.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 370 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1979
Directs the President to ensure that Federal regulations allocate motor gasoline as equitably as possible consistent with the respective needs of the regions and areas of the United States.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 371 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1979
Requires each importer, producer, refiner, distributor, and supplier of crude oil or refined petroleum products to submit monthly reports to the Secretary of Energy on its total refining capacity, the percentage of such capacity currently utilized, its crude oil supplies, and its inventory of refined petroleum products. Directs the Secretary to publish such information.
Bill· SS. 1421 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies of the following hydroelectric power projects: (1) Black Canyon Dam powerplant, Idaho; (2) Cle Elum and Tieton Dams powerplants, Washington; (3) Hungary Horse powerplant enlargement and reregulating reservoir, Montana; (4) Headgate Rock powerplant, Arizona; (5) Owyhee Dam powerplant, Oregon; (6) Potholes Canal Chute-Station 3480+45 powerplant, Washington; (7) Wickiup Dam powerplant, Oregon; (8) Tiber Dam powerplant, Montana; (9) New Siphon Drop powerplant, California; (10) Green Mountain Afterbay, Colorado; and (11) Alcova pumped-storage plant, Wyoming.
Bill· SS. 1447 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Middle Distillate Fuel Control Act of 1979 - Directs the President to issue regulations under authority of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 providing for the mandatory allocation of middle distillate fuels at prices specified in such regulation. Subjects amendments to such regulations to congressional review.
Bill· SS. 1440 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Federal Power Marketing Revolving Fund Act of 1979 - Directs the Administrators of specified power administrations to construct or otherwise acquire transmission facilities in order to: (1) integrate and transmit the electric power from existing or additional generating units; (2) provide customer service; (3) provide interregional transmission facilities; and (4) maintain electrical stability and reliability. Limits the Administrators' authority to make such acquisitions. Authorizes the Administrators to become members of electrical cooperatives and other institutions determined necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes the establishment of the following separate funds in the U.S. Treasury: (1) Alaska Power Administration Fund; (2) Southeastern Power Administration Fund; (3) Southwestern Power Administration Fund; and (4) Western Area Power Administration Fund. Includes in such Funds: (1) receipts from power marketing activities; (2) moneys borrowed from the U.S. Treasury; (3) congressional appropriations; and (4) unexpended balances of funds appropriated or otherwise made available. Authorizes the appropriate Administration to make expenditures from such Funds as necessary for each power administration's programs. Limits the use of appropriated and trust funds. Requires the Secretary to keep the official record of each power administration's operations, receipts, and expenditures. Directs the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration to maintain separate accounts for specified individual projects of such Power Administration. Establishes specific restrictions on the Western Fund. Authorizes each Administrator to: (1) invest moneys in nonmarketable obligations of the United States; and (2) borrow from the Secretary amounts in behalf of the power administrations. Directs the Administrators to give notice of requests for construction of major transmission facilities to affected States and contractual entities. Sets forth general provisions of employment in connection with electrical facilities.
Bill· SS. 1420 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the following hydroelectric powerplant projects and the necessary transmission facilities: (1) Friant powerplant, California; (2) Whiskeytown powerplant, California; (3) Canyon Ferry powerplant enlargement, Montana; (4) Yellowtail Afterbay powerplant, Montana; (5) Colorado-Big Thompson powerplant, Colorado; (6) Hoover Dam outlet works powerplant, Arizona and Nevada; (7) Buffalo Bill Dam powerplant replacement, Wyoming; (8) Red Bluff powerplant, California; (9) Stony Gorge powerplant, California; (10) Monticello powerplant, California; (11) Boca powerplant, California and Nevada; (12) Prosser powerplant, California and Nevada; and (13) Blue Mesa powerplant, Colorado. Stipulates that the hydroelectric power generated by such facilities shall be marketed by the Secretary of Energy through the existing Federal hydroelectric power marketing systems.
Bill· SS. 1422 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Petroleum Products Marketing Practices Act of 1979 - Declares the policy of the Congress that refined petroleum products, including home heating oil, should be produced, distributed, and marketed in the manner most beneficial to consumers. Prohibits petroleum refiners and distributors from terminating or failing to renew any marketing relationship with retailers or other distributors and prohibits such refiners and distributors from reducing the allocated supply of refined petroleum products in the relevant geographic market area, except in accordance with specified provisions which require prior notification of such termination, nonrenewal, or reduction in supply. Authorizes retailers or distributors to maintain civil actions in the appropriate United States district court against refiners or distributors engaging in such prohibited conduct. States that nothing in this Act shall be deemed to create immunity from civil or criminal liability or defenses to actions under the antitrust laws for any individual, corporation, or other business organization.