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H.R. 6 (109th)

Energy Policy Act of 2005

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18 April 2005

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Became Public Law No: 109-58.

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Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Sets forth an energy research and development program, including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) oil and gas; (4) coal; (5) Indian energy; (6) nuclear matters and security; (7) vehicles and motor fuels, including ethanol; (8) hydrogen; (9) electricity; and (10) energy tax incentives. Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to: (1) institute grant programs for low-income community energy efficiency and energy efficient public buildings; and (2) revise energy conservation standards for additional consumer products. Amends the National Housing Act and related Federal law regarding affordable housing, assisted housing, and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance incentives for energy efficient housing. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to prescribe incentive payments for renewable energy production facilities. Amends the Federal Power Act to prescribe guidelines for hydroelectric licensing proposals for alternative conditions and requirements governing project works within a Federal reservation. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to make incentive payments to promote hydroelectric production. Amends the Natural Gas Act to prescribe authorization procedures governing: (1) construction, expansion, or operation of liquefaction or gasification natural gas terminals; and (2) natural gas market transparency. Prescribes procedural guidelines for the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding regarding oil and gas leasing on Federal lands. United States Refinery Revitalization Act of 2005 - Prescribes procedural guidelines for: (1) designation of refinery revitalization zones; and (2) coordination and expeditious review of permitting process for such zones. Sets forth a Clean Coal Power Initiative campaign that includes grants to universities to establish Centers of Excellence for Energy Systems of the Future. Authorizes Federal loan guarantees for designated coal gasification projects. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to prescribe implementation guidelines for a clean air coal program. Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to establish the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs to promote Indian tribal energy resource development through a program of grants and loans. Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify and extend indemnification authority and liability limits for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees and Department of Energy (DOE) contractors. Prohibits assumption by the U.S. Government of liability for certain foreign incidents. Directs the NRC to establish a training and fellowship program for individuals with critical nuclear safety regulatory skills. Revises requirements for: (1) uranium sales; (2) special demonstration projects for the uranium mining industry; (3) whistleblower protection prescriptions; (4) medical isotope production; (5) uranium enrichment facilities; and (6) the national uranium stockpile. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish an Advanced Reactor Hydrogen Co-Generation Project. Provides for disposal of: (1) Fernald uranium processing facility byproduct material; and (2) greater-than-class C radioactive waste. Sets forth programs to promote: (1) hybrid vehicles; (2) hybrid retrofit and electric conversion technologies for combustion engine vehicles; and (3) alternative fuels for dual-fueled vehicles. Sets forth implementation guidelines for pilot programs that target: (1) alternative fueled vehicles; (2) fuel cell buses and alternative fuel and altra-low sulfur diesel fuel (clean) school buses; (3) advanced vehicles; and (4) hybrid vehicles. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to conduct programs that address: (1) production of hydrogen from diverse energy sources; and (2) solar and wind technologies. Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct research and development programs in specified sciences; and (2) maintain within the Department of Energy the Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Directs the Secretary to conduct: (1) a secondary electric vehicle battery use program; and (2) a Next Generation Lighting Initiative. Directs the Secretary of Energy to implement initiatives regarding: (1) energy efficiency; (2) distributed energy and electric energy systems; (3) renewable energy; (4) nuclear energy; (5) nuclear energy research programs; (6) Next Generation Nuclear Plant Program; (7) fossil energy; (8) ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas, and other petroleum resource exploration and production; (9) coordination of civilian science and technology programs; and (10) Department of Energy management. Electric Reliability Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Power Act to grant FERC regulatory jurisdiction over an Electric Reliability Organization. Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to: (1) require electric utilities to make net metering and smart metering available upon consumer request; and (2) terminate mandatory purchase and sale requirements pertaining to cogeneration and small power production utilities. Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Amends the Federal Power Act to: (1) direct FERC to promulgate market transparency rules governing wholesale electric energy and transmission services; and (2) prohibit round trip trading. Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue rules that prohibit in the absence of consumer consent: (1) the change of selection of an electric utility ("slamming"); and (2) the sale of goods and services to an electric consumer ("cramming"). Requires a study of Federal agency review authorities over mergers to determine if duplicative authorities exist. Revises Federal Power Act requirements for electric utility mergers. Directs FERC to convene a joint board to study the issue of security constrained economic dispatch for a market region. Enhanced Energy Infrastructure and Technology Tax Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish energy infrastructure tax incentives, including: (1) new property depreciation; (2) tax credits for certain residential and business property and equipment; and (3) alternative minimum tax relief. Retains the effect of Department of Energy Order No. 202-03-2 (August 28, 2003) regarding transmission security. Extends the attainment date for certain downwind ozone nonattainment areas. Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator) to promulgate regulations ensuring that domestic motor vehicle fuel consumption includes renewable fuel containing ethanol. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants to provide assistance to merchant producers of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in making the transition from producing MTBE to producing iso-octane, iso-octene, alkylates, or renewable fuels. Prohibits the use of MTBE in motor vehicle fuel by December 31, 2014, in any State that does not specifically authorize it. Authorizes the President to determine by June 30, 2014, that this prohibition against the use of MTBE in motor vehicle fuel shall not take place and that the legal authority to prohibit its use in motor vehicle fuel shall become null and void. Eliminates the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline. Conditions the Administrator's approval of State fuel restrictions upon a finding that they will neither cause fuel supply or distribution interruptions nor have a significant adverse impact on fuel producibility. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to: (1) make loan guarantees for private sector construction of facilities for the processing and conversion of municipal solid waste and cellulosic biomass into fuel ethanol and other commercial byproducts; and (2) provide grants for construction of ethanol production facilities. Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act of 2005 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator to distribute specified fund percentages from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund to States to pay costs for regulation of underground storage tanks (USTs). Amends the Clean Air Act to cite conditions under which the Administrator may waive the prohibition against the use of extreme and unusual fuel or fuel additive supplies ("boutique fuels"). Establishes a grant program to improve the commercial value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat, transportation fuels, petroleum-based product substitutes, and other commercial purposes. John Rishel Geothermal Steam Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to revamp guidelines governing leasing and permitting for geothermal development of public and National Forest System lands, including those withdrawn for military purposes. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to make adjustments in Bureau of Reclamation water pumping facilities to minimize the amount of electric power consumed for such pumping during periods of peak electric power consumption. Sets forth a program of production incentives, including: (1) oil and gas royalties in kind; (2) marginal property production; (3) natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico; and (4) oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Directs the President to establish the Office of Federal Energy Project Coordination. National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program. Transfers from the Secretary of Energy to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction and control over certain public domain lands within Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 (Kern County, California), in order to implement production of hydrocarbon resources. Conveys a portion of Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 to the City of Taft, California. Sets forth royalty relief provisions affecting certain leases for offshore oil or gas production under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Establishes the Secure Energy Reinvestment Fund to fund a domestic offshore energy reinvestment program. Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2005 -Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to modify statutory requirements governing Federal coal leases affecting acreage limitations, mining plans, and advance royalty payments. Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Security Act of 2005 - Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Interior shall establish a competitive oil and gas leasing program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- ANWR). Set America Free Act of 2005 or the SAFE Act - Establishes the United States Commission on North American Energy Freedom to make recommendations for a coordinated and comprehensive North American energy policy that will achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2025 within the three contiguous North American nation area of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Grand Canyon Hydrogen-Powered Transportation Demonstration Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretaries of Energy and of the Interior to jointly: (1) establish a research and development program, in partnership with the private sector, relating to hydrogen-based transportation technologies suitable for operations in national parks; and (2) conduct a demonstration of hydrogen-based public transportation technology at Grand Canyon. Shields from review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 such actions by the Secretary of the Interior that involve activities on the public lands conducted for exploration or development of a domestic Federal energy source (including oil and gas pipelines and drilling).

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