Clean Power Plant and Modernization Act of 2001
Latest action · Jun 28, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7100-7103)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 28, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes specified emission limitations for mercury, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from units based on the respective efficiency standards. Requires units to obtain permits under such Act that require compliance with such standards and limitations.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate: (1) fuel sampling and emission monitoring techniques for use in calculating mercury emission reductions; and (2) regulations concerning disclosure to consumers of unit emissions levels and the transfer of captured or recovered mercury.
Qualifies certain solar or geothermal power facilities for the renewable energy tax credit and extends the date by which eligible facilities must have been placed in service.
Imposes an excise tax on covered fossil fuel-fired generating units based upon megawatt hour generation to fund the Clean Air Trust Fund established by this Act.
Provides for: (1) accelerated depreciation and cost recovery for certain investor-owned units; and (2) annual grants for capital expenditures for new publicly owned units in amounts equal to the depreciation deduction that would be realized by similarly situated investor-owned units.
Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to crediting permanent reductions in carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions to the utility sector and owners or operators in any climate change implementation program enacted by Congress and passing on accrued value to utility customers.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) fund programs and partnerships to demonstrate the commercial viability and environmental benefits of power generation from biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind technologies and from fuel cells; and (2) establish a program to demonstrate the benefits of power generation from clean coal, advanced gas turbine, and combined heat and power technologies.
Provides assistance for coal industry and community transition, carbon sequestration activities, and atmospheric monitoring programs.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jun 28, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 28, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jun 28, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7099-7100, S7104)
- Jun 28, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7100-7103)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S7099Text printed S7100–S7103Summaries S7104 | Patrick J. Leahy D-VT (text) | Jun 28, 2001 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1335 | Clean Power Plant Act of 2001 | Related bill | Jun 20, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to promote economically sound modernization of electric power generation capacity in the United States, to establish requirements to improve the combustion heat rate efficiency of fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units, to reduce emissions of mercury, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxides, and sulfur dioxide, to require that all fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units operating in the United States meet new sources review requirements, to promote the use of clean coal technologies, and to promote alternative energy and clean energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cells.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Clean Power Plant and Modernization Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Acid precipitation (Meteorology)
- Acid rain
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Air pollution measurement
- Air quality
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Biomass energy
- Business income tax
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbon taxes
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Coal preparation
- Coal-fired power plants
- Cogeneration of electric power and heat
- Commerce
- Computers and government
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Depreciation and amortization
- Dislocated workers
- Ecological research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Electric power production
- Electric utilities
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Energy tax credits
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental research
- Excise tax
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal aid to community development
- Federal aid to research
- Fuel cells
- Geothermal power plants
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Health
- Income tax
- Infrastructure
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legislation
- Licenses
- Mercury
- Natural gas
- Nitrogen oxides
- Petroleum
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Research and development
- Restoration ecology
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Soil conservation
- Solar cells
- Solar energy
- Solar power plants
- Standards
- Sulphur dioxide
- Tax deductions
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Tree planting
- Water Resources Development
- Wetland conservation
- Wind power
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 28, 2001Introduced in Senate
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