Wind Energy Promotion Act of 2002
Latest action · Feb 11, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 11, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary to permit an owner or operator of certain land enrolled in the conservation reserve program to install wind turbines on the land.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a research, demonstration, and technology deployment program to enhance the use of wind energy.
Mandates periodic Federal agency review of regulations and standards that act as barriers to market entry for wind energy technologies.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to conduct a feasibility study pertaining to a combined wind and hydropower demonstration project involving wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers at the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration.
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to develop guidelines for a pilot program for the development of wind energy on Federal land.
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to consider development of wind energy in revisions of land and resource management plans under their respective jurisdictions.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to conduct an assessment of wind energy resources and transmission capacity.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 11, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Feb 11, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Business income tax
- Cogeneration of electric power and heat
- Commerce
- Commercialization
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continental shelf
- Cost effectiveness
- Cropland conversion program
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power transmission
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy industries
- Energy research
- Energy security
- Energy tax credits
- Environmental Protection
- Farm lands
- Federal aid to research
- Federal-Indian relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Habitat conservation
- Housing and Community Development
- Hydroelectric power
- Income tax
- Indian lands
- Infrastructure
- Land use
- Law
- Leases
- Legislation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marketing
- Minorities
- Missouri River development
- National forests
- Offshore structures
- Planning
- Power marketing administrations
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Regulatory impact statements
- Research and development
- Reservoirs
- Right-of-way
- Rural economic development
- Rural electrification
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Venture capital
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Wind power
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