Gasoline Price Reduction and Refinery Tax Fairness Act of 2004
Latest action · Jul 7, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
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 17, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Gasoline Price Reduction and Refinery Tax Fairness Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to define "oil and gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations or transmission facilities" as all field activities or operations associated with exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations, or transmission facilities, including activities necessary to prepare a site for drilling and for the movement and placement of drilling equipment, whether or not such field activities or operations may be considered to be construction activities.
Directs the President to establish the Office of Federal Energy Project Coordination (Office) within the Executive Office of the President.
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) perform an internal review of Federal onshore oil and gas leasing and permitting practices; and (2) implement certain best management practices to ensure timely action on oil and gas leases and applications for permits to drill on lands otherwise available for leasing.
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to: (1) enter into a prescribed Memorandum of Understanding regarding oil and gas leasing on public lands; and (2) establish a joint data retrieval system and a joint Geographic Information System mapping system.
Amends the Energy Act of 2000 to require the Secretary of the Interior's inventory of all Federal onshore lands to identify restrictions or impediments to oil and gas resource development of such lands.
Directs each Federal agency head to require the agency, before it takes action that could have a significant adverse effect on the supply of domestic energy resources from Federal public land, to act in compliance with a certain Executive Order that identifies actions to expedite energy-related projects.
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to set a deadline for expeditious consideration of applications for permits for oil and gas leases.
Requires a Federal agency, in issuing any rule or order relating to gasoline production and distribution, to include a detailed analysis of the effects the rule or order would have on gasoline supply and seek to ensure that no rule or order is issued that will increase U.S. dependence on foreign sources of oil.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for accelerated depreciation for refinery machinery.
Requires each Federal agency with the authority to do so to approve or disapprove (with specified explanations) within 180 days of its receipt any application for approval of an action affecting the siting or operation of U.S. refineries.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2004 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jul 7, 2004 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2004 |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred Jun 22, 2004 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2004 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 22, 2004 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2004 |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Jun 18, 2004 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 17, 2004 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 7, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- Jun 22, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jun 22, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Jun 22, 2004Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Jun 18, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jun 17, 2004Introduced in House
- Jun 17, 2004Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 108-59 | ENHANCING SOCIAL SECUIRTY NUMBER PRIVACY133 pages | Ways and Means Committee | Jun 15, 2004 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To enable increased gasoline supplies and otherwise ensure lower gasoline prices in the United States.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Gasoline Price Reduction and Refinery Tax Fairness Act of 2004
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Alternative energy sources
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Decision making
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Depreciation and amortization
- Electronic government information
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy policy
- Energy security
- Energy supplies
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive orders
- Executive reorganization
- Federal-state relations
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gas industry
- Gas pipelines
- Geographic information systems
- Geology
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government regulation
- Imports
- Income tax
- Law
- Licenses
- Machinery
- Maps
- National forests
- Natural gas
- Natural gas reserves
- Oil and gas leases
- Oil well drilling
- Petroleum engineering
- Petroleum industry
- Petroleum pipelines
- Petroleum refineries
- Petroleum reserves
- Prospecting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Tax deductions
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Transportation and Public Works
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 17, 2004Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.