Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Sets forth an energy research and development program covering: (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; (10) energy tax incentives; (11) hydropower and geothermal energy; and (12) climate change technology.
Title I: Energy Efficiency - Subtitle A: Federal Programs - (Sec. 101) Directs the Architect of the Capitol to develop and implement a cost-effective energy conservation and management plan for all facilities administered by Congress.
(Sec. 102) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (NECPA) to revise energy reduction goals and performance requirements for federal buildings, including: (1) a timetable for reduced energy consumption; (2) metering of energy use; (3) federal procurement guidelines for energy efficient products, including Energy Star products and Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) designated products; and (4) extension of federal agency authority to enter into energy savings performance contracts.
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary throughout this bill, unless otherwise named) to enter into voluntary agreements with one or more persons in industrial sectors that consume significant amounts of primary energy per unit of physical output to reduce the energy intensity of their production activities. Directs the Secretary to recognize and publicize the achievements of participants in such voluntary agreements.
(Sec. 107) Instructs the Secretary to establish an Advanced Building Efficiency Testbed demonstration program for advanced engineering systems, components, and materials to enable innovations in building technologies. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2008.
(Sec. 108) Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prescribe procedural guidelines for increased use of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete.
(Sec. 109) Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act (ECPA) to direct the Secretary to establish, by rule, revised federal building energy efficiency performance standards meeting specified requirements.
(Sec. 110) Amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to extend standard daylight time from March to November (currently it runs from April to October). Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the impact of this extension upon energy consumption in the United States. Retains the right of Congress to revert Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules.
(Sec. 111) Requires the Secretaries of the Interior, of Commerce, and of Agriculture to seek to: (1) incorporate energy efficient technologies in public and administrative buildings associated with management of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Forest System, National Marine Sanctuaries System, and other public lands and resources they manage; and (2) use energy efficient motor vehicles, including those equipped with biodiesel or hybrid engine technologies, in such management.
Subtitle B: Energy Assistance and State Programs - (Sec. 121) Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 and ECPA to extend the low-income home energy assistance and weatherization programs through FY2007 and FY2008, respectively.
Authorizes the states to purchase renewable fuels, including biomass, to implement the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance programs.
(Sec. 123) Amends ECPA to increase from 10% to 25% mandatory state energy efficiency goals in calendar year 2012 as compared to calendar year 1990.
(Sec. 124) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) a state energy efficient appliance rebate program; (2) federal grants to the states for energy efficient public buildings; (3) a low income community energy efficiency pilot program; and (4) a State Technologies Advancement Collaborative.
(Sec. 128) Amends ECPA to prescribe guidelines for state building energy efficiency codes incentives.
Subtitle C: Energy Efficient Products - (Sec. 131) Amends ECPA to: (1) establish a voluntary program at the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify and promote energy-efficient products and buildings (Energy Star Program); (2) direct the Secretary to implement a consumer education program for homeowners and small business owners on energy efficiency benefits of air conditioning, heating, and ventilation systems; (3) direct the Secretary to convene a conference to promote a national public energy education program; and (4) direct the Secretary to implement an energy efficiency public information initiative.
(Sec. 135) Prescribes energy conservation standards for additional products, including: (1) testing requirements for ceiling fans and ceiling fan light kits, as well as (together with energy conservation standards for) refrigerated bottled or canned beverage vending machines, commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers; and (2) definitions and test procedures for the power use of battery chargers and external power supplies. Prescribes the bases for test procedures for illuminated exit signs, distribution transformers (including the low voltage dry-type), traffic signal modules, and medium base compact fluorescent lamps.
(Sec. 137) Directs the Federal Trade Commission to consider the effectiveness of the current consumer products labeling program, and changes to labeling rules.
(Sec. 138) Instructs the Administrator of General Services to study and report to Congress on the advantages and disadvantages of employing intermittent escalators in the United States.
(Sec. 139) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) state and regional policies that promote cost-effective programs to reduce energy consumption by state-regulated utilities and nonregulated utilities; and (2) failure to comply with deadlines for new or revised energy conservation standards.
(Sec. 140) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program of financial assistance to between three and seven states to implement energy efficiency pilot projects.
Subtitle D: Public Housing - (Sec. 151) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to include among the capital and management activities for which assistance may be made available to public housing agencies from the Public Housing Capital Fund, the improvement of energy and water-use efficiency by certain energy and water conserving fixtures and fittings, and integrated utility management and capital planning to maximize energy conservation and efficiency measures.
(Sec. 152) Requires a public housing agency to purchase energy-efficient appliances designated as Energy Star products or FEMP products unless it is not cost-effective to do so.
(Sec. 153) Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to energy efficiency standards.
(Sec. 154) Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to report to Congress on development and implementation of an integrated energy strategy to reduce utility expenses through cost-effective energy conservation and efficiency measures and energy efficient design and construction of public and assisted housing.
Title II: Renewable Energy - Subtitle A: General Provisions - (Sec. 201) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) publish annual reports based upon assessments of renewable domestic energy resources, including solar, wind, biomass, ocean (tidal and thermal), geothermal, and hydroelectric energy; and (2) undertake new assessments as necessary, taking into account changes in market conditions, available technologies, and other relevant factors.
(Sec. 202) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise requirements for incentive payments for renewable energy production facilities.
Instructs the Secretary to assign 60% of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed-loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2026.
(Sec. 203) Requires federal purchases of renewable energy to escalate in accordance with certain percentage guidelines.
(Sec. 204) Sets forth procedural guidelines under which the Administrator of General Services is authorized to establish a photovoltaic energy commercialization program for the procurement and installation of photovoltaic solar electric systems for electric production in new and existing public buildings.
(Sec. 205) Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to mandatory preference in federal agency procurements for items composed of the highest percentage of biobased products practicable.
(Sec. 206) Amends ECPA to direct the Secretary to establish criteria governing renewable energy systems installed under the Weatherization Assistance Program.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program providing rebates for consumers for expenditures made for the installation of a renewable energy system in connection with a dwelling unit or small business.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 207) Authorizes FY2006 appropriations for the installation of a photovoltaic system for the DOE headquarters building (Forrestal Building) in the District of Columbia.
(Sec. 208) Establishes in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Sugar Cane Ethanol Pilot Program. Directs the Administrator of EPA to establish a pilot project in multiple states to study the production of ethanol from cane sugar, sugarcane, and sugarcane byproducts.
(Sec. 209) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to provide grants to: (1) increase energy efficiency, siting, or upgrading transmission and distribution lines serving rural areas; or (2) provide or modernize electric generation facilities that serve rural areas.
(Sec. 210) Authorizes a grants program to improve the commercial value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat, and transportation fuels.
(Sec. 211) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Interior should, before the end of the 10-year period beginning on enactment of this Act, seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity.
Subtitle B: Geothermal Energy - John Rishel Geothermal Steam Act Amendments of 2005 - (Sec. 221) Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (GSA) to revise competitive lease sale requirements.
(Sec. 222) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) accept nominations at any time from qualified companies and individuals; (2) hold biennial competitive lease sales for lands located in areas for which such nominations are pending; and (3) make available for noncompetitive leasing for a two-year period any tract for which a competitive lease sale is held, but for which no competitive lease sale bids have been received. (Currently, noncompetitive leasing is reserved for the lands not within any known geothermal resources area.)
Makes it a priority for the Secretary, and for the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System land, to ensure timely completion of administrative actions, including amendments to applicable forest plans and resource management plans necessary to process applications for geothermal leasing pending on the date of enactment of this Act.
Requires all future forest and resource management plans for areas with high geothermal resource potential to consider geothermal leasing and development.
Authorizes the Secretary to offer the several parcels for bidding as a block in the competitive lease sale, if a geothermal resource that could be produced as a single unit likely underlies more than one parcel.
(Sec. 223) Requires a fee schedule in lieu of royalties for direct use of geothermal resources used for purposes other than commercial generation of electricity.
(Sec. 224) Reduces lease royalty percentages accruing from electricity produced using geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources.
Authorizes a credit against royalties owed to a lessee, in certain circumstances, equal to the value of electricity provided (in-kind payment) under contract to certain state or county governments entitled to a portion of such royalties.
Revises requirements for the disposal of moneys from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties. Requires payment to the county where leased lands or geothermal resources are or were located of 25% of any such monies deposited in the Treasury.
(Sec. 225) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding that establishes: (1) administrative procedures to expedite geothermal lease applications; (2) an updatable five-year program for geothermal leasing; (3) a program for reducing the backlog of pending geothermal lease applications; and (4) a joint lease and permit application data retrieval system.
(Sec. 226) Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey and in cooperation with the states, to submit to Congress an update of the 1978 Assessment of Geothermal Resources.
(Sec. 227) Revises requirements for: (1) cooperative or unit plans of development or operation of geothermal fields; and (2) royalties on byproducts.
(Sec. 229) Revises requirements governing the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to readjust rentals and royalties of certain geothermal leases.
(Sec. 230) Credits certain annual rentals towards royalty payments.
(Sec. 231) Revises lease duration terms and work commitment requirements to: (1) replace 40-year renewable lease extensions with five-year renewable extensions; and (2) specify contents of regulations prescribing minimum work commitment requirements.
Revises conditions and requirements for conversion of a geothermal lease to either a mineral lease or a mining claim.
(Sec. 232) Maintains a geothermal lease in full force and effect for ten years after cessation of commercial production of heat or energy, if the lessee pays advanced royalties at the monthly average rate at which they were paid during production.
(Sec. 233) Prescribes a scale of annual rental rates for leases awarded in a competitive lease sale of $2 per acre or fraction for the first year, $3 for the second through tenth years, and $5 for each subsequent year. Limits the $1 per acre or fraction annual rental on a noncompetitive lease to ten years.
Requires the Secretary to terminate any lease whose rental is not paid more than 45 days after the due date.
(Sec. 234) Requires deposit into a separate account in the Treasury of amounts received by the United States in the first five fiscal years after the enactment of this Act as rentals, royalties, and other payments required under geothermal leases, excluding funds required to be paid to state and county governments. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) use them to implement the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and this Act; and (2) transfer such funds to the Forest Service for coordination and processing of geothermal leases and use authorizations on federal land.
(Sec. 235) Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to increase the acreage of geothermal leases and to repeal the statutory maximum placed upon such leases.
(Sec. 237) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Idaho National Laboratory, to participate in the Intermountain West Geothermal Consortium to address science and science policy issues surrounding the expanded discovery and use of geothermal energy, including from geothermal resources on public lands.
Instructs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Boise State University for expenditure under contracts with consortium members to implement consortium activities.
Subtitle C: Hydroelectric - (Sec. 241) Amends the Federal Power Act to require the appropriate Secretary, whenever a condition to an applied-for hydroelectric license is deemed necessary for a project works within a federal reservation, to accept an alternative condition proposed by the applicant and any party to the proceeding that meets certain criteria. Applies the same requirement to an alternative fishway proposed by a license applicant or licensee.
(Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to make specified incentive payments to owners or operators of: (1) certain qualified hydroelectric facilities; as well as (2) hydroelectric facilities at existing dams to make capital improvements directly related to improving facility efficiency by at least 3%. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2015.
(Sec. 244) Amends Federal Power Act requirements governing Alaska state jurisdiction over small hydroelectric power projects to cite conditions under which Alaska may decline to adopt recommendations proposed for protection of wildlife by federal and state fish and wildlife agencies.
(Sec. 245) Sets forth conditions under which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is directed to either extend or reinstate for a three-year period a permit for the Flint Creek (Montana) hydroelectric project.
Sets a $25,000 limit upon charges paid for the use of federal land by any political subdivision of Montana that holds a FERC license for a specified project in Granite and Deer Lodge Counties, Montana, for the use of that land for each year during such entity holds the license.
(Sec. 246) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act to redefine an "existing dam" as one constructed before July 22, 2005 (currently, before April 20, 1977).
Subtitle D: Insular Energy - (Sec. 251) Amends federal law to revise requirements for mandatory comprehensive energy plans for Caribbean and Pacific insular areas of the United States.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) identify and evaluate the strategies or projects with the greatest potential for reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels used for the generation of electricity, including increased use of specified sources of renewable energy; and (2) submit to certain congressional committees updated plans for each insular area.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to U.S. territories to implement projects that protect electric power transmission and distribution lines from hurricane and typhoon damage.
(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of Energy, upon request of an electric utility located in an insular area that commits to fund at least 10% of the cost, to conduct feasibility studies of projects with potential to significantly reduce the dependence of an insular area on imported fossil fuels, or provide needed distributed generation to an insular area, at a reasonable cost.
Title III: Oil and Gas - Subtitle A: Petroleum Reserve and Home Heating Oil - (Sec. 301) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to make permanent: (1) the authority of the Secretary of Energy to operate the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR); and (2) standby energy authorities, including summer fill and fuel budgeting programs.
Directs the Secretary to fill the SPR to its one billion-barrel capacity.
Requires the Secretary to develop procedures for acquiring petroleum for the SPR, taking into account specified factors.
(Sec. 302) Amends the Energy Act of 2000 to extend for five years the authorization for the National Oilheat Research Alliance.
(Sec. 303) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to complete a proceeding to select sites necessary to enable acquisition of the full authorized SPR volume.
Subtitle B: Natural Gas - (Sec. 311) Amends the Natural Gas Act to extend its jurisdiction to: (1) importation or exportation of natural gas in foreign commerce and to persons engaged in it; and (2) liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, including all facilities located onshore or in state waters that are used to receive, unload, load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural gas that is imported to the United States from a foreign country, exported to a foreign country from the United States, or transported in interstate commerce by waterborne tanker.
Prescribes procedural guidelines governing FERC authorization of siting, construction, expansion, or operation of liquefaction or gasification of natural gas terminals.
Grants FERC exclusive authority to approve or deny, according to specified procedures, an application for the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.
Directs FERC to require a LNG terminal operator to develop an Emergency Response Plan, include a cost-sharing plan, in consultation with the United States Coast Guard and state and local agencies prior to FERC approval to begin construction.
(Sec. 312) Authorizes FERC to permit a natural gas company to provide storage and storage-related services at market-based rates for new storage capacity related to a specific facility placed in service after enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the fact that the company is unable to demonstrate that it lacks market power.
(Sec. 313) Designates FERC as the lead agency for coordinating federal permits and other authorizations and compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). Directs FERC to establish a schedule for all federal authorizations.
(Sec. 314) Sets forth increased criminal and civil penalties for violations of the Natural Gas Act and of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.
(Sec. 315) Prohibits manipulative or deceptive service in connection with the purchase or sale of natural gas or the purchase or sale of transportation services subject to FERC jurisdiction.
(Sec. 316) Directs FERC to facilitate price transparency in markets for the sale or transportation of physical natural gas in interstate commerce.
(Sec. 317) Directs the Secretary to convene up to three federal-state LNG forums.
(Sec. 318) Authorizes the court to prohibit from trading and serving as officers of a natural gas company any individuals engaged in violation of the Natural Gas Act .
Subtitle C: Production - (Sec. 322) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exclude from the definition of underground injection the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil or gas, or geothermal production activities.
Subtitle D: Naval Petroleum Reserve - (Sec. 331) Transfers from the Secretary of Energy to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction and control over all but specified public domain lands included within Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 located in Kern County, California.
(Sec. 332) Establishes in the Treasury the Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 Lease Revenue Account as the sole and exclusive source of funds available to the Secretary of the Interior to pay for environmental-related costs and expenses incurred by the United States.
(Sec. 333) Conveys to the City of Taft, California, without any payment of consideration by the City, all surface right, title, and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property (a portion of the Naval Petroleum Reserve) located in Mount Diablo meridian, County of Kern, California.
(Sec. 334) Revokes in its entirety Executive Order of December 13, 1912, which created Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 (thereby revoking the withdrawal of such land).
Subtitle E: Production Incentives - ( Sec. 342) Establishes a program for in-kind oil and gas royalties. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in disposing of gas or oil royalty taken in-kind, to grant a preference to any person, including any state or federal agency, for the purpose of providing additional resources to any federal low-income energy assistance program.
(Sec. 343) Prescribes conditions for reductions and termination of of royalty rates on marginal property. Defines as an onshore unit, communitization agreement, or other lease that produces on average the combined equivalent of less than 15 barrels of oil per well per day or 90 million British thermal units of gas per well per day.
(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate final royalty incentive regulations for natural gas production from deep wells and ultra deep wells in certain shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
(Sec. 345) Suspends royalties for deep water production in certain parts of the Gulf of Mexico and in certain Planning Areas offshore Alaska.
(Sec. 347) Transfers to the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 certain requirements governing exploration of the National Petroleum Reserve (Reserve) in Alaska.
Revises such requirements to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an expeditious program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in such Reserve. Prescribes leasing guidelines that authorize the Secretary to waive, suspend, or reduce the rental fees or minimum royalty, or reduce the royalty on an entire leasehold, if the Secretary determines that it is in the public interest.
(Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the North Slope Science Initiative to coordinate collection of scientific data regarding the terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems of the North Slope of Alaska.
(Sec. 349) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to establish a program to remediate, reclaim, and close orphaned, abandoned, or idled oil and gas wells located on land administered by the land management agencies within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 350) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary to issue separately for any area that contains any combination of tar sand and oil or gas (or both): (1) a lease for exploration for and extraction of tar sand; and (2) a lease for exploration for and development of oil and gas.
States that the minimum acceptable bid required for a lease issued for tar sand shall be $2 per acre.
Authorizes the Secretary to waive, suspend, or alter any requirement that a permittee prospecting for tar sand must exercise due diligence to promote any resource covered by a combined hydrocarbon lease.
(Sec. 351) National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretary to implement a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, including establishment of a data archive system. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 352) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to exempt from its oil and gas lease acreage limitation any lease committed to a federally approved unit or cooperative plan, or communitization agreement, or for which royalty, including compensatory royalty or royalty-in-kind, was paid in the preceding calendar year. (Thus removes acreage limitations from oil and gas leases granted royalty relief under this Act.)
(Sec. 353) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant royalty relief for natural gas produced from gas hydrate resources under certain eligible leases on the Outer Continental Shelf and federal lands in Alaska.
(Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a rulemaking for royalty reductions for eligible leases, including those for oil and gas.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for oil and gas producers to implement projects to inject carbon dioxide to enhance recovery of oil or natural gas while increasing carbon dioxide sequestration; and (2) assess and report to Congress on the economic implications of the dependence of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of energy.
(Sec. 356) Requires the Denali Commission to use specified funds to implement designated energy programs, including: (1) energy generation and development; (2) fuel cells, hydroelectric, solar, wind, wave, and tidal energy; (3) the replacement and cleanup of fuel tanks; and (4) the construction of fuel transportation networks and related facilities.
(Sec. 357) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to inventory, analyze, and report to Congress on oil and natural gas resources beneath all of the waters of the United States Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
Subtitle F: Access to Federal Lands - (Sec. 361) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to perform an internal review of current federal onshore oil and gas leasing and permitting practices.
(Sec. 362) Prescribes general requirements for management of federal oil and gas leasing programs by, including best management practices of, the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 363) Requires the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of Agriculture regarding oil and gas leasing on public lands and National Forest lands under their respective jurisdictions.
(Sec. 364) Amends the Energy Act of 2000 to revise the requirement that the Secretary of the Interior, when inventorying all onshore federal lands, identify impediments or restrictions upon oil and gas development.
(Sec. 365) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.
(Sec. 366) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to set deadlines for an expedited permit application process.
(Sec. 367) Instructs: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to update regulations to revise the per acre rental fee zone value schedule by state, county, and type of linear right-of-way use to reflect current values of land in each zone; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture to make the same revision for linear rights-of-way granted, issued, or renewed on National Forest System land under the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act of 1976.
(Sec. 368) Prescribes guidelines governing energy right-of-way corridors on federal land.
Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, of Commerce, of Defense, of Energy, and of the Interior (the Secretaries), in consultation with FERC, states, tribal or local governmental entities, affected utility industries, and other interested persons, are directed to consult with each other and to: (1) designate corridors for oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution facilities on federal land in the 11 contiguous Western States; (2) incorporate the designated corridors into the relevant agency land use and resource management or equivalent plans; and (3) ensure that additional corridors are promptly identified and designated.
(Sec. 369) Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005 - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that U.S. oil shale, tar sands, and other unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be developed to reduce the growing U.S. dependence on politically and economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports.
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to make available for leasing public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in order to conduct research and development of technologies for the recovery of liquid fuels from oil shale and tar sands resources.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a task force to develop a program to coordinate and accelerate the commercial development of strategic unconventional fuels, including oil shale and tar sands resources.
Requires the Office of Petroleum Reserves of the Department of Energy to: (1) coordinate the creation and implementation of a commercial strategic fuel development program for the United States; (2) promote and coordinate federal actions that facilitate the development of strategic fuels in order to address effectively domestic energy supply needs; and (3) work closely with the Task Force and coordinate its staff support.
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to modify leasing guidelines for: (1) lands within special tar sand areas; (2) oil shale deposits and expanded lease acreage; and (3) lease exclusion from any chargeability limitation associated with oil and gas leases.
Designates the Department of the Interior as the lead federal agency for coordinating all applicable federal authorizations and environmental reviews.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement a national assessment of oil shale and tar sands resources in order to evaluate and map oil shale and tar sands deposits, in the following order of priority: (1) the Green River Region of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming; (2) the Devonian oil shales and other hydrocarbon-bearing rocks called "shale" located east of the Mississippi River; and (3) any remaining area in the central and western United States (including Alaska) that contains oil shale and tar sands, as determined by the Secretary.
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) identify public lands containing deposits of oil shale or tar sands within the Green River, Piceance Creek, Uintah, and Washakie geologic basins; (2) give priority to implementing land exchanges within those basins; and (3) establish royalties, fees, rentals, bonus, or other payments for leases that encourage development of the oil shale and tar sands resources.
Instructs the Secretary of Defense to procure fuel derived from coal, oil shale, and tar sands extracted by either mining or in-situ methods and refined and processed in the United States. Grants the Secretary of Defense multiyear contract authority.
Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 370) Withdraws all federal land within the boundary of Finger Lakes National Forest in New York from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; and (2) disposition under all laws relating to oil and gas leasing.
(Sec. 371) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to cite conditions for the reinstatement of oil and gas leases terminated for certain failure to pay rentals.
(Sec. 372) Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into a memorandum of understanding with relevant entities to coordinate all applicable federal authorizations and environmental reviews relating to energy rights-of-way on public land.
(Sec. 373) Expresses the sense of Congress that any regulation of the development of oil, gas, or other minerals in the subsurface of the lands constituting Padre Island National Seashore should be made as if those lands retained the status they had on September 27, 1962.
(Sec. 374) Amends federal law governing the reservation of federal mineral rights in the conveyance of certain lands to Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey the remaining mineral rights to the parties who as of the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 would be recognized as holders of a right, title, or interest to any portion of such minerals under the laws of Louisiana, but for the interest of the United States in such minerals.
Subtitle G: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 381) Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to revise procedural requirements for deadlines and decisions on appeals to the Secretary of the Interior regarding consistency of federal activities with state management programs.
(Sec. 383) Allows a lessee to withhold from payment any royalty due and owing to the United States under any leases under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil or gas production from a covered lease tract if, on or before the date that the payment is due and payable to the United States, the lessee makes a payment to the state of 44 cents for every $1 of royalty withheld.
(Sec. 384) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to revise definitions and guidelines governing the coastal impact assistance program. Sets forth allocation guidelines among producing states and the amount of Outer Continental Shelf revenues.
(Sec. 385) Requires the Secretary to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to Congress on short-term and long-term availability of skilled workers to meet the energy and mineral security requirements of the United States.
(Sec. 386) Bans issuance of any federal or state permit or lease for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under the Great Lakes.
(Sec. 387) Requires removal of any state currently on the list of Affected States with respect to federal coalbed methane regulation under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 if, within three years after enactment of this Act, the state takes, or before the date of enactment has taken, any of the actions required for removal from the list under such law.
(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right-of-way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy-related or marine-related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.
Sets forth implementation requirements.
(Sec. 389) Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to terminate authorization for funding the Oil Spill Recovery Institute one year after the date on which the Secretary of Energy determines that oil and gas exploration, development, and production in Alaska have ceased. (Currently the authorization will terminate September 30, 2012.)
(Sec. 390) States that action by the Secretary of the Interior in managing the public lands, or the Secretary of Agriculture in managing National Forest System Lands, with respect to certain oil or gas drilling related activities shall be subject to a rebuttable presumption that the use of a categorical exclusion under NEPA would apply if the activity is conducted pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act for the purpose of exploration or development of oil or gas.
Subtitle H: Refinery Revitalization - (Sec. 392) Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, upon request, to enter into a refinery permitting cooperative agreement with the state under which each signatory identifies the steps, including timelines, it will take to streamline the consideration of federal and state environmental permits for a new refinery.
Title IV: Coal - Subtitle A: Clean Coal Power Initiative - (Sec. 401) Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2014 for a Clean Coal Power Initiative.
(Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to award competitive, merit-based grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment of clean coal centers of excellence for energy systems of the future.
Subtitle B: Clean Power Projects - (Sec. 411) Grants the Secretary loan guarantee authority for a certain project to produce energy from coal of less than 7,000 Btu/lb. using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology, including repowering of existing facilities.
States that such loan guarantees do not preclude the facility from receiving an allocation for investment tax credits under Internal Revenue Code.
(Sec. 412) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to provide the cost of a direct loan to the owner of a clean coal technology plant located near Healy, Alaska, constructed under Department cooperative agreement number DE-FC-FY22-91PC90544, in order to place such plant into reliable operation for the generation of electricity. Sets the loan ceiling at $80 million.
(Sec. 413) Directs the Secretary to carry out a project to demonstrate production of energy from coal mined in the western United States using integrated gasification combined cycle technology.
(Sec. 414) Authorizes the Secretary to provide loan guarantees for: (1) a certain project to produce energy from a plant using integrated (coal) gasification combined cycle technology of at least 400 megawatts in capacity that produces power at competitive rates in deregulated energy generation markets and does not receive a subsidy from ratepayers; and (2) at least five petroleum coke gasification projects.
(Sec. 416) Directs the Secretary to use $5 million to demonstrate the viability of high-energy electron scrubbing technology on commercial-scale electrical generation using high-sulfur coal.
(Sec. 417) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to carry out a program to evaluate the commercial and technical viability of advanced technologies for the production of Fischer-Tropsch and other transportation fuels, manufactured from Illinois basin coal, including the capital modification of existing facilities and the construction of testing facilities.
Subtitle C: Coal and Related Programs - (Sec. 431) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary to implement a financial assistance program to facilitate production and generation of coal-based power through the deployment of clean coal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requirements.
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) generation projects through FY2013; and (2) an air quality enhancement program through FY2011.
Subtitle D: Federal Coal Leases - Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2005 - (Sec. 431) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the leaseholder of either coal lands or coal deposits to secure modifications of the original coal lease by including additional coal lands or coal deposits contiguous or cornering to those encompassed in the lease. Repeals the 160-acre limitation for coal leases.
(Sec. 433) Allows the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish a period of more than 40 years for the mining plan of a logical mining unit; and (2) modify the conditions for advance royalty payments under coal leases.
(Sec. 435) Repeals the deadline for submission for the Secretary's approval of a coal lease operation and reclamation plan.
(Sec. 436) Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a surety bond or any other financial assurance to guarantee payment of deferred bonus bid installments with respect to any coal lease issued on a cash bonus bid to a lessee or successor in interest having a history of a timely payment of noncontested coal royalties and advanced coal royalties in lieu of production (where applicable) and bonus bid installment payments.
(Sec. 437) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to review and report to Congress on coal assessments and other available data to identify: (1) federal lands, other than National Park lands, with coal resources available for development; (2) the extent and nature of any restrictions or impediments to the development of coal resources on such lands; and (3) resources of compliant coal and supercompliant coal.
Title V: Indian Energy - Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005 - (Sec. 502) 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 energy activities and tribal energy resource development through a program of grants and loans.
(Sec. 503) Revises requirements for Indian tribal energy resource development. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an Indian energy resource development program to assist consenting Indian tribes and tribal energy resource development organizations. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2016.
Requires the Director of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, DOE, to establish grant programs to assist consenting Indian tribes in meeting energy education, research and development, planning, and management needs, including specified technology sequestration programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2016.
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide loan guarantees for up to 90% of the unpaid principal and interest due on any loan made to any Indian tribe for energy development. Authorizes appropriations.
Revises requirements for the Indian tribal energy resource regulation grant program.
Prescribes implementation requirements governing leases, business agreements, and rights-of-way involving Indian energy development or transmission. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2016.
Directs the Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, and any other pertinent power administration to encourage Indian tribal energy development through programs within their respective Administrations, including power allocations and purchases.
Authorizes appropriations.
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) tribal use of federal power allocations or sales by specified power administrations; and (2) the cost and feasibility of a demonstration project using wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Missouri River to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration.
(Sec. 505) Declares the Dine Power Authority (a Navajo Nation enterprise) eligible to receive grants and other assistance for development of a transmission line from the Four Corners Area (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona) to southern Nevada, including related power generation opportunities.
Amends federal law to extend a certain Navajo Electrification Demonstration Program to ten years and to extend the authorization of appropriations to FY2011.
(Sec. 506) Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote energy conservation in housing that is located on Indian land and assisted with federal resources.
Title VI: Nuclear Matters - Subtitle A: Price-Anderson Act Amendments - Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2005 - (Sec. 602) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify and extend through December 31, 2025, indemnification authority and liability limits for Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees, DOE contractors, and for nonprofit educational institutions.
(Sec. 610) Repeals the mandate that the Secretary determine by rule whether nonprofit educational institutions should receive automatic remission of any civil monetary penalties for violation of DOE safety regulations.
Repeals the specific exemption from liability for such penalties affecting certain universities, corporations, and their subcontractors or suppliers. Limits to the total amount of fees paid within any one-year period under the contract under which a violation occurs the total amount of civil penalties incurred within any one-year period by a not-for-profit contractor, subcontractor, or supplier. Defines "not-for-profit" to mean that no part of the net earnings of the contractor, subcontractor, or supplier inures to the benefit of any natural person or for-profit artificial person.
Subtitle B: General Nuclear Matters - (Sec. 621) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to specify that a commercial nuclear power utilization or production facility license extends for not more than 40 years (as under current law) from the authorization to commence operations.
(Sec. 622) Authorizes the NRC to establish a Scholarship and Fellowship program to enable students to study, for at least one academic semester or equivalent term, science, engineering, or another field of study in a critical skill area related to the NRC regulatory mission.
(Sec. 624) Authorizes the NRC to exempt from the federal civil service pension offset an annuitant who was formerly a NRC employee and is hired as consultant to the NRC if there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting or retaining a qualified employee.
(Sec. 625) Waives application of federal antitrust law to applications for a license to construct or operate a utilization or production facility.
(Sec. 626) States that a general duty of the NRC is to ensure that sufficient funds will be available to decommission certain licensed production or utilization facilities, including standards and restrictions governing the control, maintenance, use, and disbursement by any former licensee that has control over any fund for the decommissioning of a facility.
(Sec. 627) Prohibits DOE from reimbursing any contractor or subcontractor for legal fees or expenses incurred with respect to a complaint subsequent to an adverse determination or final judgment unless the determination or final judgment is reversed upon further administrative or judicial review.
(Sec. 628) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to decommission and decontaminate the sodium-cooled fast breeder experimental test-site reactor located in northwest Arkansas, in accordance with a specified DOE report relating to the reactor, dated August 31, 1998. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 629) Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to extend whistleblower protections to federal employees of either DOE or the NRC, including all contractor and subcontractor employees.
Permits whistleblower complaints to be brought directly in U.S. district court for de novo review if the Secretary of Labor fails to issue a final order within the statutory deadline.
(Sec. 630) Cites conditions under which the NRC may issue an export license for highly enriched uranium for medical isotope production.
(Sec. 631) Instructs the Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) an official notification of the final designation of a DOE entity for completing activities needed to provide a facility for safely disposing of all greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive waste; and (2) a plan to ensure the continued recovery and storage of greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive sealed sources that pose a security threat until a permanent disposal facility is available.
(Sec. 632) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit nuclear exports to countries that sponsor terrorism. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition under certain circumstances.
(Sec. 633) Instructs the Secretary to take action necessary to ensure continued eligibility to participate in or transfer into certain pension or health care benefit plans if an employee: (1) is involved in providing infrastructure or environmental remediation services at the Portsmouth, Ohio, or the Paducah, Kentucky, Gaseous Diffusion Plant; (2) has been an employee of DOE's predecessor management and integrating contractor (or its first or second tier subcontractors), or of the Corporation, at the Portsmouth, Ohio, or the Paducah, Kentucky, facility; and (3) was eligible as of April 1, 2005, to participate in or transfer into the Multiple Employer Pension Plan or the associated multiple employer retiree health care benefit plans.
(Sec. 634) Directs the Secretary to provide for establishment of two projects in geographical areas regionally and climatically diverse to demonstrate the commercial production of hydrogen at existing nuclear power plants. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 635) Prohibits assumption of liability by the U.S. Government for certain foreign incidents.
(Sec. 636) Authorizes appropriations for this subtitle.
(Sec. 637) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 with respect to NRC user fees and annual charges.
(Sec. 638) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with sponsors of an advanced nuclear facility that cover a total of six reactors consisting of not more than three different reactor designs, in accordance with statutory requirements.
(Sec. 639) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the NRC to enter into a contract, agreement, or arrangement with the DOE or the operator of a DOE facility, if: (1) the conflict of interest cannot be mitigated; and (2) adequate justification exists to proceed without its mitigation.
Subtitle C: Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project - (Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do both.
(Sec. 642) Requires the Project to be managed in DOE by the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology.
Designates the Idaho National Laboratory as the lead laboratory, where the prototype nuclear reactor and associated plant shall be sited.
(Sec. 643) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the Project is structured to maximize the transfer of technologies from other sources, including the nuclear power and chemical processing industries.
Provides guidelines for: (1) international collaboration and assistance; (2) review by the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee; (3) NRC licensing and regulatory authority; and (4) Project timelines.
(Sec. 645) Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2021.
Subtitle D: Nuclear Security - (Sec. 651) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the NRC to conduct security evaluations at each licensed nuclear facility to assess the ability of a private security force to defend against any applicable design basis threat.
Requires the NRC to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to revise its design basis threats.
Directs the NRC to assign a federal security coordinator to each of its regions to monitor and coordinate security measures among the private security forces at classes of nuclear facilities.
Directs the NRC to require backup power for certain emergency notification systems for nuclear power plants located in specified areas.
Authorizes the NRC to provide grants, contracts, and other contributions to institutions of higher education to support training and curricula pertaining to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or other fields critical to the NRC's regulatory mission.
Requires the NRC to: (1) set forth regulatory guidelines for the import or export of radiation sources that include a mandatory tracking system; and (2) submit to Congress the results of a study by the National Academy of Sciences about industrial, research, and commercial uses for radiation sources.
Establishes the Task Force on Radiation Source Protection and Security to evaluate and report to Congress and the President on the security of radiation sources in the United States from potential terrorist threats, sabotage, theft, or use of a radiation source in a radiological dispersal device.
Sets forth guidelines for: (1) transfer and disposal of byproduct material in a disposal facility; and (2) formulation of a plan for transition of regulatory authority between the states and the NRC with respect to byproduct material.
(Sec. 652) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the NRC to require fingerprinting for criminal history record checks for individuals permitted unescorted access to a utilization facility, radioactive material, other property subject to its regulations, or certain safeguards information.
(Sec. 653) Authorizes the NRC to authorize the use of firearms by security personnel of NRC licensees and certificate holders.
(Sec. 655) Identifies additional types of nuclear facilities whose sabotage incurs certain federal criminal penalties. Increases such penalties, including imprisonment for up to life without parole.
(Sec. 656) Directs the NRC to establish a system to ensure that byproduct materials, source materials, special nuclear materials, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, and low-level radioactive waste materials, when transferred or received in the United States by any party pursuant to an import or export license, are accompanied by a manifest describing the type and amount of such materials. Subjects to a security background check each individual receiving or accompanying the transfer of such materials.
(Sec. 657) Requires the NRC, before issuing a utilization facility license, to consult with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concerning the potential vulnerabilities of the proposed facility's location to terrorist attack.
Title VII: Vehicles and Fuels - Subtitle A: Existing Programs - (Sec. 701) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to cite circumstances that permit an agency to qualify for a waiver of the alternative fuel use requirement applicable to dual fueled federal light duty vehicles.
(Sec. 702) Changes from discretionary to mandatory the authority of the General Services Administration (GSA), and any other federal agency that procures motor vehicles for distribution to other federal agencies, to allocate the incremental cost of alternative fueled vehicles over the cost of comparable gasoline vehicles across the entire fleet of motor vehicles distributed by such agency.
(Sec. 703) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to waive compliance with the fleet requirement program governing federal and state motor vehicle fleets on a showing that the fleet will achieve a reduction in annual petroleum fuel consumption, and complies with all applicable vehicle emission standards.
(Sec. 704) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the effect that certain alternative fueled vehicle requirements have had upon: (1) the development of alternative fueled vehicle technology; (2) the availability of that technology in the market; and (3) the cost of alternative fueled vehicles.
(Sec. 705) Changes from November 13, 1999, to February 15, 2006, the deadline for the first annual report by each federal agency on its compliance with alternative fueled vehicle purchasing requirements.
(Sec. 706) Instructs the Secretary to establish a program to improve technologies for the commercialization of: (1) a combination hybrid/flexible fuel vehicle; or (2) a plug-in hybrid/flexible fuel vehicle. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2009.
(Sec. 707) Exempts from the alternative fuel requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 vehicles directly used in the emergency repair of transmission lines and in the restoration of electricity service following power outages.
Subtitle B: Hybrid Vehicles, Advanced Vehicles, and Fuel Cell Buses - Part 1: Hybrid Vehicles - (Sec. 711) Requires the Secretary to accelerate efforts directed toward the improvement of batteries and other rechargeable energy storage systems, power electronics, hybrid systems integration, and other hybrid vehicles technologies.
(Sec. 712) Instructs the Secretary to establish a program to encourage domestic production and sales of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles. Requires the program to include grants to automobile manufacturers to encourage domestic production of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.
Part 2: Advanced Vehicles - (Sec. 721) Directs the Secretary to establish a competitive grant pilot program through the DOE Clean Cities Program, to provide up to 30 geographically dispersed project grants to state or local governments or metropolitan transportation authorities for acquisition of alternative fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles, or fuel cell vehicles, including the infrastructure necessary to support them directly.
(Sec. 723) Authorizes appropriations.
Part 3: Fuel Cell Buses - (Sec. 731) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a transit bus demonstration program to make competitive, merit-based awards for five-year projects to demonstrate up to 25 fuel cell transit buses (and necessary infrastructure) in five geographically dispersed localities; and (2) give preference to projects most likely to mitigate congestion and improve air quality. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
Subtitle C: Clean School Buses - (Sec. 741) Directs the EPA Administrator to establish a grant program on a competitive basis to replace or retrofit certain existing school buses (including repowering, aftertreatment, and remanufactured engines).
(Sec. 742) Instructs the EPA Administrator to establish a program for awarding grants on a competitive basis to governmental entities for fleet modernization programs including installation of retrofit technologies for diesel trucks.
(Sec. 743) Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program for entering into cooperative agreements: (1) with private sector developers for the development of fuel cell-powered school buses; and (2) with local government entities using natural gas-powered school buses and such developers to demonstrate the use of such buses. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2009.
Subtitle D: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 751) Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a cost-shared, public-private research partnership involving the federal government, railroad carriers, locomotive manufacturers and equipment suppliers, and the Association of American Railroads to develop and demonstrate railroad locomotive technologies that increase fuel economy, reduce emissions, and lower costs of operation. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2008.
(Sec. 752) Instructs the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on the trading of mobile source emission reduction credits for use by owners and operators of stationary source emission sources to meet emission offset requirements within a nonattainment area.
(Sec. 753) Requires the EPA Administrator and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to study and report to Congress on: (1) the impact of aircraft emissions on air quality in nonattainment areas; (2) ways to promote fuel conservation measures for aviation; and (3) opportunities to reduce air traffic inefficiencies that increase fuel burn and emissions.
(Sec. 754) Instructs the Secretary to accelerate efforts to improve diesel combustion and aftertreatment technologies for use in diesel fueled motor vehicles.
(Sec. 755) Establishes within the Department of Transportation the Conserve by Bicycling Program. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 756) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) review Clean Air Act mobile source air emission models to determine whether they accurately reflect emissions resulting from long-duration idling of vehicles and engines; (2) review emission reductions achieved by the use of idle reduction technology; (3) revise EPA regulations and guidance as appropriate; and (4) establish a program to support deployment of idle reduction technology. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2008.
Requires the EPA Administrator to study and report to Congress on all locations at which heavy-duty vehicles stop for long-duration idling.
(Sec. 757) Instructs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to initiate a partnership with diesel engine, diesel fuel injection system, diesel vehicle manufacturers, and diesel and biodiesel fuel providers to include biodiesel testing in advanced diesel engine and fuel system technology. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 758) Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of ultra-efficient engine technology for aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010.
(Sec. 759) Amends federal transportation law to require that, in order for any model of dual fueled automobile to be eligible to receive certain fuel economy incentives, a label be attached to the fuel compartment stating that the vehicle can be operated on an alternative fuel and on gasoline or diesel, with the form of alternative fuel stated on the notice.
Subtitle E: Automobile Ef