Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005
Latest action · Feb 15, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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 15, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a national strategy to promote greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices through research and development programs conducted by National Laboratories, other Federal research facilities, universities, and the private sector.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Climate Change Technology to coordinate Federal climate change activities and programs to promote such strategy; and (2) a permanent Climate Change Technology Program to assist the Committee in the interagency coordination of climate change technology research, development, and demonstration, and deployment to reduce greenhouse gas intensity.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish the Climate Change Science Program to assist the Committee in the interagency coordination of climate change science research.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct an inventory and evaluation of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies to determine suitable commercialization and deployment technologies; (2) use inventory results for guidance in such commercialization; (3) establish a Climate Change Technology Working Group to identify major statutory, regulatory, and economic barriers to such commercialization; and (4) establish within the Department of Energy a Climate Credit Board to implement the greenhouse gas intensity reducing technology deployment program, using energy credit financial support for eligible projects.
Requires the President to establish a national greenhouse gas registry to serve as the depository for data on greenhouse gas emissions and emission reductions.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2005 to Apr 4, 2005; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NC | Elizabeth Dole | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-TN | Lamar Alexander | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-ID | Larry E. Craig | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Apr 4, 2005 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 15, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Feb 15, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1426-1428)
- Feb 15, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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 S1427–S1430 | Chuck Hagel R-NE, Lamar Alexander R-TN, Larry E. Craig R-ID | Feb 15, 2005 |
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 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 109-37 | COAL CONFERENCE56 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Mar 10, 2005–Apr 21, 2005 |
| Serial No. 109-1 | THE ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005601 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Feb 10, 2005–Feb 16, 2005 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out activities that promote the adoption of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas intensity and to provide credit-based financial assistance and investment protection for projects that employ advanced climate technologies or systems, to provide for the establishment of a national greenhouse gas registry, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Air pollution control
- Alternative energy sources
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Cogeneration of electric power and heat
- Commerce
- Commercialization
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Data banks
- Department of Commerce
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power transmission
- Electric utility rates
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fluorocarbons
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Governmental investigations
- Intellectual property
- Laboratories
- Methane
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Nitrogen oxides
- Nuclear power plants
- Pollution measurement
- Public-private partnerships
- Research and development
- Research and development facilities
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smog
- Sulphur
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Technology transfer
- Trade secrets
- Transportation and Public Works
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2005Introduced in Senate
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.