American-Made Energy Act of 2008
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
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 14, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
American-Made Energy Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify and set forth provisions concerning tax credits for alternative and renewable energy, nuclear power facility construction, and an advanced coal project and deductions for energy efficient commercial buildings, qualified refinery property, and oil and gas well depletion. Establishes the American-Made Energy Trust Fund.
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal a provision that prohibits federal agencies from procuring alternative or synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use unless its life cycle greenhouse gas emissions are less than those for fuel from conventional petroleum sources.
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study the effects of state guaranteed profit laws and credit card processing fees on gasoline prices.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the Coastal Plain's oil and gas resources. Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 to repeal a provision concerning the prohibition on leasing or other development leading to the production of oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Authorizes the Secretary to designate certain Coastal Plain lands as Special Areas requiring special management and regulatory protection, including the Sadlerochit Spring area.
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to set forth provisions concerning: (1) studying the maintenance of coal-to-liquid products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; (2) constructing specified storage facilities for the Reserve; (3) acquiring, storing, transporting, or exchanging coal-to-liquid fuel; (4) procuring biobased fuel or coal-to-liquid fuel; and (5) auctioning to the public coal-to-liquid fuel put option contracts.
Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize funding for grants for cellulosic ethanol production for FY2009-FY2010.
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make loan guarantees to entities to assist in paying the cost of development and construction of biorefineries and biofuel production plants to carry out projects to demonstrate the commercial viability of processes for converting biomass to fuels or chemicals; and (2) conduct a competitive research and development program to encourage new forest-to-energy technologies. Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to repeal provisions concerning biomass research and development.
Authorizes persons who generate credits for renewable fuel that exceed their annual obligation for such fuel to retain such credits for the purpose of complying with obligations under the Clean Air Act with respect to advanced biofuel.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to terminate prohibitions on expenditures to conduct oil or natural gas leasing and preleasing activities for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) areas and to revoke withdrawals of federal submerged lands from the OCS. Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from granting certain oil or natural gas leases for OCS areas that are located within a specified number of miles of the coastline of a state.
Establishes the state seaward boundaries under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Authorizes the President to take steps to increase the share of electricity generated from nuclear power to 40% of the total domestic generation by 2050.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2008 to Aug 1, 2008, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Feb 14, 2008 |
| D-OK | Dan Boren | Mar 13, 2008 | |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Mar 13, 2008 | |
| R-ID | Bill Sali | May 13, 2008 | |
| R-NM | Stevan Pearce | May 21, 2008 | |
| D-IN | Joe Donnelly | Jun 12, 2008 | |
| R-NY | John M. McHugh | Jun 12, 2008 | |
| D-LA | Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. | Jul 10, 2008 | |
| D-MS | Travis Childers | Jul 15, 2008 | |
| R-GA | Lynn A. Westmoreland | Jul 22, 2008 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Aug 1, 2008 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
- Feb 29, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
- Feb 21, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
- Feb 14, 2008Introduced in House
- Feb 14, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science and Technology, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, Agriculture, Natural Resources, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Agricultural wastes
- Agriculture and Food
- Alaska
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Arctic and polar regions
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Auctions
- Biomass energy
- Bonds
- Boundaries
- Carbon dioxide
- Cellulose
- Chemicals
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Coastal zone
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continental shelf
- Credit cards
- Defense procurement
- Depletion allowances
- Depreciation and amortization
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric power production
- Electric vehicles
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy prices
- Energy research
- Energy security
- Energy storage
- Energy transportation
- Environmental Protection
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to research
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Feedstock
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Forest products
- Fuel cells
- Gas in submerged lands
- Gasoline
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Indian lands
- Indigenous peoples
- Investment tax credit
- Judicial review
- Land transfers
- Law
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Minimum tax
- Minorities
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Native Americans
- Natural gas
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear power plants
- Oil and gas leases
- Options (Contract)
- Petroleum
- Petroleum in submerged lands
- Petroleum industry
- Petroleum refineries
- Petroleum reserves
- Profit
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Refuse as fuel
- Research and development
- Restrictive trade practices
- Revenue sharing
- Right-of-way
- Rural economic development
- Solar energy
- State laws
- Strategic materials
- Synthetic fuel
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trees
- Wildlife refuges
- Wind power
- Wood
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2008Introduced in House
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