Main Street U.S.A. Energy Security Act of 2008
Latest action · May 23, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
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.
- IntroducedMay 8, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Main Street U.S.A. Energy Security Act of 2008 - Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upon request of a state governor, to provide financial assistance to hire additional personnel with expertise in federal refinery authorizations.
Directs the President to: (1) appoint a federal coordinator to implement a federal refinery authorization; and (2) designate certain closed military installations as potentially suitable refinery construction sites.
Sets forth an oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of Alaska.
Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revise the outer Continental Shelf leasing program.
Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for a natural resources enhancement program for management of fish, wildlife, and natural resources.
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary to use decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for artificial reef and scientific research.
Redesignates as the Energy and Mineral Schools Reinvestment Act specified law governing mining and petroleum schools. Revises requirements for the funding of certain state-chartered petroleum or mining schools.
National Geo Fund Act of 2008 - Instructs the Secretary to establish: (1) a fuel production program using strategic unconventional resources and CO2 enhanced recovery; and (3) a grant program to produce geothermal and geopressure oil and gas.
Grants the lessee of an existing oil and gas lease located completely within 100 miles of the coastline of California or Florida Adjacent Zones the option, without compensation, of exchanging such lease for a new oil and gas lease having a primary term of five years.
Amends OCSLA to: (1) repeal the coastal impact assistance program; and (2) provide conditional funds for the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) revise incentives for innovative technologies; (2) authorize construction of nuclear power plants by 2010 (Nuclear Power 2010 Program); and (3) instruct the Secretary of Labor to promulgate implementing regulations for a nuclear energy workforce program.
Creates an interagency working group to recommend coordinated federal promotion of increased domestic nuclear manufacturing capacity and export of domestic nuclear energy products and services.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualifying nuclear power manufacturing tax credit.
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Energy to establish a National Nuclear Energy Council; and (2) the President to establish a High Level Waste Authority with jurisdiction over nuclear waste contracts.
Sets forth a program to develop coal-to-liquid manufacturing on federal land.
Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify tax credits for: (1) renewable energy; (2) electricity produced from marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; (3) electricity produced from the production of substitute natural gas from refined coal or petcoke; (4) new clean renewable energy bonds; (5) residential energy efficient property; (6) plug-in hybrid vehicles; (7) production of cellulosic ethanol; and (8) alternative fuels and vehicles.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) implement a research and development program for blending transportation fuels derived from coal-to-liquids with transportation fuels derived from renewable sources; and (2) maintain four Bioenergy Research Centers.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 8, 2008 to Jun 11, 2008; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Bill Shuster | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-AK | Don Young | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-SC | J. Gresham Barrett | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-AZ | John B. Shadegg | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-MN | John Kline | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-IN | Mark E. Souder | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-IN | Mike Pence | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-NC | Patrick T. McHenry | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-MI | Peter Hoekstra | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-NC | Robin Hayes | Original | May 8, 2008 |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Original | May 8, 2008 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2008 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred May 12, 2008 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
| Readiness Subcommittee | Referred May 23, 2008 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred May 8, 2008 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 23, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
- May 15, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- May 12, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
- May 8, 2008Introduced in House
- May 8, 2008Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Armed Services, and Science and Technology, 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.
- May 8, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
In the Congressional Record 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4327 | J. Gresham Barrett R-SC | May 21, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H4048, H4049 | J. Gresham Barrett R-SC, Patrick T. McHenry R-NC | May 15, 2008 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3314 | Zach Wamp R-TN | May 8, 2008 |
Titles 8
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To rebalance the United States energy portfolio, to increase and utilize the Nation's domestic energy resources and supply, to strengthen energy security and independence, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Main Street U.S.A. Energy Security Act of 2008
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- National Geo Fund Act of 2008
- Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008
- Rigs to Reefs Act of 2008
- Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Act of 2008
- Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008
- Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Air pollution control
- Alaska
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Biomass energy
- Bonds
- California
- Carbon dioxide
- Cellulose
- Coal
- Coastal zone
- Commerce
- Continental shelf
- Corporation taxes
- Department of Energy
- Department of Labor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric power production
- Electric vehicles
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Engineers
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal officials
- Fishery management
- Florida
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Gas in submerged lands
- Government Operations and Politics
- Graduate education
- Grants-in-aid
- Habitat conservation
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Manufacturing industries
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Military base closures
- Mines and mineral resources
- Mining engineering
- Natural gas
- Nature conservation
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear exports
- Nuclear industry
- Nuclear power plants
- Ocean energy resources
- Offshore structures
- Oil and gas leases
- Petroleum
- Petroleum in submerged lands
- Petroleum refineries
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Radioactive wastes
- Recruiting of employees
- Reefs
- Reformulated gasoline
- Research and development
- Revenue sharing
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary recovery of gas
- Secondary recovery of oil
- State employees
- Tax administration
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Wildlife conservation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 8, 2008Introduced 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.
