Clean, Reliable, Efficient and Secure Energy Act of 2007
Latest action · Jun 12, 2007 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.
- IntroducedJun 12, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Clean, Reliable, Efficient and Secure Energy Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to establish the Appliance Efficiency Standards Commission.
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to: (1) require an electric utility to demonstrate that alternative investments in advanced grid technologies have been considered before undertaking investments in nonadvanced grid technologies; and (2) prescribe a Clean Energy Portfolio Standard, including a credit program.
Establishes the Clean Energy Technology Trust Fund.
Transfers to the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) specified lands for use for high-level radioactive waste disposal and spent nuclear fuel.
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require the Secretary to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate facilities to receive and store spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at the Yucca Mountain (Nevada) site.
Instructs the Secretary to construct the FutureGen Facility to demonstrate integrating commercial-scale gasification combined cycle power plant technologies with advanced clean coal energy technologies.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) prescribe average fuel economy standards for automobiles; and (2) implement a traffic signal coordination program.
Amends the Clean Air Act to instruct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations to ensure that diesel fuel contains a certain volume of biodiesel fuel.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) authorize appropriations for coal-to-liquid and gas-to-liquid projects; (2) establish the Appliance Efficiency Standards Commission [sic]; and (3) revise requirements for the national greenhouse gas emissions registry.
Requires the total amount of fuel utilized by the Department of Defense in a calendar year to be coal-to-liquid fuel, gas-to-liquid fuel, or both.
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to revise requirements about the availability of certain areas of the Outer Continental Shelf for leasing.
Prescribes requirements governing energy efficiency in federal buildings and public schools.
Instructs the Secretary of Interior to develop a methodology for conducting a national assessment of the geological storage capacity for carbon dioxide.
Establishes the Regulatory Reform for Carbon Sequestration Commission.
Requires studies and reports to Congress on: (1) replacement of residential HVCAR equipment that does not meet minimum efficiency requirements; (2) fuel economy standards for heavy trucks; (3) synthetic fuel in commercial aircraft; (4) infrastructure needs for renewable fuels; and (5) strategic natural gas reserve.
Directs the Secretary to implement an education program to increase public awareness of measures that consumers can take to increase energy efficiency.
Reestablishes the Office of Technology Assessment in the legislative branch.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jun 12, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative procedure
- Air conditioning
- Air pollution control
- Alternative energy sources
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Automobiles
- Aviation fuels
- Biomass energy
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional reorganization
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Continental shelf
- Diesel motor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric appliances
- Electric power production
- Electric utilities
- Elementary and secondary education
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal office buildings
- Fuel consumption
- Gas in submerged lands
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Government vehicles
- Governmental investigations
- Heating
- Industrial buildings
- Internet
- Land transfers
- Law
- Licenses
- Manufacturing industries
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Military and naval supplies
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Natural gas
- Nevada
- Nuclear fuels
- Oil and gas leases
- Oil well drilling
- Petroleum in submerged lands
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Radioactive wastes
- Railroad engineering
- Right-of-way
- School buildings
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Special days
- Standards
- Synthetic fuel
- Technology assessment
- Traffic signs and signals
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trucks
- Waste disposal sites
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2007Introduced 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.
