Cites conditions under which the Administrator may waive requirements for the renewable fuel program, based in part upon an assessment by the Secretary of Energy whether the renewable fuel requirement will likely result in significant adverse impacts on consumers on a national, regional, or state basis in 2006. 1510) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide guarantees of loans by private institutions for the construction of facilities for the processing and conversion of municipal solid waste and cellulosic biomass into fuel ethanol and other commercial byproducts.

1811) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences to study, for a report to Congress, the effect of coal bed natural gas production (coal bed methane) on surface and groundwater resources, including groundwater aquifers, in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Utah.

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§179D includes full and partial tax deductions for investments in energy efficient commercial building that are designed to increase the efficiency of energy-consuming functions. 1251) Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require each electric utility to make available upon request net metering and time-based (smart) metering service, including credits for consumers with large loads who enter into pre-established peak load reduction agreements that reduce a utility's planned capacity obligations. (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. Directs the Secretaries of State and of Energy, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to provide assistance for the implementation of technology demonstration projects in at least 10 eligible countries.

Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to report annually to Congress and the Administrator on a market concentration analysis to determine whether there is sufficient competition among ethanol production industry participants to avoid price-setting and other anticompetitive behavior. 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. 1424) Directs the President to submit to Congress, within 90 days after receiving and considering the Commission's report, a statement of proposals to implement or respond to its recommendations. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to adjust such standards. 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.

1304) Eliminates the termination date (i.e., taxable years beginning after December 31, 2006) for the tax treatment of certain items of income received or accrued by certain taxable cooperatives and tax-exempt rural electric cooperatives. Full Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 4, 2003, found at, Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 42 U.S.C. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the impact of this extension upon energy consumption in the United States. 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.

(Sec. (Sec. Subtitle E: Nuclear Energy - (Sec. 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. July 29, 2005, 12:50 p.m.[27] Yeas - 74, Nays - 26, Provisions in the original bill that were not in the act, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (. Defines "renewable diesel" as diesel fuel derived from biomass using a certain thermal depolymerization process. Instructs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, and the EPA Administrator, to carry out fellowship and exchange programs for officials from developing countries to visit the United States to acquire expertise and knowledge of best practices to reduce greenhouse gas intensity in their countries. Instructs the Architect of the Capitol to establish in the Capitol Complex a program of public education regarding use by the Architect of biobased products. 712) Instructs the Secretary to establish a program to encourage domestic production and sales of efficient hybrid and advanced diesel vehicles.

Subtitle B: Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries - (Sec. 1231) Authorizes FERC to require an unregulated transmitting utility to provide transmission services: (1) at rates comparable to those that it charges itself; and (2) on other terms and conditions comparable to those under which it provides transmission services to itself, and that are not unduly discriminatory or preferential. 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.

To remove from 18 CFR Part 366.1 the definitions of "electric utility company" and exempt wholesale generator (EWG), that an EWG is not an electric utility company. Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) report to certain congressional committees on the 25 developing countries that are the largest greenhouse gas emitters; (2) establish baselines and track the progress of such countries in reducing greenhouse gas intensity; and (3) provide financial assistance to such countries specifically for projects to reduce greenhouse gas intensity. 932) Directs the Secretary to conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for bioenergy, including: (1) biopower energy systems; (2) biofuels; (3) bioproducts; (4) integrated biorefineries that may produce biopower, biofuels, and bioproducts; and (5) cross-cutting research and development in feedstocks; (6) integrated biorefineries.



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