Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
would direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants and loan guarantees to hospitals to carry out projects for the purpose of reducing energy costs.
would streamline and ensure onshore energy permitting, provide for onshore leasing certainty, and give certainty to oil shale development.
would amend Pub. L. No. 93-435 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
would amend the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an expeditious program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, including at least one lease sale in the Reserve each year in the period 2013 through 2023.
would amend the Water Conservation and Utilization Act to authorize the development of non-federal hydropower and issuance of leases of power privileges at projects constructed pursuant to the authority of the Act.
would amend the Renewable Fuel Program in §211(o) of CAA to allow domestic alternative fuel to be used to satisfy a portion of the required applicable volume of renewable fuel.
would amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.
would amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to a state all right, title, and interest in and to a percentage of the amount of royalties and other amounts required to be paid with respect to public land and deposits in the state.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to preserve the authority of each state to make determinations relating to the state's water quality standards.
would improve hydropower.