Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:03:45 PM
Additional research:
Below is the act cited in the video and the specific reference to Hydraulic Fracturing.
What I've found interesting about this is that the summary version makes no reference to Hydraulic Fracturing
under Section 322. However, the full text version does specifically indicate Hydraulic Fracturing. Also, the
summary Version doesn't show that Section 323 exists at all! Please scroll down for screen prints made.
So who wrote the Summary Version of the bill?
"The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress"
Source: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6&tab=summary
While the intent of researching the bill was to validate the claims made in the movie trailer, I also included a few other miscellaneous items shown below the last screen print... Some of which may be of interest to the World Food Crisis Board as it touches on the use of various foods for bio-fuels...
H.R. 6: Energy Policy Act of 2005
Also known as
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Aug 8, 2005: Became Public Law No: 109-58.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6
Summary Version:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6&tab=summary
Full Version:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h6enr.txt.pdf
Summary Version,
Title III - Oil and Gas (If reading the full version starts on page 90)
Subtitle C - Production
Section 322 - (If reading the full version page 101)
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exclude from the definition of underground injection the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil or gas, or geothermal production activities
Below is a screen print of the summary....
Below is a screen print of the full text....
Summary Version Continued....
Title XIV - Miscellaneous
Subtitle A - General Provisions
Section 1406 -
Authorizes FY2006 appropriations for the Secretary to study the application of radiation to petroleum at standard temperature and pressure to refine petroleum products, with the goal of reducing the capital investment and the operating energy costs for cracking oil, as well as its sulfur content.
Subtitle B - Set America Free
Set America Free Act of 2005 or the SAFE Act -
Section 1423 -
Establishes the United States Commission on North American Energy Freedom to make recommendations on a coordinated and comprehensive North American energy policy to achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2025 within the three contiguous North American nation area of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2007.
Title XV - Ethanol and Motor Fuels
Subtitle A - General Provisions
Section 1502 -
Declares that Congress finds that: (1) since 1979 methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) has been used nationwide at low levels in gasoline to replace lead as an octane booster or anti-knocking agent; (2) the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 established a fuel oxygenate standard under which reformulated gasoline must contain at least 2% oxygen by weight; and (3) the fuel industry responded to such standard by making substantial investments in MTBE production capacity and systems to deliver MTBE-containing gasoline to the marketplace.
Section 1503 -
States that claims and legal actions filed after the date of enactment of this Act regarding actual or threatened contamination of MTBE may be removed to federal district court.
Section 1504 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal general requirements governing the oxygen content of both gasoline and of reformulated gasoline.
Directs the Administrator of EPA to establish, for each refinery or importer, standards for toxic air pollutants from use of the reformulated gasoline produced or distributed by the refinery or importer that maintain the reduction of the average annual aggregate emissions of such pollutants during calendar years 2001 and 2002.
Prescribes implementation guidelines. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to adjust such standards.
Section 1505 -
Requires the EPA Administrator to study and report to certain congressional committees on the effects upon public health, air quality, and water resources of: (1) increased use of, and the feasibility of using specified substitutes for MTBE in gasoline; and (2) the adjustment for ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline to volatile organic compounds performance requirements.
Section 1506 -
Directs the Administrator to: (1) publish for public comment an analysis of the changes in emissions of air pollutants and air quality due to the use of motor vehicle fuel and fuel additives resulting from implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and (2) develop and finalize an emissions model that reflects the effects of gasoline characteristics or components on emissions from vehicles in the motor vehicle fleet during calendar year 2007.
Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the effects of ethanol content in gasoline on permeation, the process by which fuel molecules migrate through the elastomeric materials (rubber and plastic parts) that make up the fuel and fuel vapor systems of a motor vehicle.
Requires such study to include estimates of the increase in total evaporative emissions likely to result from the use of gasoline with ethanol content in a motor vehicle, and the fleet of motor vehicles, due to permeation.
Section 1507 -
Requires the Administrator, upon application of the Governor of a state in a ozone transport region, to apply certain prohibitions to any area in the state (other than an area classified as a marginal, moderate, serious, or severe ozone nonattainment area) unless the Administrator determines that there is insufficient capacity to supply reformulated gasoline.
Section 1508 -
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to instruct the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to survey and publish monthly the renewable fuels demand in the motor vehicle fuels market.
Section 1509 -
Instructs the EPA Administrator and the Secretary to study and report jointly to Congress on federal, state, and local requirements concerning motor vehicle fuels.
Section 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.
Section 1511 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) authorize funds for certain loan guarantees to implement commercial demonstration projects for cellulosic biomass and sucrose-derived ethanol; and (2) direct the Secretary to issue loan guarantees for up to four projects to commercially demonstrate the feasibility and viability of producing cellulosic biomass ethanol or sucrose-derived ethanol (including use of cereal straw and municipal solid waste as a feedstock).
Authorizes the Secretary to issue additional loan guarantees for a project to cover up to 80% of the excess of actual over estimated project cost but not to exceed 15% of the amount of the original guarantee.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2007 for a resource center to develop bioconversion technology using low-cost biomass for the production of ethanol at the Center for Biomass-Based Energy at the Mississippi State University and the Oklahoma State University.
Directs the EPA Administrator to provide grants for research, development, and implementation of renewable fuel production technologies in specified states with low rates of ethanol production, including low rates of production of cellulosic biomass ethanol.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to merchant producers of cellulosic biomass ethanol to build eligible production facilities for the product.
Section 1512 -
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to merchant producers of cellulosic biomass ethanol, waste-derived ethanol, and approved renewable fuels in the United States to assist them in building eligible production facilities for the production of ethanol or approved renewable fuels. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2008.
Section 1513 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to cite circumstances under which it shall not be a violation of the Act for a gasoline retailer to blend, at a retail location, batches of ethanol-blended and non-ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline.
Section 1514 -
Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10% or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value-added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production. Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2009.
Section 1515 -
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to redefine biodiesel to include biodiesel derived from: (1) animal wastes, including poultry fats and poultry wastes, and other waste materials; or (2) municipal solid waste and sludges and oils derived from wastewater and the treatment of wastewater.
Section 1516 -
Authorizes funds for, and authorizes the Secretary to issue, loan guarantees to projects to demonstrate commercially the feasibility and viability of producing ethanol using sugarcane, sugarcane bagasse, and other sugarcane byproducts as a feedstock.
Below is the act cited in the video and the specific reference to Hydraulic Fracturing.
What I've found interesting about this is that the summary version makes no reference to Hydraulic Fracturing
under Section 322. However, the full text version does specifically indicate Hydraulic Fracturing. Also, the
summary Version doesn't show that Section 323 exists at all! Please scroll down for screen prints made.
So who wrote the Summary Version of the bill?
"The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress"
Source: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6&tab=summary
While the intent of researching the bill was to validate the claims made in the movie trailer, I also included a few other miscellaneous items shown below the last screen print... Some of which may be of interest to the World Food Crisis Board as it touches on the use of various foods for bio-fuels...
H.R. 6: Energy Policy Act of 2005
Also known as
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Aug 8, 2005: Became Public Law No: 109-58.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6
Summary Version:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6&tab=summary
Full Version:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h6enr.txt.pdf
Summary Version,
Title III - Oil and Gas (If reading the full version starts on page 90)
Subtitle C - Production
Section 322 - (If reading the full version page 101)
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exclude from the definition of underground injection the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil or gas, or geothermal production activities
Below is a screen print of the summary....
Below is a screen print of the full text....
Summary Version Continued....
Title XIV - Miscellaneous
Subtitle A - General Provisions
Section 1406 -
Authorizes FY2006 appropriations for the Secretary to study the application of radiation to petroleum at standard temperature and pressure to refine petroleum products, with the goal of reducing the capital investment and the operating energy costs for cracking oil, as well as its sulfur content.
Subtitle B - Set America Free
Set America Free Act of 2005 or the SAFE Act -
Section 1423 -
Establishes the United States Commission on North American Energy Freedom to make recommendations on a coordinated and comprehensive North American energy policy to achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2025 within the three contiguous North American nation area of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2007.
Title XV - Ethanol and Motor Fuels
Subtitle A - General Provisions
Section 1502 -
Declares that Congress finds that: (1) since 1979 methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) has been used nationwide at low levels in gasoline to replace lead as an octane booster or anti-knocking agent; (2) the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 established a fuel oxygenate standard under which reformulated gasoline must contain at least 2% oxygen by weight; and (3) the fuel industry responded to such standard by making substantial investments in MTBE production capacity and systems to deliver MTBE-containing gasoline to the marketplace.
Section 1503 -
States that claims and legal actions filed after the date of enactment of this Act regarding actual or threatened contamination of MTBE may be removed to federal district court.
Section 1504 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal general requirements governing the oxygen content of both gasoline and of reformulated gasoline.
Directs the Administrator of EPA to establish, for each refinery or importer, standards for toxic air pollutants from use of the reformulated gasoline produced or distributed by the refinery or importer that maintain the reduction of the average annual aggregate emissions of such pollutants during calendar years 2001 and 2002.
Prescribes implementation guidelines. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to adjust such standards.
Section 1505 -
Requires the EPA Administrator to study and report to certain congressional committees on the effects upon public health, air quality, and water resources of: (1) increased use of, and the feasibility of using specified substitutes for MTBE in gasoline; and (2) the adjustment for ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline to volatile organic compounds performance requirements.
Section 1506 -
Directs the Administrator to: (1) publish for public comment an analysis of the changes in emissions of air pollutants and air quality due to the use of motor vehicle fuel and fuel additives resulting from implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and (2) develop and finalize an emissions model that reflects the effects of gasoline characteristics or components on emissions from vehicles in the motor vehicle fleet during calendar year 2007.
Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the effects of ethanol content in gasoline on permeation, the process by which fuel molecules migrate through the elastomeric materials (rubber and plastic parts) that make up the fuel and fuel vapor systems of a motor vehicle.
Requires such study to include estimates of the increase in total evaporative emissions likely to result from the use of gasoline with ethanol content in a motor vehicle, and the fleet of motor vehicles, due to permeation.
Section 1507 -
Requires the Administrator, upon application of the Governor of a state in a ozone transport region, to apply certain prohibitions to any area in the state (other than an area classified as a marginal, moderate, serious, or severe ozone nonattainment area) unless the Administrator determines that there is insufficient capacity to supply reformulated gasoline.
Section 1508 -
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to instruct the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to survey and publish monthly the renewable fuels demand in the motor vehicle fuels market.
Section 1509 -
Instructs the EPA Administrator and the Secretary to study and report jointly to Congress on federal, state, and local requirements concerning motor vehicle fuels.
Section 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.
Section 1511 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) authorize funds for certain loan guarantees to implement commercial demonstration projects for cellulosic biomass and sucrose-derived ethanol; and (2) direct the Secretary to issue loan guarantees for up to four projects to commercially demonstrate the feasibility and viability of producing cellulosic biomass ethanol or sucrose-derived ethanol (including use of cereal straw and municipal solid waste as a feedstock).
Authorizes the Secretary to issue additional loan guarantees for a project to cover up to 80% of the excess of actual over estimated project cost but not to exceed 15% of the amount of the original guarantee.
Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2007 for a resource center to develop bioconversion technology using low-cost biomass for the production of ethanol at the Center for Biomass-Based Energy at the Mississippi State University and the Oklahoma State University.
Directs the EPA Administrator to provide grants for research, development, and implementation of renewable fuel production technologies in specified states with low rates of ethanol production, including low rates of production of cellulosic biomass ethanol.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to merchant producers of cellulosic biomass ethanol to build eligible production facilities for the product.
Section 1512 -
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to merchant producers of cellulosic biomass ethanol, waste-derived ethanol, and approved renewable fuels in the United States to assist them in building eligible production facilities for the production of ethanol or approved renewable fuels. Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2008.
Section 1513 -
Amends the Clean Air Act to cite circumstances under which it shall not be a violation of the Act for a gasoline retailer to blend, at a retail location, batches of ethanol-blended and non-ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline.
Section 1514 -
Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10% or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value-added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production. Authorizes appropriations for FY2005-FY2009.
Section 1515 -
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to redefine biodiesel to include biodiesel derived from: (1) animal wastes, including poultry fats and poultry wastes, and other waste materials; or (2) municipal solid waste and sludges and oils derived from wastewater and the treatment of wastewater.
Section 1516 -
Authorizes funds for, and authorizes the Secretary to issue, loan guarantees to projects to demonstrate commercially the feasibility and viability of producing ethanol using sugarcane, sugarcane bagasse, and other sugarcane byproducts as a feedstock.
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