COMMITTEE ON RULES - Summary of Amendments Submitted to H.R. 2454 - American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Jun 25, 2009
4:58PM

Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for

H.R. 2454 - American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

(Summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)

Listed in Alphabetical Order

June 25, 2009 4:58 PM

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Sponsor	#	Summary
Abercrombie (HI)/ Pascrell (NJ)	#192	Would strike the provision limiting the REC credits for waste-to-energy to only its "biogenic" waste system.
Akin (MO)	#85	Would strike subtitle A of title I (combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard).
Akin (MO)	#86	Would include energy produced from existing hydroelectric facilities (including pumped storage facilities), dams and existing nuclear power as a renewable energy resource under the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard.
Akin (MO)	#87	Would include existing nuclear power as a renewable energy resource under the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard.
Baca (CA)/ Wittman (VA)	#64	Would amend the definition of renewable biomass in the bill to include sewer sludge treated via high-pressure thermal process.
Baca (CA)	#65	Would require the Energy Rebate Program Administrator to create an outreach plan to educate the public about the refunds. The amendment specifies activities to be included in such plan.
Bachmann (MN)	#140	Would strike Sec. 205 (tree planting programs) and Sec. 215 (Watersense) from the bill.
Baird (WA)	#125	Would modify the definition of renewable biomass to include residues or byproducts from wood, pulp, and paper products facilities.
Barton (TX)	#212	Would strike the cap and trade title; allows for the construction of new coal and natural gas plants with certain regulatory standards.
Barton (TX)	#213	Would direct the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to annually prepare and certify a report to Congress on the average retail price of gasoline in the . If the Administrator determines that the average retail price of gasoline (all grades) sold to retail customers in the United States during the prior year exceeds $5 per gallon, including taxes (in 2009 dollars), as a result of implementation of this Act, the provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective.
Barton (TX)	#214	Would include nuclear energy as a qualifying RES source.
Barton (TX)	#215	Would include carbon-based fuel with carbon sequestration or conversion as a qualifying RES source.
Barton (TX)	#216	Would strike bill after enacting clause; replaces with American Energy Act.
Biggert (IL)	#110	Would strike the section of the bill that imposes transaction fees on transactions cleared via regulated derivatives clearing organizations.
Biggert (IL)	#111	Would require the Secretary to develop one advisory board for all energy innovation hubs.
Biggert (IL)	#112	Would provide that national laboratories qualify for the Energy Innovation Hubs.
Biggert (IL)	#119	Would add a new section to revise the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative.
Biggert (IL)	#217	Revised Would strike national building codes and national labels for buildings. It also would insert the text of H.R. 2336, the "Green Act of 2009," into the bill.
Bilbray (CA)	#41	Would require that all renewable fuel produced as part of the renewable fuel standard achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to baseline lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions.
Bilbray (CA)	#42	Would establish a national renewable portfolio standard of 50 percent by 2025 and 70 percent by 2050. The amendment expands the definition of renewable fuels to include new and existing nuclear power plants.
Bishop, Rob (UT)/ Price, Tom (GA)	#18	Substitute Would strike all after the enacting clause and insert provisions regarding tax exempt financing for qualified renewable energy facilities, repeal of federal purchasing requirements, renewable technologies, innovation in technology, national grid efficiency, regulatory burdens, judicial review regarding energy projects, carbon capture and clean coal technology, natural gas, conservation, production, and job creation.
Blackburn(TN)	#9	Would exclude from the definition of air pollutant: carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride. It also would provide that nothing in the Clean Air Act authorizes or requires regulation of climate change or global warming.
Blackburn(TN)	#10	Would implement a database that tracks emission allowances, transfers, and offsets. The database would be on a public website and searchable.
Blunt (MO)	#8	Would require the Administrator, in consultation with the Energy Secretary, to prepare and certify a report to Congress on the average retail price of electricity sold to end-users in the U.S. residential sector (as the sector is defined by the EIA). If the Administrator determines that such price in one or more Census Divisions has increased more than 10 percent above 2009 inflation rates as a result of this Act, then title III of the bill shall cease to be effective.
Boehner (OH)	#40	Substitute Would strike all after the enacting clause and insert the text of H.R. 2846, the "American Energy Act," as introduced in the 111th Congress.
Boren (OK)/ Larson, John (CT)/ Sullivan (OK)	#178	Would make natural gas fueled vehicles, particularly light and heavy duty trucks, eligible for clean vehicle incentives, the vehicle integration program, and the manufacturing incentives for alternatively fueled vehicles. Lastly, the amendment would allow vehicles converted to operate on natural gas to meet fleet vehicle requirements provided the vehicle remain in the fleet for up to 2 years.
Boswell (IA)/ Terry (NE)	#141	Would increase the loan guarantees for renewable fuels pipelines by from 80% to 90%, and provide the Secretary of Energy the authority to waive the loan subsidy payment for biofiuels pipelines.
Boswell (IA)/ Loebsack (IA)	#143	Would change the allocation formula to one that is based on historic emissions.
Boustany (LA)	#149	Would provide a single definition of "renewable biomass" for the purposes of the renewable electricity standard, the renewable fuel standard, and the climate change program.
Broun (GA)	#144	Would strike title III of the bill and all that follows.
Broun (GA)	#150	Would sunset the Act and its amendments if it is determined that 200,000 manufacturing jobs are lost by this Act by 2015.
Broun (GA)	#151	Would provide that the provisions of the Act shall cease to apply on January 1, 2015, unless reauthorized by the Congress by law before that date.
Broun (GA)	#152	Would provide that if the Administrator determines that the average retail price of electricity in any State has increased by more than 50 percent above 2009 electric rates in that State, the Governor of any State may waive the application of this Act and its amendments, in whole or in part in such State.
Broun (GA)	#153	Would make nuclear energy a renewable energy resource for the purposes of the RES and eliminate the exclusion from the RES baseline of electricity generated by nuclear.
Broun (GA)	#175	Page 23, line 14, before the period insert ‘‘and other hydropower’’. Page 25, strike lines 5 and 6 and redesignate the succeeding subparagraphs accordingly.
Broun (GA)	#176	Would make all hydropower eligible as a renewable energy resources for purposes of the RES.
Brown-Waite (FL)	#22	Would change the cap on greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 to 86 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from 2005.
Brown-Waite (FL)	#23	Would redefine "renewable energy" to include nuclear energy.
Brown-Waite (FL)	#24	Would provide that any monies from RES alternative compliance payments remain in the State where the retail electric supplier is located and not be deposited in the U.S. Treasury, even when a State does not use the payments for the renewable energy and energy efficiency purposes prescribed in the bill or make the required reports to FERC.
Burgess (TX)	#159	Would provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.
Burgess (TX)	#160	Would provide that any information required to be provided to the Adminstrator of a cap and trade system would be required to be certified as accurate by the CEO or other individual holding executive authority in the covered regime.
Burgess (TX)	#161	Would prohibit the use of international offsets under Sec. 743.
Burgess (TX)	#162	Would allow regulated utilities to meet the renewable energy standard through efficiency alone.
Burgess (TX)	#163	Would make it unlawful to transfer or receive carbon allowance derivatives.
Burton(IN)	#154	Would require this Act shall cease to be effective if electricity prices for the average family nationwide increase by 10 percent or more.
Buyer (IN)	#43	Would direct the allocation of emissions permits based entirely on the emissions of utilities. It changes the allocation formula for utilities from being based on 50 percent retail sales volume and 50 percent emissions, to being completely based on a utility’s emissions.
Camp (MI)/ Herger (CA)/ Johnson, Sam (TX)/ Brady, Kevin (TX)/ Linder (GA)/ Tiberi (OH)/ Brown-Waite (FL)/ Davis, Geoff (KY)/ Boustany (LA)/ Roskam (IL)	#37	Would delay the implementation of the Safe Climate Act portion of the bill until the Comptroller General of the determines that the bill would not result in a net increase in costs for American families with household income less than $200,000 for single filers or $250,000 for joint filers. The Comptroller General must make a determination within 3 months of enactment.
Camp (MI)/ Herger (CA)/ Johnson, Sam (TX)/ Brady, Kevin (TX)/ Linder (GA)/ Tiberi (OH)/ Brown-Waite (FL)/ Davis, Geoff (KY)/ Boustany (LA)/ Heller (NV)/ Roskam (IL)	#38	Would temporarily suspend the Safe Climate Act portion of the bill (the cap and trade program) if the national unemployment rate exceeds 6 percent for three consecutive months until the national unemployment rate remains below 6 percent for six consecutive months.
Cao (LA)	#15	Revised Would require the Administrator to establish a list of projects directed at preservation of coastal and wetland areas, including beach and coastline restoration projects, projects to prevent or ameliorate saltwater intrusion, and projects that preserve or rebuild wetland areas.
Cao (LA)	#91	Revised Would strike from the bill the section which would impose a user fee on transactions cleared through derivatives clearing organizations.
Cao (LA)	#137	Revised Would strike the term "regional entity" and replace it with "State or tribe."
Capps (CA)	#27	Would authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants, through a competitive process, to the owner or operator of a drinking water, wastewater, or stormwater system to address any ongoing or forecasted climate-related impact on the water quality or quantity of a region of the . Authorizes $200 million for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.
Capuano (MA)	#19	Would auction off 15% of the allowances and direct the revenues towards green transportation programs, including transit and other transportation programs that reduce greenhouse gases.
Cardoza (CA)	#173	Would limit the cost of a permit for a license for the construction of a solar energy system. Would provide that noncompliance with permit cost requirements disqualifies the entity from Community Development Block Grants.
Cardoza (CA)	#200	Would establish net metering and interconnection standards to allow electricity customers, who produce their own electricity through solar power, connect to the electricity grid. It would set measurement and billing requirements and provide for record keeping and safety standards.
Cardoza (CA)	#201	Would direct HUD to issue rules to prohibit private covenants that restrict or prohibit the installation of solar energy systems.
Carnahan (MO)/ Inslee (WA)/ Polis (CO)	#172	Would establish a limited loan program to promote in the commercialization of renewable jet fuel and assist up to 6 new refineries of renewable jet fuel during periods of price volatility.
Carter (TX)	#4	Would repeal H.R. 2454 if, according to the Department of Energy, it results in an increase in consumer electric bills in the by more than $20 per month.
Carter (TX)	#5	Would repeal H.R. 2454 if, according to the Department of Energy, it results in an increase in the cost of gasoline or diesel fuel in the United States by more than 10 cents per gallon.
Chaffetz (UT)	#124	Would require utility companies to disclose on monthly utility bills the cost of purchased emission allowances that is being passed on to the customer.
Cohen (TN)	#7	Would direct the Energy Secretary, within two months of the bill’s enactment, to review the impact of increasing the biodiesel amount set forth for 2010 and thereafter to 1 billion gallons, and based on the results of such study, the Secretary is authorized to require an increase.
Conaway (TX)	#113	Would guarantee that an equal amount of allowances are allocated to each region of the country.
Connolly (VA)	#11	Would modify section 151 of H.R. 2454 to ensure that land trusts and Federal land managers have a role in planning placement of transmission lines.
Cummings (MD)	#2	Would require each Federal agency to ensure that contractors award at least 25 percent of building efficiency construction projects to subcontractors located within 20 miles of such projects. If there are not sufficient eligible subcontractors available to reach the 25 percent requirement, contractors shall award as much as possible to the eligible subcontractors.
Cummings (MD)	#81	Would require, for building efficiency construction projects, each Federal agency to require that all prime contractors award, at fair and reasonable prices, at least 25 percent of such project subcontracts to subcontractors that are located within 50 miles of the construction project site. If there are not eligible subcontractors available to satisfy the 25 percent requirement, then the prime contractors shall award as great a percentage as possible to subcontractors at fair and reasonable prices.
DeFazio (OR)/ Lipinski (IL)/ Michaud (ME)/ Stark (CA)/ Visclosky (IN)	#126	Would restrict what entities can buy, sell, trade, and retire allowances and offsets to the industries that emit greenhouse gases. It also would state that nothing in the subsection would prevent these industries from obtaining consultation from financial advisers to carry out the purposes of the section.
DeFazio (OR)/ Kucinich (OH)/ Stark (CA)	#174	Would strike the EPA's authority to list a greenhouse gas as an air pollutant under section 108 of the Clean Air Act.
Fallin (OK)	#179	Would require that any foreign country which receives foreign assistance through the Climate Change Adaptation Program must provide dollar-for-dollar matching funds for climate change adaptation.
Fallin (OK)	#180	Would direct the GAO to conduct a report which would determine how the American Clean Energy Security Act affects energy prices for the Department of Defense and its implications on national security.
Fallin (OK)	#181	Would exclude all businesses with fewer than 100 employees from the restrictions in H.R. 2454.
Fallin (OK)	#182	Would ensure that Davis-Bacon does not apply to private funds used to construct carbon sequestration projects.
Fallin (OK)	#183	Would eliminate the application of Davis-Bacon to projects the advanced energy loan guarantee program established in the 2005 Energy Policy Act.
Fallin (OK)	#184	Would eliminate application of Davis-Bacon to the activities of the Corporation.
Fallin (OK)	#185	Would strike the International Climate Change Adaptation Program and foreign assistance for climate change adaptation measures in the bill.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#89	Would strike Section 197, establishing a National Bioenergy Partnership.
Forbes (VA)	#14	Substitute Would strike everything and insert the text of H.R. 513, the "New Manhattan Project for Energy Independence."
Foster (IL)	#71	Would task the Energy Information Administration (EIA) with creating an annual report analyzing the cost of electricity generation per kilowatt by fuel type and sector. The report would also include the tons of CO2 emitted per kilowatt hour.
Fudge (OH)	#103	Would give employers who provide transportation services to their employees a carbon credit based on a value set by the EPA.
Garrett (NJ)/McMahon(NY)/Bachus(AL)/Scott(GA)/Biggert(IL)/Manzullo(IL)/Paul(TX)	#39	Would strike the provisions of H.R. 2454 that deal with the regulation of the carbon market and derivatives.
Giffords (AZ)	#118	Would allow solar thermal projects to qualify toward meeting obligations under the Renewable Energy Standard.
Giffords (AZ)	#120	Would allow for the credit multiplier for distributed resources under the RES to be adjusted upward in the event that the initial multiplier level proves to be an insufficient incentive to encourage the deployment of distributed resources.
Gingrey (GA)	#76	Would allow States to exempt themselves from the provisions of the bill by passing legislation to do so.
Gohmert (TX)	#155	Would suspend the Act if the Administrator determines that the unemployment rate for the prior year meets or exceeds 10.5%, as a result of implementation of this Act.
Goodlatte (VA)	#157	Would allow the President to suspend the Global Warming Pollution Reduction program in the event of any national emergency or national disaster.
Goodlatte (VA)	#158	Would allow a governor of any state or an electricity provider in any state to petition the Commission to waive, in whole or in part, the renewable electric standard if a state does not have the renewable energy resources to meet the mandate.
Goodlatte (VA)	#177	Would state that the administrator may only approve higher ethanol blends, higher than 10%, in gasoline if the administrator can certify that higher ethanol additives will not contribute to failure of emission control devices in 80% of vehicles inventory.
Graves (MO)	#132	Would repeal title III if the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent in any three-month period commencing on or after July 1, 2011.
Graves(MO)	#133	Would exempt small businesses from emissions limitations if the unemployment rate exceeds 8 percent in any 3-month period commencing on or after July 1, 2011.
Hall, John (NY)	#98	Would require DOE to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing a national feed-in tariff policy.
Halvorson (IL)	#116	Would authorize a national education and awareness program for the purpose of informing building, facility, and industrial plant owners and managers and decisionmakers, government leaders, and industry leaders about the large energy-saving potential of greater use of mechanical insulation and other benefits.
Halvorson (IL)	#117	Would define qualified nuclear uprates, made by energy efficiency upgrades at existing nuclear facilities, as a renewable energy resource for purposes of the Renewable Electricity Standard, and would subtract nuclear uprates from the baseline for purposes of the Renewable Electricity Standard.
Hare (IL)	#54	Would provide that instead of "shall," the Administrator "may" also promulgate standards applicable to emissions of greenhouse gases for such other classes and categories of new nonroad vehicles and engines as the Administrator determines appropriate and in the timeframe the Administrator determines appropriate.
Hare (IL)	#55	Would prohibit any for-profit entity that receives free emission allowances from using profits from the sale of those allowances to close U.S.-based operations and relocate overseas. It also requires violators to pay a civil penalty to the Administrator equal to the value of all allowances received during the 12-month period preceding such relocation.
Hare (IL)	#156	Would express the intent of Congress to acknowledge and give credit to business entities that take critical steps to significantly reduce their carbon footprint before and beyond what is required under the law. Any future energy, environmental, or climate change legislation should take this early action into consideration when allocating additional emission allowances.
Hastings, Alcee (FL)/ Bilbray (CA)	#31	Withdrawn Would put algae-based fuel on equal footing with cellulosic biofuels in the renewable fuels standard and in the tax code.
Hastings, Alcee (FL)/ Bilbray (CA)	#44	Would put algae-based fuel on equal footing with cellulosic biofuels in the renewable fuels standard.
Hastings, Doc (WA)	#187	Would expand the definition of "qualified hydropower" for purposes of the RES.
Heller (NV)	#82	Would add a new title to the bill, entitled the "Renewable Energy Permitting Act of 2009," that would create a pilot project for Federal renewable energy permit coordination. Specifies distribution of solar and wind energy rental income collected by BLM to States and the U.S. Treasury. Specifies use of the funds.
Hensarling (TX)/ Conaway (TX)/ Gingrey (GA)/ Blackburn (TN)	#53	Would repeal section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. section 17142), which requires that any alternative fuel purchased by a Federal agency for any mobility-related use have lifecycle GHG emissions less than or equal to the equivalent conventional fuel produced from conventional petroleum sources.
Herseth Sandlin (SD)	#21	Withdrawn Would revise the definition of "renewable biomass," including under Renewable Electricity Standard and Renewable Fuels Standard, so that it is identical to the 2008 farm bill definition.
Hill (IN)	#101	Revised Would encourage the production of new nuclear energy and advanced nuclear technologies.
Hinchey (NY)	#145	Withdrawn Would amend the definition of a "cluster," as it applies to Energy Innovation Hubs. Would ensure that virtual connections qualify when defining a cluster.
Holt (NJ)DeLauro(CT)/Baldwin(WI)/Baird(WA)	#148	Would authorize the Energy Secretary to develop a research program to study the factors affecting whether consumers adopt energy conservation practices or make energy efficiency improvements.
Hoyer (MD)	#128	Withdrawn Would require the Secretary to adjust the distribution of allowances to the States as necessary to ensure that States receiving proceeds from the sale of allowance under a cap-and-trade program shall receive allowances equal in value to the revenue that would have been generated from the auction of allowances.
Inglis (SC)	#129	Revised Would rebate allowance costs in case of exports.
Inglis (SC)	#130	Revised Would impose a tariff to apply the domestic price of emissions allowances to imported products.
Inslee (WA)/ Markey, Betsy (CO)	#195	Revised Would provide FERC with siting authority for the construction of certain high-priority interstate transmission lines constructed in the Western Interconnection. It also would amend the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors.
Issa (CA)	#68	Would alter the portfolio investment strategy for the Clean Energy Deployment Administration by striking the 30 percent cap on funding for any specific technology in favor of a three iteration limit on any first of kind technology.
Issa (CA)	#69	Would restrict international participation in the U.S. offset market to those foreign countries certified as (1) not on the annual list of the Labor Department's Bureau of International Labor Affairs' Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking under section 105(b)(2)(C) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005; and (2) having a system of mandatory carbon reduction goals, comparable to the mandatory reduction goals in the legislation.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#218	Would expand the criteria of HBCU's that would be eligible to be considered as a HUB site within the context of the legislation.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#219	Revised Would provide an increase of $25 million to assist those workers who are adversely impacted by the transition to clean energy methods.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#220	Would ensure that economic development initiatives utilized in urban and under-served and under-represented communities are completed under standards of energy efficiency.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#221	Would prevent energy efficient labeling from having an adverse effect on elderly home owners and constituencies that are comprised of under-served and under-represented populations.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#222	Would increase from $150 million to $200 million the amount authorized for the energy worker training program.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#223	Would add provision seeking to ensure that minority-owned and women-owned businesses can benefit from grants aimed at stimulating business development.
Jackson-Lee (TX)	#224	Would expand the definition of Black Colleges and Institutions that can be considered for selection as a HUB site.
King, Steve (IA)	#188	Would sunset the Act if the net costs are greater than 3% of a households' after-tax income by 2015.
King, Steve (IA)	#189	Would not permit indirect greenhouse gas emissions to be taken into consideration for purposes of determining the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels.
King, Steve (IA)	#190	Would repeal the law if by 2015 households in the lowest income quintile do not see an average net benefit.
Kline, John (MN)	#20	Would expand eligibility under the Green Jobs Act to provide that jobseekers and job-training partners are not excluded for not being union affiliated.
Kratovil (MD)	#109	Withdrawn Would require the Agriculture Secretary to establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emissions reductions on private agricultural and forestland.
Kucinich (OH)	#164	Would set the quantity of offsets available as a percentage of the cap. It also requires that international offsets come entirely from sectoral credits after 2017.
Kucinich (OH)	#165	Would reduce emission allowances by a third each year.
Kucinich (OH)	#166	Would ensure that offset credits do not cause or contribute to significant adverse effects on human health, the environment, or the sustainable livelihoods of local communities.
Kucinich (OH)	#167	Would ban all international offsets.
Kucinich (OH)	#168	Would provide for federal procurement of government electric and plug in hybrid vehicles, so that by 2016 nearly all federal government cars would be electric
Kucinich (OH)	#169	Would remove "qualified waste-to-energy" from the definition of renewable energy.
Kucinich (OH)	#170	Would raise the existing federal renewable electricity purchase requirement from 7.5% by 2013 to 20% by 2013; 30% by 2020, 50% by 2030; and 100% by 2050.
Kucinich (OH)	#171	Would provide for the installation of solar panels on all federal government buildings and parking lots that can accommodate 500 kW or more of solar photovoltaic panels.
Lamborn (CO)	#107	Would sunset the Act if it is determined that the total number of jobs subject to a collective bargaining agreement are reduced by 10% in direct consequence with the policies produced in the Act.
Lamborn (CO)	#108	Would sunset the provisions of the bill if, by 2020, both and have not agreed to sign an international treaty to reduce GHG emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050.
Larsen, Rick (WA)	#93	Withdrawn Would express the senses of Congress that the United States should work with the International Civil Aviation Organization to (1) develop a comprehensive international framework for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from civil aircraft and (2) exempt U.S. civil aircraft from U.S.-only regulations.
Latham (IA)	#123	Would suspend the Act if the Administrator determines that the retail price of electricity for residential and commercial end-users has increased as a result of implementation of this Act.
Latta (OH)	#104	Withdrawn Would give a tax credit for compliance with DOE's Energy Star Program Requirements for Residential Windows, Doors, and Skylights, as announced by DOE on April 7, 2009.
Latta (OH)	#105	Would exempt agriculture from being a "covered entity" in the proposed title VII of the Clean Air Act.
Latta (OH)	#134	Would repeal the provisions of the bill if, within a year after enactment, the average prices of gasoline or diesel in the U.S. rise 5 percent or more in real terms.
Latta (OH)	#135	Would sunset the Act if, within one year of enactment, the EIA Administrator determines that the average retail price of electricity sold to end-users has increased by more than 10 percent above 2009 electric rates, adjusted for inflation.
Lee, Barbara (CA)	#45	Would authorize the Metro Green Economies Program for energy-efficient economic development and green job training and creation. The amendment accomplishes these objectives by establishing Metro Area Green Zones (for larger communities), Mini-Metro Green Grants (for smaller communities), the Metro Area Green Institute, and Alternative Green Academies .
Lee, Christopher (NY)	#138	Would provide that the Act would cease to apply of the average gallon of gas reaches $3 a gallon or greater across the continental .
Lipinski (IL)	#52	Would implement the International Reserve Allowance Program at an earlier date.
Lipinski (IL)	#72	Would require the Administrator to increase payments to Social Security recipients for increases in direct and indirect costs due to limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
Loebsack (IA)	#211	Would amend the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) program to provide that funds provided to disaster victims through the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act may qualify as the building owners’ contribution toward the matching requirements of the REEP program. Requires the Federal agencies administering assistance to disaster victims through the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act shall provide information to disaster victims on the REEP program.
Lofgren (CA)/ Holt (NJ)/ Foster (IL)/ Olver (MA)	#92	Would ensure ARPA-e funds could be used to continue domestic research into fusion energy at universities and national laboratories.
Maffei (NY)	#139	Would provide that hydropower, other than that defined in the bill as qualified hydropower, shall receive a credit worth 50% towards the renewable electricity standard.
Manzullo (IL)	#6	Would eliminate the International Climate Change Adaptation Program and remove the allocation of emission allowances for the Program.
Marshall (GA)	#1	Would treat new nuclear power plants as a renewable energy source for the purpose of satisfying the legislation's renewable energy standard. It also would include any zero-emission electricity source, including nuclear power, in the legislation's definition of a renewable energy source.
Mitchell (AZ)	#146	Would allow solar and other renewable energy projects that have received private equity funds with non-profit investors to be eligible for grants in lieu of the tax credits program established in section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Moore, Gwen (WI)	#102	Revised Would allow States to use adaptation funds to provide moving assistance to individuals living in areas that have suffered irreparable damage from climate change.
Moore, Dennis (KS)	#122	Withdrawn Would create a Community Building Code Administration Grant program, providing $100 million over five years in competitive, matching grants for local building code enforcement.
Murphy, Tim (PA)	#75	Would provide for offshore leasing of oil and gas, expedited judicial review, and other energy provisions. offshore
Murphy, Patrick (PA)	#94	Would establish special rules for charitable contributions of alternative energy property for educational purposes.
Neugebauer (TX)	#66	Withdrawn Would exempt agriculture from being subject to uncapped stationary source performance standards developed by the EPA.
Paulsen (MN)	#77	Would repeal the provisions of the bill if they create a substantial increase in energy costs for Minnesota businesses.
Perlmutter (CO)	#115	Withdrawn Would limit the Building Energy Performance Labeling Program in sec. 204 of the bill to new construction only.
Perlmutter (CO)	#193	Withdrawn Would allow covered entities within a company to be managed and traded in aggregate, rather than by individual facilities.
Perlmutter (CO)	#202	Withdrawn Would provide incentives to lenders and financial institutions to provide lower interest loans and other benefits to consumers who build, buy, or remodel homes and businesses to improve their energy efficiency. This additional subtitle is nearly identical to HR 2336.
Peterson (MN)	#186	Revised Would require the Agriculture Secretary to establish a list of types of domestic agricultural and forestry practices that result in reductions or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions. It exempts the agriculture and forestry sectors from the bill's emission caps. It redefines "biomass." It grandfathers existing biodiesel plants to exempt them from lifecycle analysis under the RFS.
Pingree (ME)/ Hodes (NH)/ Michaud (ME)/ Schrader (OR)/ Shea-Porter (NH)/ Welch (VT)/ Shuler (NC)	#114	Would establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emissions reductions on private forestland.
Pitts (PA)	#28	Would define “renewable energy” for purposes of the RES in the bill, for a given State, as any form of energy that that State's renewable electricity standard law deems as “renewable” or “alternative."
Pitts (PA)	#29	Would require the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to prepare a report on the average retail price of electricity sold to end-users. If the study finds that the average retail price of electricity sold to end-users in the residential sector in one or more Census Divisions has increased by more than 15 percent above 2009 rates adjusted for inflation due to implementation of H.R. 2454, the provisions of the Act shall cease to be effective.
Pitts (PA)	#30	Would require the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to prepare a report on the average retail price of electricity sold to end-users in the residential sector. If the study finds that the average retail price of electricity has increased in one or more Census Divisions by more than 20 percent above 2009 rates adjusted for inflation due to implementation of H.R. 2454, the provisions of the Act shall cease to be effective.
Platts (PA)	#67	Would provide that manufacturers of refractory grade doloma, which is used to line refractories for the steel and cement industries, is a distinct sector for purposes of the emission allowance rebate program.
Polis (CO)	#83	Withdrawn Would permit states to convey allowances in a SEED account directly to renewable energy generators.
Polis (CO)	#84	Withdrawn Would permit renewable energy generators the ability to use federal loan guarantee funding to cover the cost of connecting with the grid.
Polis (CO)	#96	Withdrawn Would establish an Office of Technology Mobilization, Collaboration, and Community Outreach at ten national labs and creates a matching grant program for technology maturation and collaborative partnerships.
Polis (CO)	#127	Withdrawn Would establish a clean energy career training clearinghouse to aid institutions with Federal resources, expertise, information and points of contact in establishing and maintaining quality training programs.
Reichert (WA)	#194	Would restore the consumer energy tax credit for low-income Americans, eliminate the marriage penalty, and expand eligibility for the credit to middle-income earners.
Richardson (CA)	#70	Would establish a competitive grant program to fund clean and energy-efficient transportation vehicles and technology at seaports.
Roe (TN)	#106	Would require the to reach agreement on greenhouse gas reductions with and before implementing the legislation.
Rogers, Mike (MI)	#74	Would require additional information in the report on international participation required by sec. 3 of the bill, and would make the effectiveness of title III of the bill contingent on EPA certifying that China and India have signed and ratified an international treaty or agreement by 2012 that requires those countries to undertake and enforce a GHG emissions program at least as stringent as the program in the U.S. that has resulted in at least as great a level of reductions of emissions.
Rohrabacher (CA)	#3	Would exempt solar energy projects on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management from environmental restrictions.
Ryan, Paul (WI)	#196	Would require the President to suspend the cap-and-trade portion of the bill if the President determines five years after enactment that emissions from G-20 nations are increasing, sustained unemployment is above 6 percent, and the is importing more carbon intensive goods relative to 2011.
Scalise (LA)	#197	Would sunset the Act in 4 years.
Scalise (LA)	#198	Would restrict participation to covered entities.
Scalise (LA)	#199	Would require entities that receive free emissions allowances in any given year to report to Congress no later June 1 and Dec 1 of any year that the entity receives a free allowance. Report must include employment numbers by sector in the (by NAICS code), and employment numbers by sector in foreign countries.
Schiff (CA)/ Bilbray (CA)/ Radanovich (CA)	#73	Would allow the manufacturers of ultra-efficient vehicles to participate in the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program of the Department of Energy.
Schock (IL)	#99	Would provide a streamlined regulatory process for approval of nuclear reactor construction and operating licenses. It also states it is policy to license 100 new nuclear reactors, or the megawatt equivalent, by 2030 if there are sufficient applicants.
Schock (IL)	#100	Would modify the Renewable Portfolio Standard to include nuclear power from facilities placed in service before January 1, 1992.
Sestak (PA)	#78	Would require the Energy Secretary to report to Congress on a study on the use of thorium-fueled nuclear reactors for national energy needs, including a response to the IAEA study entitled "Thorium fuel cycle - Potential benefits and challenges."
Sestak (PA)	#79	Would require Metropolitan Planning Organizations and States, as part of their transportation planning, to incorporate intermodal regional planning and cooperation between regional airports and surface transportation entities to reduce surface transportation-related GHG emissions and reliance on oil.
Sestak (PA)	#80	Would require that vehicle manufacturers make universally-available service information or tools used to minimize a vehicle's emissions of greenhouse gases.
Sestak (PA)	#88	Would require that the consideration of life-cycle costs of the proposed design for building construction contracts where the estimated construction cost is more than $1,000,000 and where more than 50 percent of the funding will be paid with Federal funds.
Shadegg (AZ)	#56	Would strike provisions in the bill regarding art work light fixtures.
Shadegg (AZ)	#57	Would delete references to portable electronic spas in the energy efficiency sections of the bill.
Shadegg (AZ)	#58	Would require the Administrator, in consultation with the Labor Secretary, to report to Congress on the number of domestic jobs lost the prior year due to implementation of the Act. It also would allow, if the State of Arizona 's unemployment rate increases by 2 percent in any year, the State to opt out of the provisions of title III by a declaration of the Governor, a majority vote of the State Legislature, or a majority vote of the people of the State.
Shadegg (AZ)	#59	Would delete the international clean technology fund and instead divert the allowances for the fund to low-income consumers.
Shadegg (AZ)	#60	Would delete references to hot food cabinets.
Shadegg (AZ)	#61	Would strike mandates for bottle water dispensers.
Shadegg (AZ)	#62	Would require the Administrator, in consultation with the Labor Secretary, to report to Congress on the number of domestic jobs lost in each of the 50 states the prior year as a result of implementation of the title and its amendments. If the Administrator determines that the unemployment rate in a State has increased by 2 percent in such year, such State may elect to exempt the State and all businesses in the State from the provisions of the title and its amendments by a declaration of the State Governor, a majority vote of the State Legislature, or a majority vote of the people of the State.
Shadegg (AZ)	#136	Would require an annual report by EPA on the number of domestic jobs that have been lost in the agriculture industry in the due to the implementation of title III of the bill. Would repeal title III of the bill if EPA determines that 2 percent or more of the jobs in the agriculture industry in Arizona were lost in the prior year due to title III.
Shea-Porter (NH)	#131	Would allow States that receive allocations to provide relief for home heating oil, propane, and kerosene consumers to create zero-interest or very low-interest loan programs for the conversion of their heating or hot water systems to a renewable source of energy (solar, wind, geothermal, wood pellets, or woody biomass).
Smith, Adrian (NE)	#95	Would allocate 5% of allowances to be used to compensate agriculture producers affected by increased costs of production and declining prices resulting from increased imports or decreased exports.
Souder (IN)	#191	Revised Would provide that any entity located in a County where the annual median household income is below $60,000 is exempt from complying with the Act.
Souder (IN)	#203	Would exclude small farmers with $100,000 in annual sales from any regulation or standard in the bill.
Souder (IN)	#204	Revised Would exclude any entity located in a County where unemployment percentage for three straight months is above 10-percent from regulations and standards set forth in this bill.
Souder (IN)	#205	Revised Would exclude any entity located in a County where manufacturing jobs account for 25 percent or more of the total workforce from regulations and standards set forth in this bill.
Souder (IN)	#206	Would add new energy efficiency category for water conditioners.
Souder (IN)	#207	Would provide that if the bill places a burden on a business that allows to have an advantage, then the business does not have to adhere to the regulations or standards in the bill.
Souder (IN)	#208	Would include all non carbon emitting sources as a renewable energy resource.
Souder (IN)	#209	Would strike the qualification of the definition of "Qualified Waste-to-Energy" which mandates that only the portion of municipal solid waste (MSW) which is non-fossil biogenic shall receive credit for the creation of clean electricity.
Souder (IN)	#210	Would add new appliance energy efficiency category for Main Air Circulation Fans so that DOE can set minimum efficiency levels.
Stearns (FL)	#12	Would strike section 204 (“Building Energy Performance Labeling Program”).
Stearns (FL)	#13	Would exempt all electricity generated by nuclear power from a retail electric suppliers base amount.
Stupak (MI)	#16	Would allow independent iron ore operations to receive carbon allowances as an energy and trade intensive industry.
Stupak (MI)	#17	Would amend the performance standard for new coal fired power plants permit deadline from January 1, 2009, to a date later than 90 days after enactment.
Terry (NE)	#25	Would exempt public power from title I of the bill, concerning the Renewable Electricity Standard.
Terry (NE)	#26	Would include reprocessed or recycled nuclear fuel in the definition of renewable energy source for the purposes of the RES.
Terry (NE)	#47	Would authorize $50 billion for title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58) in support of debt financing for nuclear power facility projects in the .
Terry (NE)	#48	Would state that Yucca Mountain Federal repository for waste from nuclear-powered generating must be fully funded or the government must begin rebating funds paid to establish a Federal nuclear waste repository.
Terry (NE)	#49	Would provide that agriculture and forestry operations shall not be treated as a covered entity for purposes of title III (reducing global warming pollution).
Terry (NE)	#50	Would provide that any joint ownership or partnership with another qualified utility or public power entity does not disqualify new nuclear electric generation plants applying for loan guarantees under title VII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Terry (NE)	#51	Would prevent the EPA from considering international indirect land use changes when determining average lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions under section 822 of the Clean Air Act, as added by section 223 of the bill.
Thompson, Bennie (MS)	#142	Would give interim authority to FERC to establish mandatory interim measures to protect the smart grid against physical or cyber threats such as computer hacking or electromagnetic pulses (EMP).
Titus (NV)/ Giffords (AZ)/ Heinrich (NM)	#63	Would establish a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) for Federal agencies. It also would provide Federal agencies with the authority to enter into renewable energy power purchase agreements for up to 20 years.
Tonko (NY)	#97	Would authorize a cost-shared program at the Department of Energy to research, develop and demonstrate technologies to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in combined cycle power generation systems. The program would be designed to identify technologies that ultimately could achieve 65% combined cycle efficiency on a lower heating value (LHV) basis.
Upton (MI)	#32	Would sunset title III (reducing global warming pollution) if utility account terminations (gas and electric) reach 10 million households or account arrearages exceed 25 percent nationally. This determination shall be made by the Secretary of Energy based on national aggregate residential billing and arrearage data gathered by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
Upton (MI)	#33	Would require all costs of compliance with this Act borne by utilities and motor vehicle fuel providers, as well as any increase in the price paid by consumers as a direct result of this Act, be disclosed on every utility bill and fuel pump.
Upton (MI)	#34	Would sunset title III (reducing global warming pollution) if the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Energy determine that as a direct result of this Act either (1) more than 3 million Americans have lost their jobs or (2) the national unemployment rate reaches 15 percent.
Upton (MI)	#35	Would provide that in the event that a duly constituted dispute resolution panel of the World Trade Organization finds any provision of title III or title IV to be inconsistent with the terms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or successor agreements, such provisions will be repealed.
Upton (MI)	#36	Would provide that if the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, determines that the national unemployment rate has risen above 15 percent, money designated for supplemental emissions reductions from international deforestation and for wildlife and natural resources adaptation shall be redirected to the climate change worker adjustment assistance program fund.
Upton (MI)	#46	Would provide that no revenues generated to the Federal government pursuant to the Act may be used outside the . Strikes the international offset credits section from the bill.
Walden (OR)	#147	Would change the definition of "qualified hydropower" in the bill to eliminate the requirement that hydroelectric projects installed on the dam are operated so that the water surface elevation at any given location and time that would have occurred in the absence of the hydroelectric project is maintained, subject to any license or exemption requirements that require changes in water surface elevation for the purpose of improving the environmental quality of the affected waterway.
Waters (CA)	#90	Would provide 10 percent of funding under the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) program for retrofits of public and assisted housing.
Waxman (CA)	#121	Revised Makes changes to accommodate States that utilize a central purchasing model for its renewable electricity standard, and makes additional changes.