The following amendments were offered:
Title II - Renewable Energy
An amendment by Mr. Dingell, #12, re: hydroelectric energy relicensing reform - providing flexibility in the licensing process, while preserving environmental, fish, and wildlife protections and allowing any party to a licensing proceeding to propose an alternative, pending when the Committee adjourned on April 6, 2005, was defeated by a voice vote;
An amendment by Mr. Pallone, #13, to require that 20% of all electricity be produced from renewable sources by the year 2027, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 17 - 30;
An amendment by Mr. Inslee, #14, to amend section 202 to extend the renewable energy production tax credit to include ocean power produced from tidal, wave, current, and thermal sources, was adopted by a voice vote;
An amendment by Mr. Inslee, #15, to amend section 203 to extend the federal purchase requirement to ocean power produced from tidal, wave, current, and thermal sources, was adopted by a voice vote;
An amendment by Ms. Baldwin and Mr. Terry, #16, to make livestock methane a renewable energy resource in Tier 2 of the Renewable Energy Production Incentive (REPI), was adopted by a voice vote;
Mr. Inslee asked unanimous consent to withdraw Inslee amendment, #11 (adopted on April 6, 2005), re: use of photovoltaic energy in public buildings - authorizing the Secretary of Energy to set up a purchasing program for voltaic solar systems in new and existing public buildings, no objection;
An amendment by Mr. Inslee, #17, re: use of photovoltaic energy in public buildings - authorizing the Secretary of Energy to set up a purchasing program for voltaic solar systems in new and existing public buildings, was adopted by a voice vote;
Title III - Oil and Gas
An amendment by Mr. Stupak and Ms. Schakowsky, #18, to prohibit any Federal or State permit or lease for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under the Great Lakes, was adopted, as amended by the Rogers amendment, by a voice vote;
A substitute to the Stupak-Schakowsky amendment by Mr. Rogers, #18A, encouraging no Federal or State permit or lease to be issued, rather than prohibiting permits from being issued, for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under one or more of the Great Lakes, was adopted by a yea-nay vote: 26 - 23;
An amendment by Mr. Davis, #19, to strike the section that limits the states' role in the appeals process for consistency under the Coastal Zone Management Act, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 19 - 29;
An amendment by Mr. Pickering, #20, re: site selection for full authorized volume of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, was adopted by a voice vote;
An amendment by Mr. Brown, #21, to direct the Department of Energy to establish 3-5 regional reserves of gasoline for use as a cushion against price spikes, after short-term regional gas supply disruptions like pipeline outages or refinery fires, was defeated by a voice vote;
An amendment by Ms. DeGette, #22, re: hydraulic fracturing and drinking water safety - to provide for a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) review of the Environmental Protection Agency's June 2004 report evaluating the impacts of hydraulic fracturing in coalbed methane reservoirs on underground sources of drinking water, followed by an EPA determination on whether regulation is necessary to ensure the hydraulic fracturing does not endanger underground drinking water sources, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 16 - 30;
An amendment by Ms. Solis, #23, to protect water supplies by banning the injection of diesel fuel as an additive in hydraulic fracturing into underground sources of drinking water, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 14 - 27;
An amendment by Mr. Stupak, #24, to direct the Secretary of Energy to suspend deliveries of in-king royalty oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the price of oil falls below $40 per barrel for two consecutive weeks, was adopted by a voice vote;
An amendment by Ms. Baldwin and Mr. Brown, #25, to grant DOE the authority to defer the purchase of petroleum designated for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve above the 700-million barrel capacity level; require DOE to reinstate the market-based analysis used prior to 2002 when making purchase; require DOE to analyze and report how the purchase of petroleum above the 700-million barrel level will impact domestic/foreign supply and prices, and report the implications to our national security if purchases are deferred, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 21 - 24;
An amendment by Mr. Markey, #26, to strike provisions (Sec. 320) that would preempt state and local governments from being able to block the siting of new liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities, as well as the expansion of existing LNG facilities, in areas where there are serious public safety concerns; and allow LNG facility operators to block shipments of LNG by anyone other than the facility owner or their affiliates, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 18 - 35;
An amendment by Ms. Solis, #27, to strike Subtitle D, the Refinery Revitalization Act, was defeated by a yea-nay vote: 22 - 27;
An amendment by Mr. Green, #28, re: Congressional encouragement of all coastal States to eliminate any prohibition of drilling for oil and gas off their coasts in the Outer Continental Shelf, was withdrawn by unanimous consent.
