S. 3624 (110th): Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act

Introduced:
Sep 26, 2008 (110th Congress, 2007–2009)
Sponsor:
Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
See Instead:
This bill was re-introduced as S. 575 (111th) on Mar 11, 2009.

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Status

This bill was introduced on September 26, 2008, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Sep 26, 2008
Referred to Committee Sep 26, 2008
Cosponsors
none
Committees

Senate Environment and Public Works

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Full Title

A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to require States and metropolitan planning organizations to develop transportation greenhouse gas reduction plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, and for other purposes.

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Last updated Sep 26, 2008.
15 pages

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9/26/2008--Introduced.
Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act - Establishes the Low Greenhouse Gas Transportation Fund. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for each of calendar 2012-2050, to auction 10% of emission allowances established under any EPA program providing for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the auctioning of emission allowances.
Requires deposit of auction proceeds into the Fund to implement state and metropolitan planning organization (MPO) greenhouse gas emission reduction plans, and provide funding to transit projects that help reduce such emissions.
Requires states and MPOs to:
(1) establish goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector for the next 10 years; and
(2) develop transportation greenhouse gas emission reduction plans, updated quadrennially, including supporting lists of prioritized transit projects, that are integrated into state and MPO long-range transportation and transportation improvement plans.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation and the EPA Administrator to arrange with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report recommendations for improving research tools and federal data sources necessary to assess the effect of transportation and land use plans on motor vehicle use rates and transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions.

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