3.0.0 3624 2017-12-15T00:43:49Z 2017-12-15T00:43:49Z Senate S S 2008-09-26 110 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-26T21:38:10Z 2008-09-26 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2008-09-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. N Transportation and Public Works Auctions Bicycles Car pools Climate change and greenhouse gases Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Emissions trading Environmental Protection Federal aid to transportation Government trust funds Governmental investigations Land use Mass rapid transit Metropolitan areas Motor vehicle pollution control Pedestrians Public Lands and Natural Resources Railroad engineering Railroad equipment Railroad freight operations Railroad passenger traffic Regional planning Science, Technology, Communications Transportation planning Transportation research Urban affairs Zoning and zoning law Transportation and Public Works 00 2008-09-26 Introduced in Senate 2009-02-17T20:50:33Z 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.

]]> Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act Short Titles as Introduced Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act Display Title Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in Senate 2008-09-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3624is/xml/BILLS-110s3624is.xml 2008-09-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.