To reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.

Amends the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations of $12 million for each of FY 2006 through 2010.

Modifies the list of priorities that the Secretary of Energy must consider in reviewing research and development activities for possible inclusion in the Steel Initiative Research Plan. Includes on such list the development of: (1) advanced sheet and bar steel; and (2) technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1158 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1158

     To reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and 
                Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2005

Ms. Hart (for herself and Mr. Lipinski) introduced the following bill; 
             which was referred to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
     To reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and 
                Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 9 of the Steel and 
Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988 
(15 U.S.C. 5108) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
out this Act $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 
2010.''.
    (b) Steel Project Priorities.--Section 4(c)(1) of the Steel and 
Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988 
(15 U.S.C. 5103(c)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``coatings for sheet 
        steels'' and inserting ``sheet and bar steels''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(K) The development of technologies which reduce 
                greenhouse gas emissions.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--The Steel and Aluminum Energy 
Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988 is further 
amended--
            (1) by striking section 7 (15 U.S.C. 5106); and
            (2) in section 8 (15 U.S.C. 5107), by inserting ``, 
        beginning with fiscal year 2006,'' after ``close of each fiscal 
        year''.
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