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From: jrhana	7/20/2009 3:16:40 PM
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House Seeks to Boost Natural Gas Vehicles cqpolitics.com July 20, 2009 – 1:05 p.m. Research and development of natural gas-powered vehicles would get a boost under legislation the House is set to take up Monday. The bill would direct the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency to focus research on commercial vehicles. The legislation would charge the agencies with developing procedures and national standards for the vehicles and for natural gas fueling stations. The bill would authorize $30 million a year from fiscal 2010 to 2014 for natural gas vehicle research. The bill will be taken up under an expedited procedure that limits debate and allows no amendments. Oilman T. Boone Pickens has been crusading for a switch to greater use of natural gas vehicles, as a centerpiece of his campaign to reduce dependence on foreign oil. His plan has been winning growing support from members of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev. In addition to using a fuel that is abundant domestically, natural gas vehicles produce as much as 95 percent less overall toxic emissions than diesel and gasoline powered vehicles, according to proponents. The Energy-Water spending bill the House passed July 17 included an amendment by Oklahoma Democrat Dan Boren to increase natural gas vehicle research funding at the Energy Department by $5 million in fiscal 2010. The House also is scheduled to take up another bill that would designate seven existing National Environmental Research Parks as permanent outdoor research reserves. The parks are essentially outdoor labs that provide large tracts of federal land on which to perform ecological studies. Established by the Energy Department, the research parks are located within six major eco-regions of the United States covering more than half the nation. The House Science and Technology Committee approved both bills June 24 by voice vote.

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