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Article: Rep. Shuster Introduces Energy Independence Act
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- July 3, 2008
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AMBRESH RANJAN
US Fed News
WASHINGTON, July 3 -- Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pennsylvania, has introduced the Energy Independence Act (H.R. 6421), legislation that would "direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain of Alaska, to provide for expanded leasing of the oil and gas resources of the outer Continental Shelf for exploration, to eliminate certain impediments to the development of nuclear energy sources, to promote coal-to-liquid fuel activities."
The bill was introduced on June 26. It was referred to the House Natural Resources Committee; House Ways and Means Committee; House Energy and Commerce Committee; ...