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H. R. 706: This Act may be cited as the National Energy Strategy Act of 1991, introduced in the House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, January 29, 1991

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OSTI ID:5115101
This bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a fee on imported petroleum products and derivatives and provide incentives for oil and natural gas exploration. Sections of the bill describe the following: national energy policy; fee on imported crude oil, refined petroleum products, and petrochemical feedstocks or petrochemical derivatives; geological, geophysical, and surface casing costs treated like intangible drilling and development costs; net income limitation on percentage depletion not to apply to oil and gas wells; increase in percentage depletion based on removal price; repeal to recapture provisions dealing with dispositions of oil, gas, or geothermal property interests; crude oil production credit for maintaining economically marginal wells; crude oil and natural gas exploration and development credit; removal of intangible drilling costs from the alternative minimum tax and corporate preference reductions; repeal of taxable income limitation for percentage depletion; election to carry forward depletion deduction in excess of basis; and investment tax credit for vehicles fueled by clean-burning fuels, for property converting vehicles to be so fueled, and for facilities for the retail delivery of such fuels.
OSTI ID:
5115101
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English