Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an energy investment tax credit of ten percent for equipment used for conversions to coal fuel and five percent for coal mining equipment. Terminates both credits after 1993.
Allows a 12-month amortization period for pollution control facilities used in connection with a plant that uses coal as a principal fuel. (Present law allows such amortization over a five year period.)
Increases the income tax credit for increasing research activities from 25 percent to 50 percent for activities relating to coal mining or burning and to controlling pollutants caused by the burning of coal.
Repeals the 15 percent reduction in the depletion allowance for coal and iron ore.
Allows an income tax deduction for additional sums set aside in any reserve established for the estimated expenses of surface mining land reclamation.
Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to require each executive agency to survey its electric powerplants, and major fuel-burning installations in order to identify those which may be converted to coal. Requires each executive agency to submit to the Office of Management and Budget an annual plan for the conversion of electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations to coal.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Energy Department.
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