§5813 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Administrator must lead and run federal research and development for all energy sources. They plan and manage programs for fossil, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and other energies. They work on every step of energy use — extraction, conversion, storage, transmission, and use — and test real-world demonstrations. They also carry out safety, environmental, and health studies, coordinate with other public and private research, join cooperative projects that share money or work, and collect and share scientific and technical information. They must work with the Federal Energy Administration to tell the public about new energy and conservation technologies using mass media and support international research partnerships. The Administrator must push energy conservation to cut total use and raise efficiency, move new conservation ideas into use quickly, and help train and supply the skilled workers needed by funding education, training, and workforce data collection. They must also promote clean and renewable energy research.

Title 42, §5813

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The responsibilities of the Administrator shall include, but not be limited to—

(1)exercising central responsibility for policy planning, coordination, support, and management of research and development programs respecting all energy sources, including assessing the requirements for research and development in regard to various energy sources in relation to near-term and long-range needs, policy planning in regard to meeting those requirements, undertaking programs for the optimal development of the various forms of energy sources, managing such programs, and disseminating information resulting therefrom;

(2)encouraging and conducting research and development, including demonstration of commercial feasibility and practical applications of the extraction, conversion, storage, transmission, and utilization phases related to the development and use of energy from fossil, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and other energy sources;

(3)engaging in and supporting environmental, biomedical, physical, and safety research related to the development of energy sources and utilization technologies;

(4)taking into account the existence, progress, and results of other public and private research and development activities, including those activities of the Federal Energy Administration relating to the development of energy resources using currently available technology in promoting increased utilization of energy resources, relevant to the Administration’s mission in formulating its own research and development programs;

(5)participating in and supporting cooperative research and development projects which may involve contributions by public or private persons or agencies, of financial or other resources to the performance of the work;

(6)developing, collecting, distributing, and making available for distribution, scientific and technical information concerning the manufacture or development of energy and its efficient extraction, conversion, transmission, and utilization;

(7)creating and encouraging the development of general information to the public on all energy conservation technologies and energy sources as they become available for general use, and the Administrator, in conjunction with the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration shall, to the extent practicable, disseminate such information through the use of mass communications;

(8)encouraging and conducting research and development in energy conservation, which shall be directed toward the goals of reducing total energy consumption to the maximum extent practicable, and toward maximum possible improvement in the efficiency of energy use. Development of new and improved conservation measures shall be conducted with the goal of the most expeditious possible application of these measures;

(9)encouraging and participating in international cooperation in energy and related environmental research and development;

(10)helping to assure an adequate supply of manpower for the accomplishment of energy research and development programs, by sponsoring and assisting in education and training activities in institutions of higher education, vocational schools, and other institutions, and by assuring the collection, analysis, and dissemination of necessary manpower supply and demand data;

(11)encouraging and conducting research and development in clean and renewable energy sources.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1992—Pars. (7) to (12). Pub. L. 102–486 redesignated pars. (8) to (12) as (7) to (11), respectively, and struck out former par. (7) which read as follows: “establishing, in accordance with the National Energy Extension Service Act, an Energy Extension Service to provide technical assistance, instruction, and practical demonstrations on energy conservation measures and alternative energy systems to individuals, businesses, and State and local government officials;”. 1977—Pars. (7) to (12). Pub. L. 95–39 added par. (7) and redesignated former pars. (7) to (11) as (8) to (12), respectively.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Energy Research and Development Administration and Federal Energy Administration terminated and functions vested by law in their respective Administrators transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by section 7151(a) and 7293 of this title.

§5813 Responsibilities of Administrator