§7144e — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs inside the Department. A Director will lead it, picked by the Secretary and paid at Executive Schedule level IV under section 5315 of title 5. The Director must run and coordinate the Department’s energy planning, education, management, conservation, and delivery programs to help tribes develop and use energy, lower or steady energy costs, strengthen tribal energy and economic infrastructure for resource development and electrification, and bring electricity and service to Indian lands and tribal homes, including projects paid for in whole or in part with federal funds. Office — the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs inside the Department.

Title 42, §7144e

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(a)There is established within the Department an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (referred to in this section as the “Office”). The Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary and compensated at a rate equal to that of level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5.

(b)The Director, in accordance with Federal policies promoting Indian self-determination and the purposes of this chapter, shall provide, direct, foster, coordinate, and implement energy planning, education, management, conservation, and delivery programs of the Department that—

(1)promote Indian tribal energy development, efficiency, and use;

(2)reduce or stabilize energy costs;

(3)enhance and strengthen Indian tribal energy and economic infrastructure relating to natural resource development and electrification; and

(4)bring electrical power and service to Indian land and the homes of tribal members located on Indian lands or acquired, constructed, or improved (in whole or in part) with Federal funds.

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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.

§7144e Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs