§7267 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must send a report to the President for Congress as soon as practicable after each fiscal year ends, starting with the first full fiscal year after October 1, 1977. The report must state the Department’s goals, priorities, and plans, and say how well those goals were met, how efficiently the Department was run, and how it worked with other federal agencies. It must also include any information other laws require and eight main energy topics: projected U.S. energy needs (including rural and non-metropolitan areas); estimates of domestic and foreign supplies and how much will come from each source (like petroleum, gases, coal, uranium, hydroelectric, solar, and others); trends in price, quality, use, and management and their effects; a summary of federal research and development and how it protects the environment and safety; a review of technologies and practices used by governments and others; a summary of conservation and recycling efforts and plans plus recommended law changes; a summary of college and university workforce and research support efforts; and, when practical, a summary of foreign-owned or controlled activity in U.S. energy, including annual foreign investment and exports.

Title 42, §7267

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The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, commencing with the first complete fiscal year following October 1, 1977, make a report to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during the preceding fiscal year. Such report shall include a statement of the Secretary’s goals, priorities, and plans for the Department, together with an assessment of the progress made toward the attainment of those goals, the effective and efficient management of the Department and progress made in coordination of its functions with other departments and agencies of the Federal Government. In addition, such report shall include the information required by section 774 of title 15, section 6325(c) of this title, section 10224(c) of this title, section 5877 of this title, and section 5914 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, and shall include:

(1)projected energy needs of the United States to meet the requirements of the general welfare of the people of the United States and the commercial and industrial life of the Nation, including a comprehensive summary of data pertaining to all fuel and energy needs of residents of the United States residing in—

(A)areas outside standard metropolitan statistical areas; and

(B)areas within such areas which are unincorporated or are specified by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, as rural areas;

(2)an estimate of (A) the domestic and foreign energy supply on which the United States will be expected to rely to meet such needs in an economic manner with due regard for the protection of the environment, the conservation of natural resources, and the implementation of foreign policy objectives, and (B) the quantities of energy expected to be provided by different sources (including petroleum, natural and synthetic gases, coal, uranium, hydroelectric, solar, and other means) and the expected means of obtaining such quantities;

(3)current and foreseeable trends in the price, quality, management, and utilization of energy resources and the effects of those trends on the social, environmental, economic, and other requirements of the Nation;

(4)a summary of research and development efforts funded by the Federal Government to develop new technologies, to forestall energy shortages, to reduce waste, to foster recycling, to encourage conservation practices, and to increase efficiency; and further such summary shall include a description of the activities the Department is performing in support of environmental, social, economic and institutional, biomedical, physical and safety research, development, demonstration, and monitoring activities necessary to guarantee that technological programs, funded by the Department, are undertaken in a manner consistent with and capable of maintaining or improving the quality of the environment and of mitigating any undesirable environmental and safety impacts;

(5)a review and appraisal of the adequacy and appropriateness of technologies, procedures, and practices (including competitive and regulatory practices) employed by Federal/State, and local governments and nongovernmental entities to achieve the purposes of this chapter;

(6)a summary of cooperative and voluntary efforts that have been mobilized to promote conservation and recycling, together with plans for such efforts in the succeeding fiscal year, and recommendations for changes in laws and regulations needed to encourage more conservation and recycling by all segments of the Nation’s populace;

(7)a summary of substantive measures taken by the Department to stimulate and encourage the development of new manpower resources through the Nation’s colleges and universities and to involve these institutions in the execution of the Department’s research and development programs; and

(8)to the extent practicable, a summary of activities in the United States by companies or persons which are foreign owned or controlled and which own or control United States energy sources and supplies, including the magnitude of annual foreign direct investment in the energy sector in the United States and exports of energy resources from the United States by foreign owned or controlled business entities or persons, and such other related matters as the Secretary may deem appropriate.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 5914 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the Code. This chapter, referred to in par. (5), 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

Short Title

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

Amendments

1995—Pub. L. 104–66 inserted “section 6325(c) of this title, section 10224(c) of this title,” after “section 774 of title 15,” in introductory provisions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Reporting RequirementsFor termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which the 3rd item on page 88 identifies a reporting provision which, as subsequently amended, is contained in this section), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

§7267 Annual report