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National Energy Policy Summary
Visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/ to view the full text of the Policy.

Below is a chapter by chapter summary of the Policy.

1 - Taking Stock: Energy Challenges Facing the United States
Recommends an Executive Order to direct federal agencies to include a “statement of energy impact” on regulatory actions that could affect energy supplies, distribution, or use.

2 - Striking Home: Impacts of High Energy Prices on Families, Communities, and Businesses
Recommends educational programs related to energy development and use, funded and managed by the respective energy industries, which include information on the compatibility of energy with a clean environment.

3 - Protecting America’s Environment: Sustaining the Nation’s Health and Environment
Recommends multi-pollutant legislation to establish a market-based program, including emissions trading credits and to cap specific emissions from electric power generators; and, recommends the creation of a “Royalties Conservation Fund” to earmark potential royalties from new oil and gas production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fund land conservation efforts and maintenance and improvements on federal lands.

4 - Using Energy Wisely: Increasing Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Recommends improved energy efficiency of appliances and expansion of the appliance standards program, setting standards “where technologically feasible and economically justified;” recommends fuel economy standards that will not negatively impact the U.S. automotive industry and market-based approaches to increasing the national average fuel economy of new motor vehicles and tax credits.

5 - Energy for a New Century: Increasing Domestic Energy Supplies
Oil and Gas: Recommends promotion of oil and gas recovery from existing wells, economic incentives for offshore oil and gas development such as royalty reductions, and a reexamination of federal laws and policies to determine if changes are needed regarding energy-related activities and the siting of energy facilities in the coastal zone and on the Outer Continental Shelf; recommends authorization of exploration within the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge and renewal of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System rights-of-way.

Nuclear Energy: Recommends the expansion of nuclear energy in the U.S. including the expedition of applications for licensing new advanced-technology reactors, facilitation of nuclear energy generation by revising the rating of existing nuclear plants, relicensing existing nuclear plants, assessing the potential of nuclear energy to improve air quality, and providing deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste.

Hydroelectric: Recommends the reduction of the time and cost of the hydropower licensing process and optimizing the efficiency and reliability of existing hydropower facilities.

6 - Nature’s Power: Increasing America’s Use of Renewable and Alternative Energy
Recommends a reevaluation of access limitations to federal lands in order to increase renewable energy production, such as biomass, wind, geothermal, and solar; recommends an increase for research and development of renewable energy resources; and, recommends a review of funding and performance of renewable energy and alternative energy research and development programs.

7 - America’s Energy Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Delivery System
Recommends improvements to the reliability of the interstate transmission system and the development of legislation providing for enforcement by a self-regulatory organization subject to FERC oversight; and, recommends the removal of constraints on the interstate transmission system, the establishment of a national grid, and the use of incentive rate-making proposals

8 - Strengthening Global Alliances: Enhancing National Energy Security and Int’l Relationships
Recommends international initiatives and agreements to open foreign energy to investment, improve dialogue among energy producing and consuming nations, support American energy firms competing in markets abroad, level the playing field for U.S. companies overseas and reduce barriers to trade and investment; recommends expedition of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska and Canada to the lower 48 states; and recommends the increase of international supplies of oil and gas.

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