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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 5813. Responsibilities of Administrator
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.
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