[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5407 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5407

   To require the Secretary of Energy to prepare a strategic plan to 
  ensure that the United States is energy self-sufficient by the year 
                                 2015.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2004

  Mr. Larson of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committee on Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Energy to prepare a strategic plan to 
  ensure that the United States is energy self-sufficient by the year 
                                 2015.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Energy Independence Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. DOMESTIC ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY PLAN.

    Section 801 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 
7321) is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end 
thereof:
    ``(e)(1) Each plan submitted under this section after the date one 
year after the date of enactment of this subsection shall include a 
strategic plan to ensure that the United States is energy self-
sufficient by the year 2015.
    ``(2) The strategic plan under this subsection shall examine and 
report on the status of existing energy technology and domestic 
resources as well as developing energy generation and transmission 
technologies, including, but not limited to fuel cell technology, and 
should focus on their integration into an overall national energy 
portfolio to meet the stated goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency 
within 10 years.
    ``(3) The strategic plan shall include recommendations to Congress 
for targeted research and development in promising new energy 
generation and transmission technologies, and funding levels necessary 
for specific programs and research efforts necessary to implement a 
plan providing for the energy self-sufficiency of the United States 
within the next 10 years.''.
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