[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3207 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3207

To provide mechanisms for developing and implementing a national energy 
                security strategy for the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2007

  Mr. Boustany (for himself and Mr. Davis of Kentucky) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 
     and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Select 
Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Energy and Commerce, 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 provide mechanisms for developing and implementing a national energy 
                security strategy for the United States.

    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 Security and Foreign Policy 
Integration Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States Government has historically failed to 
        adequately and systematically consider energy issues in the 
        development of foreign and national security policy.
            (2) Energy issues should be an integral part of the foreign 
        and national security policymaking process and should be taken 
        into consideration at all stages of policy planning and 
        development.
            (3) The United States growing dependence on foreign energy 
        supplies constrains its pursuit of a broad range of foreign 
        policy and national security goals and objectives.
            (4) The United States growing dependence on foreign energy 
        supplies poses increased economic and military vulnerabilities.
            (5) The United States Government is not organized 
        efficiently to manage its dependence on foreign sources of 
        energy, and a restructuring is needed to better ensure the 
        integration of the political, economic, technical, and security 
        aspects of energy policymaking through a formal interagency 
        process.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL REORGANIZATION.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 101(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 402(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) as 
        paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) the Secretary of Energy;''.
    (b) Establishment of a Directorate of Energy.--A Directorate of 
Energy shall be established within the National Security Council which 
shall be the lead United States Government entity in charge of 
formulating and coordinating the national energy security policy of the 
United States. The responsibilities of the Directorate of Energy shall 
include--
            (1) directing the development of the national energy 
        security strategy of the United States;
            (2) coordinating an interagency approach to the national 
        energy security policy of the United States with the Department 
        of Energy, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, 
        the Department of the Treasury, the Central Intelligence 
        Agency, the National Economic Council, and other relevant 
        Federal entities, as appropriate, to address the integration of 
        national security, foreign, and domestic policy on the national 
        energy security policy of the United States;
            (3) coordinating interagency monitoring of international 
        and domestic energy developments to gauge their impact on the 
        national energy security policy of the United States, and 
        implementing changes in such policy as necessary to maintain 
        the national security and energy security of the United States;
            (4) identifying foreign sources of energy critical to the 
        national energy security of the United States and developing 
        strategies in conjunction with the Department of State for 
        ensuring United States access to critical foreign energy 
        resources;
            (5) developing strategies for reducing United States 
        dependence on foreign sources of energy, including demand 
        reduction, efficiency improvement, and development of 
        alternative and new sources of domestic energy;
            (6) developing strategies to reduce energy infrastructure 
        vulnerability to terrorist attacks and natural disasters, both 
        domestic and international, to help guard against supply 
        disruptions;
            (7) developing strategies in conjunction with the 
        Department of State for working with major international 
        producers and consumers, including China, Russia, the European 
        Union, India, Brazil, and Africa, to minimize politicization of 
        global energy resources while ensuring access through global 
        energy markets;
            (8) developing strategies in conjunction with the 
        Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, and other 
        relevant Federal agencies to broaden and enhance the 
        capabilities of the International Energy Agency to ensure open 
        energy markets and updated cooperative agreements among nations 
        regarding development and use of their strategic reserves; and
            (9) developing strategies with industry regarding 
        coordination of industry held reserves of oil and refined 
        petroleum products.

SEC. 4. QUADRENNIAL ENERGY SECURITY REVIEW.

    (a) QESR Required.--Every 4 years, during a year following a year 
evenly divisible by 4, the President shall conduct a quadrennial 
national energy security review (in this section referred to as a 
``QESR'') to set forth the national energy security strategy of the 
United States and to establish short and long term goals to achieve 
energy security. In preparing the QESR, the President shall consult 
with--
            (1) members of the National Security Council;
            (2) the Secretary of Energy;
            (3) the Secretary of State;
            (4) the Secretary of Defense;
            (5) the Secretary of the Treasury;
            (6) the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and
            (7) Congress.
    (b) Report.--
            (1) In general.--In a year following the year in which a 
        QESR is conducted under this section, but not later than the 
        date on which the President submits the budget for the next 
        fiscal year to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, 
        United States Code, the President shall submit to Congress a 
        report on such QESR. Such report shall describe the national 
        energy security strategy of the United States, including a 
        comprehensive description of--
                    (A) the worldwide interests, goals, and objectives 
                of the United States that are vital to the national 
                energy security of the United States;
                    (B) the foreign policy, worldwide commitments, and 
                national defense capabilities of the United States 
                necessary--
                            (i) to deter political manipulation of 
                        world energy resources; and
                            (ii) to implement the national energy 
                        security strategy of the United States;
                    (C) the proposed short-term and long-term uses of 
                the political, economic, military, and other 
                authorities of the Unites States--
                            (i) to protect or promote energy security 
                        and markets; and
                            (ii) to achieve the goals and objectives 
                        described in subsection (a);
                    (D) the adequacy of the capabilities of the United 
                States to protect the national energy security of the 
                United States, including an evaluation of the balance 
                among the capabilities of all elements of the national 
                authority of the United States to support the 
                implementation of the national energy security 
                strategy;
                    (E) an assessment of current Department of Defense 
                energy-related vulnerabilities with assessment of 
                capabilities and recommendations for overcoming such 
                vulnerabilities; and
                    (F) such other information as the President 
                determines to be necessary to inform Congress on 
                matters relating to the national energy security of the 
                United States.
    (c) QESR Form.--Each QESR shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex.
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