A bill to establish an Energy Mobilization Board.
National Energy Mobilization Act - Title I: National Energy Mobilization Board - Establishes in the executive branch an independent agency to be known as the National Energy Mobilization Board. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts to acquire and dispose of property and to take such other measures as necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Title II: Authorized Energy Programs - Directs the Board to estimate energy needs of the United States and to establish domestic energy production and conservation targets. Provides that the Board shall identify actions necessary to achieve the established targets and monitor the activities of governmental and private entities toward such goals.
Authorizes the Board to require the allocation of or the performance under contracts relating to essential supplies of materials and equipment necessary to maximize domestic energy supplies.
Directs the Board to prepare and carry out a Federal energy resource assessment program providing an assessment of the nation's energy resources.
Requires the Board to study the feasibility and material needs of one or more oil and natural gas pipeline routes from the Naval Petroleum Reserve Number Four in Alaska. Directs the Board to submit periodic reports to Congress on the progress of such report.
Authorizes the Board to prepare a Federal Facilities Energy Program. Provides for the utilization of idle or surplus resources of the Federal Government which could be used to augment the private sector's capacity for the production of materials and goods essential for accelerated domestic energy resource programs of exploration, conservation, and stockpiling.
Title III: Programs Requiring Express Legislative Authorization - Directs the Board to prepare a Federal Coal Production Program consisting of a legislative recommendation for the accelerated exploration and production of coal in the United States. Requires the Board to prepare a Federal Energy Transportation System Improvement Program consisting of legislative recommendations for programs to assure the development of energy transportation systems.
Authorizes the Board to prepare an Energy Capital Investment Program, designed to make adequate capital available for private investment in the production, development and transportation of conventional energy supplies.
Provides that no program under this title shall be carried out until a report describing the program has been transmitted to the Congress.
Title IV: Advisory Committees and Interagency Coordination - Authorizes the Board to establish advisory committees to consult with the Board during the development of any program established pursuant to this Act.
Directs all agencies of the Federal Government to develop techniques to conserve energy resources.
Title V: General Provisions - Requires the Board to develop an affirmative action plan to assure that no person shall be excluded from participating in any program initiated by the Board on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex.
Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as necessary to carry out the objectives of this Act.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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