New Energy Frontier: Balancing Energy Development on Federal Lands. A Joint Report to Congress on Siting Energy Development Projects on Federal Lands.

摘要

This report responds to the direction of Congress as provided in the Statement of Managers (Rept. 111-316) accompanying the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, and separate recommendations of individual members regarding issues associated with the development of both renewable and conventional energy from Federal lands both onshore and on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Federal lands and offshore areas managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS) are key components of a comprehensive energy strategy that increases the safe and responsible production of natural gas and oil in the United States, makes renewable energy a priority, begins to move the Nation toward a clean energy economy, creates jobs, and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.