National energy policies

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A National Energy Policy Report that was released in 2001 predicted that U.S. requirements for burning 20 million barrels of oil each day will continue to increase and that increases in U.S. dependence on imported supplies of oil will reach two-thirds by 2020. Also, the Persian Gulf countries will be the main source for this amount of oil and the U.S. trade imbalance will continue to grow. 

Most scientists do not debate whether global warming has occurred, they accept it, but the cause of the warming and future projections about the results is questioned. The proposed National Energy Policy Act of 1988,... 

REGULATORYAGENCIES - CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY] (Vol21) National Energy Policy Act... 

Under the National Energy Policy Act of 1992 nonpetroleum-based transportation fuels are to be introduced in the United States. Such fuels include natural gas (see Gas, natural), liquefied petroleum gas (qv) (LPG), methanol (qv), ethanol (qv), and hydrogen (qv), although hydrogen fuels are not expected to be a factor until after the year 2000 (see also Alcohol FUELS Hydrogen energy). 

Legal impediments to development of a new waste classification system would be ignored. These include, for example, the distinction between radioactive waste that arises from operations of the nuclear fuel-cycle and NARM waste, which is based on provisions of AEA, the distinction between radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes, which is based on provisions of AEA and RCRA, and the provision in the National Energy Policy Act that prohibits NRC from establishing a general class of exempt radioactive waste. 

The provision of the National Energy Policy Act (NEPA, 1992) that prohibits NRC from establishing dose criteria that could be used to exempt radioactive wastes from licensing requirements for disposal clearly is an impediment to development of generally applicable exemption levels for radioactive waste. An exempt class of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste is the cornerstone of the risk-based waste classification system developed in this Report, and any legal and regulatory impediments to establishment of generally applicable exemption levels would need to be removed. 

NEPA (1992). National Energy Policy Act. Public Law 102-486 (October 24), 106 Stat. 2795 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

According to the National Energy Policy the USA will lead the world in the development of clean, natural, renewable and alternative energy supplies [8], Renewable and alternative energy supplies not only help diversify energy portfolio they do so with few adverse environmental impacts. While the current contribution of renewable and alternative energy resources to America s total electricity supply is relatively small—only 9 percent— the... 

National Energy Policy. Report of the National Energy Development Group, May 2001. 

Coal is a source of energy in relatively bountiful supply in our country and synthetic fuel applications of coal are a very vital topic for the American Chemical and Process Industry that you here represent. A greater use of this indigenous resource is a cornerstone of our National Energy Policy, and it is the very inventive genius of American enterprise that can turn this policy into a viable reality as the industry of our country has done so admirably in the past in stepping up to big issues that our nation has faced. 

What this country needs and needs now is a real national energy policy. Congress and the Administration must recognize this and prepare such a policy before it is too late. 

Yucca Mountain, even if licensed to receive spent fuel in 2010, only has the capacity to absorb the output of commercial U.S. spent fuel production and existing storage through about 2015. Consequently, President Bush in his National Energy Policy issued in May 2001 (ref 6.1) recommended ... 

National Energy Policy-Report of the National Energy Policy development Group (2001) U.S. Government Printing OfTice. 

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