A resolution amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Energy.

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Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Energy to investigate and report on: (1) national energy policy generally; (2) interstate and foreign commerce relating to energy resources; (3) measures relating to the exploration, development, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources; (4) measures relating to the conservation of energy resources; (5) regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry; (6) energy research, development, and demonstrations; (7) all federally owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories; (8) measures relating to energy information generally; (9) measures relating to the reliability, generation, interstate transmission, marketing of, and rate-making for, all power; (10) interstate energy compacts; (11) tariffs, quotas, and other fees or limitations on the importation of energy resources; and (12) measures relating to the management of the Department of Energy, and the management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Specifies that such committee shall not have jurisdiction over the following: (1) military applications of nuclear energy; (2) nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; and (3) any matter relating to irrigation or reclamation in connection with federally chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities.

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  summary · EN · 25 February 1980

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