---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7111"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7111"
heading: "Congressional findings"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7111"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter I — Declaration of Findings and Purposes"
---

# §7111. Congressional findings


The Congress of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) finds that—

- (1) the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) faces an increasing shortage of nonrenewable energy resources;
- (2) this [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) shortage and our increasing dependence on foreign [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) supplies pre­sent a serious threat to the national security of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) and to the health, safety and welfare of its citizens;
- (3) a strong national [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) is needed to meet the present and future [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) needs of the Nation consistent with overall national economic, environmental and social goals;
- (4) responsibility for [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) policy, regulation, and research, development and demonstration is fragmented in many departments and agencies and thus does not allow for the comprehensive, centralized focus necessary for effective coordination of [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) supply and conservation [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4); and
- (5) formulation and implementation of a national [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) require the integration of major Federal [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) functions into a [single](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) department in the executive branch.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title I, § 101, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 567.)