Establishing a Quadrennial Energy Review

Record & deadlines

1. Jan 9, 2014Signed

   Signed by the President

2. Jan 14, 2014FR published

   Published in the Federal Register · 79 FR 2577

   Federal Register PDF
3. Jan 8, 2018

   Subsequent Quadrennial Energy Review Reports every 4 years

4. Jan 31, 2015

   First Quadrennial Energy Review Report due to President

Key directives

• Establish Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force with 23 agency members
• Task Force co-chaired by OSTP Director and Domestic Policy Council Director
• Secretary of Energy to provide support for coordination, analysis, and stakeholder engagement
• Task Force to submit first report by January 31, 2015
• Subsequent reports every 4 years
• Task Force to gather ideas from state/local governments, tribes, businesses, universities, labs, NGOs, labor organizations, consumers
• Develop integrated outreach strategy using traditional meetings and information technology
• First report to focus on energy infrastructure challenges
• Reports to include recommendations for additional executive and legislative actions

Who is ordered

• Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy · OSTP
• Director of the Domestic Policy Council · Executive Office of the President
• Secretary of Energy · Department of Energy
• Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies · Multiple
• Secretary of State · State
• Secretary of the Treasury · Treasury
• Secretary of Defense · Department of Defense
• Secretary of the Interior · Department of the Interior
• Secretary of Agriculture · Department of Agriculture
• Secretary of Commerce · Commerce
• Secretary of Labor · Labor
• Secretary of Health and Human Services · Department of Health and Human Services
• Secretary of Housing and Urban Development · Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Secretary of Transportation · Department of Transportation
• Secretary of Veterans Affairs · Department of Veterans Affairs
• Secretary of Homeland Security · Department of Homeland Security
• Director of the Office of Management and Budget · Office of Management and Budget
• Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency · Environmental Protection Agency
• Administrator of the Small Business Administration · SBA
• Director of the National Science Foundation · NSF

What to expect

Risks & tensions

• Subject to availability of appropriations may limit implementation
• Advisory nature of reports with no binding policy effect unless followed by separate action
• Vague scope for 'intermediate reports and other material as required by the President'