---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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 finds that—

- (1) the United States faces an increasing shortage of nonrenewable energy resources;
- (2) this energy shortage and our increasing dependence on foreign energy supplies pre­sent a serious threat to the national security of the United States and to the health, safety and welfare of its citizens;
- (3) a strong national energy program is needed to meet the present and future energy needs of the Nation consistent with overall national economic, environmental and social goals;
- (4) responsibility for energy policy, regulation, and research, development and demonstration is fragmented in many departments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and thus does not allow for the comprehensive, centralized focus necessary for effective coordination of energy supply and conservation programs; and
- (5) formulation and implementation of a national energy program require the integration of major Federal energy functions into a single department in the executive branch.

## Source credit

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