National Energy Research and Development Policy Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Energy Research and Development Policy Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this that the United States develop within ten years the capability for the United States to become energy self-sufficient through the use of domestic energy resources by socially and environmentally acceptable means the achievement of this national goal, it shall be the policy of the Congress to establish and maintain a national program of basic and applied research and development in the discovery, production, transportation, distribution, and conversion of energy resources and fuels adequate to meet the following objectives: (1) to encourage the conservation of limited energy resources and maximize the efficient development, production, conversion, and use of nonrenewable and limited primary energy resources; (2) to insure adequate, reliable, economical, and environmentally acceptable energy supply systems necessary to support the goals and essential needs of modern society including the established social objectives of Federal, State, and local government; (3) to foster the expeditious transfer of the results of research on new energy technologies into the commercial application by the privat…