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 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3001 of imported energy resources, maintaining access to foreign sources of supply; and (2) the economic, energy, social, environmental, and competitive consequences resulting from the establishment of any particular order of Federal priority as determined under subsection (d). (d) PRIORITIES.—The least-cost energy strategy shall identify Federal priorities, including policies that— (1) implement standards for more efficient use of fossil fuels; (2) increase the energy efficiency of existing technologies; (3) encourage technologies, including clean coal technologies, that generate lower levels of greenhouse gases; (4) promote the use of renewable energy resources, including solar, geothermal, sustainable biomass, hydropower, and wind power; (5) afiTect the development and consumption of energy and energy efficiency resources and electricity through tax policy; (6) encourage investment in energy efficient equipment and technologies; and (7) encourage the development of energy technologies, such as advanced nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, that produce energy without greenhouse gases as a byproduct, and encourage the deplojmient of nuclear electric generating capacity. (e) ASSUMPTIONS.—The Secretary shall incluae in the leastcost energy strategy an identification of all of the assumptions used in developing the strategy and priorities thereunder, and the reasons for such assumptions. (f) PREFERENCE.—When comparing an energy efficiency resource to an energy resource, a higher priority shall be assigned to the energy efficiency resource whenever all direct and quantifiable net costs for the resoiirce over its available life are equal to the estimated cost of the energy resource. (g) PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT. — The Secretary shall provide for a period of public review and comment of the least-cost energy strategy, for a period of at least 30 days, to be completed at least 60 days before the issuance of such strategy. The Secretary shall also provide for public review and comment before the issuance of any update to the least-cost energy strategy required under this section. SEC. 1603. DIRECTOR OF CLIMATE PROTECTION. 42 USC 13383. Within 6 months aff^er the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish, within the Department of Energy, a Director of Climate Protection (in this section referred to as the "Director"). The Director shall— (1) in the absence of the Secretary, serve as the Secretary's representative for interagency and multilateral policy discussions of global climate change, including the activities of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences as established by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (Public Law 101- 606) and the Policy Coordinating Committee Working Group on Climate Change; (2) monitor, in cooperation with other Federal agencies, domestic and international policies for their effects on the generation of greenhouse gases; and

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