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The United States is well-positioned to lead the clean energy transformation and Interior’s land, energy, and natural resource management responsibilities offer significant opportunities.  The Department of the Interior manages 500 million acres of land, one-fifth of the land mass of the United States and another 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).  This land base includes areas which boast some of the highest quality renewable energy resources available for development today: solar in the southwest; wind in the Atlantic, on the Great Plains and in the west; and geothermal in the west.  We are working to develop these assets to help power President Obama’s vision for a new energy economy.  The scope of Interior’s land ownership also gives us an important role in siting the new transmission lines needed to bring stranded renewable energy assets to load centers, all in an ecologically sensitive manner. 

Since coming into office, Interior has prioritized the development of renewable energy on our public lands and OCS.  American business is responding. Companies are investing in wind farms off the Atlantic seacoast, solar facilities in the southwest, and geothermal energy projects throughout the west.  Power generation from these new energy sources produces virtually no greenhouse gases and, when installed in an environmentally sensitive manner, they harness abundant, renewable energy that nature itself provides and with minimum impact.

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Since the beginning of the Obama Administration in January, we at the Department of the Interior have been focused on these issues, working with stakeholders and our federal, state, and local partners to take the appropriate actions to set the country on a course toward a clean new energy economy. 

On April 9, 2009, the Secretary and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Jon Wellinghoff signed an agreement that clarifies our agencies’ jurisdictional responsibilities for leasing and licensing renewable energy projects on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.  The Memorandum of Understanding establishes a process for the Department and FERC to efficiently advance the development of wind, solar, wave, tidal and ocean current energy sources, while maintaining mandated consultation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s authorities and responsibilities for stewardship of marine ecosystems and living marine resources. 

In June of this year, the Department responded to a 2007 Congressional directive with a report that outlines a recommended framework for a national carbon storage program on public lands.  Such a program may help develop cleaner energy and reduce greenhouse gasses.  The report, titled, Framework for Geological Carbon Sequestration on Public Land fStatement of Thomas Ll Transmission dStatement of Thomas Ly t g g Sex Transmission Oral