[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Vol. 82

Tuesday,

No. 199

October 17, 2017

Part III





The President





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Proclamation 9659--National Energy Awareness Month, 2017



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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 9659 of October 12, 2017

                
National Energy Awareness Month, 2017

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During National Energy Awareness Month, we commit to 
                achieving an America First energy policy that will 
                lower energy costs for hardworking Americans, protect 
                our national security, and promote responsible 
                stewardship of the environment. The United States is 
                blessed with extraordinary energy abundance, and we 
                must encourage policies that allow innovative Americans 
                to unleash our Nation's energy potential and drive 
                robust job growth and expansion in every sector of our 
                economy.

                It is time we make America's energy dominance a 
                priority. Since 1954, America has been a net importer 
                of energy. My Administration is working to change that 
                and make America become a net energy exporter by 2026. 
                We must empower Americans to access the vast reserves 
                of coal, oil, and natural gas stored across our land, 
                and to develop nuclear, hydropower, and all other types 
                of clean and renewable energy. Recently, the Department 
                of Energy approved applications to expand our exports 
                of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and establish our Nation 
                as a top LNG supplier to the world. We are also 
                starting to see the effects of ending the war on coal. 
                In the first months of my Administration, United States 
                coal exports have increased by nearly 60 percent from 
                the same time period last year. Together with the 
                Congress and with our State and local partners, we can 
                better enable improvements in energy infrastructure, 
                streamline our Nation's complex regulations, and we can 
                become energy dominant.

                An America First energy policy goes hand-in-hand with 
                responsible environmental protection. Protecting our 
                streams, lakes, and air, and preserving all of our 
                natural habitats, will always be high priority for my 
                Administration. Since 1970, aggregate emissions of six 
                common air pollutants have fallen by 73 percent. We 
                have aggressively fought pollution and reduced 
                emissions even as our population, energy use, and 
                energy production have all grown. Innovative 
                technologies focused on achieving affordable and 
                reliable energy--from Alaska's North Slope to the Great 
                Plains and the Gulf of Mexico--will continue to allow 
                our country to protect our environment, while also 
                reducing our trade deficits, strengthening energy 
                security, raising wages, and supporting job growth for 
                the hundreds of thousands of Americans currently 
                employed in the energy sector.

                During National Energy Awareness Month, we are mindful 
                of our energy use and determined to safeguard our 
                energy security. We must remember that some countries 
                do not share our belief in universal access to clean 
                and affordable energy. We thus recommit to freeing our 
                Nation from reliance on the Organization of Petroleum 
                Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel and to helping our 
                friends and allies overseas reduce their dependence on 
                those who seek to use energy as a weapon. An energy 
                dominant America is good for Americans--and good for 
                the world.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim October 2017 as 
                National Energy Awareness Month.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                second.
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