I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3207 
To provide mechanisms for developing and implementing a national energy 
security strategy for the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2007 
Mr. BOUSTANY (for himself and Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and 
in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Select Intelligence 
(Permanent Select), and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide mechanisms for developing and implementing a 
national energy security strategy for the United States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Security and 
Foreign Policy Integration Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The United States Government has histori-
cally failed to adequately and systematically consider 
energy issues in the development of foreign and na-
tional security policy. 
(2) Energy issues should be an integral part of 
the foreign and national security policymaking proc-
ess and should be taken into consideration at all 
stages of policy planning and development. 
(3) The United States growing dependence on 
foreign energy supplies constrains its pursuit of a 
broad range of foreign policy and national security 
goals and objectives. 
(4) The United States growing dependence on 
foreign energy supplies poses increased economic 
and military vulnerabilities. 
(5) The United States Government is not orga-
nized efficiently to manage its dependence on foreign 
sources of energy, and a restructuring is needed to 
better ensure the integration of the political, eco-
nomic, technical, and security aspects of energy pol-
icymaking through a formal interagency process. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL REORGANIZATION. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 101(a) of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 402(a)) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and 
(7) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(5) the Secretary of Energy;’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF A DIRECTORATE OF EN-
ERGY.—A Directorate of Energy shall be established with-
in the National Security Council which shall be the lead 
United States Government entity in charge of formulating 
and coordinating the national energy security policy of the 
United States. The responsibilities of the Directorate of 
Energy shall include— 
(1) directing the development of the national 
energy security strategy of the United States; 
(2) coordinating an interagency approach to the 
national energy security policy of the United States 
with the Department of Energy, the Department of 
Defense, the Department of State, the Department 
of the Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency, the 
National Economic Council, and other relevant Fed-
eral entities, as appropriate, to address the integra-
tion of national security, foreign, and domestic pol-
icy on the national energy security policy of the 
United States; 
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(3) coordinating interagency monitoring of 
international and domestic energy developments to 
gauge their impact on the national energy security 
policy of the United States, and implementing 
changes in such policy as necessary to maintain the 
national security and energy security of the United 
States; 
(4) identifying foreign sources of energy critical 
to the national energy security of the United States 
and developing strategies in conjunction with the 
Department of State for ensuring United States ac-
cess to critical foreign energy resources; 
(5) developing strategies for reducing United 
States dependence on foreign sources of energy, in-
cluding demand reduction, efficiency improvement, 
and development of alternative and new sources of 
domestic energy; 
(6) developing strategies to reduce energy infra-
structure vulnerability to terrorist attacks and nat-
ural disasters, both domestic and international, to 
help guard against supply disruptions; 
(7) developing strategies in conjunction with the 
Department of State for working with major inter-
national producers and consumers, including China, 
Russia, the European Union, India, Brazil, and Af-
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