As one of his first acts as president, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)has called on President-elect George W. Bush to order the threefederal agencies that have jurisdiction over U.S. energy supply tocraft coordinated policies to address the energy crisis facing thenation.

“We are suffering from the complete absence of any coherentenergy policy. The evidence for this is overwhelming. We needpolicies that will assure Americans of adequate energy supplies atreasonable prices,” he wrote in a letter to Bush on Wednesday.

In the past, the three federal agencies whose policies influenceU.S. energy supply — the Department of Energy, the Department ofInterior and the Environmental Protection Agency — “approachedeach issue from a perspective defined by their own specific, narrowagency interests without considering the impact on energy supply,”Domenici said. “This must change.”

This disjointed approach by the agencies poses a threat to the”national and economic energy security,” which Domenici believesshould be the “overarching priority” of the new Bushadministration.

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