Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs The Energy Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (1999) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Energy Resources Program: Setting, Mission, and Role
2 The Energy Resources Program: Setting, Mission, and Role
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. The GD, the largest of the four USGS divisions when reimbursable expenditures are excluded, conducts an integrated mixture of monitoring, research, and assessment activities in support of science goals that address major social issues involving geologic hazards and disasters, climate variability and change, energy and nonfuel mineral resources, ecosystem and human health, and groundwater availability.
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Landslide Hazards (Figure 2.2~. The strategic plans of the USGS [USGS: Science for a Changing World.
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(USGS, 1997a, p.l) It is worth citing in full the USGS strategic plan's goals and performance measures for the critical business activity for nonrenewable resources.
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, and on identification and mitigation of potential problems caused by resource extraction on Federal lands. Important strategic opportunities also include such nontraditional areas as non-metallic minerals and aggregate, in-situ mining and its environmental impacts, and in mined land reclamation and associated resource recovery.
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Environmental Impact: Provide the scientific knowledge for evaluating and minimizing impacts to human health and the environment resulting from the natural occurrence, extraction, and utilization of fossil energy resources and the disposal of by-products of fossil energy production and use.
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The information and expertise provided by the ERP have many applications. They are needed for land management decisions, energy policy and strategy, environmental policy, human health policy, energy security, reliable and costeffective energy supplies, economic projections from the local to the national level, energy supply-demand analyses, and economic impact assessments.
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In contrast to programs in other energy agencies, the ERP is focused primarily on the initial stages in the supply process: the development of resource information that can then be used to make estimates of reserves. [By definition, "resources" are naturally occurring substances of potential profit that may someday be used under specified technological and socioeconomic conditions, whereas "reserves" are known and identified quantities of resources that can be exploited profitably with existing technology under prevailing economic and legal conditions (de Souza, 1990, p.
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The ERP is the sole provider of onshore fossil energy resource assessments within the federal government. The ERP provides technical expertise and information not available elsewhere to a variety of federal agencies and to the private sector.
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