Final GAO Report On Cheney Energy Task Force Released
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs press release
GAO report GAO-03-894,
ENERGY TASK FORCE Process Used to
Develop the National Energy Policy
In developing the National Energy Policy report, the NEPDG Principals,
Support Group, and participating agency officials and staff met with,
solicited input from, or received information and advice from nonfederal
energy stakeholders, principally petroleum, coal, nuclear, natural gas, and
electricity industry representatives and lobbyists. The extent to which
submissions from any of these stakeholders were solicited, influenced policy
deliberations, or were incorporated into the final report cannot be
determined based on the limited information made available to GAO.
…The Office of the Vice PresidentÕs unwillingness to provide the NEPDG records or other related information precluded GAO from fully achieving its objectives and substantially limited GAOÕs ability to comprehensively analyze the NEPDG process.
The complete report can be found here:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03894.pdf
and here:
http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/_files/gaoenergytaskforce.pdf.
For additional background, including a detailed chronology of GAOÕs efforts to obtain task force records and the White HouseÕs efforts to frustrate GAO, see:
www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_energy/energy_cheney.htm