9 (A) to manage, as their primary responsibility, an innovative research and development program that focuses on the bold, breakthrough technologies that are critical to the long-term stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere; and (B) to provide analytical support and data to the White House Office, other agencies, and the public; (4) the establishment of an independent review board (A) to review the Strategy and annually assess United States and international progress toward the goal of stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system; and (B) to assess (i) the performance of each Federal agency that has responsibilities under the Strategy; and (ii) the adequacy of the budget of each such Federal agency to fulfill the re sponsibilities of the Federal agency under the Strategy; and 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 (5) the establishment of offices in, or the car rying out of activities by, the Department of Agri culture, the Department of Transportation, the En vironmental Protection Agency, and other Federal agencies as necessary to carry out the amendment made by section 4. 7 SEC. 4. UNITED STATES CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY AND 8 9 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION. Title XVI of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 10 U.S.C. 13381 et seq.) is amended 11 12 13 14 15 (1) by inserting after the title heading the fol lowing: "Subtitle A-General Provisions"; and (2) by adding at the end the following: 16 "Subtitle B-United States Climate "(1) CENTER.-The term 'Center' means the Center for Strategic Climate Change Response es tablished by section 1624(e). "(2) CLIMATE-FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY.—The term 'climate-friendly technology' means any energy 11 supply or end-use technology that, over the life of the technology and compared to similar technology in commercial use as of the date of enactment of this subtitle "(A) results in reduced emissions of green house gases; "(B) may substantially lower emissions of other pollutants; and "(C) may generate substantially smaller or less hazardous quantities of solid or liquid waste. "(3) DEPARTMENT.-The term 'Department' means the Department of Energy. "(4) DEPARTMENT OFFICE.-The term 'Department Office' means the Office of Carbon Management of the Department established by section 1624(a). "(5) FEDERAL AGENCY.-The term 'Federal agency' has the meaning given the term 'agency' in section 551 of title 5, United States Code. "(6) GREENHOUSE GAS.-The term 'greenhouse gas' means an anthropogenic gaseous constituent of the atmosphere that absorbs and re-emits infrared radiation. 12 "(7) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE. The term 'Interagency Task Force' means the United States Climate Change Response Interagency Task Force established under section 1623(d). "(8) KEY ELEMENT.-The term 'key element', with respect to the Strategy, means “(A) definition of interim emission mitigation targets coupled with specific mitigation approaches that cumulatively result in stabiliza tion of greenhouse gas concentrations; "(B) a national commitment "(i) to double energy research and development by the United States public and private sectors; and "(ii) in carrying out such research and development, to provide a high degree of emphasis on bold, breakthrough technologies that will make possible a profound transformation of the energy, transportation, industrial, agricultural, and building sectors of the United States; "(C) climate adaptation research that focuses on response actions necessary to adapt to climate change that may have occurred or may 13 occur under any future climate change scenario; and "(D) research that focuses on resolving the remaining scientific, technical, and economic uncertainties associated with climate change to the extent that those uncertainties bear on strategies to achieve the long-term goal of stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations. “(9) QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL. “(A) IN GENERAL.-The term 'qualified individual' means an individual who has dem onstrated expertise and leadership skills to draw on other experts in diverse fields of knowl edge that are relevant to addressing the climate change response challenge. “(B) FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE.—The fields. of knowledge referred to in subparagraph (A) are "(i) the science of primary and sec ondary climate change impacts; "(ii) energy and environmental economics; sion; "(iii) technology transfer and diffu |