Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy

The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is the head of the Office of Fossil Energy within the United States Department of Energy. The Office of Fossil Energy is responsible for several Presidential initiatives, including implementation of the Administration's $2 billion, 10-year initiative to develop a new generation of environmentally sound coal technologies, the $1 billion FutureGen project to develop a pollution-free plant to co-produce electricity and hydrogen, and the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. The Assistant Secretary manages about 1000 scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative staff.cite web | title="DOE - Fossil Energy: A brief description of the DOE Office of Fossil Energy" | url=http://www.fossil.energy.gov/aboutus/index.html | accessdate= September 25 | accessyear= 2007 ]

The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.cite web | title="US CODE: Title 42,7133. Assistant Secretaries; appointment and confirmation; identification of responsibilities" | url=http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00007133----000-.html | accessdate= September 25 | accessyear= 2007 ] The current Acting Assistant Secretary is Jim Slutz. Former Assistant Secretaries by recency include Jeffrey D. Jarrett, [cite web | title="DOE - Fossil Energy: A brief description of the DOE Office of Fossil Energy" | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070218200908/www.fossil.energy.gov/aboutus/index.html | accessdate= February 18 | accessyear= 2007 ] Acting Assistant Secretary Mark R. Maddox, [cite web | title="DOE - Fossil Energy: About us" | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050811023629/http://www.fossil.energy.gov/aboutus/index.html | accessdate= August 11 | accessyear= 2005 ] and Carl Michael Smith. There have been ten former Assistant Secretaries in total, excluding acting officers. [cite web | title="DOE - Fossil Energy - ABOUT US" | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20031224020200/http://www.fossil.energy.gov/aboutus/index.html | accessdate= December 24 | accessyear= 2003 ] The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is 15th in the order of succession for Secretary of Energy. [cite web | title="o1001d.pdf" | url=http://www.directives.doe.gov/pdfs/doe/doetext/neword/100/o1001d.pdf | accessdate= September 25 | accessyear= 2007 ] The Assistant Secretary is paid at level IV of the Executive Schedule, meaning he or she receives a basic annual salary of $143,000. [cite web | title="Salary Table 2006-EX" | url=http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/html/ex.asp | accessdate= September 25 | accessyear= 2007 ]

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