42 U.S.C. § 18841: Survey, analysis, and report on employment and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the United States

The Secretary shall establish a council, to be known as the “Energy Jobs Council” (referred to in this section as the “Council”). 1 or more representatives of the Energy Information Administration; and 1 or more representatives of a State energy office that are serving as members of the State Energy Advisory Board established by section 6325(g) of this title ; 1 or more representatives of the Department of Commerce; and 1 or more representatives of the Bureau of the Census; 1 or more representatives of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor; and 1 or more representatives of any other Federal agency the assistance of which is required to carry out this section, as determined by the Secretary, to be appointed by the head of the applicable agency. conduct a survey of employers in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the economy of the United States; and perform an analysis of the employment figures and demographics in those sectors, including the number of personnel in each sector who devote a substantial portion of working hours, as determined by the Secretary, to regulatory compliance matters. was approved in 2016 by the Office of Management and Budget for use in the document entitled “OMB Control Number 1910–5179”; uses a representative, stratified sampling of businesses in the United States; and is designed to elicit a comparable number of responses from businesses in each State and with the same North American Industry Classification System codes as were received for the 2016 and 2017 reports entitled “U.S. Energy and Employment Report”. the Secretary of Commerce; the Secretary of Transportation; the Director of the Bureau of the Census; the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; States; the State Energy Advisory Board established by section 6325(g) of this title ; and energy industry trade associations. make publicly available on the website of the Department a report, to be entitled the “U.S. Energy and Employment Report”, describing the employment figures and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the United States, and the average number of hours devoted to regulatory compliance, based on the survey and analysis conducted under subsection (b); and subject to the requirements of subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, make the data collected by the Council publicly available on the website of the Department. the electric power generation and fuels sector; and the transmission, storage, and distribution sector; the energy efficiency sector of the economy of the United States; and the motor vehicle sector of the economy of the United States. each technology, subtechnology, and fuel type of those sectors; and each State; each territory of the United States; the District of Columbia; and each county (or equivalent jurisdiction) in the United States.