“For too long our nation’s electric transmission policy has been disjointed, fragmented and frankly a low priority across the federal agencies.  For this reason, we have assembled a cabinet level working group focused on developing a coordinated approach for moving energy around the country.  In the regular meetings we now hold at the cabinet level with the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Energy and Climate Change, the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and others, we are assembling a unified forward-looking strategy for siting, cost allocation and coordinating the permitting for proposed projects for transmission.”