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In 1975 the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) submitted to the President and the Congress a report entitled A National Plan for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration: Creating Energy Choices for the Future (ERDA-48). It was recognized that such a plan is not static but will be modified by newly discovered energy supplies, changes in energy policy, scientific successes and failures, economic conditions, actual progress in introducing new technologies, and other circumstances. As a consequence, ERDA intends to report annually on progress in the preceding year and to revise its plan annually.