ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1994 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS HUNTER L. SPillan, Aaron D. EDMONDSON, BOB SCHMIDT, and JEANNE WILSON, Nuclear Energy and Commercial Waste Management ..... For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-040927-6 Page 1 273 611 871 1129 1241 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Vice Chairman NEAL SMITH, Iowa SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas JOSE E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia DOUGLAS "PETE" PETERSON, Florida JOHN W.OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana JIM KOLBE, Arizona DEAN A. GALLO, New Jersey BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1994 THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1993. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WITNESS HON. HAZEL R. O'LEARY, SECRETARY OF ENERGY SUPPORTING WITNESS ELIZABETH E. SMEDLEY, ACTING CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Mr. BEVILL. The committee will come to order. Madam Secretary, we are pleased to have you appear again. OPENING REMARKS Mr. BEVILL. As I mentioned earlier, it is unusual to have the Secretary of Energy twice in the first 30 days of our hearings. It looks like we will be calling on you pretty often. But we look forward to hearing your testimony. If the committee has no objections, we will limit our questions and answers to 10 minutes on the first round and then as much time as you want on the second round. You may proceed as you wish. Secretary O'LEARY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is my pleasure to be back so quickly. I want to point out to the members of the committee that I will be available whatever time you call, even if it is within a month's span. I would like to offer my formal written testimony for the record and avoid reading at all. Mr. BEVILL. Without objection your prepared statement will be made a part of the record, as well as your testimony. [The Secretary's statement follows at the end of the hearing record.] DEPARTMENT'S FISCAL YEAR 1994 REQUEST Secretary O'LEARY. Mr. Chairman, I would like to focus quickly on the fact that we have viewed our budget as reflecting very dramatically changed priorities both in the Department of Energy and for this Administration. If you will note the areas in which we have taken dramatic increases. We believe they reflect, first of all, the will of the public who have noted two things: One, the cessation of the Cold War as we knew it for almost five decades, and, two, certainly an economic reality which, to us, indicates that there (1) |