The budget request for Capital Equipment, $2.1 million, is $0.7 million greater in FY 1987 than FY 1986. The increase is principally required to establish and operate the Computer Assisted Tracking System for environmental and safety data to monitor compliance and progress in completion of corrective actions at DOE facilities, and to assist ES&H in the early identification and correction of adverse safety trends and in reducing areas of environmental and safety risk.

SUMMARY

In summary, Mr. Chairman, the Secretary's new initiatives in environment, safety and health underscore the Department's commitment to protecting the environment and giving high priority to public and worker health and safety in our operations. Our FY 1987 budget request will enable us to accomplish our environment, safety and health goals in a responsible manner.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

MARY L. WALKER

Mary L. Walker was nominated by the President for the position of Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), on September 23, 1985, and confirmed by the Senate in December 1985. In this position, she manages the Department's environmental and safety guidance, compliance and oversight functions. Her responsibilities include oversight of over 260 nuclear facilities and 160 non-nuclear facilities. She also develops the Department's environmental and safety policies and standards and assists the Department's field operations and programs in the areas of new project review, liaison with states and federal agencies, technical expertise and compliance.

From June until December, 1985, Ms. Walker was a special consultant to the Secretary of Energy. Previously, she served as the Deputy Solicitor for the Department of the Interior under William Clark. In this role, she supervised 220 attorneys including eight Regional offices, and provided legal counsel to the Secretary and program heads on the many varied legal issues involving that Department.

In 1982 she was recruited by the Reagan Administration as the chief Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Land and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice. She supervised a staff of 155 persons and managed the federal government's environmental litigation, involving over 2,500 cases relating to the federal government's protection and regulation of land and natural resources.

Ms. Walker was a partner with the Los Angeles law firm of Richards, Watson, Dreyfuss & Gershon, practicing in the areas of land use and environmental law and litigation from 1976-1982. In addition to representing individual and corporate clients, Ms. Walker represented various public entities, including approximately twelve Southern California cities. She handled matters involving federal and state agencies, and is experienced in both federal and state court litigation.

From 1973-1976, Ms. Walker was an

attorney with Southern Pacific Transportation Company in San Francisco. She represented Southern Pacific and its diverse subsidiaries, including railroad, pipeline, trucking and land companies, in the then-emerging area of environmental law.

Ms. Walker received her B.A. in biological sciences/ecology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. She attended U.C.L.A. Law School and Boston University Law School, receiving her J.D. in 1973.

February 1986

PREPARED QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD

Chairman HATFIELD. Secretary Walker, I first of all want to commend you and the Department, through you, for a new emphasis on environmental, health, and safety concerns at DOE facilities. That is an important step in the right direction, and I wholeheartedly support it.

We do have some questions that we will submit to you and the other witnesses, as well as to respond to for the record. With the pressing other schedules, I may have to refrain from engaging in a verbal presentation of them. But they will be presented to you.

I also understand that several other members have questions as well. All of these will be placed in the record at this point. Thank you very much.

MS. WALKER. Thank you.

Chairman HATFIELD. One slight omission, Dr. Trivelpiece, your budget-and I am sure you will work this out in an amendment, although I am sure it is a matter of oversight-was the funding of the Oregon science facility that is supposed to carry on in this year's budget.

Thank you very much. [Laughter.]

[The questions and answers follow:]

QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY SENATOR HATFIELD

High Energy Physics

Question: For operating expenses, please provide a detailed breakdown of the funding levels in FY 85, FY 86, and FY 87 for the accelerator sequence ($60.7 million in FY 87) and the other facilities ($40.0 million in FY 87) at Fermi Lab.

Answer: I would like to insert for the record the Fermilab facility operations breakdown.

Question: For operating expenses, provide a detailed breakdown of the funding for each facility at SLAC including levels for FY 85, 86, and 87.

Answer: I will provide a table for the record which gives a breakdown of facility operations expenses provided by SLAC. However, I would like to caution that neither the Department nor SLAC budgets on the basis of this type of breakdown, and thus, the data are "best guess estimates" which are therefore somewhat rough. (The information follows:)

* LINAC and SLC operations are so intertwined that it is not meaningful to try to separate them. Therefore, a single category is used for both.

**

The General Laboratory costs are those which are necessary for an operating laboratory, but which are not identifiable with any of the particular facilities. Examples are the central computer facility and advanced accelerator R&D.