Mr. HERRINGTON. I can read. Mr. WHITTEN. You're not familiar with this? Mr. HERRINGTON. I can't quite see the document. Mr. WHITTEN. Investigation on the Continued Production of the aval Petroleum Reserve Beyond April 5, 1988. September of 1987. age 35. Let me put it in the record. [The information follows:] ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1989 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS HUNTER L. SPILLAN, GEORGE A. URIAN, AARON D. EDMONDSON, and JOHN MIKEL, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois TOM BEVILL, Alabama BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota JULIAN C. DIXON, California VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JOE SKEEN, New Mexico JIM KOLBE, Arizona RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988. SECRETARY OF ENERGY WITNESSES JOHN S. HERRINGTON, SECRETARY OF ENERGY ELIZABETH E. SMEDLEY, CONTROLLER Mr. BEVILL. Committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, we're pleased to have you with us again. We always look forward to hearing your testimony. You may submit your prepared statement and then proceed as you wish. OPENING STATEMENT Mr. HERRINGTON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate it. I would like to submit a full statement for the record, Mr. Chairman, with your permission. A few introductory remarks on the budget. We're pleased to present to you the Department of Energy's fiscal year 1989 budget. Our goal in this budget is to meet the department's responsibilities for developing the Nation's energy strength, ensuring national security, and ensuring scientific and technological leadership, while conforming to the fiscal restraints posed both by Gramm-RudmanHollings and by the 1987 bipartisan agreement, often called the Budget Summit. This budget reaffirms important administration and departmental objectives, including limiting support to only those activities which are clearly Federal responsibilities; encouraging cooperative R&D ventures with industry and seeking other opportunities for significant cost-sharing; divesting activities better managed by nonFederal entities; and maintaining the commitment to key priorities the department has supported strongly over the past few years such as clean coal, environment, safety, health, and basic science research. I think that this year again we're emphasizing safety and security in the Department of Energy facilities, which has been one of our initiatives, and meeting our critical national security responsibilities. Let me turn to the budget itself. The fiscal year 1989 budget request is $16.1 billion in new budget authority. This is a 13.7 percent increase above fiscal year 1988. Despite the increase, the budget is part of the overall Administration budget, which meets the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings target |