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ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1995

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
TOM BEVILL, Alabama, Chairman

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HUNTER L. SPILLAN, Aaron D. EDMONDSON, BOB SCHMIDT, and JEANNE WILSON,

Staff Assistants

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky, Chairman

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi,

Vice Chairman

NEAL SMITH, Iowa

SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois

DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
LOUIS STOKES, Ohio
TOM BEVILL, Alabama

JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
CHARLES WILSON, Texas
NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
JULIAN C. DIXON, California
VIC FAZIO, California

W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina
STENY H. HOYER, Maryland

BOB CARR, Michigan

RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois
RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas

ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
JIM CHAPMAN, Texas
MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado

DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
NANCY PELOSI, California

PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana

THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia

NITA M. LOWEY, New York

RAY THORNTON, Arkansas

JOSÉ 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

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JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania
JOHN T. MYERS, Indiana
C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida
RALPH REGULA, Ohio

BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana
JERRY LEWIS, California
JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois
HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky

JOE SKEEN, New Mexico
FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia
TOM DELAY, Texas

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
DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio

ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma
HENRY BONILLA, Texas

FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1995

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1994.

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WITNESS

ELIZABETH A. MOLER, CHAIR

Mr. BEVILL. Next we will hear from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Ms. MOLER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to be here.

Mr. BEVILL. Madam Chairman, we are pleased to have you with us again, and you may proceed as you wish. Your prepared written statement will be made a part of the record.

OVERVIEW

Ms. MOLER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to present the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's fiscal year 1995 budget request to the subcommittee.

We are requesting $166.7 million for fiscal year 1995, an increase of less than 1 percent over our appropriation for the current fiscal year. Significantly, our budget increase actually represents a decrease of 3 percent in our current services level.

One way in which we are holding down costs is through reductions in staff, primarily in administrative areas. I am proposing to decrease our full-time equivalent ceiling for the second year in a row and to reduce the administrative costs of supporting the program offices by more than 10 percent.

These reductions show our continued commitment to the Administration's initiative to reduce the size of the Federal work force, even in light of significant new responsibilities that Congress has given to the Commission under the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

Since I appeared before this subcommittee last year, President Clinton nominated four new members of the Commission last April. Everyone else left. They were confirmed by the Senate in May and promptly sworn in.

The new Commission has focused primarily on four major tasks: First, we have implemented a major restructuring of the interstate natural gas industry pursuant to Order No. 636. The restructured natural gas industry passed a very severe test, with flying colors I might add, this January with the extreme winter weather conditions. Order No. 636, I am pleased to say, worked as intended by providing the natural gas industry with the tools it needed to solve problems as they arose without Commission intervention.

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