ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1986 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS HUNTER L. SPILLAN, GEORGE A. URIAN, DONALD P. SMITH, and AARON D. EDMONDSON, Staff United States ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1986 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS HUNTER L. SPILLAN, GEORGE A. URIAN, DONALD P. SMITH, and Aaron D. EDMONDSON, Staff KF27 1985 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York TOM BEVILL, Alabama BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota 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 BILL BONER, Tennessee STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts ELDON RUDD, Arizona CARL D. PURSELL, Michigan TOM LOEFFLER, Texas JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1986 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1985. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WITNESSES JOHN S. HERRINGTON, SECRETARY OF ENERGY MARTHA HESSE DOLAN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ELIZABETH E. SMEDLEY, ASSISTANT CONTROLLER DR. ALVIN TRIVELPIECE, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ENERGY RESEARCH DONNA FITZPATRICK, ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONSERVATION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY Mr. BEVILL. The committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, we are pleased to have you and your staff with us. You may wish to summarize your testimony, or however you wish to present it will be all right, and your detailed statement will be made a part of the record. We are looking forward to working with you. It is customary for us to put your biographical sketch in the record. If you haven't sent it in yet, we would like to have it for our record. [The statement and biography of John S. Herrington appear at the end of this hearing.] Mr. BEVILL. Mrs. Dolan, we are always pleased to have you with us. You have been with us before. Mrs. Smedley, we are pleased to have you too. You have been very helpful to our staff. You may proceed as you wish, Mr. Secretary. Secretary HERRINGTON. Thank you, sir. I appreciate your comments, and being here for the first time in front of this committee is an honor. I am sure I and my staff will look forward to working with all of you. We have a lot in common. We have a lot to discuss over the next four years, and I hope that we will be as responsive as you want us to be. I would like to introduce who I have with me today, because I have only been in this job about three and a half weeks. You mentioned Assistant Secretary Dolan is here, and Betty Smedley from Management and Administration, Office of the Controller. I do have Dr. Trivelpiece here behind me who will be testifying in front of this committee tomorrow. Mr. BEVILL. Yes, we have been working with him also. (1) |