[House Hearing, 106 Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



 
                      ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
                        APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2001
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                                HEARINGS

                                BEFORE A

                           SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

                       COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                       ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
                             SECOND SESSION
                                ________
              SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
                    RON PACKARD, California, Chairman
 HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky             PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan           CHET EDWARDS, Texas
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey ED PASTOR, Arizona
 SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama             MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi       
                 
 NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Young, as Chairman of the Full 
Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full 
Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees.
          Robert Schmidt and Jeanne L. Wilson, Staff Assistants
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                                 PART 5
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 Secretary of Energy..............................................    1
 Science, Renewable Energy, and Nuclear Energy....................  589
 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.............................  993
 Nuclear Regulatory Commission.................................... 1124

                              

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                        COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                   C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida, Chairman

 RALPH REGULA, Ohio                  DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin
 JERRY LEWIS, California             JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania
 JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois        NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington
 HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky             MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota
 JOE SKEEN, New Mexico               JULIAN C. DIXON, California
 FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia             STENY H. HOYER, Maryland
 TOM DeLAY, Texas                    ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia
 JIM KOLBE, Arizona                  MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio
 RON PACKARD, California             NANCY PELOSI, California
 SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama             PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana
 JAMES T. WALSH, New York            NITA M. LOWEY, New York
 CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina   JOSE E. SERRANO, New York
 DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio               ROSA L. DeLAURO, Connecticut
 ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Oklahoma     JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia
 HENRY BONILLA, Texas                JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts
 JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan           ED PASTOR, Arizona
 DAN MILLER, Florida                 CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida
 JAY DICKEY, Arkansas                DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina
 JACK KINGSTON, Georgia              MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York
 RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey CHET EDWARDS, Texas
 ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi        ROBERT E. ``BUD'' CRAMER, Jr., 
 GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, Jr.,          Alabama
Washington                           MAURICE D. HINCHEY, New York
 RANDY ``DUKE'' CUNNINGHAM,          LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California
California                           SAM FARR, California
 TODD TIAHRT, Kansas                 JESSE L. JACKSON, Jr., Illinois
 ZACH WAMP, Tennessee                CAROLYN C. KILPATRICK, Michigan
 TOM LATHAM, Iowa                    ALLEN BOYD, Florida                 
 ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky
 ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama
 JO ANN EMERSON, Missouri
 JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire
 KAY GRANGER, Texas
 JOHN E. PETERSON, Pennsylvania
 VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., Virginia     
                   
                 James W. Dyer, Clerk and Staff Director

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                           W I T N E S S E S

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Decker, Dr. James................................................   589
Magwoood, W. E., IV..............................................   589
Reicher, D. W....................................................   589
Richardson, Hon. Bill............................................     1

 
                               I N D E X

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                          Secretary of Energy

                                                                   Page
Advanced Computational Technology Initiative.....................    94
Advanced Scientific Computing..................................552, 573
Advisory Boards..................................................   510
Aircraft.........................................................   376
Alpha Particle Immunotherapy....................................46, 536
American Textiles Partnership....................................    95
Anticipated Litigation Costs.....................................   447
Arizona State University.........................................    34
Biodiesel........................................................   579
Bioenergy Research...............................................    43
Bonneville Power Administration Contracts............48, 73, 75, 76, 77
Bonneville Power Administration..................................48, 78
Brookhaven National Laboratory Environmental Cleanup.............    26
Brookhaven National Laboratory...................................    25
Budget Request...................................................3, 565
Building Occupancy Costs.........................................   498
Cancer Therapies.................................................    46
Carryover Balances Report......................................128, 141
Clean Water Supply...............................................    44
Climate Change...................................................    30
Closure at Rocky Flats, Mound and Fernald........................    47
Closure Goals....................................................   537
Computer Security................................................    54
Conferences......................................................   381
Consortium on Risk Evaluation and Stakeholders Participation.....   574
Construction Project Management..................................    62
Construction Project Overrun Account.............................   155
Contaminated Metals at Oak Ridge.................................   547
Contract Competition.............................................79, 81
Contract Listing.................................................    82
Contractor Employee Benefits and Community Assistance............    99
Contractor Employee Levels.......................................   374
Contractor Travel...............................................48, 101
Corporate Management Information Program (CMIP)..................   368
Crude Oil Data...................................................   554
Cyber Security...................................................53, 56
Decreasing Dependence on Foreign Oil.............................   577
Department Administration Comparable Appropriation...............   363
Department Foreign Travel........................................   494
Depleted UF6 Cylinders...........................................   518
Depleted Uranium Conversion Program..............................   516
Deregulation.....................................................   544
DNFSB 2000-1 Recommendation......................................   543
DOE Management Structure.........................................    68
Draft Environmental Impact Statement.............................    66
Electricity Restructuring Conflict...............................    74
Employees Assigned to the White House............................   127
Energy Efficiency Services.................................48, 104, 124
Energy Employees Compensation Initiative.........................    70
Energy Investments...............................................    31
Energy Policy Development........................................   565
Energy Technologies..............................................    33
Enhanced Severance Benefits......................................    98
Environmental Cleanup Technology.................................   580
Environmental Cleanup............................................    59
Environmental Management.........................................     6
Excepted Service Authority.......................................    85
Federal Acquisition Regulations..................................    97
Federal Administration Charges...................................   504
Financial Information............................................    87
Foreign Energy Development Programs..............................   479
Foreign Oil Production.....................................36, 564, 577
Fuel Price Increases.......................................42, 534, 584
Full-Time Equivalent and Year End Personnel Strengths............   370
Functional Support Costs.........................................   156
Funding for Human Genomics and Microbes Program..................    43
Funding Increases................................................    24
Fusion Energy Sciences................................65, 550, 551, 571
GAO Report on IPP................................................   567
General Provisions in FY 2000 Appropriations Bill..79, 81, 97, 100, 125
Global Climate Change............................................30, 96
Hanford High Level Waste.........................................    45
Hanford Tank Farm................................................   575
Heating Oil Prices...............................................    35
Hispanic Serving Institutions....................................   452
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Hispanic Serving 
  Institutions...................................................   449
Human Genome Funding.............................................    43
Independent Centers..............................................   103
Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention.........................   567
International Clean Energy Initiative..........................495, 528
International Science and Technology Collaboration...............   496
Joint Environmental Policy Workshop in Berlin, Germany..........33, 526
KEDO's Heavy Fuel Oil Monitoring System..........................   561
Kyoto Issues......................................28, 30, 523, 525, 527
Laboratory Annual Funding Plans.................................48, 102
Laboratory Directed Research and Development.....................    87
Legislation to Implement Budget..................................   446
Listing of Major Contractors.....................................82, 84
Lobbying with Federal Funds......................................49,125
Long Term Nonproliferation Program With Russia...................    61
Lower Snake Compensation Plan....................................    78
M&O Contract Recompetition.......................................   587
M&O Contractor Employees Assigned to Washington..................   385
Major Foreign Energy Development Programs........................   479
Michigan Biotechnology Institute.................................   548
Miscellaneous Revenues...........................................   503
Nanotechnology...................................................    88
National Ignition Facility..................................44, 50, 531
National Nuclear Security Administration......................... 4, 60
Next Generation Internet.........................................    89
Nonproliferation................................................. 5, 61
North Korea......................................................   560
Oak Ridge........................................................   547
Office of the Secretary..........................................   126
Oil Crisis...........................................553, 557, 558, 562
Oil Imports to the United States.................................   481
Oil Prices..............................................24, 36, 42, 534
Oil Production Shortfalls.......................................41, 563
OMB Policy Letter 92-1...........................................   104
OPEC Increase in Oil Production..................................    37
Opening Statement................................................     1
Paducah Cleanup..................................................   517
Paducah.........................................................69, 519
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles.....................90, 91
Payroll Processing Costs.........................................   497
Persian Gulf.....................................................   564
Personnel Management.............................................    85
Physical and Computer Security...................................    54
Physical Security Requirements...................................    58
Policy Letter on Inherently Governmental Functions...............   115
Power Marketing Administrations..................................    34
Power Sales Contract Offer.......................................    73
Project Funding Status from FY 2000 Appropriation..............548, 549
Public Affairs Office..........................................482, 483
Public Affairs' Federal and Contractor Staff.....................   483
Public Affairs' Federal Staff....................................   493
Public Law 106-60, Section 301...................................79, 81
Public Law 106-60, Section 302...................................    97
Public Law 106-60, Section 305...................................   100
Public Law 106-60, Section 601...................................   125
Purchase Power and Wheeling................................72, 520, 521
Purchase Power and Wheeling Phase Out............................   522
R&D Investments..................................................   529
Reciprocal Purchase Commitment...................................    77
Regulatory Actions...............................................   581
Reimbursable Work for Other Federal Agencies.....................   505
Renewable Energy................................................. 5, 32
Report on Functional Support Costs--FY 1999......................   156
Reprogrammings...................................................   151
Revenues.........................................................   503
Rollcall Vote....................................................     1
Russian Initiatives.........................................39, 61, 570
Schedule ``C'' Employees.........................................   382
Science Education................................................34, 92
Science..........................................................    64
Scoring of Appropriated Funds....................................   520
Security and Counterintelligence.................................     5
Security.........................................................    58
Site Recommendation Schedule.....................................   586
Statement--Oral--Secretary Richardson............................     3
Statement--Written--Secretary Richardson.........................     8
Stockpile Stewardship............................................     4
Strategic Petroleum Reserve.................................27, 41, 559
Strategy Rationale for Contract Offer............................    75
Supplemental Funding for FY 2000.................................51, 52
Take Title Proposal..............................................    67
Taxation of Russian Programs.....................................   570
The Northeast..................................................558, 559
Threat Assessment Guidance.......................................    57
Training.........................................................   443
Transfer of Nuclear Secrets......................................    55
Transmission Contract Offer......................................    76
University Research Program......................................   549
Use of Prior Year Deobligations..................................   152
Watch List of Construction Projects..............................    62
Weapons Production Plants........................................    38
Work For Others..................................................   501
Worker Health and Safety at Paducah..............................    69
Worker Health and Safety.........................................    70
Working Capital Fund......................................497, 498, 500
Yucca Mountain.....................................45, 66, 67, 532, 586
Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW).........................   944
Advanced Computing...................................741, 763, 774, 798
Advanced Nuclear Medicine Initiative.............................   718
Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems............................718, 947
Advanced Scientific Computing Research.....740, 743, 745, 769, 798, 982
Annual Appropriations or One Year Funding........................   674
Annular Core Research Reactor/Hot Cell Facility and Isotope 
  Production.....................................................   961
Argonne National Laboratory......................................   753
ASCI Coordination With the Office of Science.....................   741
Bioenergy/Bioproducts Initiative.................................   873
Bioethanol Research............................................874, 875
Biological and Environmental Research............................   807
Biomass Alternatives--Cooperative Efforts in Developing........990, 991
Biomass Projects.................................................   871
Biomass Research...............................................762, 989
Biomass.........................................763, 871, 875, 975, 976
Briefing Slides--Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy   638
Briefing Slides--Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology   711
Brookhaven National Laboratory Environmental Cleanup.............   756
Brookhaven National Laboratory.................................755, 756
Climate Change Technology Initiative and U.S. Global Climate 
  Research Program.............................................751, 830
Collaboration With the National Science Foundation...............   747
Colleges and Universities Producing More Physics Graduates.......   834
Computing Plan...................................................   747
Congressional Projects....................................785, 814, 887
Contractor Travel................................................   765
Cost Sharing With Industry.......................................   763
Depleted Uranium Conversion Facility.............................   959
EBR-II Costs.....................................................   950
Energy Information Administration Estimate of Nuclear Generation.   919
Energy Policy....................................................   753
Environment, Safety and Health Costs.............................   832
Environment Cleanup Technology...................................   761
EPSCoR.........................................................963, 966
Ethanol........................................................761, 763
External Regulation Pilot Project................................   835
FACE.............................................................   838
Facility Operations..............................................   759
Fast Flux Test Facility...................................771, 772, 952
Feed Stock Program...............................................   762
Fusion..........................................745, 773, 821, 823, 992
Fusion Travel Budget.............................................   748
Gaseous Diffusion Plants.........................................   953
Gasoline Prices..................................................   758
Gasoline, Hearing Oil and Renewables.............................   758
Generation IV Power Plants.......................................   717
Geothermal Program...............................................   861
Global Climate Change............................................   751
Graduate Students in Science.....................................   834
Heating Oil......................................................   758
High Energy Physics..............................................   801
High Flux Beam Reactor...........................................   819
High Temperature Superconductivity Program.......................   893
Human Genome.....................................................   807
Hydrogen Research and Development..............................749, 876
Hydropower.......................................................   883
International Clean Energy Initiative............................   752
International Renewable Energy Program...........................   888
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.................   748
Isotope Support..................................................   956
Joint Implementation.............................................   752
Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)..839, 917, 918, 958
Laboratory Management of Newly Generated Waste...................   756
Large Hadron Collider............................................   803
Large Multi-Year Projects........................................   896
Low Dose Radiation Research Program..............................   810
Management Improvements in Renewables............................   657
Medical Isotopes.................................................   717
Microbial Research...............................................   761
Micro-Combustion, LLC Technology Development.....................   974
Million Solar Roofs..............................................   864
Mouse Housing Facility...........................................   812
Nanoscience....................................................770, 986
Nanotechnology Initiative........................................   770
National Ethanol Research Pilot Plant............................   872
National Fuel Cell Research Center...............................   962
National Institute for Global and Environmental Change (NIGEC).836, 970
National Science Foundation Collaboration........................   747
Non-Hydroelectric................................................   843
Nuclear Energy Alternative.......................................   978
Nuclear Energy Generation........................................   771
Nuclear Energy Plant Optimization................................   941
Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Reviews.............716, 921
Nuclear Energy Research Initiative...............................   932
Nuclear Energy University Programs...............................   773
Nuclear Energy...................................................   770
Nuclear Waste Bill--H.R. 45......................................   980
Ocean Current Energy Systems.....................................   894
Office of Science Budget.........................................   590
Opening Statement................................................   589
Outyear Funding..................................................   745
Palo Verde.......................................................   749
Parallel Computing...............................................   740
Partners and Cooperative Agreements..............................   893
Peer Review......................................................   988
Performance Measures--Office Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
  Energy.........................................................   847
Performance Measures--Office of Nuclear energy...................   923
Performance Measures--Office of Science..........................   786
Photovoltaics....................................................   656
Plutonium--238 Requirements......................................   948
Priorities.......................................................   842
Program Taxes....................................................   826
Radioisotopes....................................................   757
Renewable Energy Accomplishments.................................   655
Renewable Energy Budget Request................................655, 842
Renewable Energy Production Incentive............................   878
Renewable Energy Technologies.............................844, 981, 989
Renewable Energy: Near Term Contributions........................   758
Renewable Indian Energy Resources Program......................843, 891
Safeguards and Security..........................................   833
Science Education Programs.......................................   837
Scientific Computing.............................................   769
Scientific User Facility.........................................   776
Solar and Renewable Competitive vs. Noncompetitive Awards........   895
Solar Energy.....................................................   656
Spallation Neutron Source (SNS).................759, 760, 793, 796, 985
Stanford Linear Accelerator....................................760, 764
Statement--Oral--Bill Magwood....................................   710
Statement--Oral--Dan Reicher.....................................   655
Statement--Oral--Dr. James Decker................................   590
Statement--Written--Bill Magwood.................................   720
Statement--Written--Dan Reicher..................................   675
Statement--Written--Dr. James Decker.............................   593
Strategic Plan--Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.   658
Sustainable Transportation and Energy Laboratory Proposal........   757
Technical Information Management.................................   815
Telecommunications in Lieu of Travel.............................   768
Termination Costs................................................   950
Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor Decontaminating and Decommissioning..   746
Tokomak Fusion Test Reactor......................................   746
Uncosted Balances................................................   760
University of South Carolina School of Public Health.............   813
Unsolicited Proposal for Pilot Plant To convert Depleted Uranium.   959
Uranium Programs..........................................922, 953, 955
User Facilities................................................776, 987
Waste Management Activities....................................764, 825
Wind Energy...............................................656, 754, 862

                  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Achievements: Competitive, Well Functioning Markets..............  1030
Achievements: Protecting Customers...............................  1033
Achievements: Resolving Disputes and Communicating Effe1034, 1057, 1069
Alternative Dispute Resolution...................................  1061
Balancing Multiple Competing Interests in Natural Gas........1048, 1055
Budget Justification Executive Summary for FY 2001 Request.......   993
Electric Policy Initiative.......................................  1016
Energy Industries Continue to Change.............................  1004
Ensuring a Diverse and Competent Workforce.......................  1065
Ensuring the Safety of Hydropower Projects...................1045, 1053
FY 2001 Performance Plan.........................................  1071
Gas Policy Initiatives.......................................1017, 1040
Goals of the Energy Markets Program..............................  1013
Goals of the Energy Projects Program.............................  1036
Hydropower Initiatives...........................................  1039
Improving Access to Information..................................  1064
Information Exchange Achievements................................  1066
Information Technology...........................................  1060
Leadership Training and Continuous Learning......................  1061
Maintaining Efficient and Effective Business Practices.......1065, 1081
Manage to Budget.................................................  1063
Object Class Table...............................................  1104
Oil Pipeline Initiatives.........................................  1018
Promoting Competitive, Well Functioning Markets..................  1019
Proposed Appropriations Language.................................  1090
Protecting and Enhancing Environmental and Public Benefits...1041, 1051
Protecting Customers.............................................  1026
Resolving Disputes and Communicating Effectively.............1029, 1050
Resource Request by Sector.......................................  1102
Statutory Authority..............................................  1106
Strategic Management.............................................  1063
Strategic Plan...................................................  1108
Support Work.....................................................  1059
The Commission Meets the Challenges..............................  1007
Traditional Workload.............................................  1092

                   U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Appropriations Legislation.......................................  1171
Budget Highlights................................................  1163
Budget Summary...................................................  1160
Cross-Cutting Functions With Other Government Agencies...........  1360
Enforcement Actions..........................................1222, 1248
Fuel Facilities Licensing and Inspection.........................  1235
International Nuclear Safety Support.............................  1284
Investigations...............................................1223, 1249
Materials Safety.................................................  1225
Materials Users Licensing and Inspection.........................  1238
Performance Assessment.....................1192, 1207, 1225, 1255, 1286
Performance Plan.................................................  1180
Performance Plan--Office of the Inspector General................  1322
Radionuclide Transport and Decommissioning Research..............  1279
Reactor Safety...................................................  1189
Regulation of Decommissioning....................................  1274
Regulation of Low-Level Waste....................................  1273
Reimbursable Work Agreements.....................................  1374
Report to Congress on Drug Testing...............................  1371
Research.....................................................1211, 1242
Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Licensing and Inspection...  1269
State Programs...................................................  1241
Statement for the Record, Hubert T. Bell, Office of the Inspector 
  General........................................................  1140
Statement for the Record, Richard A. Meserve.....................  1125
Tank Waste Remediation System....................................  1250
Technical Training...........................................1221, 1246
Uranium Recovery Licensing and Inspection........................  1281
Verification and Validation of Measured Values of Performance....  1353
Waste Safety.....................................................  1251