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2000 CIS S 18113
TITLE: Energy and
Water Development Appropriations, FY2000
CIS-NO: 2000-S181-13
SOURCE: Committee on Appropriations. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-381
DATE: Mar. 9, 11, 18, Apr. 13, 1999
LENGTH: iii+866+xvii p. il.
Index.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1033; 1033-A
SUDOC: Y4.AP6/2:S.HRG.106-381
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-10733
INCLUDED IN LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L.
106-60
SUMMARY:
Hearings before the Subcom on
Energy and Water Development Appropriations to consider FY2000 budget requests
for civil works and energy programs, including DOE activities.
Supplementary material (p. 525-866) includes witnesses' written replies to
Subcom questions and submitted statements and correspondence concerning various
Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation water resource, flood control,
navigation, and related projects, and DOE energy research activities.
Includes a subject index (p. ix-xvii).
H.R. 2605 and S. 1186,
cited on cover, are not discussed.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Energy and water resources dev programs, FY2000 approp
BILLS: 106
H.R. 2605; 106
S. 1186
DESCRIPTORS:
PUBLIC WORKS; ENERGY RESOURCES; WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT; ARMY CORPS OF
ENGINEERS; BUREAU OF RECLAMATION; NAVIGATION; RIVERS AND WATERWAYS; HARBORS AND
PORTS; RECLAMATION OF LAND; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; ENERGY RESEARCH; FLOOD CONTROL
00-S181-13 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Mar. 9, 1999 p. 1-62
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
BENEKE,
PATRICIA J. (Assistant Secretary, Water and Science, Department of Interior)
MARTINEZ, ELUID L. (Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation)
BUDGET EXPLANATION: Department of Interior FY2000 request for
Central Utah Project Completion Act program.
Bureau of
Reclamation FY2000 request for water resources development programs in western
States as follows:
a. Water and related resources
programs, including water and energy programs management and development; fish,
wildlife, and land management and development; and operations, maintenance, and
rehabilitation of water and power facilities.
b. Central
Valley Project Restoration Fund for fish and wildlife restoration in California,
and the California Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration program for the San Francisco
Bay and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
c. Loans to
local jurisdictions in California for construction of irrigation systems and
reclamation projects.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Bur
of Reclamation programs, FY2000 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR; CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT; UTAH;
WILDLIFE AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; DAMS AND RESERVOIRS;
FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT, CALIF.; SACRAMENTO
RIVER; CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACT; CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION
FUND; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SAN JOAQUIN RIVER; LOANS; CALIFORNIA; IRRIGATION
00-S181-13 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Mar. 9,
1999 p. 63-191
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WESTPHAL, JOSEPH W. (Assistant Secretary, Civil Works,
Department of Army; accompanied by a staff official)
BALLARD, JOE N. (Lt. Gen.) (Chief, Army Corps of
Engineers)
BUDGET EXPLANATION: Army Corps of Engineers FY2000
request for civil works programs, including:
a. General
investigations, including preconstruction engineering and design.
b. Construction projects.
c.
Operation and maintenance of completed navigation, hydropower, flood control,
and recreation projects, and environmental stewardship.
d.
Flood control and Mississippi River and tributaries projects.
e. General regulatory functions.
f.
Formerly utilized sites remedial action program.
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Highlights of Corps of Engineers FY2000 budget
request; overview of Corps activities.
INSERTION:
-- Army Corps of Engineers, FY2000 funding capabilities,
tables by State and project (p. 121-145).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Army Corps of Engrs programs, FY2000 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
RESEARCH; OUTDOOR RECREATION;
CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE; RECLAMATION
OF LAND; DEPARTMENT OF ARMY; ENGINEERING; MISSISSIPPI RIVER
00-S181-13 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Mar. 11, 1999 p.
193-267
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
REIS, VICTOR H. (Assistant Secretary, Defense Programs,
DOE)
GOTTEMOELLER, ROSE E. (Director, Office of
Nonproliferation and National Security)
HOLGATE, LAURA S.
(Director, Office of Fissile Materials Disposition)
BUDGET
EXPLANATION: DOE FY2000 request for nuclear weapons stockpile management and
stewardship activities.
Office of Nonproliferation and
National Security FY2000 request for counterproliferation programs.
Office of Fissile Materials FY2000 request for disposition
of stockpiles of surplus plutonium and highly enriched uranium, and technical
support to Russia for fissile materials disposition.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
DOE natl def and nuclear material disposition
programs, FY2000 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL DEFENSE; NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND MATERIALS
SECURITY; DEFENSE BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS; ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT;
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RUSSIA; FOREIGN RELATIONS; PLUTONIUM; URANIUM
00-S181-13 TESTIMONY NO: 4 Mar. 18,
1999 p. 269-381
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
OWENDOFF, JAMES M. (Acting Assistant Secretary,
Environmental Management, DOE)
BARRETT, LAKE H. (Acting
Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management)
BUDGET
EXPLANATION: DOE FY2000 request for nuclear weapons facilities cleanup and waste
disposal programs, including closure of weapons plants, privatization
activities, management of hazardous and radioactive wastes, and development of
new cleanup and waste disposal technologies.
Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management FY2000 request for civilian nuclear waste
disposal programs, including assessment of waste repository at Yucca
Mountain site in Nevada.
CONTENT NOTATION:
DOE environmental mgmt and radioactive waste disposal,
FY2000 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL; RECLAMATION OF LAND; GOVERNMENT
PRIVATIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; YUCCA
MOUNTAIN, NEV.; NEVADA
00-S181-13 TESTIMONY
NO: 5 Apr. 13, 1999 p. 383-523
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
KREBS, MARTHA A. (Director, Office of
Science, DOE)
MAGWOOD, WILLIAM D., IV (Director, Office of
Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology)
REICHER, DAN W.
(Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE)
BUDGET EXPLANATION: DOE Office of Science FY2000 request for:
Energy research programs as follows:
a. Basic energy sciences research in materials sciences;
chemical sciences; engineering and geosciences; and energy biosciences.
b. Biological and environmental research, including life
sciences; environmental processes; environmental remediation; and medical
applications and measurement sciences.
c. High energy
physics, including operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Laboratory
for Particle Physics, and university and other high energy physics facilities.
d. Nuclear physics.
e. Fusion
energy.
f. Computational and technology research,
including mathematical and computational sciences, and laboratory technology
research.
g. Multi-program energy laboratories and
facilities support.
h. Energy research analyses.
i. Energy research program direction.
j. Science education programs for university students and
faculty and pre-college teachers.
Technical information
management.
DOE FY2000 request for nuclear energy R&D,
including advanced radioisotope power systems; nuclear power plant optimization;
isotope production and distribution; and uranium programs.
DOE FY2000 request for solar and renewable energy
programs, including solar building technology research; photovoltaics;
concentrating solar power; wind energy systems; biopower/biofuels energy;
geothermal systems; hydrogen; electric energy systems and energy storage;
hydropower; and international solar energy program.
INSERTIONS:
a. Lugar, Richard G. and Woolsey, R. James, "New
Petroleum" regarding ethanol production (p. 440-447).
b.
DOE Office of Science, "Spallation Neutron Source Project Assessment Report and
Action Plan" with DOE letter of agreement, 1999 (p. 479-486).
CONTENT NOTATION:
DOE programs, FY2000 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
CHEMISTRY; EARTH
SCIENCES; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL RESEARCH; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; NUCLEAR
FUSION; COMPUTERS; MATHEMATICS; FEDERAL AID TO HIGHER EDUCATION; TEACHER
EDUCATION; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES; SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR RESEARCH; NUCLEAR POWER; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND
REACTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; BIOMASS ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES; ELECTRIC POWER;
BATTERIES AND FUEL CELLS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN
SCIENCE; PLANNING; ETHANOL; PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; MATERIALS SCIENCE;
ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; PHYSICS; FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR
LABORATORY; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER; BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY;
EUROPEAN LABORATORY FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS; LABORATORIES; URANIUM; WIND ENERGY;
HYDROGEN
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001