Reorganization of the Department of Energy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, June 21, 1995, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 163 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
activities agency believe billion Bob Galvin budget BURR cabinet Chairman civilian control cleanup COBURN Cold War Commission committee Congress cost CRAPO Department of Defense Department of Energy Department's dismantlement disruptions DOE's dollars downsizing economic electricity eliminate Energy Department energy efficiency energy policy energy R&D energy research energy security energy supply Environmental Management ergy facilities Federal Government fuel functions future Galvin gentleman going important industry issues labs legislation look military missions National Laboratories national security nuclear waste nuclear weapons PALLONE percent performed Persian Gulf PMAs power marketing administrations PREPARED STATEMENT President priority private sector problems production projects proposal question Reagan research and development responsibility REZENDES role savings SCHAEFER Secretary O'Leary Secretary of Energy stockpile Strategic Alignment Strategic Petroleum Reserve Task Force taxpayer Thank TIAHRT tion TODD TIAHRT transfer Yucca Mountain
Passagens conhecidas
Página 66 - Trillion in savings over five years. And renegotiations of existing contracts are expected to yield $1.7 billion of actual and committed savings at the Fernald, Oak Ridge Hanford and Savannah River sites. Other competitions and renegotiations (some already in progress) are expected to yield additional billions of dollars in savings in the future. • We commissioned the first independent post-Cold War review of the Department's 10 National Laboratories. Under the leadership of Robert Galvin, Chairman...
Página 24 - Israel Kirzner, Discovery and the Capitalist Process (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 1985. 53. "Success Stories: The Energy Mission in the Marketplace," p. 3. 54. Linda Cohen and Roger Noll, The Technology Pork Barrel (Washington: The Brooking** Institution) 1991, p. 378. 66. "Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories,
Página 90 - Department as it is today. According to our survey of experts' opinions and other reports we have recently issued in this series, many of doe's missions could be performed either by private institutions or by other government agencies. To the extent some of doe's missions...
Página 15 - so much more fundamental than we anticipated that we could not in good conscience ignore it. The principle behind that finding is: government ownership and operation of these laboratories does not work well.
Página 91 - ... organization, the President, or the Congress that would be better assessed or met by elevating the agency to a Cabinet department? 3. Is there evidence of impending changes in the type and number of pressures on the institution that would be better addressed if it were made a Cabinet department? Are these changes expected to continue into the future? 4. Would a Cabinet department increase the visibility...
Página 151 - The hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 3:20 pm, the hearing was adjourned.] [The following material was received for the record:] AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC., 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, OH, March 16, 1994.
Página 90 - ... structure be credible, thus gaining public support for its actions? Stability and continuity: Will the institution be able to plan for its own future without undue concern for its survival? Programmatic authority: Will the institution be free to exercise needed authority to accomplish its missions without excessive oversight and control from external sources? Accessibility: Will stakeholders (both federal and state overseers as well as the public) have easy access to senior management? Responsiveness:...
Página 28 - Any which would not be done by the private sector are probably not of value. ERA should be abolished forthwith. I understand that some of the entitlement cases are still unresolved after 15 years! If that is true, it is outrageous and wasteful. It ought to be an embarrassment to anyone still connected with the process. If there are any matters of merit remaining after all these years of paying lawyers to pursue them, they should be transferred to the Department of Justice for final disposition. Policy...
Página 91 - Cabinet department. 1. Does the agency or set of programs serve a broad national goal or purpose not exclusively identified with a single class, occupation, discipline, region, or sector of society? 2. Are there significant issues in the subject area that...
Página 25 - Introduction: LSE Cost Theory in Retrospect," in LSE Essays on Cost, Buchanan and Thirlby, eds. (New York: NYU Press) 1981; Roy Cordato, Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers) 1992; and Israel Kirzner, Market Theory and the Price System (Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand) 1963. •See generally Jerry Taylor, "Energy Conservation: The Case Against Coercion.