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When the SSIO subcommittee met on August 20, it was obvious 

 that Dr. Dillaway's philosophy of oversight did not coincide with 

 Teague's. He not only visualized a large empire of personnel, but also 

 talked confidently of straightening out several agencies under the 

 committee's jurisdiction. Numerous complaints were raised at the 

 first and last meeting of the SSIO Subcommittee. Once at a later time 

 when he was asked how he controlled Dr. Dillaway, Teague responded : 

 "I didn't control him; I decontrolled him." 



Most of the reports drafted by the SSIO Subcommittee were never 

 printed. One, however, proved useful: A report jointly prepared by the 

 SSIO Subcommittee and the Brown Subcommittee on the Environment 

 and the Atmosphere on the Environmental Protection Agency's 

 Research Program, with primary emphasis on the Community Health 

 and Environmental Surveillance System (known as CHESS). This 

 investigative report was prepared largely at the direction of Brown and 

 his staff by the Science Policy Research Division of CRS and a group 

 of consultants from various health agencies. The report grew out of 

 allegations which were first published in the Los Angeles Times at the 

 end of February 1976, charging EPA with falsification of data on the 

 adverse health effects of air pollution. Joint hearings were held, in 

 which SSIO did not participate, but which were conducted by the 

 Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Brown Subcommittee. 

 SSIO did take part in the investigative report. Although the report 

 upheld the honesty and integrity of the EPA project leader, it did raise 

 a number of questions about proper evaluation of data assembled 

 in the future. 



With the assistance of Dr. John V. Dugan of the minority staff, 

 two unpublished but useful studies were completed on NASA's aero- 

 nautical R. & T. base effort as related to the Department of Defense, 

 and a review of NASA's energy R. & D. role. 



Early in 1977, Dr. Dillaway left the staff and the subcommittee 

 was not heard from again. It was not revived in the 95th Congress. 



A brief obituary on the SSIO Subcommittee was relayed to the 

 Government Operations Committee on February 18, 1977, referring 

 to the fact that the subcommittee had been created on an "experi- 

 mental basis" : 



The experiment resulted in findings that, although beneficial to the oversight 

 function, some duplication of effort occurred because of jurisdictional overlap, 

 despite controls invoked to preclude same. Investigations and Oversight has not been 

 reconstituted for the 95th Congress. 



SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT 



One of the early decisions facing the committee when the Demo- 

 cratic members assembled for their caucus on February 1, 1979, was the 



