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This is a joint referral hill, which is referred both to the Joint Committee on 

 Atomic Energy and the Committee on Science and Technology. Chairman league 

 and Chairman Price of the Joint Committee have had extensive discussions and 

 agreements on it. 



However, Chairman 'league advised me that I should continue to canvass the 

 views of both this committee and of Chairman McCormack, the other Energy Sub- 

 committee, concerning their feelings on this issue. I did have a discussion with 

 Chairman McCormack yesterday afternoon on the issue of splitting the bill. It was 

 his feeling and I think I am representing that feeling fairly — that the bill should 

 remain as one bill. However, we will continue to discuss this issue, both in this 

 subcommittee and in the full committee. 



Additionally, Chairman Teague indicated that if we favored line-iteming the 

 specific items, such as coal liquefaction, high BTU gasification, and low BTU gasifi- 

 cation, etc., that we should go ahead and do that in this fashion in this subcommittee. 



NATURAL GAS AND OIL EXTRACTION 



One of the hottest fights in the subcommittee developed over an 

 amendment by Krueger to increase from $24 million to $34 million 

 the amount funded for natural gas and oil extraction R. & D. Krueger 

 argued for the near-term payoff in the increase, while the opponents 

 contended that increased Federal funds were either unjustified or would 

 constitute interference. The Democrats generally supported Krueger, 

 Hechler joined with the Republican opposition, and the amendment 

 cleared the subcommittee by 6-5- 



Among the other amendments adopted by the Fossil Fuels Sub- 

 committee were the following: 



Hechler amendment adopted, adding $5 million primarily for in situ low BTU 

 gasification. 



Hechler amendment adopted, to authorize ERDA to do mining research. 



Blouin amendment adopted, to establish an energy data bank in ERDA. 



Blouin amendment adopted, to disseminate to the public information obtained 

 as a result of fossil energy R. & D. by ERDA. 



JOINT MARKUP ON ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY 



On March 10, the Hechler and McCormack subcommittees had 

 an unusually harmonious joint markup session which lasted two 

 hours, with Hechler presiding over the first hour and McCormack 

 the second. Brown, Goldwater, Ambro, Hayes, and Myers carried 

 the bulk of the discussion during the markup, and the following 

 decisions were reached on March 10: 



Brown amendment adopted, adding $10 million for biomedical and environmental 

 research in support of nonnuclear energy technologies. 



Hechler amendment adopted, adding $5 million for research and development, 

 plus demonstration in coal mine waste disposal, acid mine drainage, coal waste 

 impoundment and embankments, refuse bank fires, ln-mine disposal, including 



