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HISTORY ol I HI COMMITTE1 ON SCIENC1 VND TECHNOLOGY 



the all-day sessions went on at Washington's social center of learning, 

 the Cosmos Club, and continued on Monday at the Rayburn Building. 

 OTA was not chartered for the purpose of second-guessing a new- 

 Federal agency, but their briefings were in many respects superior to 



ERDA's 



In addition, three full days of energy briefings were cochaired by 

 Hechler and McCormack. They were primarily designed to acquaint 

 new committee members with the policy issues and technologies to be 

 considered in the ERDA hearings, but they proved useful to all who 

 attended. The briefers included ERDA personnel. Resources for the 

 Future, the CRS Science Policy Research Division, and FEA Admin- 

 istrator Frank Zarb. 



Fossil Subcommittee Members in 1975 



Democrats Republicans 



Ken Hechler, Wesr Virginia, Chairman Alphonzo Bell, California 



Thomas N. Downing, Virginia Gary A. Myers, Pennsylvania 



Walter Flowers, Alabama David F. Emery, Maine 



Mike McCormack, Washington Larry Pressler, South Dakota ' 



Ray Thornton, Arkansas 



Henry A. Waxman, California 



Philip H. Hayes, Indiana 



Michael T. Blouin, Iowa 



Robert (Bob) Krueger, Texas 



Marilyn Lloyd, Tennessee 



Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado 



1 Wirth and Pressler |oined the subcommittee later in 1975. 



Robert C. Ketcham, a lawyer with wide experience on Capitol 

 Hill in several congressional offices and as special counsel to the Boiling 

 Select Committee on Committees was appointed staff director of the 

 Fossil Fuels Subcommittee. Ketcham had been recruited by committee 

 executive director Swigert at the end of December 1974, before Hechler 

 became chairman of the subcommittee. Ketcham helped write the 

 new energy jurisdiction for the Science Committee, and therefore was 

 very knowledgeable in the area. He assisted in defining the new sub- 

 committee's jurisdiction, which in 1975 included the following: 



Legislation and other matters relating to: coal mining technology, coal gasifica- 

 tion, coal liquefaction, coal combustion, coal refining and on site processing, coal 

 slurry and transmission, coal waste disposal, fossil fuel exploration research and 

 and development, drilling, secondary and tertiary recovery of oil and natural gas, 

 oil shale mining technology, oil shale retorting, oil shale refining and on site process- 

 ing, special oversight (all research and development related to fossil energy develop- 

 ment) and the annual authorization of the Energy Research and Development 

 Administration (ERDA) associated with fossil fuels. 



