808 HISTORY OF I HI (OMNIUM! ON SCIENC1 AND TECHNOLOGY 



backstowing and back-filling, waste disposal and trace elements in streams and in 

 the combustion of coal. 



Hayes amendment adopted, adding $5 million to establish a new program of 

 scientific and technical education designed to help meet the manpower needs associ- 

 ated with nonnuclcar energy technologies 



Hechlcr amendment adopted, adding $500,000 to authorize ERDA to make 

 health studies of the high incidence of nonpulmonary diseases among coal miners. 



Ambro, during the discussion of the latter amendment, indicated 

 that he had worked with budgets for 16 years and that $500,000 

 might buy two garbage trucks, but little more. Hechler responded that 

 he simply wanted to establish the legislative authority for ERDA to 

 get into the human factors involved in expansion of coal mining 

 R. & D. 



Between the completion of the subcommittee markup and the full 

 committee consideration of the report, some furious lobbying got 

 underway. First, in response to a phone call from Teague, Dr. Seamans 

 weighed in with two big objections to the subcommittee's actions: 

 The line-iteming and also the dissemination of information. In an 

 April 10 letter to Teague, Dr. Seamans characterized the fossil energy 

 authorization as extremely detailed, necessitating the opening of 16 

 separate bank accounts with separate budgetary controls. He said 

 he was pleased that the nonfossil programs would be treated in a 

 broad way, as the Joint Atomic Energy Committee had been doing, 

 but he was concerned he did not have the needed flexibility in the 

 fossil area. On the Blouin amendment for the dissemination of infor- 

 mation, Dr. Seamans expressed concern that it "would prevent us 

 from accepting and utilizing proprietary information from specific 

 industries which may be needed for our program." 



LOBBYING BY BUREAU OF MINES 



By far the most active lobbying was carried on by the Director 

 of the Bureau of Mines, Dr. Thomas Falkie. He was seen on Capitol 

 Hill frequently in the next few weeks, and the results of his lobbying 

 were successful. He reacted strongly against the Hechler amendment 

 which authorized ERDA to carry on research, development, and 

 demonstration in the area of coal mining techniques. It was Hechler's 

 aim to help beef up ERDA's work in the fossil fuels area, and to 

 stimulate the Bureau of Mines to get on with a more aggressive pro- 

 gram. Dr. Falkie suddenly took on a new level of aggressiveness as he 

 contacted Member after Member to complain about unnecessary dupli- 

 cation caused by the Hechler amendment. His strongest success was in 

 winning sympathy from the chairman and ranking minority member of 

 the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, Representatives 

 Sidney R. Yates (Democrat of Illinois) and Joseph M. McDade (Repub- 



