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I look forward to doing my best to move this through the Senate 

 this year so that we can have a conference as early as possible and 

 work out the minor differences and move this bill on. I will do ev- 

 erything I can to accomplish that. 



Thank you both very much for being here. 



Senator Reid. The next panel today will consist of Dr. Gary 

 Foley, Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Develop- 

 ment with the United States Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. 

 Mark Schaefer, Assistant Director for the Environment with the 

 Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C.; and 

 we did have somebody lined up from the Science Advisory Board, 

 but they were unable to be here. 



We will first hear from Dr. Foley and then Dr. Schaefer. If you 

 could, we would like for you to keep your remarks around 5 min- 

 utes so that we can ask some questions to which the committee 

 needs answers. 



Dr. Foley? 



STATEMENT OF GARY FOLEY, ACTING ASSISTANT ADMINIS- 

 TRATOR FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRON- 

 MENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 



Dr. Foley. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I appreciate the opportunity to testify today on the proposed re- 

 authorization of the Environmental Research, Development, and 

 Demonstration Authorization Act, or ERDDA. I would also like to 

 share with you some of the details of what we are doing within 

 EPA and within the Administration to strengthen science and re- 

 search and to possibly restructure the Office of Research and De- 

 velopment. 



We are clearly at a time when we have the opportunity to 

 strengthen science and research within EPA and the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. At EPA we will soon have new leadership in our research 

 program. As you know, the White House has nominated Dr. Robert 

 Huggett, who has been Chair of the Department of Environmental 

 Sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences at the College 

 of William and Mary, as our new Assistant Administrator for Re- 

 search and Development. We in the agency are looking forward to 

 his confirmation and him taking the lead here. 



Certainly, a part of strengthening environmental research within 

 EPA is the reauthorization of ERDDA. EPA generally supports the 

 goals of S. 1545 and we would like to continue working with the 

 committee on this legislation. I will talk a little more later about 

 the bill and its implications, but first I want to address things that 

 are going on within EPA and the Administration. 



As my testimony indicates, we have put a lot of effort within 

 EPA to develop an agency-wide strategy for all of the activities that 

 go on. As we are developing the strategy — and this is a living docu- 

 ment — it is important to note that the Administrator has set some 

 guiding principles for guiding the effort that is done by all parts 

 of the agency. One thing that I want you to note in my testimony 

 is that strong science and data is one of the guiding principles that 

 all offices and regions within EPA are looking at as one of the 

 major efforts. 



