selfish. I was in line to become chairman of that subcommittee and 

 I did. I have been working in that area for the last 20 years both 

 in that committee and in the Agriculture Committee, which I also 

 serve on. I wrestled with the FIFRA issue over much of that time. 



As Senator Reid made reference to the fact that he is proposing 

 to add to this bill a couple of other provisions, I hope that I can 

 indicate to him personally but I will say for the record that I wel- 

 come this initiative. We have an old laboratory, about 60 years old, 

 in California which is called a salinity laboratory. It deals with the 

 problems of water. I think that a laboratory dealing with the prob- 

 lems of arid lands would be a complement to that. The ideal situa- 

 tion would be that they would both work together in a partnership 

 arrangement to attack both sets of problems since they are closely 

 interrelated. 



I would ask that the full text of my statement appear in the 

 record and I will abbreviate it as much as possible. 



Senator BAUCUS. Without objection, your prepared statement will 

 appear in the record. 



Mr. Brown. I am pleased to have this opportunity to testify on 

 your legislation, S. 1545, to authorize the Office of Research and 

 Development at the Environmental Protection Agency. This is a 

 companion bill to H.R. 1994, which we have reported out of the 

 Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. We passed that bill 

 some months ago. 



The changing nature of environmental problems requires a fun- 

 damental change in regulatory philosophy, and we all are becoming 

 very well aware of that. Beyond command-and-control waste regu- 

 lations are new paradigms emphasizing pollution prevention with 

 consideration of consumer product life cycles to minimize waste 

 and optimize energy material efficiency. On this point, I recognize 

 and commend the hard work this committee has done on S. 978, 

 the environmental technologies legislation, which I have referred to 

 in passing. We hope to consider that initiative later this week. 



I believe our objectives also should include the creation of a more 

 innovative and cooperative atmosphere between public and private 

 sectors to achieve the desired outcomes. The role of R&D to support 

 sound environmental policy and regulatory decisionmaking is more 

 urgent now than ever. I know of no substantial opposition to that 

 concept. I have enjoyed working closely with the industrial commu- 

 nity and the chemical manufacturers and others on these issues. I 

 think they are in agreement on the need for some well-based re- 

 search and development. We hope that we can continue to work to- 

 gether with them. 



An essential element to the improvement of environmental deci- 

 sionmaking is the scale and quality of the research that undergirds 

 the policy. To improve the quality of that research, the science used 

 must be relevant to an agency's mission and not driven by current 

 political needs. At the same time, it is necessary for science to be 

 an integral component of the agency's mission in order to maximize 

 the effectiveness of the research in supporting that mission. 



The bills that you have before you I believe are an important 

 step. They would direct the Science Advisory Board to review the 

 agency's program and submit an annual report outlining whether 

 the budget submitted by the President adequately funds the pro- 



