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Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the impor- 

 tant work of the Task Force on Science Policy. It is indeed a 

 pleasure and honor to be here. I hope that my presentation 

 will give an overview of the international cooperative activi- 

 ties of the Department of Energy that will be useful in your 

 deliberations on the direction of U.S. science policy in the 

 years to come. My statement is divided into two parts: the 

 first, on International Cooperation in Energy Science; and the 

 second, on Coordination and Management of International Cooper- 

 ative Research within the Department of Energy. 



International Cooperation in Energy Science 



Currently, the Department participates in over 140 bila- 

 teral and multilateral agreements concerned with energy research 

 and development involving more than 25 countries. The most 

 active cooperative programs are in the areas that are most 

 concerned with scientific pursuits rather than the development 

 of technology. Of this number, close to 30 are umbrella-type 

 bilateral government-to-government agreements. These umbrella 

 agreements lay out broad directions and the general terms and 

 conditions under which cooperative activities may be undertaken, 

 either in a generic program area, such as energy R&D or science 

 and technology, or in specific programmatic areas, such as fast 

 breeder reactors or nuclear waste management, DOE is involved 

 in approximately four dozen bilateral project agreements which 

 commit the Department to a specific activity or program of 

 activities. For example, Japan is participating in, and 



