Office of Technology Assessment 
Congressional Board of the 97th Congress 
TED STEVENS, Alaska, Chairman 
MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Vice Chairman 
Senate 
ORRIN G. HATCH 
Utah 
CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR. 
Maryland 
EDWARD M. KENNEDY 
Massachusetts 
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS 
South Carolina 
(One To Be Appointed) 
House 
GEORGE E. BROWN, JR 
California 
JOHN D. DINGELL 
Michigan 
LARRY WINN, JR. 
Kansas 
CLARENCE E. MILLER 
Ohio 
COOPER EV ANS 
Iowa 
JOHN H. GIBBONS 
(Nonvoting) 
CHARLES N. KIMBALL, Chairman 
Midwest Research Institute 
JEROME B. WIESNER, Vice Chairman 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
J. FRED BUCY 
Teyas Instruments, Inc. 
CLAIRE T. DEDRICK 
California Public Utilities 
Advisory Council 
JAMES C. FLETCHER 
Burroughs Corp. 
S. DAVID FREEMAN 
Tennessee Valley Authority 
GILBERT GUDE 
Library of Congress 
CARLN. HODGES 
RACHEL McCULLOCH 
University of Wisconsin 
FREDERICK t:. ROBBINS 
Institute of Medicine 
ELMER B. S TAA I S 
General Accounting Office 
LEWIS niOMAS 
University of Arizona Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer ( rnir 
Director 
JOHN H. GIBBONS 
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