THE ENERGY INFORMATION ACT HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE Pursuant to S. Res. 45 The National Fuels and Energy Policy Study SECOND SESSION ON S. 1864 A BILL TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL ENERGY INFORMATION APPENDIXES APPENDIX I Responses by the Federal Energy Administration to questions raised at the hearing on March 8, 1976___ Page 481 APPENDIX II Responses by the Federal Power Commission to questions raised at the hearing on March 8, 1976____ 589 APPENDIX III Responses by the Department of the Interior to questions raised at the hearing on March 8, 1976__. 1039 APPENDIX IV Comments on S. 1864 by other Federal departments and agencies_____. 1071 THE ENERGY INFORMATION ACT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1976 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 3110, Dirksen Office Building, Hon. Floyd K. Haskell, presiding. Present: Senators Haskell, Glenn, Hansen, and Bartlett. Also present: Benjamin S. Cooper, professional staff member. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. FLOYD K. HASKELL, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO Senator HASKELL. The hearing of the Senate Interior Committee on S. 1864 will begin. This is the first of a series of hearings on this bill and on the amendment which I introduced February 26, which I will ask to be printed immediately following my statement. The purpose, of course, of the proposed legislation is to assure the nation of accurate basic data upon which to make energy decisions. I think that all of the committee would agree, that a policy decision made on inadequate information hardly should be dignified by the name of policy. The hearings are going to be structured in three ways; today we will hear from a group of people who have observed the energy information process at work from the outside. At the next hearing we will hear from the administration, that is, from the Federal Energy Administration, from the Department of the Interior, from the Federal Power Commission, and from the Energy Research and Development Administration. Following that, we will hear from a group of experts who, basically, come with academic backgrounds who have observed, again, the system or lack of system, of collecting energy information, and who will have definite ideas of their own. Then, the fourth day, we will hear from the affected industries; the coal industry, the uranium and nuclear industry, the oil and gas industry, and others. In my view, we have an important opportunity in this bill, which was introduced this year by Senator Nelson. It had also been introduced in the last Congress by Senator Nelson who, at that time, was on this Committee. Extensive hearings were held. (1) |