DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED MAY Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations Related gencies. 1 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND D. NEAL SIGMon, Kathleen R. JOHNSON, JOCELYN HUNN, and ROBERT S. KRIPOWICZ, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota JULIAN C. DIXON, California VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts JIM KOLBE, Arizona ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia LINDSAY THOMAS, Georgia FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director (II) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1989 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY-PUBLIC WITNESSES THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988. FOSSIL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITNESS GERALD P. HUFFMAN, DIRECTOR, CONSORTIUM FOR FOSSIL FUEL LIQUEFACTION SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Mr. YATES. The hearing will come to order. This is the continuation of hearings on the budget for Fiscal Year 1989. Today we have outside witnesses testifying, and the first of the witnesses is Mr. Huffman of the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Liquefaction. Mr. Huffman, we will be glad to hear you. Your statement may be made a part of the record. Mr. HUFFMAN. Thank you. Mr. YATES. Mr. Huffman, we're glad to hear you. Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, we are happy to be here. My name is Gerry Huffman. I am the Director of the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Liquefaction Science. Our consortium is a six member group that consists of five universities, the University of Kentucky, West Virginia University, Auburn University, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Utah, and the Kentucky Energy Cabinet Laboratory. With me today are representatives from several of those institutions. To my left we have Irving Wender, who is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and is formerly the director of the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. And to his left, George Fumich, who I am sure needs no introduction. Mr. YATES. I've known him for many years. Mr. HUFFMAN. To my right is Dick Bajura, who is the Director of Energy and Water Research Center at West Virginia University, and down at the end of the table is Henk Meuzelaar. Henk is the Director of the Biomaterials Profiling Center at the University of Utah. It is well known to this Committee I'm sure that we have enough coal in this country to supply all of our energy needs for at least 400 or 500 years. Conversely, the world is going to run out of oil we are told in about 40 to 50 years. And, therefore, we feel that research that is aimed at converting coal to liquid fuels ought to be an important national priority. |