The Federal Research and Development Programs: The Decisionmaking Process. Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session. January 7, 10, and 11, 1966U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 212 pages |
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Page 127 - Chairman of the Committee on Water Resources Research of the Federal Council for Science and Technology.
Page 172 - I believe that we should make available to peaceloving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life.
Page 37 - This book is one of a series prepared in connection with the Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences conducted between 1967 and 1969 under the auspices of the Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences and the Problems and Policy Committee of the Social Science Research Council.
Page 129 - Administrator shall develop and demonstrate under varied conditions (including conducting such basic and applied research, studies, and experiments as may be necessary...
Page 160 - Based on past experience, however, it is likely that much of the financial support for a cooperative program will have to come from Federal Government sources. Several agencies at the Federal level, such as the National Bureau of Standards, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Defense, and others, have already made significant contributions to building research and development. The Building Research Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences, representing both...
Page 129 - Practicable means of treating municipal sewage and other waterborne wastes to remove the maximum possible amounts of physical, chemical, and biological pollutants in order to restore and maintain the maximum amount of the Nation's water at a quality suitable for repeated reuse...
Page 129 - ... wastes than is possible by present biological methods. The volume, strength and complexity of future municipal wastes can only result in the discharge of larger and larger amounts of impurities into badly needed water resources if we continue to apply presently known treatment processes only. Efficiency oj present treatment processes. — A good part of the municipal pollution problem is probably in the conception of today's "complete treatment.
Page 160 - No. 3. State Research and Information Efforts in Building Construction The Commission urges that programs for research in building construction be established by appropriate State agencies and institutions of higher education and that appropriate technical information services be established for the dissemination of research findings to public officials and private businesses. Such research and information programs should be carried on within the context of a continuing national research effort recommended...
Page 59 - System was established in 1963 by action of the President's Office of Science and Technology and the Federal Council for Science and Technology, with responsibility to administer it assigned to the National Bureau of Standards.
Page 37 - Report of the Panel on High Energy Accelerator Physics of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission and the President's Science Advisory Committee, April 26, 1963, p.