Y 4. SCI 2:103/10 NATIONAL INITIATIVES IN HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND AVIATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California, Chairman MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR., Ohio PETE GEREN, Texas JIM BACCHUS, Florida TIM ROEMER, Indiana ROBERT E. (BUD) CRAMER, JR., Alabama DICK SWETT, New Hampshire HERB KLEIN, New Jersey ERIC FINGERHUT, Ohio ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania* SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey EDWARD R. ROYCE, California ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland PAUL MCHALE, Pennsylvania JANE HARMAN, California DON JOHNSON, Georgia SAM COPPERSMITH, Arizona ANNA G. ESHOO, California JAY INSLEE, Washington EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas Nick Bavaro, founder and CEO, Global Green, Inc., Norcross, GA; How- ard Klee, Jr., director, regulatory affairs, Amoco, Yorktown, VA; Wil- liam H. McMullen III, manager of regulatory affairs, Novo Nordisk Biochem, Inc., Franklinton, NC; Joe Cascio, chairman, U.S. Technical Advisory Board, International Standard Organization, Environmental Management Technical Committee, Somers, NY; Grace Wever, Ph.D., vice president, Council of Great Lakes Industries, Rochester, NY; and W.C. (Pete) Howard, vice president, environmental affairs, Georgia Pa- David T. Buzzelli, vice president for environment, health and safety, Dow Corp., and cochair, President's Commission on Sustainable Devel- opment, Midland, MI; Indira Nair, professor, Carnegie-Mellon Univer- sity, and chairperson of the OTA Advisory Panel, Green Products by Design, Pittsburgh, PA; and Daniel Imhoff, director of communications, Testimony of David H. Marks, James Mason Crafts Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director, MIT Programs for Environmental En- gineering Education and Research, MIT Letter from Prof. David H. Marks, program in environmental engineering education and research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] to the Honorable Tim Valentine, chairman, TEA Subcommittee Miscellaneous items from Daniel Imhoff, director of communications, Esprit (III) NATIONAL INITIATIVES IN GREEN TECHNOLOGIES (Stimulating Creativity) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1993 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 1:35 p.m., in Room 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Tim Valentine (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. VALENTINE. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll get started. I am sure we'll be joined by other members of the subcommittee. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that today's hearing be open to coverage by print and broadcast media, including still and video photography. Without objection, it is so ordered. Today, we will resume our discussion of the Federal roles in the research and development of environmentally sound technologies with our first legislative hearing on the issue. Environmentally sound technologies, often called "green technologies," include both the traditional technologies of pollution control and cleanup, as well as other products and processes that provide significant environmental and economic benefits. It is this latter group of technologies that has the potential for widespread impact across many industries, but which has generally been neglected, we believe, in Federal policy. In an earlier hearing, we heard the President's Science Adviser, John Gibbons, describe the administration's commitment to promoting policies in this area. We also heard from numerous representatives of the private sector, here in Washington and in field hearings, who are promoting initiatives to encourage practices that are more environmentally sound. I have been impressed by the enthusiasm that we've heard from the private sector, and I hope that today's hearing will further help us to define how best to support that energy. In this hearing, we will focus on the types of initiatives that would best promote environmentally sound products, processes and services. Specifically, areas that we will cover today include stimulating entrepreneurial creativity in environmentally sound technologies; promoting a systems approach to the analysis of how materials are used; encouraging technological flexibility in achieving |