DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. DEBORAH WEATHERLY, LORETTA BEAUMONT, JOEL Kaplan, and CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, United States, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking DEBORAH WEATHERLY, LORETTA BEAUMONT, Joel KaplaN, and CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, Staff Assistants PART 6 Page Testimony of Public Witnesses for Energy and Other Programs 1 461 Department of Energy, Energy Conservation 557 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-052723-6 809 875 953 968 977 996 1007 KF2T •A0434 1996 Ptib COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, Chairman JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania JERRY LEWIS, California JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JIM KOLBE, Arizona BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa RON PACKARD, California CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia FRANK RIGGS, California MIKE PARKER, Mississippi RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania NORMAN D. DICKS, Washington VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELAT ED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1997 THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996. TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS DOE DIANE DE VAUL, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, NORTHEAST MIDWEST INSTITUTE Mr. REGULA [presiding]. Good morning. Let's start the hearing for the Interior Subcommittee. I appreciate the fact that you are all here to testify. I reluctantly have to say that we have five minutes per person, and I will be tapping the gavel if it goes beyond that because otherwise we're not going to stay on schedule, and we've got a lot of witnesses to hear from. So I hope you will respect the time limitations. Our first witness today is with the Northeast Midwest Institute, Diane De Vaul. And I will say that all of your testimony will be made a part of the record, and certainly the staff will examine it carefully, and so, if you can summarize, it will be very helpful. Thank you for coming. Ms. DE VAUL. Thank you. I'll try and do that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of the Northeast Midwest Institute. Realizing you have difficult choices to make in the days ahead, I appreciate the opportunity to explain the importance of three areas of DOE's budget that are particularly important to the region: OIT's industrial programs, the energy information administration, and funding for State energy offices which includes both the Weatherization Assistance Program and the State Energy Conservation Program. Our 18 States, as you know, are energy-consuming States dependent on other regions of the country and other countries for the energy that drives their economies. Characterized often by high energy prices, older buildings, and older manufacturing plants, energy efficiency remains our most important energy resource. The future of this country and our region depends on a healthy manufacturing base. Industry uses the most energy of any sector of the economy and generates the most waste. Non-productive expenditures on industrial pollution abatement and control are expected to |