COMMITTEE ON ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 5 AND NOVEMBER 18, 1993 [No. 70) Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 76-003 WASHINGTON : 1993 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office ISBN 0-16-043432-7 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California, Chairman MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania* DAN GLICKMAN, Kansas F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri Wisconsin RALPH M. HALL, Texas SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York DAVE MCCURDY, Oklahoma TOM LEWIS, Florida TIM VALENTINE, North Carolina HARRIS W. FAWELL, Ilinois ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland RICK BOUCHER, Virginia DANA ROHRABACHER, California JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR., Ohio STEVEN H. SCHIFF, New Mexico JAMES A. HAYES, Louisiana JOE BARTON, Texas JOHN S. TANNER, Tennessee DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey PETE GEREN, Texas SAM JOHNSON, Texas JIM BACCHUS, Florida KEN CALVERT, California TIM ROEMER, Indiana MARTIN R. HOKE, Ohio ROBERT E. (BUD) CRAMER, JR., Alabama NICK SMITH, Michigan DICK SWETT, New Ham hire EDWARD R. ROYCE, California JAMES A. BARCIA, Michigan ROD GRAMS, Minnesota HERB KLEIN, New Jersey JOHN LINDER, Georgia ERIC FINGERHUT, Ohio PETER BLUTE, Massachusetts PAUL MCHALE, Pennsylvania JENNIFER DUNN, Washington JANE HARMAN, California BILL BAKER, California DON JOHNSON, Georgia ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland ROBERT E. PALMER, Chief of Staff KATHRYN HOLMES, Administrator SUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND AVIATION TIM VALENTINE, North Carolina, Chairman DAN GLICKMAN, Kansas TOM LEWIS, Florida PETE GEREN, Texas CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland TIM ROEMER, Indiana KEN CALVERT, California DICK SWETT, New Hampshire NICK SMITH, Michigan HERB KLEIN, New Jersey ROD GRAMS, Minnesota PAUL MCHALE, Pennsylvania JOHN LINDER, Georgia JANE HARMAN, California PETER BLUTE, Massachusetts DON JOHNSON, Georgia ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland SAM COPPERSMITH, Arizona DANA ROHRABACHER, California ANNA G. ESHOO, California DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey JAY INSLEE, Washington MARTIN R. HOKE, Ohio EDWARD ROYCE, California *Ranking Republican Member. (II) 91-1003 : KF27 1993Y CONTENTS WITNESSES 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, Esprit International, San Francisco, CA 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) |