Authorizations for Department of Energy civilian programs: Fiscal Year 1979. Report of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session together with additional views to accompany S. 2692
S.2692 authorizes appropriations for th civilian programs of the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1979. President Carters' total proposed budget for the civilian programs of the Department of Energy is $9,886,296,000 for fiscal year 1979. As discussed here, the Committee recommends an increase of $420,700,000 for a fiscal year 1979 total of $10,306,996,000. The recommendations of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources are summarized and their budgetary impact is discussed. Major provisions in the bill include: research and technology development; production, demonstration, and distribution; conservation; regulation; emergency preparedness; energy information; environment; policy and management; general science and basic research; power marketing administrations; geothermal resources development fund; special foreign currency; miscellaneous revenues; provisions applicable to annual authorization acts; competition in crude oil sales; retroactive application of certain rules, regulations, and interpretations; prohibition on entitlement subsidy to importers of residual fuel oil and refined petroleum products; amendment to Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974; National and regional energy studies; National Alcohol Fuels Commission; and automobile fuel economy study. Budgets for energy supply-research and technology development program are given for coal, petroleum, natural gas, solar, geothermal, magnetic confinement fusion, fission, breeder reactor, hydroelectric, biomass, and basic energy sciences. (MCW)
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- United States
- Language:
- English
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