Appendix I-Responses to additional questions from: On February 21, 1991, Admiral Watkins testified before your Following the hearing, you submitted written questions on behalf of yourself and Senators Ford, Wirth, Bingaman, Fowler, Nickles, Hatfield, Murkowski, Seymour and Wallop to supplement the record. Enclosed are the answers to the questions with the exception of your question 1 (Oil Pipeline Deregulation), question 2 (Enhanced Oil Recovery), and question 2 (ANWR); Senator Wirth's questions 7, 8, 12, and 13, and Senator Wallop's question 1. These answers are still being prepared and will be forwarded to you as expeditiously as possible. If we can be of further assistance to you or your staff, please contact our congressional hearing coordinator, Barbara Barnes, on (202) 586-6341. Enclosures Sincerely, Jacqueline Knox Brown Congressional and Intergovernmental Q. 1. A. QUESTION FROM SENATOR JOHNSTON What is the Administration's time table for carrying out those NES initiatives that can be undertaken administratively? Full implementation of the NES is inherently a shared responsibility, involving the completion of hundreds of actions by many actors. Attached is a preliminary list of those NES items not requiring legislation. We are moving ahead with all deliberate speed on working this list into final form. Some initiatives such as the issuance of an Executive Order on Federal Energy Management, and a comprehensive analysis of fuel cycle costs are already well underway. The Secretary of Energy has begun tasking the pertinent Departmental elements responsible for each of these items with developing implementation plans and carrying them out. This includes, as appropriate, time tables and specific milestones. These plans are not yet fully developed and, hence, the specific time table information requested is not yet available. However, we will forward this information to the Committee as it becomes available. We hope to have this list finalized by 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. National Energy Strategy Action to be Undertaken by the Administration Request Power Marketing Administrations to Promote Integrated Improve Siting of New Generation Plants and Transmission Lines Set Cost Effective Appliances/Equipment Standards 10. Increase R&D for Industrial Processes Efficiency 12. Expand Industrial Energy Audits 13. Increase R&D for Advanced Transportation Engine Technology 14. Accelerate Scrappage of Older Cars 15. Evaluate Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards 16. Improve Consumer Fuel Efficiency Information 17. Provide Incentives for Mass Transit and Ride Sharing 18. Increase Oil Production Outside Persian Gulf 19. Expand Strategic Petroleum Reserve 20. Diversify Transportation Fuels and Technology 21. Increase Purchase of Federal Alternative Fuel Vehicles 22. Remove Barriers to Horizontal Drilling 23. Increase Production of California Heavy Oil 24. Increase Alaska North Slope Oil Production 25. Deregulate Pipeline Sales Rates 26. Reform Natural Gas Pipeline Rate Design 27. Encourage Export of U.S. Coal and Coal Technology 28. Encourage Exports of U.S. Renewable and Efficiency Technology 29. Develop New, Passively Safe Nuclear Reactors 30. Increase R&D for Renewable Technology 31. Increase R&D for New Energy Crops 32. Increase R&D for Electric Vehicles, Gas Turbines and Fuel Cells 33. Pursue High Speed Rail and Magnetic Levitation Research 34. Enhance R&D for Aircraft Engines and Bodies 35. Expand Use of Intelligent Vehicles/Highway System 36. Increase R&D for Telecommuting 37. Increase Efficiency of Air Traffic Control System. 38. Increase R&D for Enhanced Oil Recovery 39. Pursue R&D on Magnetic and Inertial Confinement Fusion Concepts 40. Maintain Basic Federal Research Portfolio 41. Strengthen University Research 42. Undertake a Comprehensive Analysis of Fuel Cycle Costs 43. Pursue International Collaboration for High Cost/Long Term Research Facilities 44. Increase Industry Participation in R&D 45. Ensure Protection of Intellectual Property 46. Increase Federal Technology Transfer 47. Increase Federal Support of Math and Science Education 48. Clarify "New Source Review" Provisions for Existing Power Plants 49. Allow Access to Portions of Outer Continental Shelf Note: R&D and oil purchase funding increases require appropriations. |