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CONCLUSIONS

The natural gas industry recognizes that greater energy security, improved air quality and energy efficiency are essential to a strong U.S. economy and competitive edge. The recommendation for a total amount of $215 million for gas utilization and supply RD&D in Fiscal Year 1992 is required because of the increasing urgency to promote efficient end-use technologies and conservation measures that help meet more ambitious environmental objectives than in the past.

The gas industry recommendation requests funding only for those technologies that are essential and prudent for the orderly development of advanced and new gas utilization and supply methods and processes. With the focus of the Administration, Congress and the public on energy efficiency and clean air, there is a growing consensus that natural gas has an increasing role to play in our nation's energy security and environmental quality. To make this a reality, there must be increased focus on federal funding for research and development of technologies that utilize this gas more efficiently while minimizing emissions into the atmosphere and at the same time assuring its continued availability.

Meeting these challenges will require careful planning for energy usage in the future. That is why the gas industry is actively providing inputs into both a national energy strategy plan and the DOE yearly budget. We believe that a necessary component of this planning effort must include a re-examination of DOE funding for energy utilization technology research and development. Additional levels of funding to develop new low emission and fuel-efficient energy technologies will be necessary to satisfy pressing air quality concerns. Therefore, in developing a sound national energy strategy, DOE must provide natural gas-related R&D a much larger presence in its FY 1992 budget.

The near and long-term benefits of technology breakthroughs resulting from this research will have wide application throughout the country. The nation will not only achieve improved air quality and ensure the health and well-being of its citizens, but it will also promote the efficient use of its energy resources. In so doing, the energy security of the nation will be enhanced while enabling U.S. industry to better compete in the global marketplace as a leader in emissions reduction, new vehicle technologies and advanced energy conversion methods.

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Attachment A

DOE FY 1991 & 1992 Gas-Related Budget

Major Gas-Related Emissions/Efficiency Utilization and Supply Research Programs

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* While the gas industry is supporting geosciences as a concept, it is not supporting a specific line-item funding level. The industry is, however, supporting a funding level of $10 million for gas related geoscience work that is included in other line items, e.g., Advanced Extraction and Process Technology and Unconventional Natural Gas.

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UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION 39 OLD RIDGEBURY ROAD, DANBURY, CT 06817-0001

F. JOSEPH GRAHAM

DIRECTOR

ENERGY POLICY AND SUPPLY

March 25, 1991

The Honorable J. Bennett Johnston, Chairman
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
United States Senate

136 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-6150

Dear Senator Johnston:

Receipt is acknowledged of your March 11, 1991 letter.

First, allow me to thank you and the Committee again for allowing Union Carbide Corporation and the Petrochemical Energy Group to be heard.

Second, attached are the responses to the questions propounded by you at the hearing and as attached to your letter of March 11, and to the questions propounded by Senator Domenici, as attached to your letter of March 11, 1991.

We stand ready to be of any assistance that the Committee or its Members might desire.

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