74. Sei 2:44/42 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY CIS RECORD ONLY: HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DON FUQUA, Florida, Chairman ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey TIM VALENTINE, North Carolina ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey TERRY BRUCE, Illinois RICHARD H. STALLINGS, Idaho MANUEL LUJAN, JR.,* New Mexico CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island DON RITTER, Pennsylvania SID W. MORRISON, Washington RON PACKARD, California JAN MEYERS, Kansas ROBERT C. SMITH, New Hampshire PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois WILLIAM W. COBEY, JR., North Carolina JOE BARTON, Texas D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR., Virginia DAVID S. MONSON, Utah JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR., Ohio HAROLD P. HANSON, Executive Director JOYCE GROSS FREIWALD, Republican Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND Bernard Goldstein, Assistant Administrator for Research and Develop ment, Environmental Protection Agency; accompanied by Donald Ehreth, Deputy Assistant Administrator; Elizabeth Anderson, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment; Carl Gerber, Office of Environ- mental Engineering and Technology; Robert Dixon, Office of Health Research; Roger Cortesi, Office of Exploratory Research; and Erich Bretthauer, Environmental Processes and Effects Research; Sam Rond- berg, Research Planning and Management; and Matthew Bills, Office of Acid Deposition, Environmental Monitoring and Quality Assurance, Hon. James H. Scheuer, a Member of Congress from the State of New York, and chairman, Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture 7. Letter to Hon. Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, EPA, from William J. Schull, chairman, Radiation Advisory Committee, and Norton Nelson, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FISCAL YEAR 1986 BUDGET REQUEST TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1985 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENT, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:36 a.m., in room 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. James Scheuer (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Scheuer, Meyers, Schneider, Smith, Reid, Henry, Andrews, and McCurdy. Staff present: Michael Rodemeyer, counsel. Mr. SCHEUER. The Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment will now come to order. This is the first hearing of the subcommittee in the 99th Congress, and I want to express my pleasure at welcoming back a valued and very productive member of the subcommittee who is now the ranking minority member, Congressperson Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island. She has always been an active and creative member, and now she is in a position of great and significant leadership. We are now commencing hearings on the administration's 1986 request for funding for the EPA, and during our extensive involvement of the EPA over the last several years, it's quite appropriate that this be the subject of our first hearing. The total EPA research program for 1986 of $325 million constitutes a 6-percent increase over fiscal 1985, about a 15-percent decrease in real dollars over the EPA original research budget in the years of its founding, of course, when they didn't have any of these extraordinarily important and complicated responsibilities like TSCA, FIFRA, and RCRA. Does everybody in this room understand what TSCA, RCRA, and FIFRA mean? Is there anybody who doesn't? [No response.] Mr. SCHEUER. Nobody who doesn't. For the benefit of all of those who fall into the category of non-acronym-believers, TSCA is the Toxic Substances Control Act, RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and FIFRA is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide-pesticide law-that governs rodents, insects, and other cold and warm-blooded mammalian objects. (1) |