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on Science, Space, and Technology, Including Selected Subcommittee Legis-
lative Activities-Continued
3.3–Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and En-
vironment..

3.3(a)-Stratospheric Ozone Depletion.
3.3(b)-Oversight of the FY 1988 Budget Request for Department of

Energy Biological and Environmental Research.
3.3(c)— The Future of the Landsat System
3.3(d)-Conservation of Biological Diversity..
3.3(e)—Global Climate Change and Climate Act Reauthorization .....
3.3(1)-Opportunities for International Scientific Cooperation to Con-

trol AIDS.......
3.3(g)—Groundwater Resources in Albuquerque, New Mexico..
3.30h)- The Future of Long Island's Groundwater Resources
3.3(i)—Modernization of the Weather Service
3.3(j)-- The Status and Future of the Landsat System
3.31k)-Environmental Health in the Twenty-First Century.
3.3(1)–Review of the FY 1989 Environmental Protection Agency Re-

search Program Budget Request.....
3.3(m)-Oversight of the National Acid Precipitation Program.
3.3(n)-Field-Testing of Genetically-Engineered Organisms
3.3(0)-The Quality of Health Care: Information for Consumers.
3.3(p)-Technologies for Conserving Species: Saving the Endangered

Rhinoceros...
3.3(9)—Technologies for Remediating Global Warming..
3.3(r)-H.R. 5000, the Recyclable Materials Science and Technology

Development Act of 1988: Plastics in the Environment.....
3.3(s)-Remediation Strategies for the Stringfellow Superfund Site....
3.3(t)-Review of Indoor Air Quality Programs and H.R. 5373, the

National Indoor Air Quality Act
3.3(u)-The National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environ-

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on Science, Space, and Technology, Including Selected Subcommittee Legis-
lative Activities—Continued
3.4-Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development-Continued

3.4(gg)—The Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Commer

cialization and Development Act (H.R. 4226).
3.4(hh)—State of the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry..
3.4(ii)—High Temperature Superconductivity and Technology Trans-

fer..

3.4Gij)—Establishing a Uranium Enrichment Corporation 3.5–Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology

3.5(a)-Federal Information Policy Mechanisms .....
3.5(b)-Superconductivity (H.R. 3024, H.R. 3048, H.R. 3217).
3.5(c)—The Role and Balance of Federal R&D Support ...
3.5(d)—The Role of Science and Technology in Competitiveness
3.5(e)—Hearing on Research and Competitiveness in the Construction

Industry
3.5(1)-Field Hearing on "Scientific and Technical Literacy in the

Workforce” (Raleigh, North Carolina)..
3.5(g)-Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake: Lessons Learned
3.5+h)-Field Hearing on Federal Science and Technology Support for

Historically Biack Colleges and Universities .....
3.5(i)-The Fastener Quality Assurance Act of 1988 (H.R. 5051) and

the Standardization of Measurement Act of 1988 (H.R. 5120).
3.5(j)—Other Standardization Legislation and “The Standardization

of Weights and Measures",
3.5(k)-Hearing on Women, Minorities and the Disabled in Science

and Technology
3.5(1)—Hearing on the Privitization of the National Technical Infor-

mation Service (NTIS)..
3.5(m)-Hearing on Oversight of the Office of Science and Technology

Policy...
3.5(n)-Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing
3.5(0)— Technologies for Remediating Global Warming.
3.5(p)—New Directions in Home Video ...
3.5(q)-Steel Research and Markets of the Future.
3.54r)—Hearing on U.S./Japan Cooperative Agreement in Science and

Technology
3.5(s)—Field Hearing on University/Industry Alliances (St. Louis,

Missouri)....
3.5(t)-Field Hearing on Economic Development Through Technology

Transfer, Denver, Colorado.....

3.5(u)-Field Hearing on Photonics....
3.6–Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications

3.6(a)-Hearings on the Space Shuttle Program
3.6(b)- Review of NASA's Long Range Goals
3.6(c)-Space Station Oversight Hearing
3.6(d)-Hearing on the Atlas-Centaur Accident
3.6(e)—Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor
3.6(f)—Examining the Health of the Commercial Launch Industry..
3.6(g)—Review NASA's Implementation of NRC Recommendations on

Space Station .....
3.6(h)- International Space Policy in the 1990's.
3.6(i)-Hearing on the Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor
3.6(j)—Hearing on Future Goals in Space, New Hmapshire.
3.6(k)-Hearing on Future Goals in Space, Iowa......
3.6(1)-Hearings on the Commercial Space Launch Act Amendments

of 1987.
3.6(m)-Hearing on Orbital Space Debris.
3.6(n)-To Establish a National Mars Commission (H.R. 3858).
3.6(0)-Space Settlement Act of 1988 (H.R. 4218)...
3.6(p)-John C. Stennis Space Center (H.R. 4560/Executive Order

12641)..............
3.7–Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation

3.7(a)-Hearings on the Future of the Landsat System...
3.7(b)-International Cooperation on the Superconducting Super Col-

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lative Activities-Continued
3.7—Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation-Continued

3.7(c)—Hearings to Examine U.S.-Soviet Science and Technology Ex

changes ....
3.7(d)—Hearing on Global Prospects for U.S. Coal and Coal Technol-

ogies.
3.7(e)-Global Climate Change.
3.7(f)—U.S.-Latin American Cooperation in Science and Technology..
3.71g)-OTA Magnetic Fusion Report "Starpower”
3.7(h)-Hearing on Monitoring Technology Flow: Science, Technology

and Trade Policy Implications
3.7(1)-Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy
3.7(j)-Subcommittee Meeting with Western European Union (WEU)..
3.7(k)—U.S.-Poland Interparliamentary Exchanges on Science and

Technology
3.7(1)—U.S. Canada Interparliamentary Exchange.
3.7(m)-European Oversight Trip.
3.7(n)-International Cooperation on the Superconducting Super Col-

lider.
3.7(0)Competitive Implications of Toxicological Standards and the

Need for Consistent International Standards
3.7(p)-Sharing Foreign Technology: Should We Pick Their Brains? .....
3.7(q)-Science and the Summit.

3.7(r)—Hearing on U.S./Japan Science and Technology Agreement 3.8–Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation and Materials...

3.8(a)-Railroad Technology
3.8(b)-National Critical Materials Council
3.8(c)-Progress in Aviation Weather Prediction and Reporting.
3.8(d)—Civil Applications of the Tilt Rotor
3.8(e) Roles and Mission of the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI)....
3.811)-Bureau of Mines.
3.8(g) National Aerospaceplane Program
3.80h)—Department of Energy Authorizations (H.R. 2368 and H.R.

2369) (Transportation Programs).
3.817-Bureau of Mines
3.8(j)-FAA R&D Program Review, NAS Plan, CAMI Mission and

Program Plan ...
3.80kNational Critical Materials Council
3.8(1)-R&D on Pollution front: Trucks and Buses.
3.8(m)-The Medical Mission of the FAA.
3.8(n)-Oversight of Computer Security act of 1987 (P.L. 100-235).

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Publications of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 100th

Congress ...
Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Individual

Data (100th Congress).
Committee Membership (85th Congress through 99th Congress).
Public Laws (100th Congress), which were available at the time of publication.

Union Calendar No. 648

100TH CONGRESS

2d Session

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

REPORT 100-1109

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES—COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE,

SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY

DECEMBER 19, 1988.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State

of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. Roe, from the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

submitted the following

REPORT

HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND

TECHNOLOGY The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has its roots in the intense reaction to the Soviet launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. Early in 1958 Speaker Sam Rayburn convened the House of Representatives, and the first order of the day was a resolution offered by Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. It read, "Resolved that there is hereby created a Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration ...

The Select Committee performed its tasks with both speed and skill by writing the Space Act creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and chartering the permanent House Committee on Science and Astronautics, now known as the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, with a jurisdiction comprising both science and space.

The Science and Astronautics Committee became the first standing committee to be established in the House of Representatives since 1946. It was also the first time since 1892 that the House and Senate had acted to create standing committees in an entirely new area.

The committee officially came into being on January 3, 1959, and on its 20th Anniversary the Honorable Charles Mosher said, the committee "was born of an extraordinary House-Senate joint leadership initiative, a determination to maintain American preeminence in science and technology, ..

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