Page Chapter III-Oversight, Investigations and Other Activities of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Including Selected Subcommittee Legislative Activities-Continued 3.3-Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment...... 3.3(a)-Stratospheric Ozone Depletion 3.3(b)-Oversight of the FY 1988 Budget Request for Department of 3.3(e) Global Climate Change and Climate Act Reauthorization... 3.3(g) Groundwater Resources in Albuquerque, New Mexico...... 104 104 105 107 108 110 111 112 113 114 3.3) The Status and Future of the Landsat System 116 119 3.3(1) Review of the FY 1989 Environmental Protection Agency Re- 3.3(m)-Oversight of the National Acid Precipitation Program. 3.3(q)-Technologies for Remediating Global Warming. 3.3(r)-H.R. 5000, the Recyclable Materials Science and Technology 120 121 122 123 124 125 125 3.3(s) Remediation Strategies for the Stringfellow Superfund Site...... 127 129 3.4-Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development... 3.4(a)-Nuclear Fission R&D... 3.3(u)-The National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environ- 3.4(b)-Conventional Light Water Reactor (LWR Development) 3.4(d)-Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (MHTGR). 3.4(f) Space Nuclear Power Programs. 130 133 133 134 135 135 135 135 3.4(j)-Byproducts Utilization (Subcategory of Remedial Action & 138 138 139 139 140 3.4(v)-Global Prospects for U.S. Coal and Coal Technologies.. Chapter III-Oversight, Investigations and Other Activities of the Committee 3.4-Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development-Continued 3.4(ii)-High Temperature Superconductivity and Technology Trans- 3.4(jj)-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(f)-Field Hearing on "Scientific and Technical Literacy in the 3.5(g) Whittier Narrows, California Earthquake: Lessons Learned 3.5(1) The Fastener Quality Assurance Act of 1988 (H.R. 5051) and 3.5(k)-Hearing on Women, Minorities and the Disabled in Science Page 154 154 155 155 156 156 157 157 158 159 160 161 162 164 166 3.5(n)-Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing 3.5(m)-Hearing on Oversight of the Office of Science and Technology 3.5(1) Hearing on the Privitization of the National Technical Infor- 168 168 169 3.5(p)-New Directions in Home Video...... 3.5(0)-Technologies for Remediating Global Warming. 170 172 3.5(q)-Steel Research and Markets of the Future 173 3.5(s)-Field Hearing on University/Industry Alliances (St. Louis, 3.5(r)-Hearing on U.S./Japan Cooperative Agreement in Science and 174 175 3.5(u)-Field Hearing on Photonics... 3.5(t)-Field Hearing on Economic Development Through Technology 176 177 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 178 179 179 3.6(c)-Space Station Oversight Hearing. 3.6(d)-Hearing on the Atlas-Centaur Accident 3.6(e)-Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor 180 180 181 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(m)-Hearing on Orbital Space Debris. 3.6(n)-To Establish a National Mars Commission (H.R. 3858).. 3.7-Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation. 3.7(a)-Hearings on the Future of the Landsat System.. lider.. 3.6(f)-Examining the Health of the Commercial Launch Industry.. 3.6(g)-Review NASA's Implementation of NRC Recommendations on 181 182 183 183 183 184 3.6(1) Hearings on the Commercial Space Launch Act Amendments 184 185 185 186 3.6(p) John C. Stennis Space Center (H.R. 4560/Executive Order 186 187 188 3.7(b)-International Cooperation on the Superconducting Super Col 188 188 Chapter III-Oversight, Investigations and Other Activities of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Including Selected Subcommittee Legislative Activities-Continued 3.7-Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation-Continued 3.7(d)-Hearing on Global Prospects for U.S. Coal and Coal Technol- 3.7(e) Global Climate Change. 3.7(f)-U.S.-Latin American Cooperation in Science and Technology.. 3.7(h)-Hearing on Monitoring Technology Flow: Science, Technology 3.7(1) Science, Technology, and American Diplomacy 3.7(1) U.S.-Canada Interparliamentary Exchange. 3.7(n) International Cooperation on the Superconducting Super Col- 3.7(0)-Competitive Implications of Toxicological Standards and the 3.7(p)-Sharing Foreign Technology: Should We Pick Their Brains?. Page 188 189 189 190 191 191 192 193 193 194 194 195 196 196 197 197 198 198 199 200 201 201 202 3.8(j)-FAA R&D Program Review, NAS Plan, CAMI Mission and 3.8(n) Oversight of Computer Security act of 1987 (P.L. 100–235). 207 APPENDIXES 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(e)-Roles and Mission of the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI)... 3.8(h)-Department of Energy Authorizations (H.R. 2368 and H.R. Publications of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 100th 209 Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Individual 217 Committee Membership (85th Congress through 99th Congress). 219 Public Laws (100th Congress), which were available at the time of publication. 230 Union Calendar No. 648 100TH CONGRESS 2d Session 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, . . ." (1) |