Additional material submitted for the record by American Petroleum Institute, Frank N. Ikard, president, letter Chrysler Corp., statement__ General Motors Corp., Dr. Frederick W. Bowditch, executive assistant Correspondence between FEO Administrator Simon and Congress- National Congress of Petroleum Retailers, Charles L. Binsted, National Realty Committee, Albert A. Walsh, president, statement. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Richard E. Ayres, statement... New York City Clean Air Campaign, Inc., attachment to Ms. Benstock's prepared statement, article from the Wall Street Journal entitled, "Energy Experts Warn of Costs and Dangers in U.S. Independence". Public Interest Research Group, attachments to Mr. Ditlow's pre- Article from the Wall Street Journal entitled, "EPA's Chief Page 351 332 348 353 325 125 182 326 327 145 254 313 330 218 215 202 202 Southern Services, Inc., William G. Lalor, Jr., senior vice president, 328 statement. United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of Statement with attachments of Jack Beidler, legislative director__ 267 270 UAW statement on unemployment-January 30, 1974.. 273 277 Western Wilderness Association, Reed Secord, president, letter dated 353 ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED AT HEARINGS American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO): Fair, Clinton M., legislative representative. O'Brien, James R., assistant director, department of social security. Environmental Protection Agency: Lerner, Michael, Director of the Office of Policy Analysis, Office of Air and Water Programs. Stork, Eric, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mobile Source Air Pollution Control. Strelow, Roger, Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Water Programs. Train, Hon. Russell E., Administrator. Federal Energy Office, Executive Office of the President: Parsky, Gerald L., Executive Assistant to the Administrator. Sawhill, John E., Deputy Administrator. Simon, Hon. William E., Administrator. Labor, Department of: Altman, Ralph, Director, Program Policies and Legislation, Unemployment Goodwin, Robert, Associate Manpower Administrator for Unemployment Kolberg, William, Assistant Secretary for Manpower. McLennan, Kenneth, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning. Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, Robert M. Barsky, deputy air pollution control officer. New York City Clean Air Campaign, Inc., Marcy Benstock, director. Public Interest Research Group, Clarence M. Ditlow, III. United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Dick Warden, assistant legislative director. STANDBY ENERGY EMERGENCY AUTHORITIES ACT TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1974 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Harley O. Staggers (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Today we begin again consideration of legislation designed to equip the Executive with emergency powers to deal more effectively with critical shortages in energy supplies. I was, of course, disappointed that the President vetoed the Energy Emergency Act upon which the Congress had labored so hard. I found it difficult to understand why the President would voluntarily deny himself the tools contained in that legislation needed to respond to the American people's call for action simply because he disagreed with some parts of the bill. The legislative process necessitates compromise. We in the Congress had endeavored to work with the President and his advisers to find a middle ground. And I firmly believe that the legislation which the Congress had sent to the President for his signature was fundamentally sound. Nevertheless over the last several weeks I have renewed efforts to refine the legislation and to modify its terms so as to avoid yet a second Presidential veto-a result which would surely further erode confidence in our governmental institutions. There are many who have urged me to abandon this effort, arguing that the crisis is over and that legislative action of this scope is not called for. I disagree. Embargos once lifted can be reimposed. Gas lines can reappear this summer as suddenly as they did last fall. I am convinced that there remains a real need to provide the President with standby authority to respond positively to any developing crisis. The bill before us today, H.R. 13834, represents a change from the vetoed bill in several respects. Most significantly, the highly controversial price rollback provisions have been eliminated, and it is my intention to bring before this committee separate legislation addressing this problem. Title II of the bill containing proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act is identical to that which emerged from conference and was contained in the vetoed bill. This morning's testimony will be (1) directed primarily to its terms and to the provisions of title I providing for the conversion of major fuel-burning installations to the use of coal. Tomorrow we will hear from witnesses on the other provisions of title I. I believe the distinguished member of the committee from North Carolina, Mr. James Broyhill, would like to say a few opening words before we hear our first witness this morning. Mr. Broyhill? Mr. BROYHILL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Today, we are starting over again on legislation to deal with the energy shortage. Similar legislation has travelled rocky roads through both houses of Congress only to be vetoel and that veto was sustained in the Senate. Many of us have spent countless hours with this legislation. As a member of the House-Senate Conference that considered the previous bill, I can attest to the days and days of work that went into this bill. This committee worked day and night last year and considered close to 100 amendments. On the Floor of the House the same thing occurred-and and night session with dozens of amendments offered. Unfortunately, during the House debate, the legislation was considered under parliamentary procedure which not only limited the members' rights to offer amendments, but also the procedure contributed to the confusing parliamentary situation. I hope that we can avoid repeating all of that experience with this bill. One of the problems that we encountered with the vetoed bill was that too many extraneous matters were either added to the bill or offered as amendments. The result was that many different interest groups that would have been for a more narrow proposal expressed their opposition to different sections of the bill and of course as we know, the President found the bill objectionable and vetoed it. In my opinion, the details found in H.R. 13834 contain the parameters of a workable bill. There are certain parts which I disagree with strongly and will be joining with others in offering perfecting amendments in a constructive attempt to work out a bill that can be enacted and signed by the President. Working together in the spirit of compromise as asked for by the chairman, I feel that we can work out these differences and take a bill to the Floor with more unanimous support from the committee than we had on the previous bill. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Mr. Broyhill, for those words. I am confident we will be able to come up with a workable bill. At this point we will place in the record, without objection, the text of H.R. 13834 and agency reports thereon. [The testimony resumes on p. 100.] [The text of H.R. 13834 and agency reports thereon follow:] |