Excerpt from Clean Coal Technologies Initiative: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, May 8, 1985<br><br>The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:30 a.m., in room 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Don Fuqua (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.<br><br>Mr. Fuqua. The hearing today concerns the Clean Coal Technologies Initiative, an activity directed by Congress last year and concluded recently by the U.S. Department of Energy. We will also consider a recently completed report on clean coal technologies prepared by DOE's Energy Research Advisory Board.<br><br>A summary of events during the past 12 months seems somewhat appropriate. In April of last year the Secretary of Energy requested that ERAB convene a panel to assess the principal technologies for clean use of coal. The requested report was accepted by ERAB on May 1, just about 1 week ago.<br><br>Later in 1984 Congress directed DOE to determine the private sector's interest in emerging clean coal technologies - those advanced concepts that could reduce the level of pollutants from coal-fired utility and large industrial plants.<br><br>The response to DOE's solicitation of interest was very impressive 176 statements involving 12 specific technologies and 1 nonspecific technology, located in 28 States and the District of Columbia, significant levels of cost sharing, and a large number of innovative, imaginative approaches. We have reviewed the Doe report and believe that it merits some discussion.<br><br>No one is surprised at the scope of the report. This committee has authorized funds for research and development in all the technologies addressed. Through hearings, oversight, and other contacts, we have heard both industry and Government justify expenditures on the bases of extension of knowledge, environmental impact, resource utilization, and ability to exercise options. We understand that now all processes are not equal in stage of development, but that eventually all processes will be available, through development, offering valuable freedom of choice.<br><br>Probably no one is surprised at the lack of depth of the report. We are disappointed that DOE has chosen to ignore the vigor and intelligence of the private sectors response. This report would seem to offer an excellent opportunity for DOE to provide technical advice on the assistance necessary to get a technology to the stage of commercialization.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.