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RCED-92-143R 1 (1992-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackab0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Divsion B- 2 45575 April 3, 1992 The Honorable Mike Synar Chairman, Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives 146393 Dear Mr. Chairman: W~. P0iiQ 0 R >t 0 pC 04p C0 4i As requested in your February 11, 1992, letter, we have reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) response to our report entitled Fossil Fuels: Improvements Needed in DOE's Clean Coal Technology Program (GAO/RCED-92-17, Oct. 30, 1991). This letter contains our views on DOE's response. Our report discusses the status of the Clean Coal Technology Program and points out that 15 of the ongoing funded projects had experienced cost increases, delays, and/or reductions in scope and that 13 other projects had withdrawn from the program. It discusses the reasons for such problems and cites the amount of DOE's investment in withdrawn projects. Our report also points out that DOE selected some projects that are demonstrating technologies that might have been commercialized without federal assistance or might have limited potential for widespread use, and other projects that have proved not to be economically viable. In addition, our report points out that DOE had made several changes in its policy for recouping its investment that make such recoupment less likely and notes that DOE had not established uniform procedures for independently assessing demonstration results. In general, DOE believes that we have not correctly characterized the status of the Clean Coal Technology Program. DOE also believes that our report does not portray the larger picture of the program's successes, and in its conclusion, DOE lists what it believes are significant successes. After carefully reviewing DOE's response, we believe that we have correctly characterized the program's status. Our report does not focus on the GAO/RCED-92-143R DOE's Clean Coal Technology Program ~4c~cA 1q(0 S14 S

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