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EMD-79-35 1 (1979-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaywu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNiTED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 205A8 APRIL 3, 1979 B-178205 The Honorable Henry M. Jackson Chairman, Committee on EnergyIIIIiIt II United States Senate I The Honorable Don Fuqua 108986 Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology House of Representatives h 5 The Department of Energy Act of 1978--Civilian Applications (Public Law 95-238), among other things, author- izes a program for the use of loan guarantees for alternative fuel demonstration facilities. The act also requires that the Comptroller General audit, every 6 months, the loan guar- antee recipients. To date, the Department of Energy has not issued any loan guarantees for alternative fuel demonstration facilities. Therefore, we have no audit results to report. However, as discussed with your staffs, this letter presents a brief status of the Department's loan guarantee program as well as suggested legislative changes to allow us flexi- bility in auditing the recipients. PROGRAM STATUS As you know, the act, in part, authorizes a program for issuing loan guarantees for demonstration facilities to pro- duce alternative fuels from coal, oil shale, biomass, and other domestic resources, and to convert municipal or indus- trial waste into synthetic fuels. The Department's efforts since the act's passage on February 25, 1978, have been to structure the program, issue a program report, and initiate the development of regulations and internal procedures nec- essary to issue the loan guarantees. Under the current program structure, three groups within the Department are actively involved in these loan guarantee efforts. Urban Waste Technology Branch under the Department's Office of Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Solar Ap- plications, has responsibility for loan guarantee efforts pertaining to municipal solid and liquid waste, including sewage, sludge, and organic waste. The Office of Industrial Energy Conservation under the same Assistant Secretary has EMD-79-35 (990515)

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