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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
         WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


B-178205


July 27, 1979


The Honorable Gary Hart
Chairman, Subcommittee on
  Synthetic Fuels
Committee on the Budget
United States Senate


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Dear Senator Hart:

     This letter is in-response to the questions raised
in your letter of July 19, 1979. You requested our views
on various aspects of proposals to accelerate synthetic
fuel development. The questions posed were:

     --Whether synthetic fuel development should be an on-
       or off-budget activity.

     --Whether the various proposals would develop a compe-
       titive synthetic fuels industry.

     --Whether such an industry would need Federal subsidies
       or other forms of Federal regulation and intervention
       to make it successful.

     --What are appropriate national goals for synthetic
       fuel production and the appropriate technical means
       to achieve those goals.

     --What financial mechanisms might be most helpful
       in achieving those goals.

Because you asked for a very quick response, this letter
of necessity does not represent an indepth analysis of
all aspects of your questions. Nonetheless, we have been
concerned with many of the issues raised for some time and
hope that the following comments may be of some value to
you.

     Before addressing the five specific questions you
raised, we would like to offer for your consideration some
comments on two other basic issues: the importance of a
significant effort to develop synthetic fuels and the need
for a separate organization to encourage that development. e,



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