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RCED-96-120R 1 (1996-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclcy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: K )O United States (3A O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-270917 April 15, 1996 The Honorable John R. Kasich Chairman, Committee on the Budget House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: You asked us to review the Department of Energy's (DOE) report Success Stories: The Energy Mission in the Market Place. Specifically, you asked us to determine whether (1) the claims DOE makes in the report are valid and (2) Success Stories can be used to assess the value of DOE's applied research and development (R&D) programs. As you know, DOE's applied R&D programs are designed to support the development of technologies that accomplish the nation's energy objectives, such as securing future energy supplies. In fiscal year 1995, DOE received appropriations of about $1.65 billion, or about 9.5 percent of its total budget, to fund its applied energy R&D programs. Some Members of Congress and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have questioned whether the federal government's investment in these programs is cost-effective. DOE published Success Stories in May 1995 to respond to these concerns. The report briefly describes 61 technologies developed or supported by DOE's applied R&D programs. Each case study highlights how a technology resulted in measurable benefits, such as securing future energy supplies. To address your questions about the report, we evaluated the support for the benefits claimed for 15 of the cases. We selected our sample to include (1) cases representing a cross section of DOE's applied research programs and (2) cases that cited large quantified benefits. In summary, we found the following: -- Although Success Stories makes some valid claims about the benefits of DOE's applied research, we found problems with the analyses DOE used to support the benefits cited in 11 out of the 15 cases we reviewed. These GAO/RCED-96-120R, DOE's Success Stories Report

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