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               UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                        WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


                                        FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                        EXPECTED AT 9:30 A.M. EDT
                                        THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1975


                             STATEMENT OF
                           ELMER B. STAATS
               COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                  BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY,
                  CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
                  COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
                       HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     I appreciate the opportunity of appearing before you today to

discuss the work of the General Accounting Office (GAO) in areas where

this Subcommittee has oversight responsibility. Today, I will stress

our efforts in the energy area and then briefly describe some of our

efforts in the natural resources and conservation areas.

     There is a growing consensus that a national energy policy which

will significantly change our patterns of energy consumption from those

of the 60s and 70s is needed. Any such policy will likely contain five

basic assumptions:

     --The United States can no longer maintain historic energy
       growth patterns.
     --Increased production from conventional domestic sources will
       take years to develop.
     --New unconventional domestic energy sources will take even longer
       to develop.
     --Reliance on imported oil must be reduced.

     --Energy conservation is essential.

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