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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaejd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2004 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:08 a.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Pete V. Domenici (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Domenici, Craig, Reid, and Murray. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY STATEMENT OF DAVID GARMAN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR PETE V. DOMENICI Senator DOMENICI. The committee will come to order. Thank you everyone for coming. It's interesting to note that, of no consequence other than it's interesting, this is the first meeting of the Sub- committee on Energy and Water and we haven't yet seen impact that the budget's going to have on this subcommittee's ability to do its work, but it's pretty obvious that it won't be a bed of roses, so I regret to tell you that I don't think there's any chance that very many of the discretionary programs are going to be funded with any increases. Most will get some cuts. But today we're going to review the Department of Energy's 2005 budget request, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable En- ergy, the Office of Science, and the Office of Nuclear Energy, and we will receive testimony from David Garman, Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency. I'd like to thank you for joining us. And Dr. Raymond Orbach, Director of the Office of Science, and William Magwood, Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy. I appreciate your attendance today and look forward to your testimony. The budget request for Renewable Energy provides $374 million, an increase of $4.3 million. DOE-that's 1.2 percent-DOE's budg- et provides $95 million for hydrogen technology, that is the basic research. It's a $13 million increase and overall the President pro- poses spending $228 million on hydrogen R&D, multi-agency effort to diversify energy supply. Office of Science, the administration requests $3.4 billion, a re- duction of $78 million, 2 percent below last year's level. Science re- (1)

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