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


                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     Expected at 9:30 a.m.
   109910                            Tuesday, July 17, 1979

                        STATEMENT OF
                        J. DEXTER PEACH                          /
           DIRECTOR, ENERGY AND MINERALS DIVISION            -
                         BEFORE THE      A
         SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND COMMERCE
                           OF THE
     HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE
                           AND THE
     SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS
                           OF THE
          HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
                                     ONS
            /CNVERSION OF URBAN WASTE TO ENERGj g'-:


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittees:

     We welcome the opportunity to be here today to discuss

the conversion of urban waste to energy as a means or helping

to alleviate our Nation's energy supply and solid waste dis-

posal problems. My testimony is based on our February 28,

1979, report to the Congress which evaluated Federal efforts

to develop and introduce alternate fuels from municipal solid

waste. l/ Our report describes the various waste-to-energy

conversion processes, the efforts of private and public

agencies to implement them, and the benefits they could pro-

vide in the near- and mid-term. It also discusses what we



l/Conversion of Urban Waste To Energy: Developing and
  Introducing Alternate Fuels From Municipal Solid Waste,
  EMD-79-7, Feb. 28, 1979.

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