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                                FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                Expected At 9:45 a.m.
                                Thursday, September 6, 1979


           United States General Accounting Office
                  Washington, D.C. 20548

                       Statement of
                   Douglas L. McCullough
        Deputy Director, Energy and Minerals Division

        Before the Subcommittee on Mines and Mining
                 House Committee on Interior
                     and Insular Affairs                  0


              '~unibus Geothermal Legislatlo     '

Mr. Chairman and Members ot the Subcommittee:

     I appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning to

discuss the proposed omnibus legislation as well as our work

on the Federal Geothermal program. First, I would like to

cover our most recent effort involving geothermal leasing

activities. I also have a few comments about the omnibus

legislation proposed by Chairmen Udall and Santini as well

as H.R. 4471, the bill introduced by Congressman Symms.


FEDERAL GEOTHERMAL LEASING ACTIVITY                %son,

     At the request of the Chairman of the Senate Energy Com-<'SI

mittee, we looked at the manner in which Federal lands are      00

leased for geothermal development. Our work was aimed at the

Geothermal Steam Act of 1970; the methods used to carry it

out; ana whether its implementation has impeded development

on Federal lands. We have concluded that leasing and permit-

ting delays are not in themselves the only or even the primary


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