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             United States General Accounting Office   l
                    Washington, D.C. 20548                  LMl15542


                         Statement of
                         J. Dexter Peach
              Director, Energy and Minerals Division
                          Before the
        Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power
           House Committee on Energy and Commerce
                     -        on
                Proposed Helium Legislation


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate the opportunity to present our views as you

consider H.R. 3877, a bill which would repeal the Helium Act and

amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to provide for a number

of helium conservation initiatives. As you know, we have followed

the helium conservation question closely over the last couple of

years. Our report to the Congress entitled Unique Helium Resour-

ces Are Wasting: A New Conservation Policy Is Needed, was issued

on March 7, 1979. In that report we recommended redefining the

Nation's helium conservation program to take cognizance of the

changing needs for helium and to establish the objective of con-

serving helium resources to meet national as well as Federal agency

requirements. We testified before this Subcommittee in March 1979

and have commented on previous helium legislation on a number of

occasions.

     Our recent June 15, 1981, letter report to the Department

of the Interior, Continuing Need for a National Helium Conserva-

tion Policy (EMD-81-91), updated our 1979 report and reaffirmed

its basic conclusions and recommendations.

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