Discusses the outlook for producing electricity from & directly using geothermal energy. Also discusses barriers to the use of geothermal heat pumps, & efforts made by industry & government to increase their use. Charts & tables.
Examines the public's exposure to the electromagnetic fields that are emitted from federally owned power lines. Reviews the responses of states and utilities to the public's concerns about these fields and the efforts of various federal agencies to implement a federal research and communication program. Charts and tables.
In its 2001 Governmentwide Perspective, the General Accounting Office (GAO) identified operational challenges, such as the continuing need to implement management reforms, and discussed the need to address human capital and other strategic challenges, particularly the longer-term budget outlook. The information that GAO presents in this report is intended to help sustain congressional attention in addressing the challenges government faces in doing business in the 21st century. This report is part of a special series of reports on governmentwide and agency-specific issues.
This report concerns the adequacy of consumer & investor protection in the electric utility industry. Covers: (1) recent changes within the electric utility industry that involved utility holding co. (UHC); (2) the effect of these changes on the SEC admin. of the Public Utility Holding Co. Act (PUHCA) of 1935, as amended; & (3) the relationship between SEC, the FERC, & state regulators in protecting consumer & investor interests in the changing industry. PUHCA is designed to discourage UHC from structuring their operations so as to frustrate effective state regulation of their utility subsidiaries. The act confines a UHC¿s utility operations to a single geographic area & requires UHC to maintain simple corp. & financial structures. Charts & tables.
During 50 years of nuclear weapons production, the U.S. has generated large volumes of radioactive wastes that have resulted in the contamination of soil, groundwater, & surface water. As a result, (in 1994) DoE faces a massive, complex, & costly cleanup effort. The U.S. will decide on methods to be used for environ. remediation at various sites. This report reviews progress in determining cleanup standards & land uses. It determines: how cleanup levels are currently determined for sites; the status & likelihood of success of efforts to develop cleanup standards for radionuclides; the status of land use planning efforts; & what hurdles would need to be overcome if land use planning were to be effectively implemented. Charts & tables.
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