Review of the Office of Technology Assessment and its Organic act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, October 10, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 |
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activities Administrative Assistant Advisory Council Applied Genetics appropriate areas basis believe BROWN budget Chairman Committee on Commerce Committee on Science CONGRESSIONAL NEEDS Congressional Steel Caucus Contractors Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Division Assistant effective Energy Conservation environmental evaluates examines Executive Committee expertise EXTERNAL CONTRACTING Federal Coal Frank Church future gasohol GIBBONS House Committee identifies implications inserting in lieu institutional interest Jack Gibbons LAWRENCE RITTER long-term major meetings Office of Technology oil shale organization OTA assessments OTA priorities OTA staff OTA study OTA's OVERSIGHT HEARINGS perform policy options problems Program Manager Project Director proposals Requestor requests Resources response Science and Technology scientific Senate Committee Senior Analyst SISTER AGENCIES Solar Power Satellite specific Subcommittee on Energy TAAC TAAC's TAGGANTS technical memorandum Technology Assessment Act Technology Assessment Board testimony TOM HARKIN U.S. Industries U.S. Steel Udall Wendell Ford WYDLER
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Page 71 - The Director may appoint with the approval of the Board, a Deputy Director who shall perform such functions as the Director may prescribe and who shall be Acting Director during the absence or incapacity of the Director- or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Director.
Page 53 - Commerce; the Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; and the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior, House Comnuttee on Appropriations.
Page 54 - Representative Charles A. Vanik, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means. This report is an interim product of the OTA US Industrial Competitiveness project.
Page 25 - TAAC: . 1. Is this now or likely to be a major national issue? 2. Can OTA make a unique contribution or could it be done effectively by a committee, or another agency, eg, CRS or GAO?
Page 54 - Trade and Technology Transfer with China and Russia о For members of the Congressional Steel Caucus, Rep. Adam Benjamin, Jr., Sen. John Heinz, and several other Interested committees and members on the OTA assessment, The Impact of Technology on the Competitiveness of the US Industry - Steel. о For staff of the Senate Banking Committee on the OTA study, Technology and East-West Trade.
Page 51 - ... control programs, and Initiating the use of such neu technologies as desalination. OTA's study of the tools that help supply this information will clarify which proposals are based on the best available analysis procedures and the assumptions and limitations of these tools. The assessment considers a wide range of models and predictive methods, advising Congress of the credibility of the techniques used to predict the work of water resource projects and regulations and the societal and environmental...
Page 23 - Here, technology assessment is understood to embrace a variety of analyses on how to resolve socio-technical problems; it is a process through which scientific methods are used to understand how society can develop, influence, and apply technology to meet social needs in the most beneficial way.
Page 25 - How much tine will be required to do the assessment? 10. What is the likelihood of Congressional action in response to the assessment? . 11. Will the assessment, or components of it, be completed in a timely fashion to be a useful guide for legislative action? 12. Does this assessment have the potential for aiding and reinforcing OTA asessments in other areas of concern? In response to committee requests within the priority areas...
Page 9 - Director may procure the temporary (not to exceed one year) or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof by contract as independent contractors, or, in the case of individual experts or consultants, by...
Page 8 - The Executive Committee shall render an annual report to the Board, and such other reports as it may deem necessary, summarizing its activities and making such recommendations as it may deem appropriate. Minority views and recommendations, if any, of members of the Executive Committee shall be included in such reports.