Renewable Energy and the City: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, October 16 and 17, 1979 |
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Page 164 - Is $2,200 (30 percent of the first $2,000, and 20 percent of the next $8,000 of expenditures).
Page 106 - CACP was authorized to spend $30 million in direct grants to community organizations to assist community organizations, neighborhood groups and individual citizens in becoming actively involved in activities designed to prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime and improve the administration of justice.
Page 38 - US Government Printing Office. Washington, DC, 1977 : p. 14. Roach, Patricia M. Member, National League of Cities Task Force on Energy. Testimony at hearings before the Subcommittee on the City of the House Committee on Banking. Finance and Urban Affairs. September 16. 1977 published in "Energy and the City.
Page 158 - Our guiding principle as we developed this plan was that above all it must be fair. None of our people must make an unfair sacrifice. None should reap an unfair benefit. The desire for equity is reflected throughout our plan : —in the wellhead tax, which encourages conservation but is returned to the public; —in a dollar-for-dollar refund of the wellhead tax as it affects home heating oil, particularly in the Northeast...
Page 11 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a great pleasure to appear before you on a matter which is of great interest to me, and has been for many, many years.
Page 174 - Among cities studied by the Urban Institute for the 1967-72 period, "growing cities managed to cut their effective property tax rates by more than 25 percent . . . while the declining cities were obliged to raise their rates by nearly 25 percent."42 Between 1967 and 1973. large declining cities increased per capita revenues by 113 percent (compared to growing cities...
Page 321 - Affairs of the Office of Policy Development and Research of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Page 13 - New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York State Public Service Commission.
Page 319 - House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr* Chairman: Thank you for your letter of June...
Page 14 - Authority shall be to develop and implement new energy technologies consistent with economic, social and environmental objectives, and to develop and encourage energy conservation technologies.