Need for New Powerplants: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Congressional Research Service and Department of Energy Electric Utility Reports, February 7, 1984 |
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