To Discuss Oversight of the Forest and Rangeland Research Program of the U.S. Forest Service: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry
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United States Congress Senate
Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006. LC Number: KF26 .A3534 2005b OCLC Number: (OCoLC ...
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Original publisher: Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006. LC Number: KF26 .A3534 2005b OCLC Number: (OCoLC)71267191 Subject: Forests and forestry -- Research -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 RAPO Senator C. All right. Well, I truly appreciate working with you, Senator Salazar. And we have a lot of common issues, and I look forward to working with you on them. ALAZAR Senator S. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator C. Thank you. RAPO Getting back to the question of our utilization of biomass, at the end of your response, Dr. Bartuska, you indicated an example of trying to get the Department of Energy to be more aware of and focused on the potential of utilization of woody biomass. One of the things that I have observed is, as we identify new uses - and, frankly, new products - that can be commercially imple-mented utilizing this biomass that is generated from our Healthy Forest Initiative, one problem we have is developing markets for them. And I know that the Administration has looked - I think there is an executive order that the agencies look at ways in their pur-chasing and the implementation of their missions; that they look to the utilization of biomass. From what I have observed, however, it is not working very well. The other agencies are not doing it as well as I think we expected that they would, and had hoped that they would. And I would just like to ask your thoughts on the issue of: across the Administration, are we getting the necessary attention focused on how to get these markets generated by utilizing the purchasing power of the Government, as we move into trying to utilize these biomass products? ARTUSKA Ms. B. I am not totally familiar with all of the different opportunities out there from the other departments. I do know that because of this working group on woody biomass utilization there has been increased discussion going on by the three departments I mentioned - Energy, Interior, and Agriculture. So I...
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