旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � EXITING DOE SECRETARY URGES CONGRESS TO FULLY FUND SSC Page 85 � 쳐컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴캑 � DC - Rep. Brown (D-CA) today released a Jan. 14 letter in which the � � departing Secretary of Energy, Adm. James D. Watkins, proposes that the � � US complete the $8.3-billion Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project � � "independent of foreign contributions," & that the Congress this year � � appropriate the remaining $5.5 billion needed to complete the program � � (excerpts from the correspondence are attached). Arguing that the US � � "should not be in a position of allowing another nation to determine the � � schedule of this project," Watkins argues that the US be prepared to make � � up shortfalls in foreign contributions. The correspondence states that � � the Department of Energy "is confident that foreign commitments of $400 � � million of the $1.7 billion can be obtained by FY1999," but that without � � significant involvement by Japan "it is highly doubtful that the � � one-third foreign funding goal can be met." The current baseline funding � � profile assumes that the USgovernment will provide approximately � � two-thirds of the SSC's budget ($5.7 billion), &"nonfederal" sources � � would provide the balance ($875 million from the State of Texas, & $1.725 � � billion from other nations). Including FY1993 spending, approximately $2 � � billion already has been spent on the program. The 25-page letter from � � Watkins came in response to a Dec.15, 1992, letter from Rep. Brown � � asking specific questions about the budgetary & programmatic impacts on � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸