Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font | black | number OCR: EXITING DOE SECRETARY URGES CONGRESS TO FULLY FUND SSC Page 85 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 bill ...
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