Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font | black OCR: EXITING DOE SECRETARY URGES CONGRESS TO FULLY FUND SSC Page 86 the SSC of last year's congressional funding cuts. The Watkins letter provides detailed budget profiles & schedule information for a variety of funding scenarios. Responding to the letter, Brown commented Watkins "has correctly identified the Catch-22 of foreign funding for the SSC: Major foreign participation has remained elusive because of uncertainty about the US commitment to the project, yet our own commitment has wavered in large part because of the absence of substantial foreign funding." Brown also noted Watkins letter illustrates the failure of not having negotiated foreign involvement in the SSC from the outset of the project. "Rather than achieving an international consensus on the design & siting of the SSC from the ...