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From: Tom Gray <tomgray@igc.org>


                       LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
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              *  AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION  *
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                          July 15, 1996

     Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the full House Appropriations Committee
will consider the Energy and Water Appropriations bill for next
year.  The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider its
version of the bill at 2 p.m.

     The House bill, at the moment, eliminates the wind energy
research program entirely.  The Senate bill cuts it by more than
50%, from $32.5 million in the current year to $15 million next
year.  Either level would devastate what is already a very
modestly funded program that depends heavily on industry cost-
sharing to carry out research projects.

     In the House Committee, we expect Reps. Fazio (D-Calif.) and
Riggs (R-Calif.) to offer an amendment to restore minimal levels
of funding to the five renewable energy programs which were
terminated in Subcommittee, including $8 million for the wind
program.  In the Senate Committee, Senators Jeffords (R-Vt.) and
Leahy (D-Vt.) are considering an amendment to restore current
year funding levels for wind, but we have no final word as yet on
whether that will happen.

     We still expect a floor vote in the full House of
Representatives on a Schaefer-Klug amendment to be the pivotal
vote.  Reps. Schaefer (R-Colo.) and Klug (R-Wisc.) will offer an
amendment to restore current year funding levels for renewables,
including $32.5 million for wind energy.  That could happen as
early as the end of this week.

     Attached is an initial target list for a floor vote.

     We urgently need to appeal to supportive Representatives to
join in the debate, too.  Please let us know if you develop any
contacts with Representatives interested in making floor
statements supporting wind energy--we will follow up with them.

     Thanks for your help.


Initial "Swing List" for House Vote on Schaefer-Klug Amendment to
Restore Renewable Energy Funding

All of the following are House Members who have joined the
Renewable Energy Caucus, but who either voted against last year's
successful Klug-Schaefer amendment to restore $44.7 million to
the renewable energy research budget, or did not vote (*indicates
did not vote).

          Baker (R-Calif. 10)
          Barrett (R-Nebr. 3)
          Bateman (R-Va. 1)
          Bono (R-Calif. 44)
          Burr (R-N.C. 5)
          Canaday (R-Fla. 12)
          Castle (R-Del.)
          Chapman (D-Tex. 1)
          Christensen (R-Nebr. 2)
          Crapo (R-Ida. 2)
          Ehlers (R-Mich. 3)
          Ewing (R-Ill. 15)
          Foley (R-Fla. 16)
          Fox (R-Pa. 13)*
          Ganske (R-Iowa 4)
          Gilchrest (R-Md. 1)
          Greenwood (R-Pa. 8)
          Hastings (R-Wash. 4)
          Hoke (R-Ohio 10)
          Lazio (R-N.Y. 2)
          Lofgren (D-Calif. 16)
          Maloney (D-N.Y. 14)
          McInnis (R-Colo. 3)
          Oxley (R-Ohio 4)
          Riggs (R-Calif. 1)
          Rose (D-N.C. 7)
          Salmon (R-Ariz. 1)
          Schiff (R-N.M. 1)
          Shaw (R-Fla. 22)
          Skeen (R-N.M. 2)
          Slupak (D-Mich. 1)
          Tauzin (R-La. 3)*
          Wamp (R-Tenn. 3)

You can contact them by calling the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at
(202) 225-3121.