Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1981 Page: 11
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3. Responses to Congressional Inquiries: Briefings, Presentations,
Workshops, Informal Discussions, cont'd.
Judiciary
Briefing on OTA's patent assessment relative to upcoming
legislation (with Committees on Governmental Affairs and Small
Business); status of OTA assessment on National Information Systems.
Labor and Human Resources
National Library of Medicine; overview of OTA's current assessment
on technology and the handicapped; reauthorization of the National
Center for Health Care Technology and others; general discussion of
past and present OTA Health Program work. (specific interest in OTA's
cancer risk, technology and the handicapped and technology and world
population studies); health legislation, especially family planning.
HOUSE COMMITTEES
Agriculture
Agricultural water use.
Appropriations
Findings to date on OTA study on Airports and Air Traffic
Control (for Members and staff of the Subcommittee on Transportation);
questions for use in FAA appropriations hearings (for the Subcommittee
on Transportation).
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs
Scope and issues re OTA's study on energy efficiency of city
buildings.
Education and Labor
OTA's information technology and education study re hearings
on vocational education.
Energy and Commerce
Legislation .to foster competition in health care; National
Center for Health Care Technology and National Center for Health
Statistics reauthorization legislation; energy and conservation--
large-scale retrofit of city buildings and utility incentives to mount
retrofit programs; OTA work re world futures and public policy; workshop
on long-range transport of pollutants (with staff of the House
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries).
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Office of Technology Assessment. Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1981, text, 1981; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9229/m1/25/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.