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COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMATIC REVIEW OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYSOFFICE OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES
H.M. HUBBARD (chair),
Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (retired), Golden, Colorado
R. BRENT ALDERFER, consultant,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
DAN E. ARVIZU,
CH2M Hill, Greenwood Village, Colorado
EVERETT H. BECKNER,
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland (until December 2, 1999)
PETER BLAIR,
Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
CHARLES GOODMAN,
Southern Company Generation, Birmingham, Alabama
NATHANAEL GREENE,
Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York
JEFFREY M. PETERSON,
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Albany
RICHARD E. SCHULER,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
T.W. FRASER RUSSELL,
NAE, University of Delaware, Newark
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JEFFERSON W. TESTER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Liaisons from the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems
ROBERT W. SHAW, JR.,
Aret Corporation, Center Harbor, New Hampshire
JACK WHITE,
The Winslow Group, LLC, Vienna, Virginia
Project Staff
RICHARD CAMPBELL, program officer and study director
JAMES ZUCCHETTO, board director
CRISTELLEN BANKS, project assistant (until October 31, 1999)
BOARD ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
ROBERT L. HIRSCH (chair),
Advanced Power Technologies, Inc., Washington, D.C.
RICHARD E. BALZHISER,
NAE, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (retired), Menlo Park, California
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EVERETT H. BECKNER,
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico (until December 2, 1999)
WILLIAM L. FISHER,
NAE, University of Texas, Austin
CHRISTOPHER FLAVIN,
Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C.
WILLIAM FULKERSON,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired) and University of Tennessee, Knoxville
EDWIN E. KINTNER,
NAE, GPU Nuclear Corporation (retired), Norwich, Vermont
GERALD L. KULCINSKI,
NAE, University of Wisconsin, Madison
EDWARD S. RUBIN,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
JACK SIEGEL,
Energy Resources International, Inc., Washington, D.C.
ROBERT W. SHAW, JR.,
Aret Corporation, Center Harbor, New Hampshire
ROBERT SOCOLOW,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
K. ANNE STREET, consultant,
Alexandria, Virginia
KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR,
NAE, General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
JACK WHITE,
The Winslow Group, LLC, Fairfax, Virginia
JOHN J. WISE,
NAE, Mobil Research and Development Company (retired), Princeton, New Jersey