Volume 143, No. 59 covering the 1st Session of the 105th Congress (1997 - 1998) was published by the Congressional Record.
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“AUTHORIZING A CALIFORNIA URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E889 on May 8, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
AUTHORIZING A CALIFORNIA URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER
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HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK
of california
in the house of representatives
Thursday, May 8, 1997
Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, today I am reintroducing legislation to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] to establish a California Urban Environmental Research and Education Center [CUEREC].
I am honored to be joined in this effort by nine California colleagues: Mr. Dellums, Mr. Matsui, Mr. George Miller, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Torres, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Berman, and Mr. Filner.
Legislation to authorize EPA research programs was unfortunately not acted upon in the last Congress. However, CUEREC did receive a line item in the 1995 Department of VA, HUD and independent agencies appropriations bill to cover start-up costs. This line item has allowed CUEREC to begin its first year of operation and the Center was dedicated on October 21, 1994 at a tree planting ceremony on the Cal State Hayward campus.
The bill requests $4.5 million for fiscal year 1998 because CUEREC is mandated to work with all 22 California State Universities in its second year of operation and because CUEREC will need this level of support to carry out the activities set out for it in the legislation.
Currently, CUEREC is in the process of linking California's major university system--the Cal State University [CSU] campuses, the University of California [UC] campuses, as well as private universities and colleges--to deal with the employment and environmental challenges of California's military base closures and defense conversion. Among other activities CUEREC will: help remove market barriers for small environmental business enterprise development; help in military base conversion and utilization focused on increasing sustainable economic development and job creation throughout California; encourage the transfer of government developed and/or sponsored environmental technology to the private sector while working closely with such laboratories as Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and Lawrence-Berkeley; encourage the funding of viable environmental projects throughout California; assist women and minority owned small businesses in complying with local, state, and federal environmental regulations and taking advantage of opportunities in sustainable economic development; avoid duplication in environmental research and education programs by developing an on-line data base of such activities available to all California universities and colleges; help coordinate Cal State and UC environmental applied research and education programs; and advise local, state, and federal officials on the economic and environmental implications of development programs throughout California.
Prior to CUEREC, no EPA sponsored research center had been established in California, Seventeen such EPA sponsored research centers have already been established in other states. CUEREC would be the first to focus on urban environmental policy, base closures, and defense conversion environmental problems. CUEREC would also be the first to include all of the universities and colleges in a single state.
Both Senators were very supportive of the legislation last year. CUEREC is a unique program, providing many important benefits for California and a cost effective model university based program for the nation and I urge my California colleagues to support it.
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