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First Federal Attempt to Demonstrate a Synthetic Fossil Energy Technology, A Failure

EMD-77-59 Published: Aug 17, 1977. Publicly Released: Aug 17, 1977.
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Questions were raised by Congress concerning the Energy Research and Development Administration's (ERDA) administration of a contract to demonstrate a process for converting coal to clean boiler fuel, efforts to safeguard against organizational conflicts of interest in awarding and administering contracts for fossil energy demonstration plants, and reasons for rejecting a proposal for a gasification demonstration plant.

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CoalConflict of interestsContractsEnergy researchFuelsResearch and developmentSynthetic fuelsFossil fuelsBid proposalsProcurement