COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman

MICHAEL R. LEMOV, Chief Counsel
JAMES NELLIGAN, Operations Director

FRANCES WHITE, Deputy Chief Counsel
LOWELL DODGE, Special Counsel
MARK ROSENBERG, Counsel

RONALD CORMIER, Auditor (on detail from the General Accounting Office)

J. THOMAS GREENE, Counsel to the Chairman

BERNARD J. WUNDER, JR., Minority Counsel

Testimony of

Blum, Barbara, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency-

Campbell, Hon. Alan K., Chairman, U.S. Civil Service Commission
Cohen, David, president, Common Cause-

Cormier, Ronald J. (on temporary assignment from the General
Accounting Office), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce..

Frick, G. William, General Counsel, Environmental Protection
Agency

Goldsmith, Fred J., Chief, Internal Review and Security Division,
Federal Communications Commission___

Goodman, Carl F., General Counsel, U.S. Civil Service Commission....
Hartenberger, Warner K., General Counsel, Federal Communications
Commission..

James, Michael A., Deputy General Counsel, Environmental Pro-
tection Agency.

Kennedy, Donald, M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare
Lichtwardt, Richard D., Executive Director, Federal Communications
Commission_.
Merrill, Richard A., Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Division, Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare..

Meyer, Gerald F., Associate Commissioner for Administration, Food
and Drug Administration, Public Health Service, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare__

Reich, David, Ethics Counsel, U.S. Civil Service Commission...
Schroeher, Kathy, member, Issue Development Staff, Common Cause-
Wiley, Hon. Richard E., Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission___

Additional information submitted for the record by―

Common Cause, attachment to Mr. Cohen's prepared statement, excerpt from Senate statement__

Health, Education, and Welfare Department:

Excerpts from transcript of proceedings, HEW, FDA, OTC
Internal Analgesic Panel, Rockville, Md., Tuesday, Nov. 23,
1976__

Material relating to FDA survey of the Executive Secretaries of its advisory committees concerning action taken by FDA other than advisory committee recommendation__. Review panel on new drug regulation---. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce:

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Attachment to Mr. Cormier's prepared statement, Conflicts of
interest-statistical summary of staff study.

Correspondence between subcommittee and the Environmental
Protection Agency subsequent to the hearings regarding EPA's
testimony...

(III)

Additional information-Continued

Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce-Continued

Correspondence between subcommittee and the Federal Com-
munications Commission subsequent to the hearings regarding Page
FCC's testimony.

Correspondence between subcommittee and the Food and Drug
Administration subsequent to the hearings regarding FDA's
testimony..

Correspondence between subcommittee and the U.S. Civil Service
Commission subsequent to the hearings regarding the CSC's
testimony

List of General Accounting Office reports issued on agencies'
financial disclosure systems..

Memorandum dated December 14, 1964, from Chairman Macy to
Messrs. W. B. Irons, W. V. Gill, and O. G. Stahl re new Execu-
tive Order on Standards of Ethical Conduct__
Memorandum dated June 6, 1975, from G. William Frick, EPA
Agency Counselor, to Deputy Counselors re statements of
employment and financial interest.

Memorandum dated June 1, 1976, from Eric O. Stork, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Mobile Source Air Pollution Con-
trol, EPA to all MSAPC staff members re avoidance of conflict
of interest-

Memorandum dated March 22, 1977, from Associate Com-
missioner for Administration, Food and Drug Administration,
HEW to Acting Commissioner; Associate and Assistant Com-
missioners; Bureau/Office Directors; EDRO; General Counsel:
NCTR; Regional and District Directors re summary booklet,
Conflict of Interest, March 21, 1976 (with sample pages
attached).

U.S. Civil Service Commission:

Letter dated April 20, 1976, from Carl F. Goodman, General
Counsel, CSC, to Barbara Green Kilberg, Assistant Counsel,
Executive Office of the President re suggestions for amending
Executive Order 11222_

Letter dated August 16, 1976, from Carl F. Goodman, General
Counsel, CSC to Bert Goodwin, Chief Counsel, Federal
Aviation Administration re financial disclosure system of FAA..
Letter dated January 14, 1977, from David Reich, Ethics Counsel,
CSC, to Daniel J. Goldberg, Esq., Acting General Counsel,
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, re the Board's practice of
allowing personnel traveling on official business to accept
lodging from nonprofit trade organizations... –
List of agencies reviwed by CSC in April 1975.
List of agencies with de minimis regulation still in effect.

Appendix-Staff Study on Conflict of Interest in Regulatory Agencies,
May 20, 1977__

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