Excerpt from Funding Department of Energy Research and Development in a Constrained Budget Environment Furthermore, you really ought to pay recoupment. You ought to really pay us back the part the government put in with a profit after a certain time period. Ultimately, we finally, in the Energy and Policy Act of 1992, we did get cost-sharing put into legislation for supposedly anything the Department of Energy does. We did not get recoupment in there. We only got the cost-sharing part in. The cost-sharing part, we got what we got in there, but we also got, probably in hindsight, too much in the waiver, and to much in the way Of waiver authority in there, to where you really could pretty well - the Congress said in one line, Recoup the cost, and in the next line said: However, you know, for any reason al most under the sun, you can waive that necessity of doing that. There again you go back to the prevailing mood Of the Department, and obviously the people who want this, which is not to pay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.