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 * Gulick, Frances Anderson. “Energy-Related Legislation Highlights of the 93rd Congress and a Comparison of Three Energy Plans before the 94th Congress.” __Public Administration__ __Review__ 35, no. 4 (July-August 1975): 346-354.**

Gulick catalogs the 93rd Congress’ energy policy actions and actions pending during this article, written in 1975. The 93rd Congress presided during the country’s first major energy crisis in 1973. Gulick reports that as a response to the crisis, this Congress “involved itself in energy-related legislation on an unprecedented scale” (346). This Congress enacted legislation concerning: 1) encouraging conservation of supply and use of energy; 2) managing and expanding energy supplies (e.g., Trans-Alaska pipeline); 3) developing commercial application of solar and geothermal energy technology; 4) implementing several organizational changes to reduce the fragmented pattern of energy policy formation and program implementation (p. 346). Also, Gulick highlights that several issues are pending for the following Congress when it convenes, including: 1) end use rationing and mandatory conservation; 2) revisions in oil and gas depletion allowances and other long-standing petroleum production incentives; 3) deregulation of natural gas; 4) petroleum pricing problems; 5) petroleum import policy. This article illustrates the activism of the Federal government in addressing energy options and energy delivery during the mid-1970s Also, the article shows how reactive the public sector can be in formulating and implementing policy after a policy or issue crisis versus pro-actively avoiding the crisis. **(Hilary Straus)

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