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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2010. Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12844.
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Appendix C
Meeting Agendas

FIRST MEETING

WASHINGTON, D.C.

JUNE 24-25, 2008


Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Closed Session


Open Session

1:30 pm

Introductions

Chip Groat, Co-Chair

Bob Richardson, Co-Chair

1:40

Presentation from the Sponsor

Joe Peterson, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

3:00

Break

 

3:15

Panel Discussion with Agencies that Fund Government Research

George Madzsar, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Joseph Dehmer, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Altaf Carim, Department of Energy (DOE)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2010. Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12844.
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Ulrich Strom, NSF

Daniel Friend, National Institute of Standards and Technology (via video)

4:15

Panel Discussion with Helium Suppliers

Phil Kornbluth, Matheson-TriGas

Jane Hoffman, Praxair

John Van Sloun, Air Products

Carlos Nulman, Linde Global Helium

5:15

 

Final Discussions

Wednesday, June 25, 2008


Closed Session


SECOND MEETING

WASHINGTON, D.C.

AUGUST 21-22, 2008


Thursday, August 21, 2008


Closed Session


Open Session

11:00 am

Welcome to Guests

Chip Groat, Co-Chair

Bob Richardson, Co-Chair

11:15

Recovery, Liquefaction, etc.

Jon Betts, Los Alamos National Laboratory

12.15 pm

Working Lunch

 

12:45

NITEC LLC

Chuck Weinstein, NITEC

2:30

Break

 

2:40

Presentation on National Security Issues

Sharon Murphy, Defense Energy Support Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2010. Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12844.
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3:40

Presentation from a Nonrefining Supplier

Gary Ciesar, Air Liquide

4:05

Presentation from a Nonrefining Supplier

Phil Kornbluth, Matheson Tri-Gas

4:30

Presentation from Cliffside Partnership

Cliffside Partnership, Corporate Partner Representatives

Friday, August 22, 2008


Closed Session


THIRD MEETING

BECKMAN CENTER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA

NOVEMBER 3-5, 2008


Monday, November 3, 2008


Closed Session


Open Session

10:15 am

Greetings

Chip Groat, Co-Chair

Bob Richardson, Co-Chair

10:20

Presentation from BLM

Leslie Theiss, BLM Field Manager

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

Closed Session

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2010. Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12844.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008


Closed Session


Wednesday, November 5, 2008


Closed Session


FOURTH MEETING

BECKMAN CENTER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA

JANUARY 28-29, 2009


Wednesday, January 28, 2009


Closed Session


Thursday, January 29, 2009


Closed Session

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2010. Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12844.
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Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics. Shortly after sources of helium were discovered at the beginning of the last century, the U.S. government recognized helium's potential importance to the nation's interests and placed its production and availability under strict governmental control. In the 1960s, helium's strategic value in cold war efforts was reflected in policies that resulted in the accumulation of a large reserve of helium owned by the federal government. The latest manifestation of public policy is expressed in the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (1996 12 Act), which directs that substantially all of the helium accumulated as a result of those earlier policies be sold off by 2015 at prices sufficient to repay the federal government for its outlays associated with the helium program.

The present volume assesses whether the interests of the United States have been well served by the 1996 Act and, in particular, whether selling off the helium reserve has had any adverse effect on U.S. scientific, technical, biomedical, and national security users of helium.

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