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                          MEDIA ADVISORY

                             FROM THE

                   CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION


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For Immediate Release              For more information contact:
July 5, 1995                       Claudia Chandler - 916-654-4989


           FIVE CALIFORNIA COMPANIES, HONORED FOR EFFORTS 
           TO COMBAT POLLUTION, TO RECEIVE FEDERAL GRANTS


Who:      Resources Agency Secretary Doug Wheeler, California 
          Energy Commission Vice Chair Sally Rakow, local 
          legislators, representatives from the U.S. Department 
          of Energy, California governmental agencies and five 
          California companies (from Lake Elsinore, Modesto, 
          Berkeley, Samoa [Eureka], and San Jose)

Where:    GovernorÕs Conference Room
          State Capitol

When:     Monday, July 10, 1995, 12 noon 

What:     Announcement of federal NICE-3 (pronounced ÒNice-cubedÓ)
          grants totalling $1.7 million to five California 
          companies


Five California companies with new technologies to save energy, 
cut pollution and encourage recycling will receive federal grants 
totalling $1.7 million at a news conference in the GovernorÕs 
Conference Room at the State Capitol on Monday, July 10. 

At the news conference, the U.S. Department of Energy will 
announce this year's winners in its NICE-3 program Ñ pronounced 
"Nice cubed," an acronym for ÒNational Industrial Competitiveness
through Energy, Environment and Economics." NICE-3 funds 
proposals sponsored by state agencies that are partnered with 
private industry.  The goal is to encourage technology that 
prevents industrial pollution and produces benefits to the 
Nation's economy, environment and energy use. 

Representatives of the five companies receiving grants will join 
legislators from their areas and officials from the state 
agencies making up the California Interagency Group at the 
awards ceremony to be held at noon in the Governor's Conference 
Room at the State Capitol. Plaques will be given by the U.S. 
Department of Energy to the participating state departments.

California industries selected for the grants include a Lake 
Elsinore brick manufacturing company; a Modesto olive processing 
plant; a plastics company in Berkeley; a pulp and paper company 
in Samoa, near Eureka; and a San Jose company that will eliminate 
the need for hazardous, toxic cleaning agents used in the 
manufacture of semiconductors by using gaseous sulfur trioxide 
instead.


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