Energy technology centers merge
	A consolidated Federal Energy Technology Center has formed from the merging of the energy technology centers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Morgantown, West Virginia. FETC is a product of the U.S. Department of Energy's Strategic Alignment Initiative, the plan to cut costs and improve the efficiency of the government's energy programs. The unified center is expected to save the government nearly $100 million in management and administrative costs through 2000. FETC will be headed by Rita A. Bajura, a federal executive with more than 16 years' experience in joint government-industry energy partnership. As the new director, Bajura will head a single management team that will serve both the Pittsburgh and Morgantown sites with a combined work force of more than 530 federal scientists, engineers, and administrative staff. FETC will be responsible for nearly 600 research projects, most involving the development of advanced coal and natural gas technologies. It will also manage a significant portion of the technology development needed to clean up sites in the government's nuclear weapons complex