This conference was hosted by Southwest Research Institute with the support of the United States Department of Energy. Persons in attendance were key members of the technical community who are actively involved in the development and utilization of nonpetroleum domestic resources for transportation fuels. Generally, attendees represented the federal, military, industrial, and academic sectors of the domestic effort to develop synthetic fuels. The basic conference objective was to gather and organize facts and opinions which would enable the Department of Energy's Transportation Energy Conservation Division to (a) identify adjustments that may be needed in their Alternative Fuels Utilization Program strategies, and (b) define specific R and D project work on finished formulations of synthetic fuels which may have economic or environmental impact upon the domestic transportation scene. Twenty-two individual abstracts were prepared, all of which will appear in both Energy Research Abstracts (ERA) and Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis (EAPA).