The Public energy competition act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 8 ... July 17, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 101 pages |
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acquisition Administrator anticompetitive antitrust laws believe Big Eight oil bill CHAIRMAN coal and uranium coal industry Coal Leasing Amendments coal market coal or uranium committee concern Congress Department of Energy Department of Justice dominate DOUGHERTY economic substitutes effect Energy Competition Act energy industries energy markets existing Exxon fact Federal Coal Leasing Federal leasing Federal Trade Commission future going holdings horizontal integration integrated firm withholding inter-fuel competition interfuel diversification Interior issue Kerr-McGee kickback large petroleum producer largest leasing program legislation major oil companies market power MARLENEE MARTIN MATHIS ment Mineral Leasing Act natural gas nuclear fuel oil and coal oil and gas oil firms ownership percent price of oil problem prohibition proposal question restriction on interfuel Secretary SHENEFIELD small number statement Subcommittee substantial SYMMS synthetic crude synthetic fuels term testimony tion United States Code uranium industries uranium markets VENTO workably competitive
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Page 77 - States a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation, which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the United States.
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Page 94 - In the long term up to 200 billion tons of Federal coal reserves would be made available for leasing and production. The program, established after two years of intensive study by major elements of the Interior Department, calls for full resumption of a competitive coal leasing system for the first time since a moratorium was imposed in 1971. "This program responds to President Carter's directive that we provide a rightful place for Federal coal in the Nation ' s energy future,
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Page 72 - Solicitor of Labor may appear for and represent the Secretary in any civil litigation brought under this Act but all such litigation shall be subject to the direction and control of the Attorney General.
Page 94 - ... accompanying message of the President and have heard the witnesses who have preceded me, I will summarize the content of the reorganization plan briefly at this time, but will not go into great detail. EPA will bring together Federal pollution control programs which are now administered separately by the Department of the Interior and a number of other Federal agencies and councils. It will be able to conduct a comprehensive campaign to advance environmental quality and to combat pollution in...
Page 29 - Clayton law makes it unlawful for any concern to discriminate in price between different purchasers where the effect of such discrimination is substantially to lessen competition or create a monopoly in any line of trade ; it forbids any corporation from acquiring the whole or any part of the stock of another corporation where the effect of such acquisition may substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is...