Improvements needed in the enforcement of crude oil reseller price controls

Technical Report · Tue May 29 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6039397· OSTI ID:6039397

Staats, E. B.

The Department of Energy needs to strengthen its enforcement procedures and practices covering crude oil resellers' compliance with crude oil price controls. The Department should: develop written procedures for handling criminal cases which will assure (1) timely and meaningful involvement by the Justice Department in key decisions affecting the scope and approach taken in special investigations and (2) the referral to Justice of suspected criminal violations; give adequate priority to pricing audits and commit enough audit staff to ensure the quality of individual audits and the adequacy of overall audit coverage; and develop a specific plan for promptly resolving all regulatory issues with particular attention to ensuring the resolution of those issues impeding enforcement audits and investigative efforts. The Attorney General should review opportunities to expand informal coordination channels to include regional level discussions of cases before formal referral of the case to him.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6039397
• Report Number(s): EMD-79-57
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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