Alaskan crude oil. Part III. Oversight hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, on distribution and marketing of the Alaskan crude oil. Hearings held in Washington, D. C. , August 3, 5, and 6, 1976; Billings, Montana, September 8, 1976

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Highlights of the opening statement of Representative John Melcher, presiding, at the August 3, 1976 hearing are presented first. This hearing and followup hearings on August 5 and 6, 1976 and September 8, 1976, were held in order to determine what to do with Alaskan Crude when it is available to the Lower 48 states, carrying out the purposes of the trans-Alaskan Pipeline Act. The Act carries with it features requiring equitable distribution of the crude to the Lower 48. It is a fact that there is going to be testimony that a surplus will exist on the West Coast, but the Pipeline Act includes provisions that prohibit exportation of the oil. Selling the oil to another country or transshipping it to another country in some sort of a deal are impossible. The Jones Act does apply: the oil will be loaded at Valdez and unloaded at an American port, the Act says. Melcher says the trans-Alaskan pipeline bill and the Export Administration Act of 1969 seem to work in the best interests of this country, that crude oil comes to the Lower 48 to be used here, and it comes here directly. It also provides the benefits of crude oil produced from the North Slope shall be equitably shared directly or indirectly by all regions of the country. The Northern-Tier states depend currently on crude oil produced in Canada, and Canada has given to us their schedule of phasing out any crude oil from their country, so that by 1982 there will be zero barrels of oil coming from Canada to the United States. Twenty-four statements were presented by witnesses from oil and pipeline companies, state and Federal agencies, environmental associations, and labor unions. (MCW)

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