NATURAL GAS PRICING PROPOSALS OF PRESIDENT

CARTER'S ENERGY PROGRAM

(PART D OF S. 1469)

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 256

A BILL TO REGULATE COMMERCE TO ASSURE INCREASED

SUPPLIES OF NATURAL GAS AT REASONABLE PRICES FOR

CONSUMERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington, Chairman

GRENVILLE GARSIDE, Staff Director and Counsel
DANIEL A. DREYFUS, Deputy Staff Director for Legislation
D. MICHAEL HARVEY, Chief Counsel
W. O. CRAFT, Jr., Minority Counsel

Bartlett, Hon. Dewey F., a U.S. Senator From the State of Oklahoma____.

Dunham, Hon. Richard, Chairman, Federal Power Commission_____

Hansen, Hon. Clifford P., a U.S. Senator From the State of Wyoming.

Jackson, Hon. Henry M., a U.S. Senator From the State of Washington_

Metzenbaum, Hon. Howard M., a U.S. Senator From the State of Ohio____

O'Leary, Hon. John F., Administrator, Federal Energy Administration,

accompanied by Leslie Goldman, Assistant Administrator__.

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1977

STATEMENTS

150, 163

Berlin, Ed, New York Public Service Commissioner, Albany, N.Y.......
Briscoe, Hon. Dolph, Governor, State of Texas; accompanied by William
Fisher, head geologist, State of Texas, University of Texas; Alvin Askew,
executive assistant to the Governor; William Talley, chairman of Okla-
homa Governor's Advisory Council on Energy Strategy, Oklahoma City,
Okla

112, 128, 137

Earnest, Jack E., general manager, Natural Gas, Exploration and Produc-

ing Division, Mobil Oil Corp., on behalf of the Natural Gas Supply

Committee

Foster, David H., executive vice president, Natural Gas Supply Committee,

Washington, D.C‒‒‒‒‒

Gramm, Dr. W. Philip, professor of economics, Texas A. & M. University,
College Station, Tex---.

Hansen, Hon. Clifford P., a U.S. Senator From the State of Wyoming....

Hefner, Raymond H., Jr., chairman, Natural Gas Committee, Independent

Petroleum Association of America_-_-_

355

198

182, 194

111

423, 429

Hefner, Robert A., III, national chairman, Independent Gas Producers

Committee, Oklahoma City, Okla---

Johnston, Hon. J. Bennett, a U.S. Senator From the State of Louisiana____

Jones, A. V., Jr., president, Independent Petroleum Association of America,

and partner, Jones Ltd., Albany, Tex..

230, 234

Nostrand, Maurice, Van, chairman, Iowa State Commerce Commission, Des

Moines, Iowa__.

Talley, William W., chairman, Governor's Advisory Council on Energy

Strategy, State of Oklahoma, and senior partner, Resource Analysis and

Management Group, Oklahoma City, Okla---

111

200

152

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