Disposition of Pipe Lines (Big Inch and Little Big Inch Pipe Lines).: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session on H.J. Res. 2, a Joint Resolution Prohibiting War Assets Administration from Disposing of Certain Pipe Lines and Facilities Used for Transporting Oil Until 6 Months After Final Report and Recommendations of the Federal Power Commission in Its Docket G-580 Have Been Submitted to the CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 112 páginas Considers legislation to prohibit War Assets Administration from disposing of certain oil pipelines until further FPC recommendations concerning their future use have been submitted to Congress. |
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30 days anthracite coal April 30 Assets Administration BECKWORTH believe bidders bids Big and Little Big Inch lines bituminous coal BULWINKLE CARSON CHAIRMAN coal coke committee Congress Congressman conservation consider consideration convenience and necessity cost CROSSER dealers delay displace disposal disposition Docket dollars DOLLIVER economic effect ELLSWORTH facilities fact Federal Power Commission FENTON filed FRANCIS gas reserves gentlemen going Government HARLESS HARRIS hearings HESELTON HINSHAW Inch and Little Inch pipe lines interest Interstate Commerce Commission January 23 lease Little Big Inch Little Inch pipe LITTLEJOHN matter mittee Natural Gas Act natural-gas investigation objectives opinion Pennsylvania percent petroleum present PRIEST problem production proposed question railroad recommendations SADOWSKI SCHREIBER SMITH statement supply Surplus Property Act Symington report testimony Texas tion tons transportation of gas transportation of natural transportation of oil WALTER War Assets Administration WEISS York
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Página 4 - ... developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Página 4 - The promotion of adequate, economical, and efficient service by air carriers at reasonable charges, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
Página 8 - The Natural Gas Act as presently drafted does not enable the Commission to treat fully the serious implications of such a problem. The question should be raised as to whether the proposed use of natural gas would not result in displacing a less valuable fuel and create hardships in the industry already supplying the market, while at the same time rapidly depleting the country's natural-gas reserves. Although, for a period of perhaps 20 years, the natural gas could be so priced as to appear to offer...
Página 8 - Careful study of the entire problem may lead to the conclusion that use of natural gas should be restricted by functions rather than by areas. Thus, it is especially adapted to space and water heating in urban homes and other buildings and to the various industrial heat processes which require concentration of heat, flexibility of control, and uniformity of results.
Página 11 - ... to facilitate the transition of enterprises from wartime to peacetime production and of individuals from wartime to peacetime employment; (d) to discourage monopolistic practices and to strengthen and preserve the competitive position of small business concerns in an economy of free enterprise; (e) to foster and...
Página 9 - It may find necessary or proper in order to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate any provision of this...
Página 11 - The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection on the part of the committee, we will receive those statements.
Página 67 - In its twentieth annual report filed in 1940, the Commission said : The enactment of the Natural Gas Act of 1938 extended the Commission's jurisdiction to include another important energy resource — natural gas. The Natural Gas Act and the work which the Commission is doing under it should be considered as a first step in dealing with the conservation of one of the country's exhaustible resources.
Página 9 - Commission to assemble pertinent information relative to the matters covered in any such proposed compact, to make public and to report to the Congress information so obtained, together with such recommendations for further legislation as may appear to be appropriate or necessary to carry out the purposes of such proposed compact and to aid in the conservation of natural-gas resources within the United States and in the orderly, equitable, and economic production, transportation, and distribution...
Página 104 - ... (s) to dispose of surplus Government-owned transportation facilities and equipment in such manner as to promote an adequate and economical national transportation system; and (t) except as otherwise provided, to obtain for the Government, as nearly as possible, the fair value of surplus property upon its disposition. DEFINITIONS SEC. 3. As used in this Act — (a) The term "Government agency...