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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Hearings and Appeals

 

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and Orders During the Week of 
August 8 Through August 12, 1994

    During the week of August 8 through August 12, 1994, the decisions 
and orders summarized below were issued with respect to applications 
for relief filed with the Office of Hearings and Appeals of the 
Department of Energy. The following summary also contains a list of 
submissions that were dismissed by the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Refund Applications

Reynolds Metals Company, 8/11/94, RR272-98

    The Department of Energy considered a request for reconsideration 
of a previous denial of an Application for Refund filed by Reynolds 
Metals Company in the crude oil overcharge refund proceeding. The claim 
was based on Reynolds' purchases of petroleum coke and petroleum pitch. 
The DOE found that Reynolds was eligible for a refund based on 
purchases of these products because the firm demonstrated that they 
were purchased from a crude oil refinery. The DOE did not adopt 
Reynolds' methods for converting the tons of petroleum coke it 
purchased into gallons. Since the firm did not show that its conversion 
factor of 6.62854 pounds per gallon was more accurate than the 
previously-accepted figure of 4.99 barrels per ton, the DOE adopted 
that latter figure in order to convert the tonnage into gallons. 
Reynolds received a refund of $1,027,047 based on its receipt of 
6,125,626 tons (1,283,808,708 gallons) of coke. It also received a 
refund of $13,644 for its purchases of petroleum pitch.

Texaco Inc./By-Pass Texaco, et al., 8/11/94 RF321-19212, et al.

    Applications for Refund were filed in the Texaco Inc. special 
refund proceeding on behalf of four former Texaco retailers who could 
not locate sufficient records to prepare schedules of their monthly 
purchases of Texaco gasoline. The claims were based on purchase volume 
estimates obtained using information provided by the applicants in 
conjunction with data from Platt's Oil Price Handbook and Almanac 
(Platt's). In considering these claims, the DOE found that the 
estimates were inflated in three cases, and understated in one case. 
The DOE substituted a different estimation method, also using data from 
Platt's and the information provided by the applicants. On the basis of 
the alternative methodology, the DOE issued a Decision and Order 
granting the Applications.

Texaco Inc./State of Missouri, 8/11/94 RR321-163

    The DOE issued a Decision and Order denying a Motion for 
Reconsideration filed on behalf of the State of Missouri in the Texaco 
Inc. special refund proceeding. The DOE found that Missouri had not 
shown any reason why the DOE should revise its determination and accept 
the state's method of estimating its purchases of Texaco motor 
gasoline. The DOE also determined that the fact that this type of 
estimation technique may have been accepted in the ARCO and Gulf II 
proceeding did not mean that it should be accepted in Texaco.

Refund Applications

    The Office of Hearings and Appeals issued the following Decisions 
and Orders concerning refund applications, which are not summarized. 
Copies of the full texts of the Decisions and Orders are available in 
the Public Reference Room of the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Atlantic Richfield Company/Boulevard Car Wash, Inc. et al.................  RF304-13750                 08/12/94
Atlantic Richfield Company/Colfax Arco Mini Mart et al....................  RF304-14064                 08/09/94
Gulf Oil Corporation/Arrow Lakes Dairy....................................  RF300-15606                 08/11/94
Gulf Oil Corporation/Chappell's Gulf #2...................................  RF300-14319                 08/11/94
Chappellis Gulf #3........................................................  RF300-14320                         
Gulf Oil Corporation/City Gulf Service....................................  RR300-218                   08/11/94
Gulf Oil Corporation/R & R Gulf Service et al.............................  RF300-18818                 08/08/94
Hale Center I.S.D. et al..................................................  RF272-82089                 08/12/94
Nance and Collums, Inc. et al.............................................  RF272-78465                 08/11/94
Solomon & Teslovich et al.................................................  RF272-67783                 08/08/94
Terminal Taxi Company.....................................................  RF272-55462                 08/09/94
Terminal Taxi Company.....................................................  RD272-55462                         
Texaco Inc./Cal's Texaco Service et al....................................  RF321-20400                 08/11/94
Texaco Inc./Gaines Texaco et al...........................................  RF321-270                   08/12/94
Texaco Inc./Greenway Grocery et al........................................  RF321-10402                 08/12/94
Texaco Inc./National Fuel Oil, Inc. et al.................................  RF321-12971                 08/09/94
Whitaker Oil Co./American Synthetic Rubber Corp. et al....................  RF351-17                    08/12/94
                                                                                                                

Dismissals

    The following submissions were dismissed:

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                       Name                               Case No.      
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Cloverleaf Texaco.................................  RF321-19214         
Hy-C-Tane Corporation.............................  LEE-0136            
Reggie's Texaco Service...........................  RF321-11196         
Sam's Arco........................................  RF304-15232         
Seely's Service Station, Inc......................  RF300-21397         
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    Copies of the full text of these decisions and orders are available 
in the Public Reference Room of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, 
Room 1E-234, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20585, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 
1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., except federal holidays. They are also 
available in Energy Management: Federal Energy Guidelines, a 
commercially published loose leaf reporter system.

    Dated: November 14, 1994.
George B. Breznay,
Director Office of Hearings and Appeals.
[FR Doc. 94-28569 Filed 11-17-94; 8:45 am]
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