[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9428-9429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5124]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Hearings and Appeals
Notice of Issuance of Decisions and Orders; Week of January 20
Through January 24, 1997
During the week of January 20 through January 24, 1997, the
decisions and orders summarized below were issued with respect to
appeals, applications, petitions, or other requests 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.
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, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585-0107, 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. Some decisions and
orders are available on the Office of Hearings and Appeals World Wide
Web site at http://www.oha.doe.gov.
Dated: February 21, 1997.
George B. Breznay,
Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.
Decision List No. 17
Week of January 20 through January 24, 1997
Appeals
Cascade Scientific, Inc., 1/23/97, VFA-0257
Cascade Scientific, Inc., filed an Appeal from a determination
issued to it by the Richland Operations Office (Richland). In its
Appeal, Cascade asserted that Richland improperly withheld unit price
figures from a document requested pursuant to the FOIA. The DOE
determined that Richland had correctly applied Exemption 4 to the unit
price figures and the Appeal was denied.
Refund Applications
Department of the Navy, RF272-00464
U.S. Army Engineer District, RF272-77326
Charleston Naval Shipyard, RF272-77502
Accounting & Finance Office, 1/23/97, RF272-78004
The DOE dismissed Applications for Refund filed by four elements of
the Department of Defense (DOD). The DOE noted that the Defense
Logistics Agency had already received a refund for the total DOD
consumption of domestic petroleum products during the refund period.
Ward Transport, Inc./William R. Ward, 1/23/97, RK272-04007
William R. Ward submitted an Application for a Supplemental Refund
in the crude oil refund proceeding. As the former owner of the original
Applicant, Ward Transport, Inc., Mr. Ward sought supplemental refund
monies due to the corporation despite the fact that he sold the entire
capital stock of the firm in 1989. After reviewing the purchase
agreement, the DOE determined that Mr. Ward had not retained the right
to receive a refund based on the corporation's refined product
purchases when he sold the capital stock. Accordingly, Mr. Ward's
Application for Supplemental Refund was denied.
Department of Veteran Affairs, 1/23/97, RR272-00111
The DOE denied a Motion for Reconsideration filed by a group of
States from a Decision and Order granting a refund to a Department of
Veterans Affairs (Veterans) medical center. The DOE rejected the
States' argument that Veterans' status as a Federal agency was a bar to
a crude oil refund. The DOE also rejected the States' argument that the
purchases specified in the Veterans' Applications had already formed
the basis for an earlier refund.
Land Paving Company, 1/21/97, RR272-00274
DOE denied a Motion for Reconsideration of a prior crude oil refund
decision. The DOE found that the refund should go to the debtor in
possession of the applicant company in a pending chapter 11 bankruptcy
proceeding, rather than to either the estate of the owner of the firm
or to a related firm.
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.
Clark Oil Dealer......................................... RF342-274 ..............
E.D. Fee Transfer, Inc., E.D. Fee Transfer, Inc.......... RG272-387, RR272-261 1/23/97
Gulf Stream Lumber Co.................................... RK272-01037 1/21/97
Halifax County, et al.................................... RF272-86421 1/23/97
J.J. Carter & Son of Nashville, et al.................... RK272-03252, 1/21/97
Dismissals
The following submissions were dismissed.
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Lee Britton Clark............................ RF342-93
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