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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 137 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 137

  To express the sense of Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory 
    Commission should refrain from further processing restructuring 
     proceedings pursuant to Order No. 636 until 60 days after the 
submission to Congress of the General Accounting Office's study of the 
  economic impacts of the order on residential, commercial, and other 
           end-users of natural gas, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 1993

 Mr. Cooper (for himself, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Clement, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. 
 McCloskey, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Studds, Mr. Fingerhut, and 
   Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION

 
  To express the sense of Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory 
    Commission should refrain from further processing restructuring 
     proceedings pursuant to Order No. 636 until 60 days after the 
submission to Congress of the General Accounting Office's study of the 
  economic impacts of the order on residential, commercial, and other 
           end-users of natural gas, and for other purposes.

Whereas Congress has declared that a purpose of the Department of Energy is to 
        promote the continued good health of the Nation's small business firms, 
        public utility districts, municipal utilities, and private cooperatives;
Whereas residential and commercial consumers, hospitals, schools, and others 
        that have been identified by Congress as high-priority users of natural 
        gas depend on an affordable and reliable supply of natural gas;
Whereas the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on April 8, 1992, adopted new 
        regulations in Order No. 636;
Whereas Order No. 636 forces significant changes in the structure of the various 
        components of the natural gas industry that will significantly increase 
        the cost of natural gas and have other adverse effects on residential, 
        commercial, and other high-priority users;
Whereas Order No. 636 will make residential, commercial, and other high-priority 
        users pay all fixed costs of the national pipeline system, instead of 
        only their reasonable share;
Whereas residential consumers will not be benefited by the cost increases, but 
        are forced by the order to pay all transition costs created by the 
        industry restructuring;
Whereas the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has failed to conduct an 
        analysis of the economic impact of Order No. 636 on the various classes 
        of natural gas end-users, including higher fixed costs, higher wellhead 
        costs, and new transition costs; and
Whereas the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has not conducted an analysis 
        of the economic impact of Order No. 636 on the various geographic 
        regions of the country, and is moving with undue haste to implement 
        Order No. 636: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the sense of 
Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should refrain 
from further processing restructuring proceedings pursuant to Order No. 
636 until 60 days after the submission to Congress of the study of the 
General Accounting Office of the economic impacts of the order on 
residential, commercial, and other end-users of natural gas.

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