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representatives of members of the IAB

and their counsel, representatives of

members of the SEQ, representatives of

the Departments of Energy, Justice, and

State, the Federal Trade Commission,

the General Accounting Office,

Committees of the Congress, the IEA,

and the European Commission, and

invitees of the IAB, the SEQ or the IEA.

Issued in Washington, DC., April 19, 1995.

Eric J. Fygi,

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 95–10165 Filed 4–24–95; 8:45 am]

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Office of Fossil Energy

[FE Docket No. 95–17–NG]

Brewton Corp; Order Granting Blanket

Authorization to Import Natural Gas

From Canada

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of order.

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy of

the Department of Energy gives notice

that it has issued an order granting The

Brewton Corporation authorization to

import up to 20 Bcf of natural gas from

Canada over a two-year term beginning

on the date of the first import delivery.

This order is available for inspection

and copying in the Office of Fuels

Programs Docket Room, 3F–056,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585,

(202) 586–9478. The docket room is

open between the hours of 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except Federal holidays.

Issued in Washington, DC, April 12, 1995.

Clifford P. Tomaszewski,

Director, Office of Natural Gas, Office of Fuels

Programs, Office of Fossil Energy.

[FR Doc. 95–10164 Filed 4–24–95; 8:45 am]

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[FE Docket No. 95–20–NG]

KCS Energy Marketing, Inc.; Order

Granting Blanket Authorization to

Import Natural Gas From Canada

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of order.

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy of

the Department of Energy gives notice

that it has issued an order granting KCS

Energy Marketing, Inc. authorization to

import up to 50 Bcf of natural gas from

Canada over a two-year term beginning

on the date of the first delivery after

April 10, 1995.

This order is available for inspection

and copying in the Office of Fuels

Programs Docket Room, 3F–056,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585,

(202) 586–9478. The docket room is

open between the hours of 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except Federal holidays.

Issued in Washington, DC, April 12, 1995.

Clifford P. Tomaszewski,

Director, Office of Natural Gas, Office of Fuels

Programs, Office of Fossil Energy.

[FR Doc. 95–10163 Filed 4–24–95; 8:45 am]

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Office of Hearings and Appeals

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and

Orders During the Week of February 27

Through March 3, 1995

During the week of February 27

through March 3, 1995, the decisions

and orders summarized below were

issued with respect to applications for

exception or other 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.

Appeals

Cowles Publishing Company, 2/28/95,

VFA–0010

Cowles Publishing Company (Cowles)

filed an Appeal from a denial by the

DOE’s Richland Operations Office

(Richland) of a request for information

submitted under the Freedom of

Information Act (FOIA). Cowles sought

three legal memoranda written in 1963

by an attorney employed by General

Electric d/b/a Hanford Atomic Products

Operation (GE/Hanford). The three

memoranda concerned GE’s potential

liability for ‘‘Voluntary and Planned’’

human radiation experiments. GE/

Hanford was the management and

operations contractor at DOE’s Hanford,

Washington facility from the 1940s until

the mid 1960s when Battelle Memorial

Institute (Battelle) assumed GE/

Hanford’s research and development

functions. The three withheld records

had been transferred to Battelle during

the transition period between the two

contractors. The memoranda were

withheld by Richland because they were

not ‘‘agency records’’ and, even if

‘‘agency records’’, were protected by the

attorney-client privilege component of

FOIA Exemption 5. On appeal, the DOE

found that the memoranda are neither

‘‘agency records’’ within the meaning of

the FOIA, nor subject to the FOIA under

a new DOE contractor records regulation

at 10 CFR 1004.3(e), 59 FR 63,884

(December 12, 1994). Although the DOE

found that it owns the documents under

the DOE/GE contract and the DOE/

Battelle contract, it concluded that the

documents are protected by the

attorney-client communications

privilege and the attorney work product

privilege. The DOE also found that

because the DOE, GE and Battelle share

a ‘‘common legal interest’’ in the

documents and because the

requirements for finding waiver were

not met, the documents have

maintained their privileged status.

Accordingly, the DOE denied Cowles’

FOIA Appeal.

Kenneth W. Warden, 3/1/95, VFA–0023

Kenneth W. Warden filed an Appeal

from a partial denial by the DOE’s Oak

Ridge Operation’s Office of a Request for

Information that he had submitted

under the Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA). Two documents had been

withheld pursuant to Exemption 6. In

considering the Appeal, the DOE found

that the public’s interest in disclosure of

the documents was slight in comparison

with the privacy interest of the

individuals mentioned in the

documents. Accordingly, the Appeal

was denied.

Request for Exception

Commonwealth Oil Refining Company,

Inc., 2/27/95, LEE–0002

Commonwealth Oil Refining

Company, Inc. filed an Application for

Exception in which the firm requested

relief based on the delay in its receipt

of exception relief pursuant to a 1978

exception application. In considering

the request, the DOE found that Corco’s

claim did not form the basis for an

independent grant of exception relief.

The DOE further found that

modification of the original grant of

relief was unwarranted on the grounds,

inter alia, that the delays in the case

were largely the result of Corco’s

litigation strategy, that the receipt of

relief in 1978 would not have permitted

the survival of Corco’s refinery and

petrochemical operations, and that

Corco was actually better off as the

result of its receipt of relief in 1989 and

1994. Accordingly, exception relief was

denied.

Refund Applications

County of Los Angeles CAO/Purchasing

and Stores Department, et al., 3/3/

95, RF272–29545, et al.

The DOE issued a Decision and Order

concerning seven Applications for

Refund filed by various departments of

the County of Los Angeles in the crude

oil special refund proceeding being

conducted by the DOE under 10 CFR

part 205, subpart V. The DOE rejected
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comments filed by a group of Utilities,

Transporters, and Manufacturers,

finding that the arguments presented

were without merit. The DOE then

determined, after adjustment for

overlapping volume claims, that the

corrected claims were meritorious and

granted a refund of $64,302.

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.

Air Molokai, Ltd. ................................................................................................................................................. RC272–283 03/03/95

Baltimore Storage Company ................................................................................................................................ RA272–68 03/03/95

City of Burnsville et al ........................................................................................................................................ RF272–97501 03/03/95

Continental Grain Company ............................................................................................................................... RC272–282 03/03/95

Continental Grain Company ............................................................................................................................... RC272–281 03/03/95

Frontier Airlines .................................................................................................................................................. RC272–280 03/03/95

G & J Freight, Inc ................................................................................................................................................. RA272–66 03/03/95

Gulf Oil Corporation/Southeastern Freight Lines Inc et al ............................................................................... RF300–21305 02/27/95

Hamilton Hybar Inc ............................................................................................................................................. RF272–92579 03/01/95

Adhesives & Chemicals, Inc ................................................................................................................................ RF272–92776

Hudson River & Conf. Ctr. .................................................................................................................................. RA272–67 03/03/95

Lambert Oil Co., Inc. ........................................................................................................................................... RR272–180 02/27/95

Moran Coal Co., Inc ............................................................................................................................................. RF272–91542 03/01/95

Red Top Coach, Inc ............................................................................................................................................. RF272–91665

Container Corp. of America ................................................................................................................................ RF272–98199

Mort Hall Ford, Inc .............................................................................................................................................. RC272–284 03/03/95

Rhea County Dept. of Education et al ................................................................................................................ RF272–86753 03/03/95

Roundy’s, Inc ....................................................................................................................................................... RF272–97218 03/03/95

Superior Water, Light and Power Company ...................................................................................................... RF272–96593 02/27/95

Texaco Inc./Doug’s Texaco ................................................................................................................................. RF321–21059 03/03/95

Texaco Inc./Valley Seeding Co., Inc. et al ......................................................................................................... RF321–12851 02/27/95

Texaco Inc./Wiesenthal’s Texaco Service et al .................................................................................................. RF321–20522 03/03/95

Town of North Hempstead et al ......................................................................................................................... RF272–96544 02/27/95

Wilkinson County et al ....................................................................................................................................... RF272–86105 03/03/95

Dismissals

The following submissions were dismissed:

Name Case No.

A.J. Cole & Sons, Inc ....................................................................................................................................................................... RF315–9584

Albuquerque Operations Office ........................................................................................................................................................ VSO–0017

Albuquerque Operations Office ........................................................................................................................................................ VSO–0004

Chicago West Pullman & Southern Railroad ................................................................................................................................... RF321–19762

Doan’s Texaco ................................................................................................................................................................................. RF321–20519

Food Services, Inc ........................................................................................................................................................................... RF272–93662

Givens Texaco ................................................................................................................................................................................. RF321–6740

Hill Aircraft & Leasing Corp .............................................................................................................................................................. RF351–00030

Kevork Texaco ................................................................................................................................................................................. RF321–9622

Stofa’s Texaco .................................................................................................................................................................................. RF321–7238

W. & J. Propane Gas, Inc ................................................................................................................................................................ RF304–14999

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,

Monday through Friday, between the

hours of 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., except

federal holidays. They are also available

in Energy Management: Federal Energy

Guidelines, a commercially published

loose leaf reporter system.

George B. Breznay,

Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.

[FR Doc. 95–10158 Filed 4–24–95; 8:45 am]

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Notice of Issuance of Proposed

Decision and Order During the Week of

April 3 Through April 7, 1995

During the week of April 3 through

April 7, 1995, the proposed decision

and order summarized below was

issued by the Office of Hearings and

Appeals of the Department of Energy

with regard to an application for

exception.

Under the procedural regulations that

apply to exception proceedings (10 CFR

part 205, subpart D), any person who

will be aggrieved by the issuance of a

proposed decision and order in final

form may file a written notice of

objection within ten days of service. For

purposes of the procedural regulations,

the date of service of notice is deemed

to be the date of publication of this

Notice or the date an aggrieved person

receives actual notice, whichever occurs

first.

The procedural regulations provide

that an aggrieved party who fails to file

a Notice of Objection within the time

period specified in the regulations will

be deemed to consent to the issuance of

the proposed decision and order in final

form. An aggrieved party who wishes to

contest a determination made in a

proposed decision and order must also

file a detailed statement of objections

within 30 days of the date of service of

the proposed decision and order. In the

statement of objections, the aggrieved

party must specify each issue of fact or

law that it intends to contest in any

further proceeding involving the

exception matter.

Copies of the full text of this proposed

decision and order are available in the

Public Reference Room of the Office of