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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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