OIL PIPELINE OWNERSHIP BY OIL COMPANIES

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

ANTITRUST AND MONOPOLY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

OIL PIPELINE OWNERSHIP BY OIL COMPANIES

44-579 O

JUNE 28, 1978

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1979

CONTENTS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1978

STATEMENT

Opening statement of Senator Kennedy....

PREPARED STATEMENTS

Shenefield, John H., Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,

Department of Justice...

Alm, Alvin L., Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation, Deparrment

of Energy.

Dougherty, Alfred F., Jr., Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade

Commission..

Wofford, John G., Dpeuty General Counsel, Department of Transporta-

tion_...

APPENDIX

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Report of the Attorney General on Deepwater Port Act of 1974, Novem-

ber 5, 1976..

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System: Joint prehearing brief of Department of

Justice, State of Alaska, and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, before

the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission__

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System: Joint prehearing brief of Department of

Justice, State of Alaska, and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, issues

and procedures, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System: Joint memorandum of the State of Alaska,

and Department of Justice, issues and procedures, before the Interstate

Commerce Commission...

Farmers Union Central Exchange, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Com-

mission, and Williams Pipe Line Co. & Explorer Pipeline Co., U.S. Court

of Appeals for the District of Columbia, June 27, 1978-

Petition for the initiation of rulemaking proceeding prohibiting ownership

of petroleum pipelines by petroleum companies, by Senator Edward M.

Kennedy, before the Federal Trade Commission..

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164

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348

382

"Authority of the Department of Energy To Regulate Anticompetitive

Aspects of Petroleum Pipeline Operations," by William K. Jones,

Columbia University School of Law, for the Department of Energy,

June 30, 1978__.

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"Pipelines and Antitrust," by Michael E. Canes and Donald A. Norman,

American Petroleum Institute, November 1978.

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