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k THE BATTALION Page 11 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1979 'ni tp test ethods ' 1Ce United Press International 'quest* WASHINGTON — Energy Sec- retary James Schlesin^er is making n il an all but-scrubbed plan by Standard uouplejOilfco. of Ohio to pipe Alaskan oil to lii'n ' thefvlidwest via Texas a major test of his Bepartment’s ability to get things 1 to bJ doree Idiissji* Sclilesinger, who has drawn some ivolvediheavy congressional criticism re ive to| cently, laid down the gauntlet Tues- lunchei day by announcing efforts to revive lestadfl Sohio’s plan for a major terminal in ihisnaj Long Beach, Calif., and a 1,000 mile •emails pipeline from Long Beach to Mid- Idussii Lrid Texas. lasktle I Sphio had announced last week it was abandoning the $1 billion itivitiej project, L rs t proposed in 1975, be- pus. cause of “endless” governmental h timejPerjnit procedures and pending and threatened litigation against it. nameJ Bait at a 2 1 /2-hour meeting in Schjesinger’s office with California 5 : state officials, several congressmen and!executives of Sohio, it was de cided that attempts would be made to Eliminate all of the pipeline’s regulatory and legal barriers within the next six months. fg^Hhis project has been in the na- luttle iJtionpl interest,” Sclilesinger said. “It represents somewhat of a test to see aw0|1 if o.ijii procedures can work. roba^JHf we are unable to make existing ien proci dures work, we face an institu- ,, tional impasse in this country, he id seal: sa 'd’ Soldo had proposed a major ter- n0VV( minjal in Long Beach to handle Alas- g 0 f, kanlcrude, which would then be transported through 1,000 miles of pipeline to Midland, Texas. From Midland, it would move through 1|0| existing pipelines that already carry /UlTexa crude to Sohio’s refineries in Ohio. Schlesinger emphasized that . even if all barriers are overcome, | T/'"Soldo has not promised to go ahead I I y with the project. ^H>hio has obtained most of the uittee«jP ern| iLs it needs, but is apparently liter: concerned about pending litagation opposing the project in California shape stat f courts. : [ ! About 850 miles of the proposed pipeline already exists; it was built to idea o[J trans l )ort natural gas from Texas to etingnl&M "da, but now is little used for lose, ai] that purpose. The Alaska pipeline currently ir moves 1.2 million barrels of oil daily itionalCp 0 California, but California re- fmqries cannot handle it all. The a j] (I,, pipeline could handle 2 million bar- , rfclsjdaily, but oil firms are reluctant i , , to increase production because of , the expense of transporting the oil ^Hugh the Panama Canal to re- i, finejries in the East. leasureiB^hio, which already has sunk $50 , million into the pipeline project, es timated it would save 75 cents to $ 1 a barael by transporting the oil through the proposed pipeline. Schlesinger noted the project has been tied up for five years, and each year it becomes less profitable to Sohio because the amount of its ^ North Slope oil will decline by 1983, A *‘j|ithe earliest possible year the ( pipeline could be in operation. ‘ i In answer to a question, however, 1 Schlesinger said the chances of the ' j federal government building the ^ pipeline are “miniscule.” n ? re ^^But California Air Resources 1 Board chief Tom Quinn, who asked ' ! fori the meeting with Schlesinger, said it was his opinion that it was “more likely to be built through fed eral action. The company doesn’t want to continue it.” ■)uinn contended Sohio actually has all the major permits it needs — oenp or the promise of them — to begin save 1 the project immediately, “but they obviously didn’t want to go forward, re topflf o aboq sal, Jo! 1 ! s, reiji to bi creasin! ongresi lend gi) < iisvror ^ lo n '•J'iz.z.ji **I ,ov<ii**s ^Prayer ’FIm* Ansi i^pizza^I. LIVE MUSIC — Fri., Sat., Sun. playing your songs by request. Police pick up another car Campus Police are continuing the policy of towing away cars parked illegally and have received space in Lot 7 behind the Reed McDonald Building. The unlucky owner will have to pay A-I Wrecker $20 to get the car back. Police picked the lock to open the car door and secure the steering wheel. Battalion photo by Robin Linn Bill to reduce penalty for usurious lenders United Press International AUSTIN —The House Wednesday tentatively approved a bill that would reduce the amount borrowers can recover when lenders charge excessive interest rates. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bob McFarland, R-Arlington, permits borrowers to recover three times the amount of usurious interest (interest in excess of the state’s legal limit) stated in the contract. McFarland amended his bill to provide that the amount paid by the lending institution could not be less than $2,000. Current law allows borrowers to collect twice the amount of total interest, not just the usurious amount, contracted for in the loan if the interest is higher than the legal limit. Opponents of the bill, led by Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, tried unsuccesfully to amend the bill which they said favors savings and loans associations and other financial institutions at the expense of borrowers. The bill would apply to any errors in current loans, so that borrowers who are now paying excessive interest could not recover as much penalty payments as they can under the current lending laws. 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