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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981 i 1 1 |
Gas pipeline bid
passes first test
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A House
energy subcommittee Tuesday
narrowly approved President
Reagan’s request that specific laws
be waived to encourage private
financing of the 4,800-mile Alas
kan natural gas pipeline.
By a 12 to 9 vote, the panel
recommended the House Energy
and Commerce Committee
approve the legislation.
The pipeline, whose cost has
been estimated from $40 billion to
as much as $57 billion, would car
ry natural gas from Alaska’s
Prudhoe Bay through Canada to
the San Francisco and Chicago
areas for nationwide distribution.
The administration s waiver
package would allow consumers to
be billed for some costs before the
pipeline is completed, permit the
cost of an expensive gas treatment
plant to be included in the rate
base charged consumers and allow
equity participation by producers.
“What we have here is a Trojan
horse,” Rep. Edward Markey, D-
Mass., said, adding, “That is an
overused metaphor, but not in
appropriate.” He noted major in
dustry and banking officials testi
fied the pipeline might not be
built even with the waivers.
Markey predicted the project’s
sponsors later would ask Congress
for federal loan guarantees.
But Rep. Phil Gramm, D-
Texas, said the waivers should be
granted with the understanding
that if free market forces then de
cided they still could not build the
pipeline “it’s not going to be
done.”
Gramm said he would oppose
committing any federal funds to
the project. He agreed consumers
were put at some risk, but said the
advantage of the waiver package
was that it doesn’t put the taxpayer
at risk.
Rep. Albert Gore, D-Tenn.,
said he originally was strongly
opposed to the waiver package,
but now felt it was in the best in
terests of the nation.
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going, the article said.
The government of Giscard lost
the election, however, and the
plan was halted. Time said.
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