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WASHINGTON ( A P) President
Carter reached out to. governors and
businesspersons Thursday seeking
support for a compromise bill to phase
out federal price controls on new natural
gas by 1985.
Carter returned early from vacation to
meet this morning with 1 1 governors,
most of whom agreed with him that the
bill satisfies few people but is nevertheless
the best one Congress is likely to produce.
ine president, who had cut short his
western vacation to lobby tor the gas bill
and the rest of his embattled energy
program, then invited the governors to
stay for lunch.
"The entire world is looking to see if we
have the national whT to adopt an energy
blueprint, Carter told the governors.
Later, the president was scheduled to
speak to some 100 executives of small
and medium-sized users of natural gas.
Meanwhile, an Associated Press
survey found 18 senators supporting the
measure and another 14 leaning that way
for 32 potential votes. Thirty-five
senators said they were against or leaning
against the proposal and another 33 said
they were undecided.
Phil Spector, the White House aide in
charge of the afternoon session, said the
group included representatives of
utilities, manufacturers, retailers, farm
groups and others, all invited from lists of
interested constituents supplied by
members of the Senate.
Jimmy Carter .
The gas bill is scheduled lor Senate
debate Sept. 1 1 . A filibuster is threatened,
and the administration, while exuding
confidence about the eventual outcome,
concedes it cannot now count enough
Senate votes for passage.
Carter asked the governors to press
their senators and representatives for
enactment ol the bill. He said the natural
gas compromise isnot perfect. But the
presidtnt argued that its rejection by
Congress would devastate the dollar,
swell the huge national trade deficit and
worsen inflation.
Carter described the compromise rs
"fair, well balanced and desperately
needed."
New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne
conceded afterward that he had been a
constant critic of ending gas-price
regulation, but said now "everybody
concedes that it is either this bill or
nothing."
Mural ws act called
WASHINGTON (AP) For the
inflation-harried consumer, news of
Congress wrestling match with the
Natural Gas Act must seem as
bewildering as an expedition to catch
the Loch Ness Monster. .
The reports tell of dramatic action-last-minute
votes that save the bill, sudden
turnabouts that risk it again, the
president rushing back from vacation to
bring it home alive.
"But what, one may ask. does the darn
thing look like and what will it do it we'
catch it? And why should we care what
happens to it ?
Here, in question-and'-answer form. .
is a look at the legislative l och Ness
Monster known as the Natural Gas
Policy Act of 1978:
0: -Why do you keep calling it a
monster?
A: Because, like many legendary
monsters, it is a compromise-beast
patched together from parts of two
different animals. The griffin, for
example, was supposedly hall-eagle and
half-lion: the Natural Gas Policy Act is
half intended to remove federal price
controls over natural gas and hall
intended to continue and enlarge "them:
Q: Why does it look like that?
, A: Heredity. A 1954 Supereme Court
decision imposed federal regualtion on
prices charged by producers for natural
gas sold across state lines but not on gas
sold within a state producing it. The
president and Congress agree that this
split policy is causing problems and
should, be wiped out.
Q: The why don't they just apply one
policy or the other to all of the natural
gas? .
A: They did; but Carter and the
House picked the policy of extending
gas regulation nationwide, while the
Senate picked the other policy of
eliminating gas regulation nationwide.
A House-Senate conference committee
had to work out a compromise to
include both policies.
Q: How on earth could they
compromise between gas regulation
everywhere and gas regulation
nowhere?
A: By extending gas regulation
everywhere, but only until 1985; then,
the bill would remove gas regulation
everywhere. Unfortunately, it's not '
really that simple.
Q: 1 knew it sounded too easy. Why
do they have to complicate it?
A: Because if they simply ended all
gas-price controls in 1985, you might
quickly find yourself paying dollars per
thousand cubic feet for natural gas
whose development cost the company
only pennies 20 or 30 years before. So
the price regulations would be removed
only lor "new gas" and some special
categories.
. Q: W ell. O.K. What 1 want to know,
then is what price can they charge for
gas between now and 1985?
A: That all depends. If you mean gas
from a new offshore lease, or from a
new onshore well at least 2.5 miles from
of 1,000 feet deeper than a previous '
"marker" well, or from an onshore
reservoir which was not in commercial
production before April 20. 1977. or
from an old olishore lease but in a
reservoir discovered on or after July 27.
1976, then producers could charge S I .75
per thousand cubic feet as of April.
6iuonster9
1977, plus a monthly inflation
adjustment, plus a growth factor that
changes April 20. 1981. excluding
"behind-t he-pipe" and "withheld gas"
and gas from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay
area transported under thi Alaska
Natural Gas Transportation Act of
1976.
Q: Huh?
A: Then again, if you mean gas sold in
"rollover" contracts after previous
contracts expire, producers can claim
either a ceiling price set by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission or 54
cents for gas committed to the interstate
market the day before the act is signed,
or SI for gas which.:.
Q: Hold it, HOLD IT! How many
different kinds of natural gas are there
in that law? -
A: Who "knows? I count about 26
different categories, but, the
Commission could create additional
pricing categories to cover extra costs
and special circumstances.
Q: So never mind the categories.
What would it do to .my gas bill at
home? .
A;. It would go up. gradually, but 1
can't tell you how much. That would
depend.on how much of your gas comes
from each of the . different price
categories. '
Q: Can't you give me some idea of the
price increases we can expect?
A: The Energy Department estimates
consumers may pay some $2. 1 billion to
$3.6 billion more for natural gas under
this bill during the next seven years. The
American Gas Association says the
effect would be to increase housefold
gas bills around 8. 1 percent a year.'. ?
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Emily Harris pleaded guilty Thursday to
the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst.
But they insisted they were proud of the
terrorist action which stunned the world.
"The plea does not mean we have
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