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RCED-83-146 1 (1983-04-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabeax0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY,. Aprl 25, 1983 AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTr DIVISION B-211402 RESTR CTE , D ,,dc-... eea . f;.- C . approval by the Ofice of~ The Honorable Philip R. Sharp RELEASED Chairman, Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: , Potential Administrative Impact of Implementing .elected Provisions of the Administration's Natutal Gas Decontrol Plan (S. 615) (GAO/RCED-83-146) In response to your request of March 9, 1983, we examined the potential administrative impact on the Federal Energy Regu- latory Commission (FERC), the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and the Economic Regulatory Administration (ERA) of implementing selected provisions of the Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform Amendments of 1983, S. 615 (H.R. 1760). All three agencies are part of the Department of Energy. Specifi- cally, you asked that we identify and analyze all provisions of S. 615 that would increase or decrease the regulatory activities of FERC, EIA, and ERA and, to the extent possible, estimate the impacts of these activities on staff and resources. At the time of our review, FERC, EIA, and ERA had not pre- pared plans for implementing the bill. FERC, however, was in the process of preparing such plans, and expected to complete them in early May 1983. EIA, while expecting to complete a pre- liminary analysis of the bill's impacts in late April 1983, is awaiting the completion of FERC's plans before completing its analysis. ERA does not expect to prepare implementation plans because the bill has little impact on it. This letter discusses our objectives, scope, and methodol- ogy; provides a brief background on natural gas and the respon-' sibilities of the three regulatory agencies; and summarizes the results of our work. Additional details are provided in enclo- sures I through IV. Enclosure I contains a summary of the pro- visions of S. 615 which could increase FERC's workload and iden- tifies the possible requirements that would be placed on FERC. Enclosures II and III are summaries of our review of the poten- tial impact on FERC's workload of implementing sections 603(b) (308553)

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