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RCED-84-51 1 (1984-04-18)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
Report To The Chairman, Subcommittee

On Oversight And Investigations
Committee On Energy And Commerce
House Of Representatives
OF THE UNITED STATES



Improvements NeededA6 The Department t

4Gf-nergy's Petroleum Pricing-And
Allocation Compliance Program


Between August 1973 and January 1981 (the date
the Preident lifted price controls on refined petroleum
products) the Department of Energy's Economic Regu-
latory Administration and predecessor federal agen-
cies established and enforced regulations controlling
the allocation and pricing of crude oil and refined
petroleum products. Through its compliance program,
ERA has audited oil companies' compliance with
these regulations and has identified alleged violations
totaling billions of dollars. GAO found that the overly
optimistic workload objectives for ERA's compliance
program resulted in understated budgets. GAO ques-
tioned whether ERA bas adequate assurance that the
major refiners' alleged violations are equitably re-
solved because ERA
  --has not maintained audit bnd compliance his-
  tories on each major oil refiner and

  --had not assured that the computer program it
    uses in settling alleged violations effectively
    meets its needs.
GAO makes recommendations to increase audit cov-
erape and to improve ERA's process for resolving
aeged violations.


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