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096726 1 (1974-10-29)

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                      UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                                  REGIONAL OFFICE
                         ROOM 833 FOX PLAZ4 DUILOING, 13140 MARKET STREET
                            SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94102

IN REPLY REFER TO;.
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         :r. Willian C. Arntz, leg inal Aidinistrator
         Federal knergy Adm~inistration
         11  Pine  tret                        -LM096726
     /   ;an Francisco, California 1k111

         Dear  r. Arntz:

               urin,; or current reviv  of' 'enru  iner ; A'inistration
         oprations  relatint to tne anloatin   an1- Tricin.( of fuel. we
         found tInat Lie   ..adi'SOT, Inc.  ( .izIon) and tne Conusu'r
         il  Dpterations (CJ), -tcLranto.  :'alifornia, ig;ht have vio-
         lated the provisions of t'ie Puel \llocation Pro';rw:. We esti-
         -ate that durir. the critical neriod of Jnuary  15 to :'ay 3),
         1974, 350,003  allos  of ,asoline wer  diverted Pron service
         stations wuich, it appears, were leased by C,0 solely to obtain
         allocated fuel.

              The supplier of this fuel. AJdion,  leases out and sp-plies
         a ruaber of coapany-ovred service stations and supplies other
         nonco~pany-OWnId service s-tatios, * n January 1), 13 T+tr
         of the co-mpany-ooiieu stations in the 3acra':-nto area were leased
         to CO0.   'e were told th'it .)0 never zperatei tu'se stations but,
         rather, sold tae allocatem fuel to otnxDr service station oera-
         tors in the central  Jalifor:,ix area. AJdi on records indic'ato
         that all fuel 'ieliveriea to A) were rade to locations other lan
         the leased stat ions.

              In addition, 11,      , d 7,134 'rjlons of fu,l aere .oved
         or transferrd  by ir:Jcric .cu  tah Lines and Petroleum lank
         Line, respectively  fur Ct.   ise   transfers qt;:ar to have
         been  -manioilation.3 of faol a  o, CI customers, oo::e of which
         were also Addison eustoi.nrs.  :iz data, wic±  is attacheJ, was
         obtained fro. tue talifornmi-i State -oard of i:rquaizatiou.

              We were  uiable to locate 'Q0) or its operator, Ar. K. Gary.
         We were tola, iiowever, tat 1r. Gary sus a criminal record and
         is currently wanted by law enforccient agencies.  ie were also
         told that :Ir. Gary had apparently biloed several retailers of
         various sums of oney.






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