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             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                    WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548

                                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                          Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                          Tuesday, July 28, 1981

                         STATEMENT OF

                         F. KEVIN BOLAND

                    SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
                                                      115922
                  ENERGY AND MINERALS DIVISION

                          BEFORE THE

         SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS

             HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss

our continuing review of the Department of Energy's (DOE) effort

to enforce the crude oil pricing regulations established under

the authority of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.

Although crude oil and refined products were deregulated by

the President on January 28, 1981, the Department of Energy is

still responsible for ensuring that during the period the

regulations were in effect the oil industry complied with

those regulations.

     As you know, over the past several years, GAO has done a

considerable amount of work involving DOE's compliance and

enforcement activities. When we appeared before this sub-

committee on April 2, 1981, we discussed the impact of proposed

budget cuts on DOE's compliance activities and the need for

DOE to develop a plan for the orderly resolution of the


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