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RCED-95-252R 1 (1995-08-28)

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(3           United States
   GAO)      General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Resources, Community, and
             Economic Development Division

             B-262197


             August 28, 1995


             The Honorable Don Young
             Chairman, Committee on Resources
             House of Representatives

             The Honorable Ken Calvert
             Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and
               Mineral Resources
             Committee on Resources
             House of Representatives

             Several bills, including H.R. 873, have been introduced in
             the 104th Congress to terminate the Department of the
             Interior's Bureau of Mines' (Bureau) responsibility for the
             production and sale of refined helium.' These bills would
             continue the Bureau's responsibility for the storage and
             sale of crude helium for a period of years. In February
             1995, you asked us to provide you with information on what
             might happen if H.R. 873 were passed. Subsequently, we
             agreed with your staff to gather descriptive information on
             the following questions.

             1. What plan does the Bureau have to implement such
             legislation?

             2. What plan does the Bureau have to address environmental
             requirements?

             3. How does the Bureau plan to dispose of property
             associated with helium refining?

             4. What might happen to the Bureau's helium program
             employees?



             'Helium is an element that occurs naturally in gaseous form
             and is commercially recovered from certain natural gas
             fields. Helium is separated from natural gas and stored in
             a concentrated form known as crude helium until it goes
             through the final refining process.

                                  GAO/RCED-95-252R Terminating Federal Helium Refining

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