University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 30, 1978
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FERC adopts gas law
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission adopted new natural gas pricing rules yesterday, meeting a congressional deadline and clearing the way for a large price increase next month.
Consumers could begin to feel the effect of the price changes early next year.
The new rules were required to put into action the natural gas law passed by Congress in its closing hours as part of President Carter's energy legislation. The new rules will take effect Friday. It was the first complete overhaul of the gas law since 1830. The new law stipulates bitter opposition by consumer groups and some lawmakers, spelled the end of federal control over new gas prices.
UNDER THE law's provisions;
- About 85 percent of the nation's gas supply will qualify immediately for a price hike to cover the effect of inflation since April 1977, the date on which maximum prices in the natural gas industry were set. The initial inflation adjustment could raise prices about 13 percent.
- Newly discovered gas can command a premium price if it meets a series of technical requirements. State regulatory agencies and the U.S. Geological Society will decide whether gas from a specific well qualifies as "new."
- Federal regulations will extend for the first time to gas sold within the state where it is produced. But controls over the price of gas will remain largely unchanged.
The FERC, rushing to meet the Dec. 1 deadline imposed by
Congress over FERC's objections, abandoned normal procedures and adopted the new rules after only two days of hearing. But it labeled them "interim" and said final rules would not be adopted until after a public comment period expired Jan. 31, 1979.
GAS INDUSTRY sources said that except for inflationary increases, they planned to delay most action under the new regulations until final rules were issued because they expected some technical details of the interim rules to be changed.
FERC Chairman Charles Curtis said he thought his agency, contrary to some predictions, would be able to oversee the new regulations despite the complexity of the new law. He also said he was optimistic about the ability of state regulators to meet their responsibilities although only three—Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas—had filed plans for doing so as of early yesterday.
THE INITIAL, price increases based on inflation -13 percent for most categories of gas, although some categories are as little as 6 percent and as much as 19 percent—will be followed by regular smaller increases based on prevailing inflation rates.
Such wellhead price increases can be passed on to consumers, although there is no requirement that the full maximum price be charged. Energy experts said it was impossible to predict immediately the consumer impact.
The commission said it would publicize the on new rules in Jackson, Miss., Dec. 6; Houston, Dec. 7; New Orleans, Dec. 8; Dallas, Dec. 9; Columbus, Otto, Dec. 11; Wichita, Dec. 12; Odhoma City, Dec. 13; Denver, Dec. 14; and Los Angeles, Dec. 15.
JACKSON, Wyo. (UP1)—An elk hunter who carried one of his young sons through deep snow and rugged forestland to their campsite in the northwest Wyoming state has been camped by helicopter yesterday to find the bear and his 12-year-old steppe barely alive.
The fire he had told them to keep going in his return was out Teton County Sheriff's office.
"From what I understand the youngest boy was fatigued as Anastas carried him quite a ways until he couldn't carry him anymore," Rogers said. "Rogers said."
Boy dies in wilderness
NICK ANASTOS, 31, of Hanna, Wyo. emerged from the Teton Wilderness Area of Grand Teton National Park Tuesday after a car crash last Sunday during a hunting expedition.
"Then he made a compete and told them to stay there until he returned. He says he left a good stack of firewood, but I guess they ran out of wood or matches."
AUTHORITIES Said GLIEN Anastos, 9, had died in the ordeal. His stepbrother, John Pixley, was rushed to a hospital by an Air Force helicopter called to the search. The military helicopter brought a doctor who attended Pixley during the flight to the hospital.
After a brief rest, Anastas joined the search parties yesterday. There were 14 aircraft aloft in the morning, five men on earth, two skis and three men on horseback
AFTER A two-hour morning search, half of the 11 planes returned to Jackson for fuel. Each pilot had been given a nine-mile region to cover.
"We searched the area pretty well," said Mike Berstein, a pilot for Mivion Aviation, the local flight service coordinating the air search. "It's pretty rugged out there."
Rogers said the ground searchers, heading for an area south of 10-600-foot Weston Mountain where the boys were
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KSU prof says area faces lack of electricity
CHICAGO III. (AP)-Kansas may experience serious shortages of electrical generating capacity in the next six years, officials said. Energy Advisory Council said yesterday.
Robert J. Robel, a professor at Kansas State University, said there was a prospect of serious shortages in the Southwest Power Center in Kansas, Kansas and the western wilt of Missouri.
Robel appeared in Chicago at a regional workshop on electricity supply and demand.
He said a Midwest Governors Conference study group that he headed had agreed the growth in electrical demand must not exacerbate the shortage of jobs now and 1985 if shortages are to be avoided.
He said projections of six- and sevenpercent growth rates would result in lessadequate reserve capacity during someperiods of drought, up toserious deficiencies in reserve capacity.
Robel said Kansas needed to be concerned because the growth in electricity use in the last year has been between eight and nine percent.
If this rate of growth continues, Kansas could be in serious trouble," Robel said. However, Robel said all forecasts indicated a significant decrease in growth rates for electrical demand in the next 10 to 20 years.
Pittsburg State decides to close science building
PITTSBURG (AP) -- Pittsburg State University President James Appleberry announced yesterday that 60-year-old Carney Hall would be closed for the remainder of the semester because of the building's settling.
Classes were first cancelled at the laboratory building Tuesday after a preliminary survey indicated the building was too narrow for an inch, causing floors and walls to crack.
Vincent Cool, acting director of the state Division of Architectural Services, inspected the building yesterday. He was appointed a licensed surveyor and state consultants.
About 300 students use the building, mainly for chemistry and biology laboratories. These classes were shifted to three other locations.
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