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additional agencies air quality alternate fuel application areas barrels boilers burning capacity Celanese Clean Air Act coal conversion coal industry coal prices coal production coal-fired cogeneration coke COMMISSION ON COAL Company conservation consumption costs Department of Energy displacement Docket economic effect electric power electric utility emergency emissions environmental estimates existing facilities FEDERAL COAL Federal Power Act FERC flue gas desulfurization gasifiers impact imported oil incentives increased coal incremental investment Koleda limited markets maximum megawatts million tons MORGAN STANLEY National Energy National Energy Plan natural gas nuclear Ohio oil and gas oil prices oil-fired operating percent percentage adders permit petroleum Plan pollution potential power plants problems proposed railroads RARG reduce regulations regulatory replacement requirements result scrubbers source performance standards sources standards steam steel sulfur oxide supply Surface Mining transactions transmission transportation
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Page 237 - Congress and during the continuance of any war in which the United States is engaged and when such action is necessary for the national defense or security or otherwise in furtherance of the war effort...
Page 53 - Environmental objectives have been vigorously promoted and defended in the Congress and particularly within the Executive Branch through the extensive and dedicated talent especially in the EPA, the Department of the Interior and the Council on Environmental Quality. The mission and objective of these groups has been clear. Only recently, however, has the lead responsibility for the Federal role in energy been concentrated in one agency, the DOE. Energy and related economic objectives (eg, consumer...
Page 244 - Comments concerning these regulations may be submitted by writing to Kenneth F. Plumb, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426. All written submissions should contain an original and 18 copies.
Page 545 - A conversion to coal (A) by reason of an order under section 2 (a) of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 or any amendment thereto, or any subsequent enactment which supersedes such Act, or (B) which qualifies under section 113 (d) (5) (A) (ii) of this Act, shall not be deemed to be a modification for purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4) of this subsection.
Page 457 - We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love, we give our fragile craft.
Page 523 - ... the prevention and control of air pollution at its source is the primary responsibility of States and local governments; and (4) that Federal financial assistance and leadership is essential for the development of cooperative Federal, State, regional, and local programs to prevent and control air pollution.
Page 237 - During the continuance of any war in which the United States is engaged, or whenever the Commission determines that an emergency exists by reason of a sudden increase in the demand for electric energy, or a shortage of electric energy or of facilities for the generation or transmission of electric energy or of fuel or water for generating facilities, or other causes, the Commission shall have authority, either upon its own motion or upon complaint, with or without notice, hearing, or report, to require...
Page 237 - ... with or without notice, hearing, or report, to require by order such temporary connections of facilities and such generation, delivery, interchange, or transmission of electric energy as in its judgment will best meet the emergency and serve the public interest. If the parties affected by such order fail to agree upon the terms of any arrangement between them in carrying out such order, the Commission, after hearing held either before or after such order takes effect, may prescribe by supplemental...
Page 524 - ... technological system of continuous emission reduction which (taking into consideration the cost of achieving such emission reduction, and any non-air quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.
Page 36 - ... current and emerging government policies and actions that are working against .increased coal use do have objectives that are in the national interest. The overall problem is the lack of balance among national objectives in government policies and actions. Specifically: Our national goals are often in conflict and cannot all be achieved simultaneously and with the same speed that might be desired if the nation had only one goal. Neither the Congress nor the Executive Branch has faced up to the...