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4-WRW washn x x to upgrade the railroads to double coal shipments, according to the study. Sites of major construction are the Alaskan North Coast across tbe state to Valdez, where the oil and gas will move by tanker to terminal ports at Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. "If the new production is greater than the Western demand can absorb, additional transport to other parts of the country may be required," the report said. It esti- mated Alaskan oil production "could reach 6 million barrels per day." That output would require very large crude carriers, or super tankers, in a tanker fleet of 36 loading and unloading at the rate of three per day at West Coast ports. Cost of the tanker f1ee~ alone is estimated by the study at about $4 billion-just to move the Alaskan oil south. ~'fR:tP-MIlU CONTROL BILL HCM Congressional leaders are holding up final action on the trade ex- tension bill to try to pressure President Ford into vetoing the coal strip-mine control bill before the end of the Congressional session so that Congress can try to pass it over Ford's threatened veto. other- wise the President could pocket-veto it. The bill finally cleared both the House and Senate and went to the President on Dec. 16. Former In- terior Solicitor Edward Weinberg, now with the washington law firm of Duncan Brown Weinberg and palmer specializing in natural resources law, told Western Resources Wrap-up on Dec. 16 the compromise worked out by the conference committee on surface owner consent would have the effect of pressuring farmers and ranchers to sell their surface ownerships in areas where the government owns the coal deposits and they own the sur- face. (See WRW, Series X, No. 50, dated 12-12-74) NEW JOBS Gaylord Kirkham, resources editor and reporter for the Daily Sen- tinel of Grand JUnction, Colo., will become legislative and press as- sistant to Rep. James P. Johnson, R=Colo., in January. A native of Colorado's Western Slope, Kirkham is quite knowledgeable about oi~shale, coal, oil and gas and other resources developments particularly in West- tern Colorado, Bastern Utah and Southern wyoming. Jerry T. ~erkler, long-time staff director of the Senate Interior committee,originally from Socorro, N.M., takes over in January as direc~ tor of government affairs for texas Eastern Transmis~ion Corp. washing- ton off~ce, following 18 years service on capitol H~ll. -30-HCM-30- 0170 , . .'