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<br />_.........._-~-~. <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />\)"~",; ?,f 1/ <'171 <br />Officials Back <br /> <br />Haskell's Bill <br /> <br />On Oil Shale <br /> <br />An oil shale bill sponsored hy Sen. <br />F1o}'d Haskell, [}-Colo.. wa~ endorsed <br />Friday in Dl"nver by ~\'('ral industry of- <br />ficials l1t the first oC two hearings on the <br />measure. <br />The ~cond Is scheduled at 10 a.m. <br />Monday in the town hall in Rille, Colo. <br />In the Denvrr hearing Friday, Haskell <br />said his bill, S. 419, was directed toward <br />learning "the commercial potential of oil <br />shale as soon as possible." <br />Haskell said his bill would "cause the <br />federal government to pick up the tab for <br />the testing of the commercial viabiJil)' of <br />two oil shale technologies." <br />The tests would be conducted on foot"ra! <br />lands b)' prlvate indu.:;try under contract <br />to the Energy Rrsearch tin<! Development <br />Administration. <br />t At the conclusion of the lesls, f'xisting <br />, facilIties would be put up for competitive <br />I hid if rither or bolh lec'hnoloJ:ies ap_ <br />peared to he commercially feasible. <br />ThP. 1'01'0 trchnolllgirs Involve In-situ and <br />above-Wound retortin$: (rdinin~) of oil <br />from .:;hAIl". Cost would be in the <br />hundreds of millions of dollars. <br />Most Industry officials endnr~ the <br />Haskell plan as A starting point. Tho.~e <br />testif).ing Includrd The Oil Shale Co. <br />(TOSCOl; Occidental Shale, Inc.; the Rio <br />Blanco Oil Shale Project: Superior Oil <br />Co.; Union Oil Co.. of California; Colony <br />Development Corp. and Chenon Re- <br />search Co. <br />Other .....itnesses were (rom the Colorado <br />Open Space Council, California Institute <br />of Technology, Colorado ~Iounlain Club <br />and Colorado Trout L'nlirnited. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />0056 <br />