| Show Sen Garn seeks aid for Sen Jake Garn Utah R-Utah has called for foran foran an increase In federal funding for an oil nil shale research and development project by a utah Utah based based firm In a letter to Sen James A McClure chairman of the Senate Energy Commit Commit- Committee Committee tee Sen Garn asked the Idaho Republican to support re- re request request quest for 28 million In federal funds The funds aid the firms firm's research and development of a method of extracting oil from shale without mining the shale The Energy Department cut request in half then reduced reduced ed It another 4 percent as part of an the across the board board spending cut Sen Garn maintained in his letter to Sen McClure that the 28 million re- re re- re quest was just justified Of oil shale projects supported to date by the Department of Energy Is the project which DOE itself thinks has the greatest poten- poten potential potential for becoming a viable commercial operation Seri Sen Garn wrote wrote The pro pro- process process cess the company uses Is environmental environmental- environmentally Iy ly clean and according to the agency Is potentially capable of producing in ex- ex excess excess cess of 26 billion barrels of oil from shale In the southern portion of Utah's Vintah Uintah Basin alone Funding for is part of an Energy Department authorization bill |
