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Show Lfc s Amwikoii4 , i VOLUME 2, NUMBER 25 25 Cents Per Copy AUGUST 24, 1970 Nixon decides to scrap plan for overhaul of nations foreign oil import control WASHINGTON-Preside- Lincoln said at a White House nt Nixon is scrapping a proposal for total revision of the nations briefing the President had accepted the recommendation, foreign oil import control made unanimously by all system in favor of an overhaul of committee members. the current quota system. Recent developments, Lincoln said in his letter, "have On the recommendation of George A. Lincoln, director of increased misgivings about the Office of Emergency moving to a tariff system at this and about a tariff system as Preparedness, Nixon is atime feasible method of controlling consideration of a discontinuing oil plan which would have dropped imports. the system of allocating import Among the considerations quotas to private oil companies in favor of tariffs on imports. importing business to any companies willing to pay the involved in the decision, Lincoln said at the briefing, were a reappraisal upward of domestic petroleum requirements and a reappraisal downward of the domestic oil supply because of the delay in recovery of the vast Alaskan oil reserves. Lincoln, chairman of the Federal Oil Policy Committee, made his recommendation in a letter to Nixon August 13. At the time the task force made its recommendation, the price of production of domestic oil was about $3.25 a barrel, or about $1.25 more than a barrel The tariff system, recommended six months ago by task force, a special Cabinet-leve- l would have opened the oil tariffs. DRILLING ACTIVITY ON UTAH'S NORTH SLOPE, so dubbed by the Deseret News, is having its confrontations between conservationists and oilmen as well as Alaska's North Slope. The issue is whether oil rigs will extend to the High Uintas Primitive Area. Exploration holes can be found at the 10,000 foot level, and producing wells are located at about 6,000 to 8,000 feet. focal point of ecology controversy NORTH SLOPE, Uinta Mountains-Ut- ah has its own "North Slope oil boom. And like the one being hotly disputed in Alaska, this one has sparked a major dUemna, too. But, in this case, it isn't construction of a pipeline-th- at has already been built. The issue here is whether oil rigs will estend to the High Uintas Primitive Area. Rigs can now be seen above the lodgepole pines a few miles from the north slopes primitive boundary. Exploration "Boom holes several yards wide can also be 'seen in the north slopes alpine meadows up to 10,000 feet elevation. At the present most of these producing wells, unlike those on the south slope, are located high above the sage flats. At about 6,000-8,00- 0 feet in the Wasatch National Forest timber country. many of these wells minimum POCATELLO, Ida.-Ameri- can Smelting and Refining Co. doesnt object to a national park Boulder Creek property is said S. Norman produce a concerned, Wallace. Kesten, several hundred barrels a day. The exploration effort could lead to the upper Duchesne, Rock Creek, Lake Fork, Yellowstone, However, Lincoln said, developments in the Middle East have had such drastic effects on the oil situation that the price of Middle East oil now is higher than domestic production costs. "Because of these factors, Lincoln wrote Nixon, the Oil Policy Committee concurs with my judgment that we discontinue consideration of moving to a tariff system of but rather continue with our effort to improve the current program. control, Oilmen applauded the decision, and oil stocks took a definite rise on the stock market. ASARCO amenable to White Clouds park so long as rights are recognized taking in its little Boulder (Seek property in the White Clouds, its chief northwest geologist said. "So long as our present rights are recognized-whi- ch they have we law-have no to be by insofar as the little objection Utahs North Slope oil delivered to New York. One of the principal aims of the tariff system would have been to lower the price of domestic crude oil and raise the price of foreign oil imports until the two met somewhere in the middle. of Middle East Park and Recreation Area, doubted a refinery for ore from encompassing the White Clouds, the Samuelson said he opposed the mountain park but supported the proposed recreation area in the Sawtooth Valley. The delegation noted in a statement earlier this month on the proposal that Under our constitutional system, even a "Because of the size of the operation, we would probably go out of state, he said. However, our thinking hasn't gone that far yet. Currently Asarco has no plans White Clouds would be Sawtooth and Boulder located in Pocatello or mountains. Gov. Don W. Blackfoot. national park could not to bring the project into production, he said. It is Idahos congressional extinguish vested rights awaiting studies on from aesthetic prior mining delegation has introduced stemming claims. a legislation to establish Kesten told a service club he combined Sawtooth National ecological, the and recreational questions connected with the proposed project. Uinta, Blacks, Smiths, Henry's and Bear rivers. Here, 244,000 acres of glacially-carve- d peaks, rising over 13,000 feet, interspersed with more than 1 ,500 lakes and many miles of pine and Engjemann spruce, have been set aside as the High Uintas Primitive Area. . The many uses of oil in a mechanized society are well known. But the question is: Will oil rigs be allowed wherever oil is discovered? Will "development roads be allowed up to the edge of the primitive area? Or intojt? Should a buffer zone be established, perhaps a mile from . the primitive boundaryjo assure Continued on Page 5 ' Duval Corp. testing smelterless method of extracting minerals TUCSON, Ariz. The Duval Corp. has announced it is experimenting with a chemical process to extract copper and other valuable minerals from ore without the use of a smelter. The process involves a metal sulfur and other minerals to separate copper, iron oxides, elemental sulfur and other minerals. The chloride solution is recovered and used again. Duval, subsidiary of Pennzoil United, Inc., said it was building a pilot plant at an undisclosed locatiori to test the process. Charles H. Curtis, vice president of research, siad the pilot plant would be completed in October, after which there would be a one-yeperiod for evaluation. Curtis said it would ar take three years after the evaluation period to put the full-scaplar. ito operation. Because evL Mng used in the process is I. covered, Curtis said, there was nothing to le pollute the environment. The elemental sulfur, now mined by Duval in Texas and sold worldwide, could be marketed in the form as it was. rcovered in the process, used in fertilizers, stored, or disposed of harmlessly. Duval officials said they also would experiment to determine if the process could be used in the recovery of other ores, such as nickel, lead and zinc. |