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Show CiM ETE Call on State Authorities to Provide Regulations for Distribution "WASHINGTON. June 12. Comprehensive Compre-hensive recommendations to curtail waste of natural gas, calling upon tho public utility commissions of each natural na-tural gas consuming state "to require Issuance of strict regulations for its use by all distributing companies before be-fore October 1, were contained in resolutions res-olutions adopted at a meeting hore of Lhe natural gas conservation committee commit-tee appointed last January by the secretary sec-retary of the Interior. Regulations prescribed by the committee com-mittee would prohibit the- burning of natural gas in "low set burners" or solid top stoves and in water heaters or furnaces having an efficiency of 'lens than -75 per -cf rit," nn"d' would require re-quire proper adjustment of all appliances. appli-ances. All da light burning of gas for Illumination also would be prohibited. prohi-bited. The L-ommi'tce recommended enforcement of the prescribed regulations regula-tions by discontinuance of service to nny consumer who failed within a reasonable time to observe them. While the committee made no direct recommondatlon as to Increase in the price of gas to consumers, it declared the "placing of a fair price on gas in the field will immediately start conservation con-servation methods -n the drilling and operation of gas wells." Support of the committee's conservation conser-vation program was pledged by members mem-bers of the state utility commissions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Ohio and Loulsianna. oo |