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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (675797)	3/18/2005 11:58:10 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

*re:"Correct: NO NEED TO! The new pipeline was authorized* LAST YEAR in a different bill"** The pipeline that was authorized last year was not an oil pipeline, but for natural gas. This means that ANWR oil will go thru the Trans Alaskan Oil pipeline, which is allowed to only ship oil to the United States. re:"Er, nope" From a 1995 Senate Report 104-078: "In 1973...Congress adopted the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act (TAPS), Pub. L. No. 93-153, authorizing construction of a pipeline to move the oil from state lands on the North Slope to an accessible port at Valdez, Alaska. The legislation also established export restrictions on all domestically produced crude oil carried over any federal right-of-way by adding a new section 28(u) to the Mineral Leasing Act. As amended, the Mineral Leasing Act permitted exports of domestically produced crude oil, including Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil, if the President determined the exports would be in the national interest, would not diminish the total quality or quantity of petroleum available to the United States, and would be done in accordance with the licensing provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1969. In 1979, following the second major oil shock, Congress effectively banned ANS exports by adopting section 7(d) of the Export Administration Act of 1979. Section 7(d) for the first time established specific export restrictions on ANS crude oil independent of the original TAPS provision" thomas.loc.gov; Note, the first tanker of oil from the pipeline left Valdez in August 1977.