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Article: Congress, White House headed for SPR compromise talks. (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) (column)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- March 25, 1985
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CONGRESS and the Reagan administration appear headed for talks on a way to continue some expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while still saving a substantial amount of money in fiscal 1986.
"There's a scramble for position going on," one congressional source said about current Department of Energy policy discussions on the issue.
And Richard Furiga, deputy assistant secretary for the SPR, told Washington Watch that "given the history of the program, I guess I can't tell you it would surprise me" if the department wound up in compromise talks on Capitol Hill.
But Furiga and others in the department insist they are not uncomfortable ...