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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. August 14, 15. 1942 Agreement between the United States of America and Canada respecting [E. A. S. 387] the Canol Project pipeline. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Ottawa August 14 and 15, 1942. The American Minister to the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs No. 738 SIm: Ante, pp. 1413,1415. Ante, pp. 1413,1416. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Ottawa, Canada,August 14, 1942. I have the honor to refer to my conversation with Mr. Keenleyside on June 26 last, in which on behalf of the Government of the United States I requested the approval of the Canadian Government for the establishment of an oil supply line which would be supplementary to that known as the Canol project which was dealt with in my note of June 27 and your reply of June 29, 1942. As I pointed out, this supplementary project would involve the transportation in tank cars of gasoline destined for the use of the United States Army in Alaska to Prince Rupert, where authority was requested for the American Government to build by contract suitable storage and loading facilities, and thence by barge to Skag- way, Alaska. From Skagway to Whitehorse a four-inch pipeline would be laid under contracts let by the American Government, and the authority of the Canadian Government was requested to lay that section of the pipeline within Canadian territory. At Whitehorse the gasoline would be stored in the facilities being built under the Canol project. The Canadian Government was good enough to inform me orally on June 27 that it approved the establishment of the new supply line as outlined in the preceding paragraph. My Government has instructed me to propose to the Canadian Government that the terms of the agreement reached in the exchange of notes of June 27-June 29, 1942, on the Canol project shall apply also, mutatis mutandis, to the supplementary project outlined above in respect of any construction within Canadian territory except as hereafter set forth. My Government proposes that the pipeline from Skagway to Whitehorse and the storage and loading facilities at Prince Rupert shall remain its property and shall be operated under contracts with it or by its agents or representatives during the war. It further proposes that at the termination of the hostilities the two governments agree that at the request of either government discus- sions between them shall be undertaken with a view to reaching an agreement in regard to the disposition of this pipeline and of the 1416

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