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 91 STAT. 6

Authority to obtain information.

Compliance order.

Compensation. Hearing; supplemental order.

PUBLIC LAW 95-2—FEB. 2, 1977 (B) information received from persons in the business of producing, selling, transporting, or delivering natural gas in such State as to the volumes of natural gas available in such State; and (C) such other information as the Governor determines appropriate to apprise the President of emergency deliveries and transportation of interstate natural gas needed in such State. (d) The President may request that representatives of interstate pipelines, intrastate pipelines, local distribution companies, and other persons meet and provide assistance to the President in carrying out his authority under this section. (e)(1) In order to obtain information to carry out his authority under this Act, the President may— (A) sign and issue subpenas for the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, records, papers, and other documents; (B) require any person, by general or special order, to submit answers in writing to interrogatories, requests for reports or for other information, and such answers shall be made within such reasonable period, and under oath or otherwise, as the President may determine; and (C) secure, upon request, any information from any Federal department or executive agency. (2) The appropriate United States district court may, upon petition of the Attorney General at the request of the President, in the case of refusal to obey a subpena or order of the President issued under this subsection, issue an order requiring compliance therewith, and any failure to obey an order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof. (f)(1) If the parties to any order issued under subsection (a) fail to agree upon the terms of compensation for deliveries (which may include compensation in kind) or transportation required pursuant to such order, the President, after a hearing held either before or after such order takes effect, shall, by supplemental order, prescribe the amount of compensation (which may include compensation in kind) to be paid for such deliveries or transportation and for any other expenses incurred in delivering or transporting such gas. (2) If, for the purpose of a supplemental order pursuant to paragraph (1), the party making emergency deliveries pursuant to subsection (a)— (A) indicates a preference for compensation in kind, the President shall direct that compensation in kind be provided by August 1, 1977, to the maximum extent practicable, (B) indicates a preference for compensation, or the President determines pursuant to paragraph (A) of this subsection that any portion thereof cannot practicably be compensated in kind, the President shall calculate the amount of compensation for deliveries of natural gas, based upon the amount required to make the interstate pipeline delivering such natural gas and its local distribution companies whole for loss of sales resulting therefrom; including the actual amount paid by such interstate pipeline or any of its local distribution companies for the volumes of natural gas or higher cost gas such as synthetic natural gas which were needed to replace natural gas delivered pursuant to an order under subsection (a); and for transportation, storage, and other expenses, based upon reasonable costs, as determined by the President.

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