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KERR-McGEE CORP. v. MORTON

No. 74-2088.

527 F.2d 838 (1975)

KERR-McGEE CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the Interior, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Nickles, Washington, D. C., with whom Togo D. West, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Carl Strass, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edmund B. Clark and David W. Miller, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WRIGHT, LEVENTHAL and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants seek to compel the Secretary of the Interior to award them an oil and gas lease on Tract 2124 on the Outer Continental Shelf. See 43 U.S.C. § 1337(a) (1970). All bids on Tract 2124 were rejected as being too low, including the high bid submitted by appellants which was 16 per cent of the risk-free value set by the Government. Adjacent tracts received high bids of between 51 and 731 per cent of the risk-free value. Kerr-McGee's bid...

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