ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO. v. U. S. DEPT. OF ENERGY

Civ. A. No. 80-1427.

500 F.Supp. 1301 (1980)

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Marathon Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, and Texaco, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, Defendant, and Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Arizona Chemical Company, the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hempstead Resources Recovery Corporation, Midwest Solvents Company, Inc. and Refuse Energy Systems Company, Intervening Defendants, and County Sanitary Districts of Los Angelos County; County Sanitation Districts of Orange County Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago; City of Ames, Iowa; Department of Sanitation of the City of New York; Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle; and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon A. Baughman, Robert S. Price, Philadelphia, Pa., Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, Warren E. Connelly, Daniel Joseph, David Holzworth, Washington, D. C., for Atlantic Richfield Co., Marathon Oil Co., Mobil Oil Corp., Texaco, Inc.; Richard Morse, Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, Cal., James P. Murphy Marathon Oil Co., Findlay, Ohio, William C. Streets, Mobil Oil Corp., Fairfax, Va., Elizabeth P. Smith, Texaco, Inc., White Plains, N. Y., of counsel.

Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Peter Vaira, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., C. Max Vassanelli, Michael T. Scott, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant U. S. Dept. of Energy; Nancy C. Crisman, O. Ann Horn, Sandra Sherman, U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of General Counsel, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Jay F. Lapin, C. Loring Jetton, Jr., Lauren B. Homer, Helen Torelli, Wilmer & Pickering, Washington, D. C., for Hempstead Resources Recovery Corp., Refuse Energy Systems Co.

Philip W. Buchen, J. Paul McGrath, Stanley Smilack, G. Ridgley Loux, Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, Washington, D. C., for Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Arizona Chemical Co.

Herbert C. Goldstein, City Sol., Harrisburg, Pa., for City of Harrisburg, Pa.

Samuel Efron, Lewis E. Leibowitz, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D. C., for Hempstead Resources Recovery Corp.

Edwin W. Hummers, Jr., Marvin Rosenberg, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, Washington, D. C., for Midwest Solvents Co., Inc.

Arthur R. Littleton, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., Associate Counsel, for all intervening defendants.

Lee C. White, Robert J. Saner, II, John McE. Atkisson, Gordon M. Thomas, White, Fine & Verville, Washington, D. C., Louis J. Carter, Associate Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., for County Sanitary Districts of Los Angeles County; County Sanitation Districts of Orange County; Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago; City of Ames, Iowa; Department of Sanitation of the City of New York; Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle; and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WEINER, District Judge.

This is a suit challenging the validity of the Petroleum Substitute Amendments to the crude oil "Entitlements Program", 10 C.F.R. Part 211 (1980), of defendant United States Department of Energy (DOE). The "Entitlements Program" is a regulatory scheme for the allocation and price control of crude oil. The challenged regulations provide for the issuance of...

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