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PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. LUJAN

Nos. 91-5071, 91-5072.

963 F.2d 1380 (1992)

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr., Secretary, Department of the Interior, Robert Kallman, Director, or Acting Director, Mineral Management Service, Department of the Interior, Kenneth M. Moyers, Chief, Royalty Compliance Division, Nick L. Kelly, Area Manager, Dallas Regional Compliance Office, Minerals Management Service, United States Department of the Interior, the Mineral Management Service, Defendants-Appellees. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr., Secretary, Department of the Interior, Robert Kallman, Director, or Acting Director, Mineral Management Service, Department of the Interior, Kenneth M. Moyers, Chief, Royalty Compliance Division, Nick L. Kelly, Area Manager, Dallas Regional Compliance Office, Minerals Management Service, United States Department of the Interior, the Mineral Management Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 13, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Cubbage, II, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okl. (L.K. Smith and Paul E. Swain, III, Tulsa, Okl., Jennifer G. Fry, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okl., and Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst & Dickman, Tulsa, Okl., of counsel, with him on the briefs), for plaintiff-appellant Phillips Petroleum Co.

J. Berry St. John, Jr. and Deborah Bahn Price, of Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., and Joseph W. Morris and David L. Bryant, of Gable & Gotwals, Tulsa, Okl., on the briefs, for plaintiff-appellant Atlantic Richfield Co.

Robert L. Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C. (Barry M. Hartman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Kathleen Bliss Adams, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tulsa, Okl., Lisa K. Hemmer and Edward J. Shawaker, Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., and Peter J. Schaumberg and Geoffrey Heath, Office of the Sol., Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., of counsel, with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before TACHA and EBEL, Circuit Judges, and ROGERS, District Judge.

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

In this consolidated appeal, appellant Phillips Petroleum Company (Phillips) and appellant Atlantic Richfield Company (Arco) appeal the district court's order granting defendants' motions for summary judgment. Phillips and Arco contend that defendants failed to properly initiate an audit pursuant to the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act (FOGRMA), 30 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1757. Phillips further asserts that defendants failed to comply...

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