S. HRG. 98-243

OVERSIGHT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE
U.S. SYNTHETIC FUELS CORPORATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

JULY 27 AND 29, 1983

Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs

24-125 O

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON 1983

CONTENTS

Opening statements of Senator Cohen.............

WITNESSES

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1983

Edward E. Noble, chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation; Victor A.

Schroeder, vice chairman and president, accompanied by Jimmie R.

Bowden, executive vice president....

Robert E. Coughlan, Santa Fe, N. Mex..

S. Kenric Lessey, inspector general, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, accom-

panied by Robert Gambino, deputy inspector general; Russell Miller, Direc-

tor of investigations and inspections; and John Trant, director of internal

audit, Office of Inspector General...

FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1983

Donald Thibeau, executive assistant to the chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels

Corporation.....

John B. Carter, Jr.; Milton M. Masson, Jr.; Robert A. G. Monks; and C.

Howard Wilkins, Jr., members, board of directors, U.S. Synthetic Fuels

Corporation.....

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Bowden, Jimmie R.: Testimony.

Carter, John B., Jr.: Testimony.

Coughlan, Robert E.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Lessey, S. Kenric:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Masson, Milton M., Jr.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Monks, Robert A. G.: Testimony.

Noble, Edward E.:

Testimony

Prepared statement with attachments...

Prepared statement

123

Trant, John: Testimony

95

Wilkins, C. Howard, Jr.: Testimony

123

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Organization chart of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, July 21, 1983

Energy Security Act, Public Law 96-294 (excerpts)

Article from the New York Times, June 22, 1981, entitled "Synthetic Fuel

Chief Doubts Gas Need"

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Schroedor, Victor A.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Thibeau, Donald:

Testimony