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...

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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........

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

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

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154

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

Chief Doubts Gas Need"

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Article from the Wall Street Journal, June 19, 1981, entitled "U.S. Readies

Grants to Synfuels Projects Amid Fears Program Is Being Demoted"

Article from Harper's, August 1983, entitled "Noble Endeavor".

Senate Appropriations Committee, explanatory statement on the Department

of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriatioins Bill, H.R. 7356, 97th Con-

gress, 2d Session, Congressional Record, December 9, 1982..

Memorandum (assignment re Corporate Communications) to Victor A.

Schroeder, vice chairman and president, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporaton,

from Robert Coughlan, consultant, January 6, 1983 (The Coughlan Report)...

Statement of the president of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, at a

closed meeting of the board of directors of the corporation, January 20, 1983

Letter to Edward E. Noble, chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation from

C. Howard Wilkins, Jr., John B. Carter, Jr., and Robert A. G. Monks,

members of the board of directors, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporations....

Questions for the record from Senator Carl Levin to the U.S. Synthetic Fuels

Corporation, August 19, 1983..

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Response to Senator Levin's questions for submission in the record, August
26, 1983........

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Questions for the record from Senator Jeff Bingaman to the U.S. Synthetic

Fuels Corporations.

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Response to Senator Bingaman's questions for submission in the record,

August 26, 1983....

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"Project Indigo" (Industry Survey), Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Syn-

thetic Fuels Corporations

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Letter to Robert A. G. Monks, member of the board of directors, U.S. Synthet-

ic Fuels Corporation from Edward E. Noble, chairman of the board, U.S.

Synthetic Fuels Corporation July 20, 1983...

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Letter to Edward E. Noble, chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, from

Robert A. G. Monks, director of the corporation, July 25, 1983...

Letter to Senator William S. Cohen from Victor M. Thompson, Jr., director,

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, July 25, 1983.....

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Report on Internal Audit of Fiscal Year 1982 Travel and Relocation Expenses

and Employee Advance Accounts by the Office of the Inspector General,

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation May 1983.

Memorandum (Inspector General's exceptions-1982 Internal Audit) to the

chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation from Andrew P. Tashman,

Office of the General Counsel of the Corporation, April 13, 1983..

Memorandum (Inspector General's exceptions-1982 Audit) to the chairman,

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation from Andrew P. Tashman, Office of the

General Counsel, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation June 28, 1983..

Memorandum for the files (elaboration of services performed for corporation

April 23 through May 16, 1981; supplemental documentation of air fares)

from Victor A. Schroeder, vice chairman and president, U.S. Synthetic

Fuels Corporation, June 22, 1983.

Memorandum, with attachment (SFC-Concerns and Strategy) to Edward E.

Noble, chairman, Victor A. Schroeder, vice chairman and president, and

Edward F. Cox, general counsel, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation from

Robert A. G. Monks, director of the corporation, February 1, 1982..

Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels

Corporation, March 24, 1983 (excerpts)..

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Minutes of the closed portion of the meeting of the board of directors of the

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, March 24, 1983...

294

Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels

Corporation May 26, 1983.

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339

383

Minutes of the closed portion of the meeting of the board of directors of the

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, May 26, 1983....

Statement of expenses of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation July 19, 1983...

Policy and procedure for administration of contractual agreement, adopted by

the board of directors, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, October 28, 1981.....

"Consulting Agreements," chapter VI, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Pro-

curement Manual, November 1982..

Letter to Susan M. Collins, staff director, Subcommittee on Oversight of

Government Management, with attachment (data on competition in SFC

contracts and consulting agreements-requested by committee staff), from

Dwight Ink, vice president, administration, U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corpora-
tion, July 25, 1983

Letter "From the Chairman," extracted from the 1981 annual report of the

U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, January 28, 1982..

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