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Author: Elizabeth B. Woods Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781626186408 Category : Helium Languages : en Pages : 0
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The federal government has been extensively involved in the production, storage, and use of helium since the early part of the twentieth century. The federal helium program is currently managed by the Department of the Interior's BLM. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Interior purchased about 34 billion cubic feet of crude helium for conservation purposes and to meet federal helium needs, such as for the space program and scientific research. Crude helium is a gas of 50 to 85 percent helium. While some of this helium was used to meet federal needs, most of it was retained in storage. The funds used to purchase this helium became a debt owed by the program. This book examines urgent issues facing BLM's storage and sale of helium reserves and perspectives of users.
Author: Elizabeth B. Woods Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781626186408 Category : Helium Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The federal government has been extensively involved in the production, storage, and use of helium since the early part of the twentieth century. The federal helium program is currently managed by the Department of the Interior's BLM. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Interior purchased about 34 billion cubic feet of crude helium for conservation purposes and to meet federal helium needs, such as for the space program and scientific research. Crude helium is a gas of 50 to 85 percent helium. While some of this helium was used to meet federal needs, most of it was retained in storage. The funds used to purchase this helium became a debt owed by the program. This book examines urgent issues facing BLM's storage and sale of helium reserves and perspectives of users.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309149797 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 156
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Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics. Shortly after sources of helium were discovered at the beginning of the last century, the U.S. government recognized helium's potential importance to the nation's interests and placed its production and availability under strict governmental control. In the 1960s, helium's strategic value in cold war efforts was reflected in policies that resulted in the accumulation of a large reserve of helium owned by the federal government. The latest manifestation of public policy is expressed in the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (1996 12 Act), which directs that substantially all of the helium accumulated as a result of those earlier policies be sold off by 2015 at prices sufficient to repay the federal government for its outlays associated with the helium program. The present volume assesses whether the interests of the United States have been well served by the 1996 Act and, in particular, whether selling off the helium reserve has had any adverse effect on U.S. scientific, technical, biomedical, and national security users of helium.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 88
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Helium Languages : en Pages : 80
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309070384 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-273) directs the Department of the Interior to begin liquidating the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve by 2005 in a manner consistent with "minimum market disruption" and at a price given by a formula specified in the act. It also mandates that the Department of the Interior "enter into appropriate arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on whether such disposal of helium reserves will have a substantial adverse effect on U.S. scientific, technical, biomedical, or national security interests." This report is the product of that mandate. To provide context, the committee has examined the helium market and the helium industry as a whole to determine how helium users would be affected under various scenarios for selling the reserve within the act's constraints. The Federal Helium Reserve, the Bush Dome reservoir, and the Cliffside facility are mentioned throughout this report. It is important to recognize that they are distinct entities. The Federal Helium Reserve is federally owned crude helium gas that currently resides in the Bush Dome reservoir. The Cliffside facility includes the storage facility on the Bush Dome reservoir and the associated buildings pipeline.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 420
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Committee Serial No. 91-11. Program overview includes texts of government contracts for sale and purchase of helium (p. 9-138).
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining Publisher: ISBN: Category : Helium Languages : en Pages : 422
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 110
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Gas extraction Languages : en Pages : 40
Author: Elizabeth B. Woods
Author: Elizabeth B. Woods
Author: National Research Council
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Author: National Research Council
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mines and Mining
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources