COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 2596

TO PROTECT NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVE NO. 1

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MAY 11, 18, 28, JUNE 17, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, JULY 2, 3, 6, 1943,
JANUARY 18, 21, 24, 27, 28, 29, 31, FEBRUARY 2, 3, 7, 11,
AND MARCH 29, 1944

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Public Lands

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1944

Memorandum re contract of November 20, 1942, between Standard Oil Co.

of California and the United States covering the operation and develop-

ment of Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve...

Agreement for the development and operation of lands of the United States

within naval petroleum reserve No. 1, including lands to be acquired

from Standard Oil Co. of California and others on the geologic structure

containing the Elk Hills oil and gas field, Kern County, Calif., and for

the conservation and protection of the oil and gas contents thereof..

Some comments by the Navy Department on the memorandum for the

Attorney General, submitted by the Assistant Attorney General regard-

ing the contract of November 20, 1942, between Standard Oil Co. of

California and the United States--

Statement by Adlai E. Stevenson, special assistant to the Secretary of the

Navy, to the House Public Lands Committee, filed with the chairman,

for incorporation in the record of hearings on H. R. 2596, July 7, 1943.

Statement by Mr. Norman Littell, Assistant Attorney General, Chief of

the Lands Division, Department of Justice, re report filed by the Navy..

Statement by the Honorable Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy-

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