Problems facing tar sand development

This issue of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission Committee Bulletin contains papers presented before the meetings of the Standing Committees of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission on July 11 and 12, 1977, at Nashville, Tennessee. All available papers presented before the committees at this meeting a r e contained in this volume. The reports of the committees and the papers presented before the Commission are published in the Oil and Gas Compact Bulletin. The Interstate Oil Compact Commission represents 36 states working together in a program of waste prevention. Its sole purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation of oil and gas through established state agencies . It is the functional organization set up to administer the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas. All of its meetings are open to the public. It provides a forum for the discussion of any subject relating to oil and gas conservation. In order that the Compacting states may have the benefit of divergent views, controversial subjects are often discussed. Therefore, it should be borne in mind that addresses, papers, or committee reports , and statements by individuals, committee members or Commission officials may not represent the official viewpoint of the Commission, and must not be so construed unless the record shows specific approval. This Committee Bulletin is a free service of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission and is furnished -without cost to any state agency, library, school, association, company or individual requesting it.