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On the recordDecember 29, 1974
The United States uses the equivalent of 4 barrels of expensive foreign oil for every ton of unproduced domestic coal--a situation which cannot long be tolerated without continued, serious economic consequences.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Legislation

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