Case No. RB272-00098

January 16, 1997

DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Supplemental Order

Name of Case: Crude Oil Supplemental Refund Distribution

Date of Filing:January 8, 1997

Case Number: RB272-00098

Since 1987, the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) has conducted the crude oil overcharge refund proceeding. In this proceeding, we have granted refunds from crude oil overcharge funds under the jurisdiction of the Department of Energy. The proceeding is explained in Statement of Modified Restitutionary Policy, 51 Fed. Reg. 27899 (August 4, 1986), and the regulations governing it are codified at 10 C.F.R. Part 205, Subpart V.

In crude oil refund cases, an applicant can receive a refund equal to the number of gallons of eligible refined petroleum products it purchased during the crude oil price control period, multiplied by a volumetric factor.(1) The size of the volumetric factor depends on the amount of crude oil overcharge funds that the DOE has collected. Initially, we set the volumetric factor at $.0002 per gallon. In April 1989, we raised the volumetric factor to $.0008 per gallon. Any applicant who had received a refund at $.0002 per gallon has also received a supplemental refund of an additional $0.0006 per gallon, so that the total volumetric factor until now for all applicants in this Decision and Order was $.0008. Crude Oil Supplemental Refund Distribution, 18 DOE ¶ 85,878 (1989).

Additional crude oil overcharge funds are now available for disbursement, so we can now issue supplemental refund checks. Applicants who previously received a refund at the volumetric factor of $.0008 will receive a supplemental refund for an additional $0.0008 per gallon.(2) Thus, the amount of the supplemental refund will be equal to the refund already received.

As with all our refunds, the supplemental refunds are rounded to the nearest dollar.

We require applicants for supplemental refunds to verify (directly or through their representatives) their name and address contained in our records, to correct any information that is not accurate, and to indicate whether there has been any change in circumstances affecting the payment of the refund. We will issue a series of Decision and Orders approving supplemental refunds as we receive completed verification forms from applicants or certifications from representatives.

The Appendix to this Decision and Order contains the names of a group of applicants receiving these supplemental refunds. Each applicant in this group was represented in the crude oil refund proceeding by the firm of Daniel B. Smith Company. In accordance with the applicants' instructions, we will direct the refunds to Daniel B. Smith Company. The Appendix also indicates the original case numbers of these applicants and the dollar amount of the supplemental refund for each applicant. We have approved a total amount of $149,861 in additional refunds in this Decision and Order for the benefit of 48 applicants.

It Is Therefore Ordered That:

(1) The Director of Special Accounts and Payroll, Office of Departmental Accounting and Financial Systems Development, Office of the Controller of the Department of Energy shall take appropriate action to disburse an amount equal to the total of the supplemental refunds for the applicants set forth in the Appendix to this Decision and Order.

(2) The funds shall be disbursed from the escrow fund denominated Crude Tracking-Claimants IV, Account No. 999DOE010Z, maintained at the Department of the Treasury.

(3) Because all of the applicants listed in the Appendix to this Decision and Order applied through Daniel B. Smith Company and requested that their refunds be sent to them, one check for the total refund amount of $149,861 shall be sent to “Daniel B. Smith Company, Fourth Floor, 377 Oak Street, Garden City, NY, 11530.”

(4) Any conditions imposed upon an applicant's receipt of the initial crude oil refund shall also apply to that applicant's receipt of this supplemental refund.

(5) This is a final Order of the Department of Energy.

George B. Breznay

Director

Office of Hearings and Appeals

Date: January 16, 1997

(1)The crude oil price control period extended from August 19, 1973 through January 27, 1981.

(2)We are now paying first-time crude oil refund recipients at the volumetric rate of $0.0016 per gallon.


APPENDIX RB272-00098      
CASE NO. APPLICANT FILING SERVICE VOLUME REFUND
RF272-05127 GREENWICH GARDEN ASSOCIATES OR WEN MANAGEMENT CORP. 225,161 $180
RF272-05324 URBAN RENEWALS OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,724,125 $1,379
RF272-07298 92 BROOKLYN AVENUE CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 328,268 $263
RF272-07299 VIGLA CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,325,315 $1,060
RF272-07300 FREEPORT EQUITIES CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 356,152 $285
RF272-11136 NET PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT, INC OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,135,750 $909
RF272-14522 ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 7,113,718 $5,691
RF272-17715 MILLER & MILLER REAL ESTATE OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 8,667,362 $6,934
RF272-18156 MARTINIQUE HOTEL OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,675,837 $1,341
RF272-22966 KING KULLEN GROCERY CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,845,477 $1,476
RF272-23476 CENTRAL MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,277,964 $1,822
RF272-23918 PALEN MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,342,690 $1,874
RF272-39433 ANN BENDICK REALTY OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,142,626 $1,714
RF272-41267 BIRCHWOOD ASSOCIATES OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 17,787,614 $14,230
RF272-41308 SACHSON REALTY CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,443,115 $1,154
RF272-41342 NALEA REALTY CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 999,916 $800
RF272-41558 ADI MANAGEMENT, INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,415,617 $2,732
RF272-41564 PICKMAN REALTY OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 19,988,192 $15,991
RF272-41895 KOEPPEL & KOEPPEL OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,689,787 $2,952
RF272-41907 NEIDITCH REAL ESTATE OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 4,177,512 $3,342
RF272-41934 JACOB HABERMAN OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,742,630 $2,194
RF272-41973 HALBOR REALTY CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,187,448 $1,750
RF272-42025 MERIT OPERATING CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,120,133 $896
RF272-42216 EINSIDLER ORGANIZATION OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,322,286 $2,658
RF272-42218 HALSTED MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 978,052 $782
RF272-42444 MURRAY H. MILLER MGMT. CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,811,427 $3,049
RF272-42812 REDCO MANAGEMENT CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 376,502 $301
RF272-43112 RALPH LANGSAM ASSOC., INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 12,862,605 $10,290
RF272-43499 JANOFF & OLSHAN, INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,186,038 $2,549
RF272-43913 CHP MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 465,736 $373
RF272-45581 EAST RIVER CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 22,714,673 $18,172
RF272-45952 DITMAS MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 5,091,425 $4,073
RF272-51267 JANOFF & OLSHAN, INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,739,213 $1,391
RF272-52230 M & R MANAGEMENT CO., INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 8,136,249 $6,509
RF272-52980 WHITE/TISHMAN EAST, INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,473,754 $2,779
RF272-52997 RUTLEY MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,485,526 $2,788
RF272-53185 RUTLEY MANAGEMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,109,464 $1,688
RF272-53748 COMPUTER PROPERTY MGMT. SERV. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,797,359 $3,038
RF272-53750 BENENSON INVESTMENT CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 4,536,664 $3,629
RF272-53970 430-450 SHORE CORP. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,007,060 $806
RF272-54645 SKS ASSOCIATES OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,922,281 $1,538
RF272-62557 PRATT INSTITUTE OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 6,065,700 $4,853
RF272-62560 J.C. PENNEY CO., INC. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 1,657,439 $1,326
RF272-63298 NEW AMSTERDAM REALTY CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 433,826 $347
RF272-65527 IRVING R. RABER CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,097,411 $1,678
RF272-65529 MILBROOK PROPERTIES, LTD. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 3,189,190 $2,551
RF272-65530 PAGE MANAGEMENT OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 2,000,755 $1,601
RF272-74019 OSMAN REALTY CO. OR DANIEL B. SMITH CO. 153,496 $123
Totals: 48 RB272-00098 187,326,540 $149,861


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