Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 156
Reroute Crude Oil
Records, 1963-1988, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator:

Reroute Crude Oil

title:

Records

dates:

1963-1988, n.d.

extent:

25.05 linear feet (51 document boxes, 2 half-document boxes, and 3 oversize boxes)

collection number:

MS 156

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Reroute Crude Oil Records, MS 156, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

Founded in April 1977 by Fayette County (Iowa) farmer Jim Lein, Reroute Crude Oil eventually grew to a membership of 4,100 persons in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. The group formed in response to Northern Pipe Line Company's planned crude oil pipeline, which was intended to run from Wood River, Illinois to Pine Bend, Minnesota. Because Jim Lein and his wife, Donna, knew of the difficulties other eastern Iowa farmers had experienced during the building of a Dome Corporation pipeline, they resolved that they would try to prevent the project. After consultation with then Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bob Lounsberry, Lein got in touch with lawyer Patrick Roby, who had represented landowners affected by the Dome Corporation pipeline. Roby advised organizing farmers all along the Iowa portion of the route. As a corporation, they would have standing to intervene in the hearing process. Within eleven days, Lein had contacts in the nine counties on the pipeline route, and Reroute Crude Oil had been incorporated. Lein was named Executive Director. Eventually the group had members in branches in Minnesota and Illinois as well.

The organization voiced varied concerns in opposition to the pipeline. On an individual basis, farmers were troubled by the immediate inconvenience and long-term effects of having a crude oil pipeline crossing their property. On an environmental basis, the Northern Pipe Line route crossed a major freshwater aquifer encompassing portions of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. An oil spill had the potential to do serious damage to the area's water supply. The organization also presented the view that the Northern Pipe Line (later renamed Northern Tier Pipe Line) had more to do with financial gains for Koch Industries, the parent company of Northern Pipe Line Company, than it did with the public interest.

Although Koch Industries obtained the certificates and permits to build in all three states, Reroute Crude Oil filed suit and eventually took their case to each state's Supreme Court. Eventually, in 1980, the Iowa Natural Resources Council withheld approval of three of Northern's planned stream crossings because of the fear of underground water pollution in the broken limestone of northeast Iowa. Shortly thereafter, Williams Pipe Line announced expansion of its crude oil pipeline along a long-established route through Osceola, Des Moines, and Mason City. Koch Industries joined in this project and abandoned the route through northeast Iowa.

Though the battle took ninety percent of Lein's time for three years and cost Reroute Crude Oil $152,000 in legal fees and other expenses, in the end founder Jim Lein said, "It was very definitely worth it. You hear so much about not having a chance to change things. How you just get run over by government or Big Business. But we proved a person can do something. We've made the system work."

 

Collection description

This collection (1963-1988, n.d.) contains business material from Reroute Crude Oil branches in Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois such as correspondence, reports, newsletters, meeting minutes, petition, and surveys. Also included is legal material from Reroute Crude Oil as well as Northern Tier Pipeline and Williams Pipe Line including court case transcripts, hearing exhibits, hearing testimonies, permit cancellations, and appeals.

This collection also includes a large amount of reference material such as reports from the federal government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and other political and conservation organizations concerning energy use and transportation, oil use, fuel alternatives, and several reports on consumption of fuel in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. The collection contains several news clippings about the ongoing battle between the two organizations as well as propaganda cartoons from various newspapers and magazines used during Reroute Crude Oil's campaign. In addition, this collection contains several photographs of pipeline construction, farms affected by construction, and the aftermath of an oil spill which occurred during construction and several topographical and plat maps on the area of proposed construction.

Acronyms used throughout this collection:

DOE: U.S. Department of Energy
EIS: Environmental Impact Statement
ICC: Iowa Commerce Commission
MDNR: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
MEA: Minnesota Energy Agency
MEQB: Minnesota Environmental Quality Board
MEQC: Minnesota Environmental Quality Council
MPL: Minnesota Pipe Line Company
NPLC: Northern Pipe Line Company of Delaware
NTPL: Northern Tier Pipe Line Company
RCO: Reroute Crude Oil
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture

 

Container list

 

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

RCO Iowa: includes Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws, application for non-profit status, membership lists, and lists of county officers

1975-1979

1

2

RCO Iowa: includes membership lists and lists of officers

1978, n.d.

1

3

RCO Iowa: surveys of landowners

1977, n.d.

1

4

RCO Iowa: memoranda and The Pipeline Press newsletters

1977-1980, n.d.

1

5

RCO Iowa: meeting minutes and notices

1977-1980

1

6

RCO Iowa: reference material, including brochures, speeches, pipeline status report, fact sheet, pipeline reports, and newsclippings

1977-1980, n.d.

1

7

RCO Iowa: financial reports

1978-1979

1

8

RCO Iowa: James Lein expenses

1977-1980

1

9-10

RCO Iowa: bank statements and cancelled checks

1977-1981

1

11-12

RCO Iowa: bills and related correspondence

1978-1981

2

1

RCO Iowa: bills and related correspondence

1978-1981

2

2

RCO Iowa: Minnesota/Northern Pipe Line Company meeting notice and agendas

1977

2

3

RCO Iowa: Northern Pipe Line Company meeting notices

1977-1978

2

4

RCO Iowa: Northern Pipe Line Company meeting Q & A session transcription

1978

2

5

RCO Iowa: Northern Pipe Line Company meeting transcription and audio cassette tapes (2)

1978

2

6

RCO Iowa: Northern Pipe Line Company meeting Q & A transcription

1978

2

7

RCO Iowa: Fayette County pipeline geological problems report

n.d.

2

8

RCO Iowa: sample easements

1976, n.d.

2

9

RCO Iowa: handwritten notes, including notes on legislation

n.d.

2

10

RCO Iowa: handwritten notes, includes notes on alternative building plans

1978 ca.

2

11

RCO Iowa: handwritten notes, includes notes on court cases

1979 ca.

2

12-13

RCO Iowa: handwritten notes, includes attorney's notes

1979, n.d.

2

14

RCO Iowa: legal precedent regarding public use in relation to eminent domain

n.d.

2

15

RCO Iowa: Iowa legislature and RCO Legislative Committee correspondence

1978, n.d.

3

1-2

RCO Iowa: pipeline legislation

1977-1981

3

3

RCO Iowa: public response to pipeline legislation

1977-1981

3

4

RCO Iowa: RCO income tax material

1979-1981

3

5

RCO Iowa: RCO negotiation authorization designating Patrick Roby as agent to negotiate with NCO

1979, n.d.

3

6-7

RCO Iowa: Engineering reports, includes some correspondence

1977-1978

3

8

RCO Iowa: Environmental Report, Iowa: A Proposed Crude Oil Pipe-Line Route report

1978

4

1

RCO Iowa: RCO vs. Iowa Commerce Commission (ICC) court case

1979-1980

4

2-3

RCO Iowa: briefs

1980

4

4

Speeches and statements by RCO members: Harold Froehlich

1977-1981, n.d.

4

5

Speeches and statements by RCO members: Glen Jansson

1979

4

6

Speeches and statements by RCO members: William Ketelsen

n.d.

4

7

Speeches and statements by RCO members: Jim Lein

1977-1981

4

8

Speeches and statements by RCO members: Mark Moenning

1980

4

9-10

RCO Iowa: exhibits used by RCO in legal actions

1976-1979, n.d.

5

1

RCO Iowa: Iowa Conservation Commission report with correspondence

1980

5

2

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: regulations and procedures

1963-1978, n.d.

5

3

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Crude Oil Pipe Crossing at Mile Post 462.7 Mississippi River report by National Biocentric, Inc.

1977

5

4

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: notes and correspondence

1977-1981

5

5

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: James Lein public hearing statement

1978

5

6

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: handwritten notes

1978

6

1

Iowa Natural Resources Council: Northern Pipeline court case

1980

6

2-5

Iowa Natural Resources Council: contested case hearings

1979

6

6-7

Iowa Natural Resources Council: hearing exhibits

1977-1979, n.d.

7

1

Iowa Natural Resources Council: hearing exhibits

1979

7

2

Iowa Natural Resources Council: hearing testimony

1979-1980

7

3

Iowa Commerce Commission: Order Granting Use of Right of Eminent Domain

1977

7

4

Iowa Commerce Commission: Written Objection of Proposed Northern Pipeline Project

1978

7

5

Iowa Commerce Commission: post hearing brief

1978

7

6-8

Iowa Commerce Commission: petitions

1977-1979

7

9

Iowa Commerce Commission: hearing transcripts (vol. I-VI, volume III not included)

1978-1979

8

1-4

Iowa Commerce Commission: hearing transcripts (vol. I-VI, volume III not included)

1978-1979

9

1

Iowa Commerce Commission: hearing transcripts (vol. VII)

1979

9

2

Iowa Commerce Commission: unbound transcripts

1979

9

3-5

Iowa Commerce Commission: pleadings

1977-1978

9

6

Iowa Commerce Commission: briefs

1978

10

1-4

Iowa Commerce Commission: briefs

1978

10

5

Iowa Commerce Commission: hearing testimony

1976-1978, n.d.

11

1-10

Iowa Commerce Commission: hearing testimony

1976-1978, n.d.

12

1

Iowa Commerce Commission: motions, petitions, and hearing testimony

1977

12

2

Iowa Commerce Commission: rehearing testimony

1978

12

3-5

Iowa Commerce Commission: exhibits

1977-1978

13

1

Iowa Commerce Commission: legal precedents

n.d.

13

2

Iowa Commerce Commission: includes correspondence, petitions, agendas, court cases, and public hearing statements

1977-1978

13

3

Iowa Commerce Commission: sinkhole photograph with Jim Lein (1-5x10, b/w)

n.d.

13

4

RCO Minnesota: Patoka to Cottage Grove Pipeline Feasibility Report

1974

13

5

RCO Minnesota: Final Report of the Legislative Commission on Energy

1975

13

6

RCO Minnesota: Implications for Minnesota of Canadian Crude Oil Export Curtailments draft report

1976

13

7

RCO Minnesota: Draft Environmental Statement, Pipeline from Patoka, Illinois to Pine Bend, Minnesota

1977

13

8

RCO Minnesota: Wood River, Illinois to Pine Bend, Minnesota Pipeline Project Summary

1977

13

9

RCO Minnesota: Draft Environmental Impact Statement addendum

1978

13

10

Iowa Commerce Commission: photo album (56 color photographs) of Northern Pipeline construction, includes newsclippings and additional photos (11-3.5x3.5, color) with original sleeve

1977-1978, n.d.

14

1

RCO Minnesota: Legislative bills and exhibits, including federal bills

1977-1978

14

2

RCO Minnesota: includes membership lists, Secretary's Report, brochure, and notes

1978-1979

14

3

RCO Minnesota: Legal Expenses (Rider, Bennett, Egan & Arundel, Attorneys at Law)

1978-1979

14

4

RCO Minnesota: income and expenses

1978-1979

14

5

RCO Minnesota: includes position papers, testimony, and addendum to environmental impact statement

1978

14

6-7

RCO Minnesota: includes background and research material

1975-1979

14

8-9

RCO Minnesota: reference material including previous court cases

n.d.

14

10

RCO Minnesota: Mississippi River barging

1977-1979

15

1-2

Minnesota Energy Agency: legal rules and precedents

1976, n.d.

15

3

Minnesota Energy Agency: Application for Certificate of Need for a Large Oil Pipeline Facility

1976

15

4

Minnesota Energy Agency: hearing transcript

1977

15

5

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes briefs, hearing examiner's conclusions and recommendations, and hearing examiner's report

1977

15

6

Minnesota Energy Agency: interim report of hearing examiner

1977

15

7

Minnesota Energy Agency: exceptions of applicant to interim report

1977

15

8

Minnesota Energy Agency: petition for rehearing and order denying petition

1977

16

1

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes affidavits and testimonies

1977

16

2

Minnesota Energy Agency: testimonies

1977-1978

16

3

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline application for certificate of need

1978

16

4

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline supplement for certificate of need

1978

16

5-7

Minnesota Energy Agency: hearing transcripts (vol. I-III)

1979

17

1-2

Minnesota Energy Agency: hearing transcripts (vol. IV-V)

1979

17

3

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline application for rehearing, brief of policy analysis staff, and proposed findings of the policy analysis staff

1979

17

4

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline rehearing attachments

1979

17

5

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline statement upon denial of certificate of need

1979

17

6-9

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline application and hearing transcripts (v. II-V)

1979

18

1

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes Northern Tier Pipeline order for hearing, certificate of need staff report, first prehearing order, and policy analysis staff preliminary statement

1978

18

2

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes applicant's proposed findings of fact, memoranda, conclusions and recommendations of policy analysis staff and hearing examiner, and handwritten notes

1978

18

3

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes applicant's memoranda in support of request for reconsideration, findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommendation on rehearing, and applicant's response to brief of policy analysis staff

1979

18

4

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline Memorandum in the Support of the Issuance of a Certificate of Need and in Support of Northern Tier's Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

n.d.

18

5

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendation of hearing examiner

1979

18

6

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline request of reconsideration and petition for rehearing, and exceptions to hearing examiner's report

1979

18

7

Minnesota Energy Agency: includes John P. Millhone (MEA Director) case remarks

1978, n.d.

18

8-9

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline testimony

1978

19

1-2

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline hearing exhibits

1979

19

3

Minnesota Energy Agency: rehearing exhibits and notes

1978-1979

19

4

Minnesota Energy Agency: statements by Robert S. Nickoloff and Honorable Michael Thomas Blouin, Congressman

1978

19

5

Minnesota Energy Agency: bicentennial report

1978

19

6

Minnesota Energy Agency: Northern Tier Pipeline survey

n.d.

19

7

Minnesota Energy Agency: Mediation between Minnesota landowners and Northern Tier Pipeline

1978

19

8

Minnesota Energy Agency: analysis of MEA's authority to grant certificates of need

1977

19

9

Minnesota Energy Agency: The Minnesota Energy Agency's Position Regarding Northern Tier Pipeline Proposals report

1976

19

10

Minnesota Energy Agency: statements of officials

1977-1980

19

11

Minnesota Energy Agency: energy problems statements

1977-1979

20

1

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: environmental impact statement memoranda

1977-1980, n.d.

20

2

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: sample permits for Reserve Mining Company

1977

20

3

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board: includes agendas and minutes

1976-1979

20

4

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: draft environmental impact statement

1977

20

5

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: draft environmental impact statement addendum

1978

20

6

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: responses to draft environmental impact statement and addendum

1977-1980, n.d.

20

7

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board: final environmental impact statement resolution, analysis, and responses to comments

1979

21

1

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Final Environmental Impact Statement (Vol. I)

1978

21

2

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Final Environmental Impact Statement (Vol. II)

1978

21

3

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board: includes lists of members, agendas, and speeches and statements

1978-1980, n.d.

21

4

Minnesota Environmental Quality Council: includes memoranda and handwritten notes

1979

21

5

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board: Northern Tier Pipeline proposed resolution testimony

1979

21

6

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Michael L. Koempel statement before Senate Subcommittee

1979

21

7

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Report on the Proposed Northern Pipeline Co. Project

1979

22

1

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: eminent domain hearings

1979

22

2

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: transcript exhibits

1979

22

3

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: transcript (vol. I)

1979

22

4

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: transcript (vol. II, part I)

1979

22

5

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: transcript (vol. II, part II)

1979

22

6

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Hans-Olaf Pfannkuch deposition

1979

22

7

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: includes interrogatories, notice of taking deposition, and request for production of documents

1979

22

8

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Vonny Hagen deposition (MDNR Assistant Commissioner for Planning)

1979

22

9

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Nels Willard Lee deposition (farmer, President and Chairman of the Board of RCO Iowa)

1979

22

10

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Harold E. Frochlich deposition (Consulting Engineer to the RCO Iowa Board)

1979

23

1

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Mark Moenning deposition (Minnesota Legislative Chairman, RCO Iowa)

1979

23

2

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: John Dee Roper affidavit (Executive VP, Koch Refining Company)

1979

23

3

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Algernon H. Johnson (MEA Director)

1979

23

4

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: summary of depositions

1979

23

5

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: motion and notice of motion

1979

23

6

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcripts of procedures held before the Honorable Warren T. Plunkett

1979

23

7

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: subpoenas

1979

23

8

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: defendant's pre-trial memorandum

1979

23

9

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: defendant's memoranda in support of motion for summary judgment

1979

23

10

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: intervener's memoranda in support of defendant's motion for summary judgment

1979

23

11

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: David L. Jacobson affidavit (Manager, MEA Certificate of Need program)

1979

23

12

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: Roger L. Williams affidavit (President, NPLC)

1979

23

13

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. I)

1979

23

14

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. II)

1979

24

1

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. III)

1979

24

2

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. IV)

1979

24

3

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. V)

1979

24

4

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. VI)

1979

25

1

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. VII)

1979

25

2

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. VIII)

1979

25

3

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: transcript of proceedings (vol. IX)

1979

25

4

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: plaintiff RCO's proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law

1979

25

5

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: plaintiff RCO's post-trial brief

1979

25

6

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: state defendant's post-trial brief

1979

26

1

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: trial brief of NPLC and Koch Refining Co.

1979

26

2

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: includes findings of fact, conclusions of law, and judgment

1979

26

3

RCO Iowa vs. MEQB: handwritten notes (marked Trial Notes)

n.d.

26

4

Minnesota Supreme Court: The Minnesota Supreme Court procedure booklet

n.d.

26

5

Minnesota Supreme Court: order directing the preparation of the transcript and brief

1980

26

6

RCO Illinois: includes lists of members and landowners along NPLC pipeline route

1977 ca.

26

7

RCO Illinois: memoranda

1979, n.d.

26

8

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence and Application for Issuance of Subpoena

1977

26

9

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence, certificates, and retainers (January)

1978

26

10

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence, briefs, orders of convenience, and receipts of acknowledgment (February - December)

1978

26

11

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence, notices, and briefs

1979

26

12

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence and petition for leave to appeal

1980

26

13

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence, order revoking permit, and petition to revoke certificate of public convenience

1981

26

14

RCO Illinois: includes legal action correspondence and articles of dissolution

1982

26

15

RCO Illinois: legal precedent regarding public utilities and eminent domain

n.d.

27

1

RCO Illinois: legal precedent regarding public utilities and eminent domain

n.d.

27

2

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: rules of practice

1976

27

3

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: legal documents

1977, n.d.

27

4

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: briefs (January - February)

1978

27

5

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: briefs (March - August)

1978

27

6

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: draft cross-examination

n.d.

27

7

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: exhibit A - Michael Curran statement (President, NTPL)

1977

27

8

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: testimonies (includes Peter Arnold Brokx, Harold E. Froelich, Loren C. Kolditz, James Lein, Richard E. Myers, and John F. O'Leary)

1978, n.d.

27

9

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: testimonies (Ronald D. Visness and James R. Waller)

1977, n.d.

27

10

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: testimonies (includes James R. Waller, Harry M. Weed, and Roger L. Williams)

1977, n.d.

27

11

Illinois Commerce Commission Docket No. 77-0603: rebuttal testimonies (includes Jack O'Brien and Harry M. Weed)

n.d.

28

1

Illinois Circuit Court Case No. 78-MR-5: includes briefs, notices, orders, and reports of proceedings for case

1978-1979

28

2

Illinois Appellate Court Appeal from Circuit Court No. 78-MR-5: includes briefs, notices, objection, and appeal orders

1979-1980, n.d.

28

3

Illinois Supreme Court Appeal from Appellate Court No. 15878: petition for leave to appeal and answer to petition

1980

28

4

Permit Cancellations: includes correspondence and legal documents regarding NPLC permit and certificates of need cancellations

1980-1981

28

5

RCO correspondence: includes newsletters

n.d.

28

6

RCO correspondence: September

1974

28

7

RCO correspondence: January - March

1976

28

8

RCO correspondence: July

1976

28

9

RCO correspondence: September - December

1976

28

10

RCO correspondence: 1977 (otherwise undated)

1977, n.d.

28

11

RCO correspondence: January

1977

29

1-8

RCO correspondence: February-September

1977

29

9

RCO correspondence: letters objecting to pipeline

1977

29

10

RCO correspondence: October

1977

30

1

RCO correspondence: November

1977

30

2

RCO correspondence: complaints regarding damages caused by Dome pipeline crews

1977

30

3

RCO correspondence: December

1977

30

4-9

RCO correspondence: January - June

1978

31

1-6

RCO correspondence: July - December

1978

31

7-17

RCO correspondence: January - November

1979

32

1

RCO correspondence: December

1979

32

2-8

RCO correspondence: January - November, includes hearings

1980

32

9

RCO correspondence: general

1981

32

10

RCO correspondence: general

1982

32

11-14

News clippings: undated

n.d.

32

15

News clippings: general

1970

32

16

News clippings: December

1973

32

17-19

News clippings: general

1974-1976

32

20

News clippings: general, otherwise undated

1977, n.d.

32

21

News clippings: January

1977

32

22

News clippings: February

1977

32

23

News clippings: March

1977

32

24

News clippings: April

1977

32

25

News clippings: May

1977

32

26

News clippings: June

1977

32

27

News clippings: July

1977

33

1

News clippings: August

1977

33

2

News clippings: October

1977

33

3

News clippings: September

1977

33

4

News clippings: November

1977

34

1

News clippings: December

1977

34

2

News clippings: general

1978

34

3

News clippings: January

1978

34

4

News clippings: February

1978

34

5

News clippings: March

1978

34

6

News clippings: April

1978

34

7

News clippings: May

1978

34

8

News clippings: June

1978

34

9

News clippings: July

1978

34

10

News clippings: August

1978

34

11

News clippings: September

1978

34

12

News clippings: October

1978

34

13

News clippings: November

1978

34

14

News clippings: December

1978

34

15

News clippings: general

1979

34

16

News clippings: January

1979

34

17

News clippings: February

1979

34

18

News clippings: March

1979

35

1-9

News clippings: April - December

1979

35

10

News clippings: general, otherwise undated

1980, n.d.

35

11-19

News clippings: January - September

1980

36

1-3

News clippings: October - December

1980

36

4

News clippings: general, otherwise undated

1981

36

5-14

News clippings: January - December

1981

36

15

News clippings: general

1982

36

16

News clippings: general

1988

36

17

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): promotional shipping brochures

1975-1977, n.d.

36

18

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Report of the Attorney General

1967

36

19

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Guide to World Crude Oil Export Streams chart

1976

36

20

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): U.S. Petroleum Pipelines: Performance and Outlook

1977

36

21

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Market Opportunities in the United States for Canadian Heavy Fuel Oil, 1985-1995

1978

36

22

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Proposed Energy Facilities and Energy Development in the U.S.

1978

36

23

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Canadian Oil Supply and Requirements

1978

36

24

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): Foster Natural Gas Report

1978

37

1

Reference material (Oil Supply Background): National Energy Transportation Study, a preliminary report to the President

1980

37

2

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Supply Study for Northern Tier Refineries

n.d.

37

3

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Analysis of DOE Forecast for Northern Tier Petroleum Transportation Deficits

n.d.

37

4

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: MEA comments on Crude Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States

1976 ca.

37

5

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Crude Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States (Vol. I) and executive summary

1976

37

6

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Crude Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States (Vol. II) and technical report

1976

37

7

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Crude Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States report for the Federal Energy Administration

1976

37

8

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: projected shortages in the Northern Tier States

1976-1977, n.d.

37

9

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States through 1980

1977

37

10

Northern Tier States Oil Supply: Northern Tier Refineries Capacity and Canadian Allocation Program Priority

1978 ca.

38

1

Reference material (Department of Energy): public hearings on crude oil transportation, includes notice, schedule, and testimony

1978

38

2

Reference material (Department of Energy): transcript of proceedings

1978

38

3

Reference material (Energy Transportation Project): Northern Tier Study Briefing Material report

1978

38

4

Reference material (National Energy Board): Canadian Oil: Supply and Requirements report

1978

38

5

Reference material (Upper Midwest Council): Upper Midwest Crude Oil Supplies: Problems and Alternatives report

1978

38

6

Reference material (Department of Energy): Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier and Inland States Through the Year 2000 draft report (Vol. I)

1979

39

1

Reference material (Department of Energy): Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier and Inland States Through the Year 2000 draft report (Vol. II)

1979

39

2

Reference material (Department of Energy): public hearing on Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier... schedule and testimony

1979

39

3

Reference material: Harold Froelich response to Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier...

1979

39

4

Reference material (Department of the Interior): West to East Crude Oil Transportation Systems

1979

39

5

Reference material (Department of Energy): Analysis of West to East Pipeline Applications

1979

39

6

Reference material: comments on West to East Crude Oil Transportation Systems

1979

39

7

Reference material (Department of the Interior): Report to the President: West to East Crude Oil Transportation Systems

1979

39

8

Reference material (Federal Trade Commission): Report to the President on Proposed Northern Tier Oil Pipeline

1979

39

9

Reference material (Department of Energy): Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier and Inland States Through the Year 2000 (Vol. I)

1979

40

1

Reference material (Department of Energy): Petroleum Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier and Inland States Through the Year 2000 (Vol. II)

1979

40

2

Pipeline Feasibility: includes Water Quality Management Bulletin, correspondence, and preliminary draft of Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Crude Oil...

1977-1978, n.d.

40

3

Pipeline Feasibility: includes appendices, Contract Completion Report 97, and Amended Agricultural Impact Addendum

1977-1978, n.d.

40

4

Pipeline Feasibility: includes Proposed Scope for the Environmental Impact Statement, Alaskan Tanker Fleet Economics, and progress reports

1977-1978, n.d.

40

5

Pipeline Construction, Land Use, and Soil Disturbance: EPA Policy to Protect and Preserve the Nation's Environmentally Significant Agricultural Lands draft

n.d.

40

6

Pipeline Construction, Land Use, and Soil Disturbance: Major Uses of Land in the United States: Summary for 1969 USDA Economic Research Service report

1973

40

7

Pipeline Construction, Land Use, and Soil Disturbance: Strip Mining in the Corn Belt: The Destruction of High Capability Agricultural Land...

1976

41

1

Pipeline Construction, Land Use, and Soil Disturbance: includes energy facility siting regulations and laws, press releases, and the Washington Resource Report newsletter

1978

41

2

Pipeline Construction, Land Use, and Soil Disturbance: includes studies and statements regarding effects of pipeline construction on soil productivity

1977-1979, n.d.

41

3

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes regulations governing pipelines and underground gas storage

n.d.

41

4

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes sample easement with proper tile repair diagrams

n.d.

41

5

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes illustrations of pipeline facilities and techniques of installation

n.d.

41

6

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes Jack Riffe testimony regarding pipeline installation techniques

1978, n.d.

41

7

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes handwritten notes regarding pipeline leak detecting systems

n.d.

41

8

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes Fayette County oil spill paper and 7 photographs (3x3, color) and 7 negatives (2x2)

1968-1977

41

9

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: American National Code for Pressure Piping: Liquid Petroleum Transportation Piping Systems

1971

41

10

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Federal Register: Construction Safety and Health Regulations, Vol. 39, No. 122, Part II

1974

41

11

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Regulations for the Transportation of Liquids by Pipeline DOT report

1976

41

12

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Standard for Welding Pipelines and Related Facilities

1977

41

13

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Report on Milepost 457.5 Oil Spill (Alaska Pipeline Office)

1978

41

14

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Special Design and Construction Techniques for a Proposed Crude Oil Pipeline... (Minnesota Energy Agency)

1978

41

15

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes correspondence and report on Alyeska leak detection tests

1978

42

1

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: Oil Spill Propagation Study (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)

1979

42

2

Pipeline Construction Standards and Safety: includes hearing testimony and transcripts on trans-Alaska oil pipeline leaks (House of Representatives)

1979

42

3

Pipeline Tariffs: includes rates and tariffs for various pipeline companies

1976-1978, n.d.

42

4

Pipeline Ownership: Oil Company Ownership of Pipelines report (U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly)

1978

42

5

Pipeline Ownership: John H. Shenefield testimony

1978

43

1

Pipeline Ownership: transcript of hearing on oil pipeline ownership

1978

43

2

Pipeline Ownership: petition to the Federal Trade Commission

1979, n.d.

43

3

Pipeline Ownership: Report to the Congress: Petroleum Pipeline Rates and Competition report (U.S. General Accounting Office)

1979

43

4

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Agreement and Grant of Right of Way for Trans-Alaska Pipeline between U.S.A. and Amerada Hess Corporation... report

1974

43

5

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement overview

1976

43

6

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement glossary

1976

43

7

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement consultation and coordination

1976

44

1

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement alternatives

1976

44

2

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement Alaska

1976

45

1

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement Alaska map volume

1976

45

2

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement Canada

1976

45

3

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement Canada map volume

1976

46

1

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement Los Angeles

1976

46

2

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement North Border

1976

46

3

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement San Francisco

1976

47

1

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Final Environmental Impact Statement selected copies

1976

47

2

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Initial Decision on Competing Applications for an Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation Project Docket No. CD75-96

1977

47

3

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Decision and Report on the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System (Executive Office of the President)

1977

47

4

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Trans-Alaska Pipeline: an overview study

1977

47

5

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Oil Spill Contingency Plan (Alyeska Pipeline Service)

1978

48

1

Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System: Stipulations for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System report

1979

48

2

Koch Industries: excerpt from booklet regarding new Canadian pipeline

n.d.

48

3

Koch Industries: projections of crude oil supply

1973-1977

48

4

Koch Industries: includes pipeline correspondence and receipt and release form

1976-1979

48

5

Koch Industries: Canadian Crude Supply paper, 1st edition

1974

48

6

Koch Industries: Canadian Crude Supply paper, revised edition

1975

48

7

Koch Industries: Crude Oil Supply to Minnesota and Wisconsin paper, 1st revised edition

1977

48

8

Koch Industries: Department of Energy/Canadian Allocation Program Priority Designations documents, includes affidavits and reports

1977

48

9

Koch Industries: Department of Energy Economic Regulatory Conference...includes notice, agenda, list of participants, testimony, and transcript of proceedings

1977

48

10

Koch Industries: John Dee Roper opening statement before the Department of Energy

1978

49

1

Minnesota Pipeline Company: includes Roger L. Williams (president) testimony, Power Cost Optimization Study, and environmental data

1975-1977

49

2

Minnesota Pipeline Company: Patoka, Illinois to Pine Bend, Minnesota Pipeline Project report

1976

49

3

Northern Border Pipeline Company: Environmental Assessment: Northern Border Project report

1978

49

4

Northern Pipe Line Company: includes articles of incorporation, bylaws, meeting minutes, and memoranda

1967-1977

49

5

Northern Pipe Line Company: includes correspondence and finance reports

1977

50

1

Northern Pipe Line Company: includes correspondence, cost analysis of pipeline route, and alternate routes

1977

50

2

Northern Pipe Line Company: includes instructions to right of way agents, easement forms, and statements given to landowners

1977, n.d.

50

3-5

Northern Pipe Line Company: project summaries and status reports

1977-1978

50

6

Northern Pipe Line Company: Northern Pipe Line Company of Delaware, Inc. report on environmental issues in Iowa

n.d.

50

7-8

NPLC route geological features material

1977-1979, n.d.

51

1

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Draft Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System summary

1979

51

2

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Draft Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation statement

1979

51

3

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Draft Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation map addendum

1979

51

4

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System summary

1979

51

5

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System (Vol. I)

1979

52

1

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System (Vol. II)

1979

52

2

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System (Vol. III)

1979

52

3

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Environmental Statement: Crude Oil Transportation System (Vol. IV and map addendum)

1979

53

1

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Overview of the Proposed Northern Tier Pipeline

n.d.

53

2

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: hearing testimony

n.d.

53

3

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Northern Tier Pipeline System: Benefits to the Northern Tier States and the Nation report

1977

53

4

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Vincent E. Butler testimony (director, NTPL)

1977

53

5

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: D. Michael Curran testimony (president, NTPL)

1977

53

6

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Crude Oil Supply/Demand Outlook for the Northern Tier and Midwest States report

1978

53

7

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: background material

1978-1979, n.d.

53

8

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Northern Tier Pipeline Company Project Fact Book report

1979

53

9

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Final Minnesota Environmental Impact Statement report

1980

53

10

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Harold Froelich presentations to MEQB regarding NTPL

1980

53

11

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Progress Reports newsletter (June - December)

1980

53

12

Northern Tier Pipeline Company: Washington district court transcript

1981

54

1

Williams Pipe Line Company: Mainline Expansion for Northern Tier Supply report

1976

54

2

Williams Pipe Line Company: The Rape of Grey Cloud article

1977

54

3

Williams Pipe Line Company: Maps and Members: 67th Iowa General Assembly pamphlet

1977

54

4

Williams Pipe Line Company: Iowa county plat books and directories, includes Buchanan, Cedar, Fayette, and Muscatine

1968-1976

54

5

Williams Pipe Line Company: Minnesota county plat books, includes Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Mower, and Olmsted

1970-1976, n.d.

54

6

Williams Pipe Line Company: railroad maps

1972-1977, n.d.

54

7

Williams Pipe Line Company: maps of existing pipeline routes

1973-1978, n.d.

54

8

Williams Pipe Line Company: plans of proposed Northern Border Pipe Line Company route

n.d.

54

9

Williams Pipe Line Company: plans of proposed NTPL route

n.d.

54

10

Williams Pipe Line Company: Long Term Crude Oil Supply Alternatives for the Northern Tier States plan of various proposed pipelines

n.d.

54

11

Williams Pipe Line Company: proposed route of Minnesota Pipe Line Company pipeline

1974-1976

55

1

Reference material: maps of proposed route of NPLC

1977-1979, n.d.

55

2

Reference material: maps showing proposed river crossings of NPLC

1977-1979, n.d.

55

3

Reference material: Iowa county maps showing proposed route of NPLC

1971

55

4

Reference material: Minnesota county maps showing proposed route of NPLC

n.d.

55

5

Reference material: geologic and topographic maps of areas crossed by NPLC

1969-1979

55

6

Reference material: topographical map set showing proposed NPLC route in Minnesota

1979

Map case

C401
D015

Reference material: oversized map of NPLC route showing sinkholes, timber, and high voltage towers

1976-1977, n.d.