Senator  Kennedy.  Can  you  tell  us  what  guidelines  you  have  with
regard  to  procedures  in  terms  of  compliance  ?

Mr.  Maloy.  Principally,  we  have  guidelines  that  have  been  fur-
nished on  the  refinery  audits.  We  have  one  refinery  in  New  England,
out  in  Springfield,  and  we  have  had  some  guidelines  furnished  to
utility  investigations.  But  that  is  not  very  helpful  to  us  in  New  Eng-


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land.  Most  of  our  work  is  at  the  wholesale  and  retail  level.  We  have
never  received  any  guidelines  or  manuals  in  that  area.
Senator  Kennedy.  What  do  you  do  ?

Mr.  Maloy.  We  have  developed  our  own  procedures  in  the  region.
Senator  Kennedy.  Is  that  not  better  ?

Mr.  Maloy.  It  is  better  than  nothing,  yes.
Senator  Kennedy.  Is  it  not  better  to  have  regional  procedures  tar-
geted on  the  problems  in  a  particular  region?

Mr.  Maloy.  Yes,  it  is  good  to  have  them  focused  on  regional  prob-
lems, but  there  needs  to  be  some  uniformity  across  the  10  regions,  so
that  if  we  are  dealing  with  a  major  firm  in  New  England,  they  are  not
going  to  be  able  to  get  one  answer  from  us  and  another  one  from  eight
other  regions.  There  is  no  uniform  guidance  that  has  been  supplied
through  the  regions.
