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[CITE: 10USC7432]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                  CHAPTER 641--NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES
 
Sec. 7432. Authorizations of appropriations

    (a) Funds for the following purposes may not be appropriated unless 
such appropriations have been specifically authorized by law:
        (1) Exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, 
    operations, and production of the naval petroleum reserves as 
    authorized by this chapter.
        (2) Production (including preparation for production) as 
    authorized by this chapter or as may be authorized after April 5, 
    1976.
        (3) The construction and operation of facilities both within and 
    outside the naval petroleum reserves incident to the production and 
    the delivery of petroleum, including pipelines and shipping 
    terminals.

Sums appropriated for such purposes shall remain available until 
expended.
    (b) Contracts under this chapter providing for the obligation of 
funds may be entered into for a period of five years, renewable for an 
additional five-year period; however, such contracts may obligate funds 
only to the extent that such funds are made available in appropriation 
Acts.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 461; Pub. L. 87-796, Sec. 1(8), Oct. 
11, 1962, 76 Stat. 905; Pub. L. 94-258, title II, Sec. 201(13), Apr. 5, 
1976, 90 Stat. 312; Pub. L. 96-137, Sec. 3(b)(1), Dec. 12, 1979, 93 
Stat. 1061; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 513(35), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 
Stat. 2934.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7432..................................  34 U.S.C. 524 (3d par., less 2d      Ju
ne 4, 1920, ch. 228 (3d par.,
                                         sentence; 5th par., 124th through    l
ess 2d sentence; 5th par., 124th
                                         168th words).                        t
hrough 168th words, of amended 3d
                                                                              a
nd 4th provisos), 41 Stat. 813;
                                                                              J
une 30, 1938, ch. 851, Sec.  1,
                                                                              5
2 Stat. 1252; June 17, 1944, ch.
                                                                              2
62, 58 Stat. 281.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``by the Congress'' are omitted as 
surplusage.
    In subsection (b) the words ``There is authorized to be 
appropriated'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96-513 substituted a period for the 
semicolon at the end.
    1979--Pub. L. 96-137 struck out provisions relating to the naval 
petroleum reserves special account.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-258 substituted ``Naval petroleum reserves special 
account'' for ``Expenditures: appropriations chargeable'' in section 
catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-258 substituted provisions establishing a 
special account on the books of the Treasury Department to be designated 
as the ``naval petroleum reserves special account'', and authorizing to 
be credited proceeds resulting from the sale or exchange of the United 
States share of petroleum, refined petroleum products, appropriation 
funds, royalties, or other revenue from the operation of the reserves, 
for provisions authorizing the expenditure of funds from available 
appropriations for expenses incurred in the administration of the 
reserves.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-258 substituted provisions which made funds 
in the naval petroleum reserve special account available in sums 
specified in annual appropriations acts for enumerated expense items, 
for provisions which authorized expenditures to be made under the 
direction of the President and requiring the President to submit an 
estimate of expenditures necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
chapter.
    Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 94-258 added subsecs. (c) and (d).
    1962--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87-796 substituted ``with respect to the 
naval petroleum and oil shale reserves shall be paid from appropriations 
made available for the purposes specified in this chapter'' for ``in 
exploring, prospecting, conserving, developing, using and operating 
lands owned or controlled by the United States in the naval petroleum 
reserves, and in producing petroleum, and the share of the United States 
of expenses incurred under any contract entered into under this chapter, 
shall be paid from appropriations made available for those purposes''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.


          Abolition of Naval Petroleum Reserves Special Account

    Section 3(c) of Pub. L. 96-137 provided that: ``The naval petroleum 
reserves special account established by section 7432 of title 10, United 
States Code, as in existence on the day before the date of the enactment 
of this Act [Dec. 12, 1979], is abolished. Unappropriated balances of 
funds in the naval petroleum reserves special account on the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall be transferred on the books of the Treasury 
into miscellaneous receipts, and all moneys accruing to the United 
States after such date under chapter 641 of title 10, United States 
Code, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 43 section 1601.
