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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-469 Section 103(21)]
[CITE: 42USC6249a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                     CHAPTER 77--ENERGY CONSERVATION
 
               SUBCHAPTER I--DOMESTIC SUPPLY AVAILABILITY
 
Part C--Authority To Contract for Petroleum Product Not Owned by United 
                                 States
 
Sec. 6249a. Implementation


(a) Amendment to plan not required

    An amendment of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan is not required 
for any action taken under this part.

(b) Fill rate requirement

    For purposes of section 6240(d)(1) of this title, any petroleum 
product stored in the Reserve under this part that is removed from the 
Reserve at the expiration, termination, or other conclusion of the 
agreement shall be considered to be part of the Reserve until the 
beginning of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the 
petroleum product was removed.

(c) Legal status regarding other law

    Petroleum product and facilities contracted for under this part have 
the same status as petroleum product and facilities owned by the United 
States for all purposes associated with the exercise of the laws of any 
State or political subdivision thereof.

(d) Return of product

    At such time as the petroleum product contracted for under this part 
is withdrawn from the Reserve upon the expiration, termination, or other 
conclusion of the contract, such petroleum product (or the equivalent 
quantity of petroleum product withdrawn from the Reserve pursuant to the 
contract) shall be deemed, for purposes of determining the extent to 
which such product is thereafter subject to any Federal, State, or local 
law or regulation, not to have left the place where such petroleum 
product was located at the time it was originally committed to a 
contract under this part.

(Pub. L. 94-163, title I, Sec. 172, as added Pub. L. 101-383, 
Sec. 6(a)(4), Sept. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 730.)
