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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-469 Section 103(22)]
[CITE: 42USC6249b]

 
                 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. 6249b. Contracts for which no implementing legislation is 
        needed
        

(a) Congressional review

    In the case of contracts entered into under this part, and 
amendments to such contracts, for which no implementing legislation is 
needed, the Secretary shall transmit each such contract and each such 
amendment to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate and to the Committee on 
Appropriations and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives within 30 days after the signing thereof.

(b) Effective date

    (1) Any such contract, and any such amendment, shall not become 
effective until the end of the 30-day period of continuous session of 
Congress after the date of such transmittal, except that such contract 
may become effective without regard to such period if the President 
determines that such contract is required as a result of a severe energy 
supply interruption or by obligations of the United States under the 
international energy program.
    (2) For purposes of paragraph (1)--
        (A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
    Congress sine die; and
        (B) the days on which either House is not in session because of 
    an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded 
    in the computation of the calendar-day period involved.

(Pub. L. 94-163, title I, Sec. 173, as added Pub. L. 101-383, 
Sec. 6(a)(4), Sept. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 731.)

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
