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[CITE: 42USC7270b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7270b. Trespass on Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities

    (a) The Secretary may issue regulations relating to the entry upon 
or carrying, transporting, or otherwise introducing or causing to be 
introduced any dangerous weapon, explosive, or other dangerous 
instrument or material likely to produce substantial injury or damage to 
persons or property into or onto the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, its 
storage or related facilities, or real property subject to the 
jurisdiction, administration, or in the custody of the Secretary under 
part B of title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6231-6247). The Secretary shall post conspicuously, on the property 
subject to the regulations, notification that the property is subject to 
the regulations.
    (b) Whoever willfully violates a regulation of the Secretary issued 
under subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and punished upon conviction by a fine of not more than $5,000, 
imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

(Pub. L. 95-91, title VI, Sec. 662, as added Pub. L. 100-531, Sec. 1(a), 
Oct. 25, 1988, 102 Stat. 2652.)

                       References in Text

    The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, referred to in subsec. (a), 
is Pub. L. 94-163, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 871, as amended. Part B of 
title I of the Act is classified generally to part B (Sec. 6231 et seq.) 
of subchapter I of chapter 77 of this title. For complete classification 
of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6201 
of this title and Tables.
