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§8732 Authorizations of appropriations

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 869— - NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES › § 8732

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money cannot be spent for naval petroleum reserve work unless a law clearly allows it. That includes exploring, conserving, developing, preparing for, and producing oil; any production allowed under this chapter or after April 5, 1976; and building or running related facilities like pipelines and shipping terminals. Contracts under this chapter can run for five years and be renewed once for another five years. They can only promise to use money that laws actually provide.

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Title 10, §8732

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(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.
(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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 743234 U.S.C. 524 (3d par., less 2d sentence; 5th par., 124th through 168th words).
June 4, 1920, ch. 228 (3d par., less 2d sentence; 5th par., 124th through 168th words, of amended 3d and 4th provisos), 41 Stat. 813;
June 30, 1938, ch. 851, § 1, 52 Stat. 1252;
June 17, 1944, ch. 262, 58 Stat. 281. 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.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7432 of this title as this section. 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”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment 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 Pub. L. 96–137, § 3(c), Dec. 12, 1979, 93 Stat. 1062, abolished the naval petroleum reserves special account established by this section as in existence on the day before Dec. 12, 1979, and transferred unappropriated balances of funds on that date to the Treasury.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8732

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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