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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§6249a Implementation

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 77— - ENERGY CONSERVATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - DOMESTIC SUPPLY AVAILABILITY › Part Part C— - Authority To Contract for Petroleum Product Not Owned by United States › § 6249a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Treats petroleum and the facilities under these contracts as if they are owned by the United States when state or local governments apply their laws. When the contracted oil is taken out of the Reserve because a contract ends, it is still treated for federal, state, and local law purposes as if it never left the original storage location.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6249a

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)
(c)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(d)At such time as the petroleum product contracted for under this part is withdrawn from the Reserve upon the expiration, termination, or other conclusion of the contract, such petroleum product (or the equivalent quantity of petroleum product withdrawn from the Reserve pursuant to the contract) shall be deemed, for purposes of determining the extent to which such product is thereafter subject to any Federal,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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 106–469 struck out subsecs. (a) and (b) which read as follows: “(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.”

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6249a

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73