Title 42 › CHAPTER 77 — ENERGY CONSERVATION › § 6202
These definitions explain key words used in the chapter. The word "Secretary" refers to the Secretary of Energy. "Person" includes an individual, businesses or groups (like corporations, companies, partnerships, trusts, joint ventures), and the United States government or any State or local government agency. "Petroleum product" covers crude oil, residual fuel oil, and any refined petroleum product (including natural liquid and natural gas liquid products). "State" includes a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or any U.S. territory or possession. "United States" in a geographic sense means all the States and the Outer Continental Shelf. "Outer Continental Shelf" has the same meaning as under section 1331 of title 43. "International energy program" means the Agreement on an International Energy Program signed November 18, 1974, including the annex titled "Emergency Reserves," any amendment that adds another nation, and any technical or clerical amendment. A "severe energy supply interruption" is a national fuel shortage the President finds is or will be wide and long and an emergency, could seriously harm national safety or the economy, and comes from a cut in imported or domestic petroleum supplies or from sabotage, terrorism, or an act of God. "Antitrust laws" include the 1890 Act (15 U.S.C. 1, et seq.), the 1914 Act (15 U.S.C. 12, et seq.), the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41, et seq.), sections 73 and 74 of the 1894 Act (15 U.S.C. 8 and 9), and the Act of June 19, 1936, chapter 592 (15 U.S.C. 13, 13a, 13b, and 21A). "Federal land" means land owned or controlled by the United States, including the Outer Continental Shelf and lands where the United States reserved mineral rights, except land held in trust for Indians or Alaska Natives, land owned by Indians or Alaska Natives with Federal title restrictions, land inside the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Wilderness Preservation System, National System of Trails, or Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and land within military reservations.
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42 U.S.C. § 6202
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102