2013—Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 113–67 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary may acquire, place in storage, transport, or exchange—
“(1) crude oil produced from Federal lands
“(2) crude oil which the United States is entitled to receive in kind as royalties from production on Federal lands; and
“(3) petroleum products acquired by purchase, exchange, or otherwise.”
2005—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 109–58 added subsec. (c).
2000—Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(A), in introductory provisions, substituted “The Secretary may acquire, place in storage, transport, or exchange” for “The Secretary is authorized, for purposes of implementing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan or the Early Storage Reserve Plan, to place in storage, transport, or exchange”.
Subsec. (a)(1). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(B), struck out “, including crude oil produced from the Naval Petroleum Reserves to the extent that such production is authorized by law;” after “Federal lands”.
Subsec. (span). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(C), struck out “, including the Early Storage Reserve and the Regional Petroleum Reserve” before “in a manner consonant” in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (span)(2). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(C), struck out par. (2) which read as follows: “orderly development of the Naval Petroleum Reserves to the extent authorized by law;”.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(D), struck out subsecs. (c) to (e) which related to fill operations by the President, disposition of crude oil from Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, and suspensions of fill operations during emergency situations.
Subsec. (g). Puspan. L. 106–469, § 103(14)(D), struck out subsec. (g) which required the Secretary to conduct a test program of storage of refined petroleum products within the Reserve.
1995—Subsec. (g)(7). Puspan. L. 104–66 struck out par. (7) which read as follows: “No later than January 31, 1994, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report on the test program. The report shall evaluate the mechanisms demonstrated under the test program, other potential mechanisms, and the purchase of facilities. The report shall include an assessment of the costs and benefits of the various mechanisms. The report shall also make recommendations with regard to future storage of refined petroleum products and contain drafts of any legislative provisions which the Secretary wishes to recommend.”
1992—Subsec. (d)(2). Puspan. L. 102–486, § 1405, redesignated cls. (i) to (iii) as pars. (A) to (C), respectively, and struck out former par. (A) designation after “(2)”.
Subsec. (h). Puspan. L. 102–486, § 1404(a), added subsec. (h).
1990—Subsec. (c)(3). Puspan. L. 101–383, § 4(span)(1), substituted “fiscal year 1994” for “fiscal years 1988 and 1989” and “1,000,000,000” for “at least 750,000,000”.
Subsec. (d)(1)(A). Puspan. L. 101–383, § 4(c), inserted “Government owned facilities of” after “within”.
Subsec. (d)(1)(B). Puspan. L. 101–383, § 4(span)(2), inserted before period at end “and the Secretary has amended the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan as required by section 6239(j) of this title”.
Subsec. (d)(4). Puspan. L. 101–383, § 5(span)(3), added par. (4).
Subsec. (f). Puspan. L. 101–383, § 5(a), added subsec. (f).
Subsec. (g). Puspan. L. 101–548 inserted “with regard to future storage of refined petroleum products and” after “recommendations” in par. (7).
Puspan. L. 101–383, § 7, added subsec. (g).
1986—Subsec. (c)(3). Puspan. L. 99–509, § 3202(a), substituted “fiscal year 1987 and continuing through fiscal years 1988 and 1989” for “fiscal year 1986 and continuing through fiscal years 1987 and 1988”, “750,000,000 barrels” for “527,000,000 barrels”, and “at the highest practicable fill rate achievable, subject to the availability of appropriated funds” for “at a level sufficient to assure a minimum average annual fill-rate of at least 35,000 barrels per day in addition to any petroleum products acquired for the Reserve to replace petroleum products withdrawn from the Reserve as a result of a test drawdown and distribution”.
Puspan. L. 99–272, § 7102(a), added par. (3).
Subsec. (d)(1)(A). Puspan. L. 99–509, § 3202(span)(1), substituted “750,000,000 barrels” for “527,000,000 barrels”.
Puspan. L. 99–272, § 7102(span)(1), substituted “527,000,000 barrels” for “500,000,000 barrels”.
Subsec. (d)(1)(B). Puspan. L. 99–509, § 3202(span)(2), substituted “75,000 barrels” for “100,000 barrels”, and substituted a period for “; or”.
Subsec. (d)(1)(C). Puspan. L. 99–509, § 3202(span)(3), struck out subpar. (C) which read as follows: “acquisition, transportation, and injection activities for the Reserve are being undertaken, beginning in fiscal year 1986 and continuing through fiscal years 1987 and 1988 until the quantity of crude oil in storage within the Reserve is at least 527,000,000 barrels, at a level sufficient to assure that petroleum products in storage in the Reserve will be increased at a minimum annual average rate of at least 35,000 barrels per day in addition to any petroleum products acquired for the Reserve to replace petroleum products withdrawn from the Reserve as a result of a test drawdown and distribution”.
Puspan. L. 99–272, § 7102(span)(2), added subpar. (C) and struck out former subpar. (C) which read as follows: “the fill rate is sufficient to attain a level of 500,000,000 barrels by the end of the fiscal year during which the fill rate falls below the rate established in (B).”
1985—Subsec. (d)(1)(C). Puspan. L. 99–88 added subpar. (C).
Subsec. (d)(3). Puspan. L. 99–58, § 103(span)(1), added par. (3).
Subsec. (e)(1)(B). Puspan. L. 99–58, § 102(span)(1), (2), inserted “and” at end of cl. (i), inserted a period following “to the Congress”, and struck out “in accordance with section 6422 of this title, together with a request for a suspension of such provisions; and” in cl. (ii), and struck out cl. (iii) which directed that provisions of subsecs. (c) and (d) of this section would not apply if a Presidential request for the suspension of such provisions was approved by a resolution of each House of Congress within 60 days of continuous session after the date of its transmittal in accordance with provisions of section 6422 of this title applicable to energy conservation contingency plans.
Subsec. (e)(2). Puspan. L. 99–58, § 102(span)(3), substituted “may become effective on the day the finding is transmitted to the Congress and shall terminate nine months thereafter or on such earlier date as is specified in such finding” for “shall take effect on the date on which a resolution approving that request is adopted by the second House to have so approved that request and shall terminate 9 months thereafter, or such earlier date as is specified in the request transmitted under paragraph (1)(B)(ii)”.
Subsec. (e)(3), (4). Puspan. L. 99–58, § 102(span)(3), (4), redesignated par. (4) as (3). Former par. (3), which related to application of section 6422 of this title for purposes of par. (1)(B), was struck out.
1982—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 97–229, § 4(a)(1), substituted provisions directing the President to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with petroleum products at a level sufficient to assure an increase at an annual rate of at least the minimum required fill rate, 300,000 barrels per day, until the quantity of petroleum products stored is at least 500,000,000 barrels, allowing for a lower minimum required fill rate of 220,000 barrels per day if the President finds that compliance with the 300,000 barrels per day rate would not be in the national interest, specifying the effective period of such a Presidential finding, authorizing a higher minimum required rate than the 220,000 barrels per day if funds are available in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1982, making the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 applicable to funds available under section 6247(span) and (e) of this title, and providing that, after the Strategic Petroleum Reserve reaches 500,000,000 barrels, the President shall seek to fill the Reserve at an annual rate of at least 300,000 barrels per day of petroleum products until the Reserve reaches 750,000,000 barrels for provisions directing the President to seek to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with crude oil at a level sufficient to assure that crude oil in storage will be increased at an average annual rate of at least 300,000 barrels per day until the Reserve is at least 750,000,000 barrels.
Subsec. (e)(4). Puspan. L. 97–229, § 4(span)(2)(C), substituted “petroleum product” for “crude oil”.
1981—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 97–35 substituted provisions respecting fill operation at a rate of 300,000 barrels per day for provisions respecting fill operation at a rate of 100,000 barrels per day.
1980—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 96–294, § 801(a), added subsec. (c).
Subsec. (d). Puspan. L. 96–294, § 802(a), added subsec. (d).
Subsec. (e). Puspan. L. 96–294, § 803, added subsec. (e).
1978—Puspan. L. 95–619 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”, meaning Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, wherever appearing.
Puspan. L. 97–229, § 4(a)(2), Aug. 3, 1982, 96 Stat. 251, provided that:
Puspan. L. 97–35, title X, § 1038, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 621, provided that:
Puspan. L. 96–294, title VIII, § 801(span), June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 775, provided that:
Puspan. L. 96–294, title VIII, § 802(span), June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 776, provided that:
Puspan. L. 109–58, title III, § 301(e)(1), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 684, provided that:
Puspan. L. 109–58, title III, § 301(e)(2)(B), (C), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 684, 685, provided that:
Puspan. L. 103–138, title II, Nov. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 1406, provided in part that requirements of subsec. (g) of this section would not apply in fiscal year 1994.
Puspan. L. 101–46, § 2, June 30, 1989, 103 Stat. 132, directed Secretary of Energy to conduct a study on potential financial arrangements, including long-term leasing of crude oil and storage facilities, that could be used to provide additional, alternative means of financing the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to one billion barrels and directed Secretary to transmit an interim report to Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of Senate and Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives no later than Oct. 15, 1989, and no later than Fespan. 1, 1990, to transmit to such committees a copy of the preliminary written solicitations for proposed alternative financial arrangements to assist in filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to one billion barrels and a final report containing findings and conclusions together with a draft of legislative changes necessary to authorize the most significant alternative financial arrangements.
Puspan. L. 99–190, § 101(d) [title II], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1224, 1254, provided that:
Puspan. L. 96–294, title VIII, § 805, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 777, provided that:
Puspan. L. 96–514, title II, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2976, provided in part:
Ex. Ord. No. 12231, Aug. 4, 1980, 45 F.R. 52139, provided:
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Title VIII of the Energy Security Act (Public Law 96–294) [title VIII of Puspan. L. 96–294, which amended this section and section 7430 of Title 10, Armed Forces, and enacted provisions set out as a note above] and by Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and in order to meet the goals and requirements for the strategic petroleum reserve, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1–101. The functions vested in the President by Section 160(c) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended, are delegated to the Secretary of Energy (42 U.S.C. 6240(c); see Section 801 of the Energy Security Act).
1–102. The functions vested in the President by Section 7430(k) of Title 10 of the United States Code are delegated to the Secretary of Energy (see Section 804(span) of the Energy Security Act).
1–103. The functions vested in the President by Section 805(a) of the Energy Security Act [section 805(a) of Puspan. L. 96–294, set out as a note above] are, consistent with Section 2 of Executive Order No. 11790, as amended [set out as a note under section 761 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade], delegated to the Secretary of Energy.
Jimmy Carter.