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42 U.S.C. § 6231 — Annual Home Heating Readiness Reports
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**(a) In general** On or before September 1 of each year, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Agency, shall submit to Congress a Home Heating Readiness Report on the readiness of the natural gas, heating oil and propane industries to supply fuel under various weather conditions, including rapid decreases in temperature.
**(b) Contents** The Home Heating Readiness Report shall include—
(1) estimates of the consumption, expenditures, and average price per gallon of heating oil and propane and thousand cubic feet of natural gas for the upcoming period of October through March for various weather conditions, with special attention to extreme weather, and various regions of the country;
(2) an evaluation of—
(A) global and regional crude oil and refined product supplies;
(B) the adequacy and utilization of refinery capacity;
(C) the adequacy, utilization, and distribution of regional refined product storage capacity;
(D) weather conditions;
(E) the refined product transportation system;
(F) market inefficiencies; and
(G) any other factor affecting the functional capability of the heating oil industry and propane industry that has the potential to affect national or regional supplies and prices;
(3) recommendations on steps that the Federal, State, and local governments can take to prevent or alleviate the impact of sharp and sustained increases in the price of natural gas, heating oil, and propane; and
(4) recommendations on steps that companies engaged in the production, refining, storage, transportation of heating oil or propane, or any other activity related to the heating oil industry or propane industry, can take to prevent or alleviate the impact of sharp and sustained increases in the price of heating oil
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**(a) In general** On or before September 1 of each year, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Agency, shall submit to Congress a Home Heating Readiness Report on the readiness of the natural gas, heating oil and propane industries to supply fuel under various weather conditions, including rapid decreases in temperature.
**(b) Contents** The Home Heating Readiness Report shall include—
(1) estimates of the consumption, expenditures, and average price per gallon of heating oil and propane and thousand cubic feet of natural gas for the upcoming period of October through March for various weather conditions, with special attention to extreme weather, and various regions of the country;
(2) an evaluation of—
(A) global and regional crude oil and refined product supplies;
(B) the adequacy and utilization of refinery capacity;
(C) the adequacy, utilization, and distribution of regional refined product storage capacity;
(D) weather conditions;
(E) the refined product transportation system;
(F) market inefficiencies; and
(G) any other factor affecting the functional capability of the heating oil industry and propane industry that has the potential to affect national or regional supplies and prices;
(3) recommendations on steps that the Federal, State, and local governments can take to prevent or alleviate the impact of sharp and sustained increases in the price of natural gas, heating oil, and propane; and
(4) recommendations on steps that companies engaged in the production, refining, storage, transportation of heating oil or propane, or any other activity related to the heating oil industry or propane industry, can take to prevent or alleviate the impact of sharp and sustained increases in the price of heating oil and propane.
**(c) Information requests** The Secretary may request information necessary to prepare the Home Heating Readiness Report from companies described in subsection (b)(4).
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**(a) Eligibility of petroleum products** The Secretary may acquire, place in storage, transport, or exchange petroleum products acquired by purchase or exchange.
**(b) Objectives in determining manner of acquisition** The Secretary shall, to the greatest extent practicable, acquire petroleum products for the Reserve in a manner consonant with the following objectives:
(1) minimization of the cost of the Reserve;
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(14)(C), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2031;
(3) minimization of the Nation’s vulnerability to a severe energy supply interruption;
(4) minimization of the impact of such acquisition upon supply levels and market forces; and
(5) encouragement of competition in the petroleum industry.
**(c) Procedures** The Secretary shall develop, with public notice and opportunity for comment, procedures consistent with the objectives of this section to acquire petroleum for the Reserve. Such procedures shall take into account the need to—
(1) maximize overall domestic supply of crude oil (including quantities stored in private sector inventories);
(2) avoid incurring excessive cost or appreciably affecting the price of petroleum products to consumers;
(3) minimize the costs to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy in acquiring such petroleum products (including foregone revenues to the Treasury when petroleum products for the Reserve are obtained through the royalty-in-kind program);
(4) protect national security;
(5) avoid adversely affecting current and futures prices, supplies, and inventories of oil; and
(6) address other factors that the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
**(d) , (e) Repealed. Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(14)(D), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2031**
**(f) Predrawdown diversion*
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Under guidelines prescribed by the Secretary and concurred with by the Attorney General, employees of the Department of Energy and employees of contractors and subcontractors (at any tier) of the Department of Energy, while discharging their official duties of protecting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (established under part B of title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act [[42 U.S.C. 6231](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6231&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]) or its storage or related facilities or of protecting persons upon the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or its storage or related facilities, may—
(1) carry firearms, if designated by the Secretary and qualified for the use of firearms under the guidelines; and
(2) arrest without warrant any person for an offense against the United States—
(A) in the case of a felony, if the employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person—
(i) has committed or is committing a felony; and
(ii) is in or is fleeing from the immediate area of the felony; and
(B) in the case of a felony or misdemeanor, if the violation is committed in the presence of the employee.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 6232
read as follows: ‘‘the extent and nature of any restric-
tions or impediments to the development of such re-
sources.’’
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–58, § 364(a)(2), substituted ‘‘re-
source’’ for ‘‘reserve’’ and ‘‘publicly’’ for ‘‘publically’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–58, § 364(a)(3), added subsec. (d)
and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (d).
Text read as follows: ‘‘There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to imple-
ment this section.’’
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Committee on Resources of House of Representatives
changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House
of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hun-
dred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.
PART B—STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
§ 6231. Congressional finding and declaration of
policy
(a) The Congress finds that the storage of sub-
stantial quantities of petroleum products will
diminish the vulnerability of the United States
to the effects of a severe energy supply interrup-
tion, and provide limited protection from the
short-term consequences of interruptions in sup-
plies of petroleum products.
(b) It is the policy of the United States to pro-
vide for the creation of a Strategic Petroleum
Reserve for the storage of up to 1 billion barrels
of petroleum products to reduce the impact of
disruptions in supplies of petroleum products, to
carry out obligations of the United States under
the international energy program, and for other
purposes as provided for in this chapter.
(Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 151, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat.
881; Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(4), Nov. 9, 2000,
114 Stat. 2029.)
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