42 USC § 6249a - Implementation

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s6249a"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 6249a - Implementation"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "6249a"
section_name: "Implementation"
chapter_number: 77
chapter_name: "ENERGY CONSERVATION"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "DOMESTIC SUPPLY AVAILABILITY"
part_number: "C"
part_name: "Authority To Contract for Petroleum Product Not Owned by United States"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 172, as added Pub. L. 101–383, § 6(a)(4), Sept. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 730; amended Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(21), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2033.)"
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# § 6249a. Implementation

**(a)** **, (b) Repealed. Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(21), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2033** 

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**(d)** **Return of product** At such time as the petroleum product contracted for under this part is withdrawn from the Reserve upon the expiration, termination, or other conclusion of the contract, such petroleum product (or the equivalent quantity of petroleum product withdrawn from the Reserve pursuant to the contract) shall be deemed, for purposes of determining the extent to which such product is thereafter subject to any Federal,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

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 172, as added Pub. L. 101–383, § 6(a)(4), Sept. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 730; amended Pub. L. 106–469, title I, § 103(21), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2033.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Subsecs. (a), (b).  struck out subsecs. (a) and (b) which read as follows:

“(a) .—An amendment of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan is not required for any action taken under this part.

“(b) .—For purposes of , 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.”