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HR 92 Gas Price Stabilization Act of 2014
Topic Started: 24 Jun 2013, 09:14 PM (298 Views)
Heather Holson
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48 hours for voting.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Ms. Holson, with thanks to Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Brenninger, Mr. Woodward, Ms. Hollingsworth and President Van Moren, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Beamer, Mr. Hernandez, introduced the following:

A BILL

To provide for the sale of light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its replacement with heavy grade petroleum .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the `Gas Price Stabilization Act of 2014'.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act--
(1) the term `light grade petroleum' means crude oil with an API gravity of 30 degrees or higher;
(2) the term `heavy grade petroleum' means crude oil with an API gravity of 26 degrees or lower; and
(3) the term `Secretary' means the Secretary of Energy.

SEC. 3. SALE AND REPLACEMENT OF OIL FROM THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE.

(a) Initial Petroleum Sale and Replacement- Notwithstanding section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6241), the Secretary shall publish a plan not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of this Act to--
(1) sell, in the amounts and on the schedule described in subsection (b), light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and acquire an equivalent volume of heavy grade petroleum ;
(2) deposit the cash proceeds from sales under paragraph (1) into the SPR Petroleum Account established under section 167 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6247); and
(3) from the cash proceeds deposited pursuant to paragraph (2), withdraw the amount necessary to pay for the direct administrative and operational costs of the sale and acquisition.

(b) Amounts and Schedule- The sale and acquisition described in subsection (a) shall require the offer for sale of a total quantity of 70,000,000 barrels of light grade petroleum from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The sale shall commence, whether or not a plan has been published under subsection (a), not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act and be completed no more than six months after the date of enactment of this Act, with at least 20,000,000 barrels to be offered for sale within the first 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. In no event shall the Secretary sell barrels of oil under subsection (a) that would result in a Strategic Petroleum Reserve that contains fewer than 90 percent of the total amount of barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as of the date of enactment of this Act. Heavy grade petroleum , to replace the quantities of light grade petroleum sold under this section, shall be obtained through acquisitions which--
(1) shall commence no sooner than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act;
(2) shall be completed, at the discretion of the Secretary, not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act;
(3) shall be carried out in a manner so as to maximize the monetary value to the Federal Government; and
(4) shall be acquired using the receipts from the sale of light petroleum authorized under this section.

(c) Deferrals- The Secretary is encouraged to, when economically beneficial and practical, grant requests to defer scheduled deliveries of petroleum to the Reserve under subsection (a) if the deferral will result in a premium paid in additional barrels of oil which will reduce the cost of oil acquisition and increase the volume of oil delivered to the Reserve or yield additional cash bonuses.

SEC. 4 ENACTMENT

This legislation shall go into effect upon its constitutional passage.

SEC 5. PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY

This legislation authorizes the Secretary of Energy to sell light crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for a period of 3 months and the light crude oil sold shall be replaced with heavy crude.
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By a vote of 243-192 this legislation passes the United States House of Representatives.
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