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HR 3608 106th Congress House

Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act

Official title: To provide the Secretary of Energy with authority to create a Fuel Oil Product Reserve to be available for use when fuel oil prices in the United States rise s… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To provide the Secretary of Energy with authority to create a Fuel Oil Product Reserve to be available for use when fuel oil prices in the United States rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, during a fuel oil shortage, or during periods of extreme winter weather.

Introduced: February 9, 2000 Introduced by: Sanders, Bernard Independent · Vermont See on congress.gov
Energy CommerceEnergy suppliesGulf of MexicoHarbors
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HeatingNew York CityPetroleumPetroleum industryPetroleum pricesPetroleum reservesPetroleum storagePublic Lands and Natural ResourcesRestrictive trade practicesTransportation and Public WorksWeather
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Feb 24, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Feb 9, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.
Feb 9, 2000
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 24, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to immediately create a fuel oil reserve containing two million barrels of heating oil in leased storage facilities in the New York Harbor area and 4.7 million barrels in one of the four Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) caverns in the Gulf Coast. Permits the Secretary to fill such heating oil reserve by trading SPR crude oil for heating oil.

Authorizes the President to immediately draw down the Fuel Oil Product Reserve only when domestic fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, during a fuel oil shortage, or during periods of extreme winter weather.

Authorizes appropriations.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Democratic 11 Republican 1
D
Thompson, Mike
California · Mar 13, 2000
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Mar 8, 2000
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Mar 8, 2000
 D
Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Mar 1, 2000
QUINN, JACK
· Mar 1, 2000
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Feb 29, 2000
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Feb 29, 2000
 D
Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Feb 29, 2000
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Feb 16, 2000
GREENWOOD, JAMES
· Feb 14, 2000
LIPINSKI, WILLIAM
· Feb 14, 2000
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Feb 14, 2000
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Feb 9, 2000
 D
Larson, John B.
Connecticut · Feb 9, 2000
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Feb 9, 2000
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