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Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act

Introduced: February 9, 2000 See on congress.gov
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Feb 9, 2000
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S546)
Feb 9, 2000
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S545, S546-547)
Feb 9, 2000
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to immediately create a Heating 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 on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. 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 Heating Oil Reserve 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.

What's happening now February 9, 2000

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S546)

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