[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 490 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 490

  To require the Secretary of Energy to purchase additional petroleum 
             products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 1999

    Mr. Smith of Texas (for himself, Mr. Bonilla, and Mr. Combest) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Energy to purchase additional petroleum 
             products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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

SECTION 1. PURCHASE OF OIL.

    The Secretary of Energy shall, before October 1, 1999, purchase for 
storage in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve an additional $300,000,000 
of petroleum products.
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