[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5071 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5071

  To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require that the 
 Strategic Petroleum Reserve only includes petroleum products produced 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 11, 2022

 Mr. Reed (for Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following bill; which was 
    read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require that the 
 Strategic Petroleum Reserve only includes petroleum products produced 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Replenishing Our American Reserves 
Act'' or the ``ROAR Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF PETROLEUM PRODUCT UNDER THE ENERGY POLICY AND 
              CONSERVATION ACT.

    Section 3(3) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6202(3)) is amended by inserting ``produced in the United States'' 
before the period at the end.

SEC. 3. OBJECTIVES IN DETERMINING MANNER OF ACQUISITION OF PETROLEUM 
              PRODUCTS FOR THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE.

    Section 160(b)(5) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
U.S.C. 6240(b)(5)) is amended by inserting ``domestic'' before 
``petroleum industry''.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF SALES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS WITHDRAWN FROM THE 
              STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE TO ENTITIES OUTSIDE THE 
              UNITED STATES.

    Section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6241) is amended by striking subsection (i) and inserting the 
following:
    ``(i) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall only draw down and sell petroleum products from the 
Reserve to entities within the United States.''.
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