[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 116th Congress]
[116th Congress]
[House Document 115-177]
[Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
[Pages 1271-1272]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          19. Crude Oil Transportation Systems - 43 U.S.C. 2008

  Sec. 508. procedures for waiver of federal law.--(a) waiver of 
provisions of federal law.--The President may identify those provisions 
of Federal law (including any law or laws regarding the location of a 
crude oil transportation system but not including any provision of the 
antitrust laws) which, in the national interest, as determined by the 
President, should be waived in whole or in part to facilitate 
construction or operation of any such system approved under section 507 
[43 U.S.C. 2007] or of the Long Beach-Midland project, and he shall 
submit any such proposed waiver to both Houses of the Congress. The 
provisions so identified shall be waived with respect to actions to be 
taken to construct or operate such system or project only upon enactment 
of a joint resolution within the first period of 60 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress beginning on the date of receipt by the 
House of Representatives and the Senate of such proposal.


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  (b) joint resolution.--The resolving clause of the joint resolution 
referred to in subsection (a) is as follows: ``That the House of 
Representatives and Senate approve the waiver of the provisions of law 
(___) as proposed by the President, submitted to the Congress on ___, 
19_.''. The first blank space therein being filled with the citation to 
the provisions of law proposed to be waived by the President and the 
second blank space therein being filled with the date on which the 
President submits his decision to wave [so in original] such provisions 
of law to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Rules and 
procedures for consideration of any such joint resolution shall be 
governed by section 8 (c) and (d) of the Alaskan Natural Gas 
Transportation Act [15 U.S.C. 719f(c) and (d)], other than paragraph (2) 
of section 8(d) [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)], except that for the purposes of 
this subsection, the phrase ``a waiver of provisions of law'' shall be 
substituted in section 8(d) [15 U.S.C. 719f(d)] each place where the 
phrase ``an Alaska natural gas transportation system'' appears.




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