{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s6247","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f6247.","heading":"SPR Petroleum Account","text":"\u00a7\u202f6247.\nSPR Petroleum Account\n(a)\nEstablishment\nThe Secretary of the Treasury shall establish in the Treasury of the United States an account to be known as the \u201cSPR Petroleum Account\u201d (hereinafter in this section referred to as the \u201cAccount\u201d).\n(b)\nObligation of funds for acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products into SPR\nAmounts in the Account may be obligated by the Secretary of Energy for the acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, for test sales of petroleum products from the Reserve, and for the drawdown, sale, and delivery of petroleum products from the Reserve\u2014\n(1) Repealed.\nPub. L. 106\u2013469, title I, \u00a7\u202f103(19)(A)(ii)\nNov. 9, 2000\n114 Stat. 2033\n(2) in the case of any fiscal year, subject to\nsection 7270 of this title\n(3) in the case of any fiscal year, notwithstanding\nsection 7270 of this title\nsection 6241 of this title\nsection 6240(f) of this title\nFunds available to the Secretary of Energy for obligation under this subsection may remain available without fiscal year limitation.\n(c)\nProvision and deposit of funds\nThe Secretary of the Treasury shall provide and deposit into the Account such sums as may be necessary to meet obligations of the Secretary of Energy under subsection (b).\n(d)\nOff-budgeting procedures\nThe Account, the deposits and withdrawals from the Account, and the transactions, receipts, obligations, outlays associated with such deposits and withdrawals (including petroleum product purchases and related transactions), and receipts to the United States from the sale of petroleum products in any drawdown and distribution of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve under\n(1) shall not be included in the totals of the budget of the United States Government and shall be exempt from any general limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending (budget outlays) of the United States; and\n(2) shall not be deemed to be budget authority, spending authority, budget outlays, or Federal revenues for purposes of title III of\nPublic Law 93\u2013344\n2 U.S.C. 631","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s6247.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6247","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f6247."},{"t":"heading","text":"SPR Petroleum Account"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6247/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Establishment"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish in the Treasury of the United States an account to be known as the \u201cSPR Petroleum Account\u201d (hereinafter in this section referred to as the \u201cAccount\u201d).","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6247/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Obligation of funds for acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products into SPR"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"Amounts in the Account may be obligated by the Secretary of Energy for the acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, for test sales of petroleum products from the Reserve, and for the drawdown, sale, and delivery of petroleum products from the Reserve\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6247/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" Repealed. 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