Sec. 2101. Strategic Petroleum Reserve modernization
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Congress reaffirms the continuing strategic importance and need for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as found and declared in section 151 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6231 ). Section 167(b) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6247(b) ) is amended to read as follows: Amounts in the Account may be obligated by the Secretary of Energy for— the acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products into the Reserve; test sales of petroleum products from the Reserve; the drawdown, sale, and delivery of petroleum products from the Reserve; the construction, maintenance, repair, and replacement of storage facilities and related facilities; and carrying out non-Reserve projects needed to enhance the energy security of the United States by increasing the resilience, reliability, safety, and security of energy supply, transmission, storage, or distribution infrastructure.
Amounts in the Account may be obligated by the Secretary of Energy for purposes of paragraph (1), in the case of any fiscal year— subject to section 660 of the Department of Energy Organization Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7270 ), in such aggregate amounts as may be appropriated in advance in appropriations Acts; and notwithstanding section 660 of the Department of Energy Organization Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7270 ), in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate amount of the receipts to the United States from the sale of petroleum products in any drawdown and a distribution of the Reserve under section 161, including— a drawdown and distribution carried out under subsection
(g)of that section; or from the sale of petroleum products under section 160(f). Funds available to the Secretary of Energy for obligation under this subsection may remain available without fiscal year limitation. . Section 152(8) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6232(8) ) is amended by inserting terminals, after reservoirs, .
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