15 U.S.C. § 4502 — Identification and disbursement of restitutionary amounts

(a) Subject to paragraph (2), every ruling, policy, or other statement, including an administrative order or settlement, issued after October 21, 1986 by a Department of Energy office, official, or employee, and every court order, including a declaratory judgment, issued after that date, must be consistent with this chapter. (2) This does not affect the settlement approved July 7, 1986 in the specified stripper-well litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. (b) to (d) Repealed. (e) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) are repealed and rights that may have arisen are extinguished on enactment of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. After that date, funds available for direct restitution to current and future refined-petroleum-product claimants are reduced by the amounts that Act identifies as coming from section 4501(d) escrow. The Secretary^* must ensure that the remaining escrow for direct restitution of those claims is distributed equitably among claimants.