42 U.S.C. § 6391 — Prohibited actions
submitted 51 years ago by Pub. L. 94-163 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 281 words · no verdicts yet
Energy-allocation and use restrictions under the listed authorities may not unreasonably distinguish among user classes. Restrictions should distribute burdens fairly across the economy and consider businesses that provide essential convenience services outside normal daytime hours.
(a) Actions under the authorities covered by this section that allocate petroleum products or electrical energy among user classes, or restrict their use, may not rely on unreasonable classifications or differences between classes. The President or delegated agency must consider the need to encourage foreign countries to treat United States citizens in commerce there reciprocally and without discrimination. (b) As far as practicable, an energy-use restriction must be fair and reasonably distribute its burden across economic sectors, without placing an unreasonably disproportionate burden on a particular industry, business, commercial enterprise, or segment. The decision must give due consideration to commercial, retail, and service establishments that normally supply essential-convenience goods or services outside ordinary daytime working hours. (c) This applies to actions under (1) titles I and II of this Act, except provisions amending another law; (2) this title; and (3) the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
Action taken under the authorities to which this section applies, resulting in the allocation of petroleum products or electrical energy among classes of users or resulting in restrictions on use of petroleum products and electrical energy shall not be based upon unreasonable classifications of, or unreasonable differentiations between, classes of users. In making any such allocation the President, or any agency of the United States to which such authority is delegated, shall give consideration to the need to foster reciprocal and nondiscriminatory treatment* by foreign countries of United States citizens engaged in commerce in those countries.
To the maximum extent practicable, any restriction under authorities to which this section applies on the use of energy shall be designed to be carried out in such manner so as to be fair and to create a reasonable distribution of the burden of such restriction on all sectors of the economy, without imposing an unreasonably disproportionate share of such burden on any specific class of industry, business, or commercial enterprise, or on any individual segment thereof. In prescribing any such restriction, due consideration shall be given to the needs of commercial, retail, and service establishments whose normal function is to supply goods or services of an essential convenience nature during times of day other than conventional daytime working hours.
This section applies to actions under any of the following authorities:
titles I and II of this Act (other than any provision of such titles which amends another law).
this title.1
the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.1
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–163, title V, § 521, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 960.)
- 1975Enacted · Pub. L. 94-163 · 89 Stat. 960
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