15 U.S.C. § 784 — Exports of coal and refined petroleum products

submitted 52 years ago by Pub. L. 93-275 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 300 words · no verdicts yet

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The Administrator must keep current information about every export transaction involving listed fuels and products. Federal agencies must share relevant information, and the Administrator must provide it to Congress or agency heads unless the President finds disclosure would harm national security.

(a) The Administrator must establish and maintain a file with current information about every transaction, sale, exchange, or shipment exporting coal, crude oil, residual oil, or a refined petroleum product from the United States to a foreign country. The file must include at least the exporter’s name, including beneficial-interest holders; the product’s volume and type; the shipping method and vessel or carrier; destination; purchaser if applicable; and reasons supporting the export. (b) At the request of a congressional committee or Federal agency head, the Administrator must promptly provide file information and a report about it, unless the President finds disclosure harmful to national security. (c) Despite any other law, a Federal agency that collects or has information relevant to this section must make it available to the Administrator. (d) The Administrator need not independently collect subsection (a) information if it can be obtained from other Federal agencies and Congress can obtain it through a subsection (b) request.

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(a) File concerning export transactions, sales, exchanges or shipments: establishment and maintenance; scope of information

The Administrator is authorized and directed to establish and maintain a file which shall contain information concerning every transaction, sale, exchange or shipment involving the export from the United States to a foreign nation of coal, crude oil, residual oil or any refined petroleum product. Information to be included in the file shall be current and shall include, but shall not be limited to, the name of the exporter (including the name or names of the holders of any beneficial interests), the volume and type of product involved in the export transaction, the manner of shipment and identification of the vessel or carrier, the destination, the name of the purchaser if a sale, exchange or other transaction is involved, and a statement of reasons justifying the export.

(b) Information and report to committee of Congress or head of Federal agency from Administrator; exception: disclosure detrimental to national security

Upon request of any committee of Congress or the head of any Federal agency, the Administrator shall promptly provide any information maintained in the file and a report thereon to such committee, or agency head, except where the President finds such disclosure to be detrimental to national security.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Federal agency which collects or has information relevant to the functions required by this section shall make such information available to the Administrator.

(d) Collection of independent information

The Administrator shall not be required to collect independently information described in subsection (a) if he can secure the information described in subsection (a) from other Federal agencies and the information secured from such agencies is available to the Congress pursuant to a request under subsection (b).

Source credit: (Pub. L. 93–275, § 25, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 114; Pub. L. 94–385, title I, § 111, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1132.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1974Enacted · Pub. L. 93-275 · 88 Stat. 114
1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-385 · 90 Stat. 1132

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 93-275 on 1974-05-07.

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