50 U.S.C. § 167 — Definitions
submitted 101 years ago by Pub. L. 86-777 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 427 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines key terms used in the federal helium law. It covers the Federal Helium Reserve, its pipeline, storage site, and who counts as a buyer or refiner. These definitions apply throughout the rest of this chapter of the law.
This section defines terms used throughout this chapter of the law, which deals with the federal government's helium program.
(1) Cliffside Field: the underground reservoir where the Federal Helium Reserve — the government's stored helium — is actually kept.
(2) Federal Helium Pipeline: the pipeline system, owned by the federal government, used to move helium from the Federal Helium Reserve.
(3) Federal Helium Reserve: the helium supplies that the United States owns.
(4) Federal Helium System: everything that makes up the government's helium operation — the Federal Helium Reserve itself, the Cliffside Field, the Federal Helium Pipeline, and any other infrastructure the Secretary owns, leases, or manages by contract for storing, moving, taking out, purifying, or otherwise handling helium.
(5) Federal user: a federal agency, or any outside recipient of one or more federal research grants, that uses helium.
(6) Low-Btu gas: a fuel gas that produces less than 250 British thermal units (Btu) of heat per standard cubic foot, once you count non-burnable gases mixed in — such as nitrogen, helium, argon, and carbon dioxide.
(7) Person: any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, or state or local government.
(8) Priority pipeline access: the top spot in line for getting crude helium delivered — under it, the Secretary makes sure crude helium reaches a helium refinery through the Federal Helium System before other deliveries.
(9) Qualified bidder: someone the Secretary decides is trying to buy helium either to use themselves, to refine, or to resell to other users. But a person loses "qualified bidder" status if the Secretary later decides they didn't actually meet the requirements to be one.
(10) Qualifying domestic helium transaction: any purchase-and-sale deal for at least 15,000,000 standard cubic feet of crude or pure helium — whether newly made or renegotiated within the past year — inside the United States, where one side of the deal is someone who has a contract with the Secretary to accept, store, deliver, or redeliver crude helium from the Federal Helium System.
(11) Refiner: a person who can take delivery of crude helium from the Federal Helium Pipeline and turn it into pure helium.
(12) Secretary: the Secretary of the Interior.
In this chapter:
The term “Cliffside Field” means the helium storage reservoir in which the Federal Helium Reserve is stored.
The term “Federal Helium Pipeline” means the federally owned pipeline system through which helium for the Federal Helium Reserve may be transported.
The term “Federal Helium Reserve” means helium reserves owned by the United States.
The term “Federal Helium System” means—
the Federal Helium Reserve;
the Cliffside Field;
the Federal Helium Pipeline; and
all other infrastructure owned, leased, or managed under contract by the Secretary for the storage, transportation, withdrawal, enrichment, purification, or management of helium.
The term “Federal user” means a Federal agency or extramural holder of one or more Federal research grants using helium.
The term “low-Btu gas” means a fuel gas with a heating value of less than 250 Btu per standard cubic foot measured as the higher heating value resulting from the inclusion of noncombustible gases, including nitrogen, helium, argon, and carbon dioxide.
The term “person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, or State or political subdivision.
The term “priority pipeline access” means the first priority of delivery of crude helium under which the Secretary schedules and ensures the delivery of crude helium to a helium refinery through the Federal Helium System.
The term “qualified bidder” means a person the Secretary determines is seeking to purchase helium for their own use, refining, or redelivery to users.
The term “qualified bidder” does not include a person who was previously determined to be a qualified bidder if the Secretary determines that the person did not meet the requirements of a qualified bidder under this chapter.
The term “qualifying domestic helium transaction” means any agreement entered into or renegotiated agreement during the preceding 1-year period in the United States for the purchase or sale of at least 15,000,000 standard cubic feet of crude or pure helium to which any holder of a contract with the Secretary for the acceptance, storage, delivery, or redelivery of crude helium from the Federal Helium System is a party.
The term “refiner” means a person with the ability to take delivery of crude helium from the Federal Helium Pipeline and refine the crude helium into pure helium.
The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 426, § 2, as added Pub. L. 86–777, § 2, Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 918; amended Pub. L. 113–40, § 2, Oct. 2, 2013, 127 Stat. 534.)
- 1925Enacted · Pub. L. 86-777 · 74 Stat. 918
- 2013Amended · Pub. L. 113-40 · 127 Stat. 534
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 86-777 on 1925-03-03.
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