Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 24 > Chapter 10 - Armed Forces Retirement Home

• Emergency: means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States. See 42 USC 5122
• importer: means any person who owns, at the first place of storage, any petroleum product imported into the United States. See 42 USC 6232
• international energy program: means the Agreement on an International Energy Program, signed by the United States on November 18, 1974, including (A) the annex entitled "Emergency Reserves" (B) any amendment to such Agreement which includes another nation as a party to such Agreement, and (C) any technical or clerical amendment to such Agreement. See 42 USC 6202
• Person: means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, or joint stock company. See 18 USC 656
• person: includes (A) any individual, (B) any corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, trust, joint venture, or joint stock company, and (C) the government and any agency of the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof. See 42 USC 6202
• petroleum product: means crude oil, residual fuel oil, or any refined petroleum product (including any natural liquid and any natural gas liquid product). See 42 USC 6202
• refiner: means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operation of any refinery. See 42 USC 6232
• related facility: means any necessary appurtenance to a storage facility, including pipelines, roadways, reservoirs, and salt brine lines. See 42 USC 6232
• Reserve: means the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. See 42 USC 6232
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Energy. See 42 USC 6202
• severe energy supply interruption: means a national energy supply shortage which the President determines&mdash. See 42 USC 6202
• State: includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States (not including the Canal Zone). See 18 USC 656
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or any territory or possession of the United States. See 42 USC 6202
• storage facility: means any facility or geological formation which is capable of storing significant quantities of petroleum products. See 42 USC 6232
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve: means petroleum products stored in storage facilities pursuant to this part. See 42 USC 6232
• United States: when used in the geographical sense means all of the States and the Outer Continental Shelf. See 42 USC 6202
• United States: means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 42 USC 5122
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 16 USC 7143a