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PROCLAMATION 3509-NOV. 30, 1962
[77 STAT.
subject to allocation, of crude oil, unfinished oils, and finished products other than residual fuel oil to be used as fuel which is determined pursuant to the first sentence of this subparagraph for the allocation period beginning January 1, 1963 shall be increased or decreased by 9 percent of the amount by which the total demand estimated by the Bureau of Mines for the allocation period that began January 1, 1962 fell short of or exceeded the actual demand for that allocation period and the maximum level so determined for the allocation period beginning July 1, 1963 shall be similarly adjusted on the basis of estimated and actual demand for the allocation period that began July 1, 1962. 2. Effective January 1, 1963, paragraph (c) of section 2 is revoked, and paragraphs (d), (e), and (f) of that section are respectively redesignated as paragraphs (c), (d), and (e). 3. As of the date of this amendatory proclamation, subparagraph (1) of paragraph (b) of section 3 is amended to read as follows: (b)(1) With respect to the allocations of imports of crude oil and unfinished oils into Districts I - IV and into District V, such regulations shall provide, to the extent possible, for a fair and equitable distribution among persons having refinery capacity in these districts in relation to refinery inputs on the basis of a graduated scale (excluding inputs of crude oil or unfinished oils imported pursuant to clause (4) of paragraph (a) of section 1) during an appropriate period or periods selected by the Secretary. Provision shall be made in such regulations for the gradual reduction of allocations made on the basis of the last allocations of imports of crude oil under the Voluntary Oil Import Program, except that provisions shall be made for a more rapid reduction of those allocations based on allocations under the Voluntary Oil Import Program which reflected imports of crude oil in the -category now covered by clause (4) of paragraph (a) of section 1. 4. Effective as of the date of this amendatory proclamation the second sentence of subparagraph (5) of paragraph (b) of section 3 is amended to read as follows: (5) * * * 'VVith respect to the allocation of imports into District I of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel, such regulations shall, to the extent possible, provide for a fair and equitable distribution of imports of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel among persons who have been importers of that product into such district during the calendar year 1957 and among persons who are in the business in District I of selling residual fuel oil to be used as fuel and who have had inputs of that product to deep-water terminals located in District I, in relation to such terminal inputs on the basis of a graduated scale. * * * 5. (a) Paragraph (f) of section 9 is amended to read as follows: (f) "Crude oil" means crude petroleum as it is produced at the wellhead and liquids (under atmospheric conditions) that have been recovered from mixtures of hydrocarbons which existed in a vaporous phase in a reservoir and that are not natural gas products; (b) A new subparagraph (9), reading as follows, is added to paragraph (g) of section 9: (9) "natural gas products" means liquids (under atmospheric conditions), including natural gasoline, which are recovered by a process
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