---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16492"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16492"
heading: "Regulation of certain oil used in transformers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16492"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Miscellaneous"
---

# §16492. Regulation of certain oil used in transformers


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or rule promulgated by the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), vegetable oil made from soybeans and used in electric transformers as thermal insulation shall not be regulated as an oil identified under [section 2720(a)(1)(B) of title 33](/usc/33/2720.md?p=a-1-B).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title XIV, § 1403, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1061.)