---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6250a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6250a"
heading: "Authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6250a"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter I — Domestic Supply Availability"
  - "Part D — Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve"
---

# §6250a. Authority


To the extent necessary or appropriate to carry out this part, the [Secretary](/usc/42/6202.md?p=1) may—

- (1) purchase, contract for, lease, or otherwise acquire, in whole or in part, storage and [related facilities](/usc/42/6232.md?p=8), and storage services;
- (2) use, lease, maintain, sell, or otherwise dispose of storage and [related facilities](/usc/42/6232.md?p=8) acquired under this part;
- (3) acquire by purchase, exchange (including exchange of [petroleum products](/usc/42/6202.md?p=3) from the [Strategic Petroleum Reserve](/usc/42/6232.md?p=11) or received as royalty from [Federal lands](/usc/42/6202.md?p=10)), lease, or otherwise, petroleum distillate for storage in the Northeast Home Heating Oil [Reserve](/usc/42/6232.md?p=9);
- (4) store petroleum distillate in facilities not owned by the [United States](/usc/42/6202.md?p=5); and
- (5) sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of petroleum distillate from the [Reserve](/usc/42/6232.md?p=9) established under this part, including to maintain the quality or quantity of the petroleum distillate in the [Reserve](/usc/42/6232.md?p=9) or to maintain the operational capability of the [Reserve](/usc/42/6232.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title I, § 182, as added Pub. L. 106–469, title II, § 201(a)(3), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2034.)