---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6275"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6275"
heading: "Relationship between standby emergency authorities and international energy program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6275"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter II — Standby Energy Authorities"
  - "Part B — Authorities With Respect to International Energy Program"
---

# §6275. Relationship between standby emergency authorities and international energy program


The purpose of the Congress in enacting this subchapter is to provide standby [energy](/usc/42/6291.md?p=3) emergency authority to deal with [energy](/usc/42/6291.md?p=3) shortage conditions and to minimize economic dislocations and adverse impacts on employment. While the authorities contained in this subchapter may, to the extent authorized by this subchapter, be used to carry out obligations incurred by the [United States](/usc/42/6202.md?p=5) in connection with the [International Energy Program](/usc/42/6202.md?p=7), this subchapter shall not be construed in any way as advice and consent, ratification, endorsement, or other form of congressional approval of the specific terms of such program.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–163, title II, § 255, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 900.)