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PROCLAMATIONS—MAB. 10, 1959

(b) The Special Committee to Investigate Crude Oil Imports is hereby discharged of its responsibilities. SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior may delegate, and provide for successive redelegation of, the authority conferred upon him by this proclamation. All departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government shall cooperate with and assist the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the purposes of this proclamation. SEC. 8. Executive Order 10761 of March 27, 1958, entitled "Government Purchases of Crude Petroleum and Petroleum Products" (23 F.R. 2067) is hereby revoked as of April 1, 1959. SEC. 9. As used in this proclamation: (a) "Person" includes an individual, a corporation, firm, or other business organization or legal entity, and an agency of a state, territorial, or local government, but does not include a department, establishment, or agency of the United States; (b) "Districts I - IV " means the District of Columbia and all of the States of the United States except those States within District V; (c) "District V" means the States of Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and the Territory of Hawaii; (d) "Crude oil" means crude petroleum as it is produced at the wellhead; (e) "Finished Products" means any one or more of the following petroleum oils, or a mixture or combination of such oils, which are to be used without further processing except blending by mechanical means: (1) liquefied gases—hydrocarbon gases recovered from natural gas or produced from petroleum refining and kept under pressure to maintain a liquid state at ambient temperatures; (2) gasoline—a refined petroleum distillate which, by its composition, is suitable for use as a carburant in internal combustion engines; (3) jet fuel—a refined petroleum distillate used to fuel jet propulsion engines; (4) naphtha—a refined petroleum distillate falling within a distillation range overlapping the higher gasoline and the lower kerosenes; (5) fuel oil—a liquid or liquefiable petroleum product burned for lighting or for the generation of heat or power and derived directly or indirectly from crude oil, such as kerosene, range oil, distillate fuel oils, gas oil, diesel fuel, topped crude oil, residues; (6) lubricating oil—a refined petroleum distillate or specially treated petroleum residue used to lessen friction between surfaces; (7) residual fuel oil—a topped crude oil or viscous residuum which, as obtained in refining or after blending with other fuel oil, meets or is the equivalent of Mihtary Specification M I L - F - 8 5 9 for Navy Special Fuel Oil and any other more viscous fuel oil, such as No. 5 or Bunker C; (8) asphalt—a solid or semi-solid cementitious material which gradually liquefies when heated, in which the predominating constituents are bitumins, and which is obtained in refining crude oil. (f) "Unfinished Oils" means one or more of the petroleum oils listed in paragraph (e) of this section, or a mixture or combination of such oils, which are to be further processed other than by blending by mechanical means.

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