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PROCLAMATION 3794-JULY 17, 1967

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I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-second.

Proclamation 3794 MODIFYING PROCLAMATION 3279 ADJUSTING IMPORTS OF PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS By the President of the United States of America

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A Proclamation

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 2 of the act of July 1, 1954, as amended (72 Stat. 678), and section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act 19 USC 1352a. of 1962 (76 Stat. 877), findings and determinations have been made 19 USC 1862. that adjustments in the imports of crude oil, unfinished oils, and finished products were necessary so that such imports would not threaten to impair the national security, such adjustments have been made by Proclamation 3279 (24 F.R. 1781) and modified by Proclamation 19 USC u 3290 (24 F.R. 3527), Proclamation 3328 (24 F.R. 10133), Proclama- note. """ tion 3386 (25 F.R. 13945), Proclamation 3389 (26 F.R. 507, 811), Proclamation3509 (27F.R. 11985), Proclamation 3531 (28 F.R. 4077), Proclamation 3541 (28 F.R. 5931), Proclamation 3693 (30 F.R. 15459), and Proclamation 3779 (32 F.R. 5919); and Ante, p. 1093. WHEREAS, I find and determine that, in support of Federal, state and local rules and regulations for air pollution control, it is necessary to enhance the ability of the petroleum industry to provide adequate supplies of low sulphur residual fuel oil to be used as fuel; and WHEREAS, I find that it is necessary to permit the entrance of new importers and to provide for allocations which will assure that adequate supplies of low sulfur residual fuel oil to be used as fuel will be distributed to users of such products; and WHEREAS, I find and determine that such action will be compatible with the purposes of Proclamation 3279: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that: 1. Subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of section 2 of Proclamation 3279, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 75 Stat. 1019. (2) The maximum level of imports of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel into Districts I, Districts II - IV, and District V for a particular allocation period shall be the level of imports of that product into those districts during the calendar year 1957 as adjusted by the Secretary as he may determine to be consonant with the objectives of this proclamation. 2. Paragraph (d) of section 2 of Proclamation 3279, as amended, is revoked and paragraph (e) of section 2 is redesignated as paragraph (d).

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