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PROCLAMATION 4025-DEC. 22, 1970

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Canada without allocations or licenses if transported by overland means or over waterways other than ocean waterways. As used in this paragraph the term 'natural gas liquids' means natural gas products and other hydrocarbons, such as ethane, prcpane, and butanes, or mixtures thereof, recovered from natural gas by means other than refining." Ante, p. 2258.

4 Section lA is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: " (h) After December 31, 1970, the provisions of clause (4) of paragraph (a) of section 1 shall have no application to imports of crude oil, unfinished oils, or finished products from Mexico. After the same date, crude oil produced in Mexico and unfinished oils and finished products produced in Mexico wholly from Mexican crude oil may in Districts I-IV and District V be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption without allocations or licenses in such amounts and under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, after annual discussions between the Governments of the United States and Mexico. Until the Secretary prescribes the amounts that may enter pursuant to this paragraph, such imports shall not exceed an average of 30,000 barrels per day per CcJendar year."

Ante, p. 2257.

5 Subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of section 2 is amended to read as follows: "Except as otherwise provided in this proclamation, the maximum level of imports (exclusive of imports from Canada provided for in paragraph (a) of section l A), subject to allocation, of crude oil, unfinished oils, and finished products (other than residual fuel oil to be used as fuel) into Districts I - IV for a particular allocation period, shall be an amount equal to the difference between (i) 960,000 barrels per day during that allocation period and (ii) the quantity of crude oil and unfinished oils which may be imported pursuant to paragraph (h) of section lA of this proclamation during the particular allocation period plus the quantity estimated by the Secretary by which shipments of unfinished oils and finished products (other than residual fuel oil to be used as fuel) from Puerto Rico to Districts I-IV during that allocation period will exceed the quantity (as adjusted by the Secretary as he may determine to be consonant with the objectives of this proclamation) so shipped during a comparable base period in the year 1965. Within this maximum level, imports of unfinished oils and imports of finished products (other than residual fuel oil to be used as fuel) shall not exceed such levels as the Secretary may determine to be consonant with the objectives of this proclamation. In addition to the imports permitted under the first sentence of this paragraph, for the period July 1, 1970 through December 31, 1971, there may be imported into District I, an average of 40,000 barrels per day of No. 2 fuel oil, manufactured in the Western Hemisphere from crude oil produced in the Western Hemisphere, for allocation, under regulations of the Secretary, to persons in the business in District I of

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