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PROCLAMATION 4227-JUNE 19, 1973

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by way of license fees and not otherwise refundable for imports therefrom into the Customs territory of the United States of crude oil or motor gasohne, other finished products, or unfinished oils, manufactured in American Samoa, Guam, or the Virgin Islands. Balances remaining in such suspense account and not required to be reserved for payments hereinabove provided shall be deposited at the end of each fiscal year in the Treasury of the United States and credited to miscellaneous receipts. Whenever the Chairman of the Oil Policy Committee, after consultation with the committee, determines that any such payments to Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, or the Virgin Islands are not consonant with the purposes of this proclamation, he shall so advise the Secretary who shall then amend the applicable regulations accordingly." 7. Subparagraph (1) of paragraph (b) of section 4 thereof is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof: "In respect of the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and foreign trade zones, the Secretary may make such regulations as he deems consonant with the purposes of this proclamation to the end that persons having refineries and petrochemical plants located in such territories or zones shall participate to the fullest practicable extent, upon terms not less favorable, so far as possible, than those accorded to persons in the Customs territory of the United States in all appropriate aspects of the programs authorized by this proclamation." 8. Subparagraph (2) of paragraph (b) of section 4 is hereby amended by deleting the proviso therein contained. 9. Subparagraph (5) of paragraph (b) of section 4 thereof is hereby amended to read as follows: " (5) With respect to the allocation of imports to which license fees are not applicable of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel in Puerto Rico, such regulations shall, to the extent possible, provide for a fair and equitable distribution of imports of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel among persons who were importers of that product into Puerto Rico during all or part of the calendar year 1958. In addition, the Secretary by regulation may, to the extent possible, provide for a fair and equitable distribution of imports of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel, the maximum sulphur content of which is acceptable to the Secretary, (i) among persons who are in the business in the respective districts or Puerto Rico of selling residual fuel oil to be used as fuel and who in a base period to be established by the Secretary had inputs of that product to deepwater terminals located in the respective districts or Puerto Rico and (ii) among persons who are in the business in the respective districts or Puerto Rico of selling residual fuel oil to be used as fuel and who have through-

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