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PROCLAMATION 4227-JUNE 19, 1973

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experiencing exceptional hardship or in emergencies in order to assure, insofar as practicable, that adequate supplies are available; (6) to review the revocation or suspension of any allocation or license; (7) to review the denial by the Secretary of refunds of license fees, whether in whole or in part, theretofore paid by a person; and (8) to grant refunds, in whole or in part, of license fees paid by persons to whom licenses were issued for imports which they subsequently became entitled to make under allocations made by the Board. Except with respect to its function to review applications for allocations of imports to which license fees are applicable, licenses issued pursuant to Board allocations shall be fee exempt." 11. The first paragraph of section 11 thereof is amended to read as follows:

Ante, p. ii96.

"SEC. 11 Annually, beginning May 1, 1974, the maximum levels of imports subject to allocation and license, to which license fees shall not be applicable, except allocations made and licenses issued by reason of new, expanded, or reactivated refinery capacity and petrochemical plants in Districts 1-IV and District V allocations and licenses issued to persons who manufacture in such Districts finished products or petrochemicals from crude oil and unfinished oils and who export finished products or petrochemicals, subject to such designations as the Secretary may make, shall be reduced as follows:" 12. Paragraph (a) of section 12 thereof is amended to read as follows:

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"SEC. 12(a) Commitments and obligations contained in long-term allocations heretofore made of imports of crude oil and unfinished oils into Puerto Rico shall be unimpaired by this proclamation or regulations issued thereunder." 13. Subparagraph (2) of paragraph (g) of section 15 thereof is amended to read as follows: " (2) 'Gasoline' means a refined petroleum distillate, including naphtha, jet fuel or other petroleum oils (but not benzene which meets the ASTM distillation standards for nitration grade or cumene, ethylbenzene, isoprene, meta-xylene, orthoxylene or para-xylene having a purity of 95 percent or more by weight) derived by refining or processing crude oil or unfinished oils, in whatever type of plant such refining or processing may occur, and having a boiling range at atmospheric pressure from 80° to 400°F."

^n<e, p. 1197.

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