Western Refined Fuel Reserve Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a Western refined fuel storage reserve within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, with siting, storage, fill, drawdown, contracting, and annual reporting requirements.
Who Benefits and How
Western States, fuel consumers, and transportation users could gain more protection against regional shortages and supply disruptions for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Energy and the Federal Government would bear the costs and operational duties of selecting storage sites, contracting for storage, filling the reserve, managing drawdowns, and reporting to Congress.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a refined fuel reserve in a Western State within six months and select a storage location.
- Sets minimum reserve capacities for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel and requires the reserve to be filled and maintained at not less than 75 percent of those levels over five years.
- Allows drawdowns for emergencies or supply disruptions, permits certain storage agreements with State and local governments, and requires annual reports to Congress.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a Western refined fuel storage reserve within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, with siting, storage, fill, drawdown, contracting, and annual reporting requirements.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Transportation, Emergency Management
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a Western refined fuel storage reserve within the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, with siting, storage, fill, drawdown, contracting, and annual reporting requirements.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Western fuel consumers and transportation-dependent sectors seeking greater protection from refined-fuel shortages
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Energy officials and the Federal budget responsible for establishing, filling, and operating the refined fuel reserve
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Curtis introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Energy and Strategic Petroleum Reserve operations responsible for creating and running the Western refined fuel reserve
Western fuel consumers and transportation users exposed to refined-fuel supply disruptions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Energy
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