[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR209.3]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                    CHAPTER II--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 209--INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 209.3  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part--
    (a) Administrator means the Administrator of the Department of 
Energy.
    (b) Information and allocation provisions of the International 
Energy Program means the provisions of chapter V of the Program relating 
to the Information System, and the provisions at chapters III and IV 
thereof relating to the international allocation of petroleum.
    (c) International Energy Agency (IEA) means the International Energy 
Agency established by Decision of the Council of the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, dated November 15, 1974.
    (d) International Energy Program (IEP) means the program established 
pursuant to the Agreement on an International Energy Program signed at 
Paris on November 18, 1974, including (1) the Annex entitled ``Emergency 
Reserves'', (2) any amendment to such Agreement which includes another 
nation as a Party to such Agreement, and (3) any technical or clerical 
amendment to such Agreement.
    (e) International energy supply emergency means any period (1) 
beginning on any date which the President determines allocation of 
petroleum products to nations participating in the international energy 
program is required by

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chapters III and IV of such program, and (2) ending on a date on which 
he determines such allocation is no longer required. Such a period shall 
not exceed 90 days, except where the President establishes one or more 
additional periods by making the determination under paragraph (e)(1) of 
this section.
    (f) Potential participant means any person engaged in the business 
of producing, transporting, refining, distributing, or storing petroleum 
products; ``participant'' means any such person who agrees to 
participate in a voluntary agreement pursuant to a request to do so by 
the Administrator.
    (g) Petroleum or petroleum products means crude oil, residual fuel 
oil, or any refined petroleum product (including any natural gas liquid 
and any natural gas liquid product).