[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR151.45]

[Page 190-191]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 151--EXAMINATION, SAMPLING, AND TESTING OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart C--Petroleum and Petroleum Products
 
Sec. 151.45  Storage tanks bonded as warehouses.

    (a) Application. Tanks for the storage of imported petroleum or 
petroleum products in bulk may be bonded as warehouses of class 2 if to 
be used exclusively for the storage of petroleum or petroleum products 
belonging or consigned to the owner or lessee of the tank. In addition 
to the documents and bonds required to be filed with the application to 
bond (see Sec. 19.2 of this chapter), the certified plans and gauge 
tables required by Sec. 151.44 shall be filed.
    (b) Removal of nonbonded petroleum. If a bonded tank is not empty at 
the time the first importation of bonded petroleum or petroleum products 
is to be

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stored therein, the amount of nonbonded petroleum or petroleum products 
in the tank shall be withdrawn by the proprietor as soon as possible. 
The request to withdraw shall be in the form of a letter and no formal 
withdrawal need be filed. Domestic or duty-paid petroleum or petroleum 
products shall not thereafter be stored in the tank as long as the tank 
remains bonded.
    (c) Information on warehouse withdrawal. Warehouse withdrawals of 
petroleum or petroleum products from bonded tanks shall show the 
information specified in Sec. 151.41, as well as the designation of the 
tank from which the merchandise is to be withdrawn. Such withdrawals may 
be made for ``---- U.S. gallons, more or less'', but in no case may the 
estimate vary by more than three percent from the gross quantity 
unladen.

[T.D. 80-142, 45 FR 36384, May 30, 1980, as amended by T.D. 87-39, 52 FR 
9790, Mar. 26, 1987]