[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 2]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 19CFR151.45]



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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 

        HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED)

 

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



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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 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products in the tank shall be withdrawn by the proprietor as soon as 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tank from which the merchandise is to be withdrawn.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]