Oil Import Allocations: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Impact of the System of Allocations of Crude Oil Under the Mandatory Oil Import Program on Small Business Refiners, August 10 and 11, 1964

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 364 pages
Discusses effect of oil import quotas on small refiners.

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Page 163 - The Court thus applied a principle, now firmly established, that in cases raising issues of fact not within the conventional experience of judges or cases requiring the exercise of administrative discretion, agencies created by Congress for regulating the subject matter should not be passed over.
Page 163 - Uniformity and consistency in the regulation of business entrusted to a particular agency are secured, and the limited functions of review by the judiciary are more rationally exercised, by preliminary resort for ascertaining and interpreting the circumstances underlying legal issues to agencies that are better equipped than courts by specialization, by insight gained through experience, and by more flexible procedure.
Page 162 - Director is of the opinion that the said article is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security...
Page 160 - V, such regulations shall provide, to the extent possible, for a fair and equitable distribution among persons having refinery capacity in these districts in relation to refinery inputs (excluding inputs of crude oil or unfinished oils imported pursuant to clause (4) of paragraph (a) of section 1).
Page 196 - ... grant allocations of crude oil and unfinished oils In special circumstances to persons with importing histories who do not qualify for allocations under...
Page 183 - ... the requirements of growth of such industries and such supplies and services including the investment, exploration, and development necessary to assure...
Page 164 - In determining whether the regulations promulgated by him are consistent with law, we must apply the rule of decision which controls when an act of Congress is assailed as not being within the powers conferred upon it by the Constitution ; that is to say, a regulation adopted under section 161...
Page 164 - Statutes should not be disregarded or annulled unless, in the judgment of the court, it is plainly and palpably inconsistent with law. Those who insist that such a regulation is invalid must make its invalidity so manifest that the court has no choice except to hold that the Secretary has exceeded his authority and employed means that are not at all appropriate to the end specified in the act of Congress.
Page 113 - In order to further the policy and purpose of this section, whenever the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization has reason to believe that any article is being imported into the United States in such quantities as to threaten to impair the national security...
Page 197 - The program is designed to insure a stable, healthy industry in the United States capable of exploring for and developing new hemisphere reserves to replace those being depleted. The basis of the program is the certified requirements of our national security which make it necessary that we preserve to the greatest extent possible a vigorous, healthy petroleum industry in the United States.

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