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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2008. Procedures for waiver of Federal law
(a) Waiver of provisions of Federal law
The President may identify those provisions of Federal law
(including any law or laws regarding the location of a crude oil
transportation system but not including any provision of the
antitrust laws) which, in the national interest, as determined by
the President, should be waived in whole or in part to facilitate
construction or operation of any such system approved under section
2007 of this title or of the Long Beach-Midland project, and he
shall submit any such proposed waiver to both Houses of the
Congress. The provisions so identified shall be waived with respect
to actions to be taken to construct or operate such system or
project only upon enactment of a joint resolution within the first
period of 60 calendar days of continuous session of Congress
beginning on the date of receipt by the House of Representatives
and the Senate of such proposal.
(b) Joint resolution
The resolving clause of the joint resolution referred to in
subsection (a) of this section is as follows: "That the House of
Representatives and Senate approve the waiver of the provisions of
law ( ) as proposed by the President, submitted to the Congress
on , 19 .". The first blank space therein being filled with
the citation to the provisions of law proposed to be waived by the
President and the second blank space therein being filled with the
date on which the President submits his decision to wave (!1) such
provisions of law to the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Rules and procedures for consideration of any such joint resolution
shall be governed by section 719f(c) and (d) of title 15, other
than paragraph (2) of section 719f(d) of title 15, except that for
the purposes of this subsection, the phrase "a waiver of provisions
of law" shall be substituted in section 719f(d) of title 15 each
place where the phrase "an Alaska natural gas transportation
system" appears.
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