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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1975

PUBLIC LAW 94-163—DEC. 22, 1975

89 STAT. 961

petroleum products and electrical energy shall not be based upon unreasonable classifications of, or unreasonable differentiations between, classes of users. In making any such allocation the President, or any agency of the United States to which such authority is delegated, shall give consideration to the need to foster reciprocal and nondiscriminatory treatment by foreign countries of United States citizens engaged in commerce in those countries. (b) To the maximum extent practicable, any restriction under authorities to which this section applies on the use of energy shall be designed to be carried out in such manner so as to be fair and to create a reasonable distribution of the burden of such restriction on all sectors of the economy, without imposing an unreasonably disproportionate share of such burden on any specific class of industry, business, or commercial enterprise, or on any individual segment thereof. In prescribing any such restriction, due consideration shall be given to the needs of commercial, retail, and service establishments whose normal function is to supply goods or services of an essential convenience nature during times of day other than conventional daytime working hours. (c) This section applies to actions under any of the following authorities: (1) titles I and II of this Act (other than any provision of Ante, pp. 875, such titles which amends another law). ^^^• this title, the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. 15 USC 751 note. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

SEC. 522. (a) Each officer or employee of the Federal Energy 42 USC 6392. Administration or of the Department of the Interior who— (1) performs any function or duty under this Act; and (2) has any known financial interest— (A) in any person engaged in the business of exploring, developing, producing, refining, transporting by pipeline, or distributing (other than at the retail level) coal, natural gas, or petroleum products, or (B) in property from which coal, natural gas, or crude oil is commercially produced; shall, beginning on February 1, 1977, annually file with the Administrator or the Secretary of the Interior, as the case may be, a written statement disclosing all such interests held by such officer or employee during the preceding calendar year. Such statement shall be subject to examination, and available for copying, by the public upon request. (b) The Administrator and the Secretary of the Interior shall each— (1) act, within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code— (A) to define the term "known financial interest" for purposes of subsection (a); and (B) to establish the methods by which the requirement to file written statements specified in subsection (a) will be monitored and enforced, including appropriate provisions for the filing by such officers and employees of such statements and the review by the Administrator or the Secretary of the Interior, as the case may be, of such statements; and