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Bolstering the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Act

To require the Secretary of Energy to complete a long-range strategic review of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, and for other purposes.

Introduced Dec 26, 2025

Latest action (Dec 26, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Energy
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary
  • Requires the Secretary of Energy to complete a long-range strategic review of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve within 180 days of enactment.
  • Requires the Secretary to assess the near- and long-term roles of the Reserve relative to U.S. energy and economic security goals and objectives.
  • Requires the Secretary to determine whether existing legal authorities are adequate for the Reserve to meet current and future energy and economic security goals.
  • Requires the Secretary to identify the optimal capacity, location, and composition of home heating oil products in the Reserve and recommend an action plan with implementation schedule.
  • Requires the Secretary to identify optimal storage and distributional capabilities of the Reserve and estimate the resources needed for long-term sustainability and operational effectiveness.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Chris Pappas’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • BAIN CAPITAL $13,200
  • PURITAN BACKROOM $13,200
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY $12,240
  • ART ADVISORS LLC $9,993
  • WILLOUGHBY CAPITAL HOLDINGS $9,900

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Chris Pappas → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Dec 26, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Dec 26, 2025 Introduced in House

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 26, 2025

Mr. Pappas (for himself and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To require the Secretary of Energy to complete a long-range strategic review of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Bolstering the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Act”.

SEC. 2. NORTHEAST HOME HEATING OIL RESERVE MISSION READINESS OPTIMIZATION.

(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall—

(1) complete a long-range strategic review of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; and

(2) develop and submit to Congress a report that—

(A) specifies near- and long-term roles of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve relative to the energy and economic security goals and objectives of the United States;

(B) describes whether existing legal authorities that govern the policies, configuration, and capabilities of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve are adequate to ensure that the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve can meet the current and future energy and economic security goals and objectives of the United States;

(C) identifies the configuration and performance capabilities of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve and recommends an action plan, including a proposed implementation schedule, to achieve the optimal—

(i) capacity, location, and composition of home heating oil products in the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; and

(ii) storage and distributional capabilities of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; and

(D) estimates the resources required to attain and maintain the long-term sustainability and operational effectiveness of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.

(b) Definition.—In this section, the term “Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve” means the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve established under part D of title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6250 et seq.). <all>

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