National Helium Corp. v. Federal Energy Administration

JAMESON, Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 (EPAA)1 authorizes the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) to provide for the allocation and price control of natural gasoline.2 Following a careful *1139analysis of the nature of the products involved and applicable statutes and regulations, the district court granted FEA’s motion for summary judgment, holding that it “would be unreasonable to find that Congress intended to exclude natural gasoline from regulation, in the absence of some explicit evidence to the contrary,” and that as a…