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The bill would create federal planning and a propane reserve to improve supply reliability for households, farms, and businesses during shortages, but it would raise taxpayer costs, risk market distortions, and concentrate security/environmental risks at storage sites.
Households, businesses, and agricultural producers in cold and propane-dependent regions would get more reliable propane supply during shortages, reducing outages, price spikes, and crop/livestock losses.
State governments, utilities, and energy companies would gain a federal study and implementation plan that provides coordinated analysis and options to guide responses instead of ad hoc state actions.
Utilities, energy companies, and consumers could face market distortions if federal procurement and release of propane interfere with price signals, potentially harming some market participants and producing uneven price effects.
Taxpayers could face higher federal costs to establish and maintain a propane reserve (purchases, storage, transport), increasing public spending or debt.
Rural communities and energy infrastructure could face concentrated security, theft, sabotage, or environmental risks from centralized storage and transport of propane.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DOE (with the EIA) to study and recommend whether and how to establish a national strategic propane reserve and to produce an implementation plan on a set timetable.
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Gary C. Peters · Last progress June 26, 2025
Requires the Department of Energy, working with the Energy Information Administration, to complete a study within 180 days on whether and how to create a national strategic propane reserve. The study must assess supply chains, regional risks, storage locations and amounts, infrastructure needs, release rules, market and consumer impacts, and alternatives, then produce recommendations and an implementation plan within 180 days after the study is finished. Reports go to relevant congressional committees and sensitive details may be redacted for security.