Executive Order 12209 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 12209—Decontrol of Marginal Oil Wells

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Wednesday, April 16, 1980

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1 min read (280 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Jimmy Carter on 1980-04-16, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Decontrol of Marginal Oil Wells." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Evaluated against the Fifth Amendment, this action touches upon property or economic rights. An early statesman would insist upon strict adherence to due process of law and the constitutional guarantee that private holdings shall not be encumbered or taken for public purposes without just compensation and lawful process.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ BASE PRODUCTION CONTROL LEVEL FOR MARGINAL PROPERTIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, as amended (15 U.S.C.

▪ 11790, as amended by Executive Order No.

▪ 12187 of December 29, 1979, is amended to read as follows: "1-101.

▪ For purposes of this Order, the term "marginal properties" has the same meaning as that term under the crude oil pricing regulations adopted pursuant to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, as amended." "1-103.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People

Total Words

280

1,708 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

12.6

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 12209, Jimmy Carter (Apr 16, 1980). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-12209-decontrol-marginal-oil-wells.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

BASE PRODUCTION CONTROL LEVEL FOR MARGINAL PROPERTIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, as amended (15 U.S.C. 751 et seq.), and notwithstanding the delegations to the Secretary of Energy in Executive Order No. 11790, as amended by Executive Order No. 12038, and in order to permit the conversion to new oil status of all old oil production from marginal oil wells effective April 1, 1980, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 12187 of December 29, 1979, is amended to read as follows: "1-101. For purposes of the pricing regulations adopted pursuant to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, with respect to the months of January, February and March 1980, the base production control level for marginal properties shall equal 20 percent of the total number of barrels of old crude oil produced and sold from the property concerned during calendar year 1978, divided by 365, multiplied by the number of days during the month in 1978 which corresponds to the month concerned." "1-102. For purposes of this Order, the term "marginal properties" has the same meaning as that term under the crude oil pricing regulations adopted pursuant to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, as amended." "1-103. The Secretary of Energy may, pursuant to Executive Order No. 11790, as amended by Executive Order No. 12038, adopt such regulations as he deems necessary or appropriate to conform the crude oil pricing regulations to this Order.". JIMMY CARTER The White House, April 16, 1980. [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:36 a.m., April 17, 1980]