Under section 7(b)(3) of the Act, the intent of the exemption must
be given effect in determining the scope of its application to an
enterprise and to the employees of an enterprise. The statutory language
must be applied to the facts in a manner consistent with the purpose of
the exemption as evidenced by its legislative history. This purpose is
to relieve the described enterprises from the application of the Act's
general overtime pay requirements (in the limited manner specified in
the exemption) to employment in their activities of distributing
petroleum products. Such employment was stated to be affected by
climatic, seasonal, and other pertinent factors characteristic of
business operations in the distribution of such products. (See, in this
connection, the following documents of 87th Cong., first sess.; H. Rept.
No. 75, pp. 26, 27, 36; 105 Congressional Record (daily edition) p.
4519; S. Rept. No. 145, pp. 37, 50; H. Rept. No. 327, p. 18; Hearings
before Senate Subcommittee on Labor on S. 256, S. 879, and S. 895, at
pp. 411-424; Hearings before House Special Subcommittee on Labor on H.R.
2935, at pp. 422-425 and 627-629; and these documents of the 89th Cong.,
second sess.; H. Rept. No. 1366, pp. 12, 13, and 43; Cong. Record (daily
edition) p. 10745; S. Rept. No. 1487, pp. 32 and 51.)
