Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 15


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Chapter 16B - Notes
               SUBCHAPTER I - FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION           
    Sec.                                                     
    761.        Congressional declaration of purpose.                 
                  (a)  Objectives.                                    
                  (b)  Necessity for reorganization.                  
                  (c)  Creation of Federal Energy Administration.     
    762.        Establishment.                                        
    763.        Repealed.                                             
    764.        Specific functions and purposes.                      
                  (a)  Limitation on discretionary powers.            
                  (b)  Duties.                                        
                  (c)  Exercise of delegated discretion concerning
                        exemptions.                                   
    765.        Transfer of functions.                                
                  (a)  Functions of Secretary and Department of the
                        Interior.                                     
                  (b)  Functions of Chairman and Executive Director of
                        Cost of Living Council.                       
    766.        Administrative provisions.                            
                  (a)  Rules, regulations, and procedures;
                        Environmental Protection Agency, notification;
                        quality of environment, publication of
                        comments; emergency preclusion of review by
                        Environmental Protection Agency.              
                  (b)  Adjustments; procedures respecting application
                        and operation; judicial review.               
                  (c)  Judicial review of administrative rulemaking;
                        filing of petition in United States Court of
                        Appeals.                                      
                  (d)  to (k) Repealed or Redesignated.               
                  (l)  Authority and responsibility of General
                        Counsel.                                      
    767.        Transitional and savings provisions.                  
                  (a)  Continuance of effective status.               
                  (b)  Pending proceedings; orders, appeals, payments.
                  (c)  Commencement of suits before effective date.   
                  (d)  Litigation; abatement prohibition; Federal
                        parties.                                      
                  (e)  Substitution of parties.                       
                  (f)  Judicial review; other requirements respecting
                        notices, hearings, action upon record, and
                        administrative review; conflicting provisions.
                  (g)  References in other laws deemed references to
                        transferee offices or officers.               
                  (h)  Presidential functions, authorities, and
                        delegations unaffected.                       
                  (i)  References to other provisions deemed
                        references to such provisions as amended or
                        supplemented.                                 
    768.        Repealed.                                             
    769.        Definitions.                                          
    770.        Appointments.                                         
                  (a)  Interim funds.                                 
                  (b)  Interim appointments.                          
                  (c)  Nontemporary personnel; transferee rights for
                        one year.                                     
                  (d)  Compensation of new position at not less than
                        provided for in Executive Schedule for
                        previous position in cases of appointees
                        without break in service.                     
    771.        Comptroller General, powers and duties.               
                  (a)  Scope of activities; monitoring activity; data
                        to Comptroller General from Administration;
                        reports and recommendations to Congress.      
                  (b)  Access to material and written energy
                        information from owners or operators of
                        facilities or business premises engaged in
                        energy matters; scope of information.         
                  (c)  Access to material and information from
                        recipients of Federal funds or assistance
                        under Federal transactions.                   
                  (d)  Subpenas; committee resolution; issuance;
                        production of evidence.                       
                  (e)  Enforcement of subpenas; jurisdiction; order
                        for production of evidence; contempt.         
                  (f)  Availability to public of reports submitted to
                        Congress; prohibited disclosures: confidential
                        information and trade secrets; preservation of
                        confidentiality in disclosures to Government. 
    772.        Administrator's information-gathering power.          
                  (a)  Comprehensive and particular energy
                        information; categorical groupings; monitoring
                        activity and policy guidance.                 
                  (b)  Information and data to Administrator from
                        owners or operators of facilities or business
                        premises engaged in energy matters.           
                  (c)  General or special orders for filing reports or
                        answers in writing to specific questions,
                        surveys, or questionnaires; oath or otherwise;
                        filing period.                                
                  (d)  Investigations, physical inspections,
                        inventories and samples, copies, and
                        interrogations.                               
                  (e)  Subpenas; attendance and testimony of
                        witnesses; production of evidence;
                        enforcement; judicial orders; contempt.       
                  (f)  Federal information concerning energy resources
                        on Federal lands; scope of information.       
                  (g)  Maintenance of records and accounts.           
                  (h)  Alleviation of reporting burdens for small
                        businesses.                                   
                  (i)  Penalties for failure to file information.     
    773.        Public disclosure of information.                     
                  (a)  Analyses, data, information, reports, and
                        summaries; objectives of disclosure.          
                  (b)  Freedom of Information Act applicable;
                        disclosure of confidential information or
                        trade secrets; disclosure of matter included
                        in public annual reports to Securities and
                        Exchange Commission and matter excepted from
                        such disclosure.                              
                  (c)  Guidelines and procedures for handling
                        information pertaining to individuals; access
                        of individuals to such personal information.  
    774.        Reports and recommendations.                          
                  (a)  Administrator's initial submittal to President
                        and Congress.                                 
                  (b)  Administrator's annual report to Congress;
                        contents.                                     
                  (c)  Citizen fuel use; summer guidelines.           
                  (d)  Administrator's interim reports to Congress.   
                  (e)  Energy needs analysis; time for submission;
                        contents; continuation of analysis after
                        termination of Administration.                
    775.        Sex discrimination; enforcement; other legal remedies.
    776.        Repealed.                                             
    777.        Economic analysis of proposed actions.                
                  (a)  Scope of analysis.                             
                  (b)  Conservation measures.                         
                  (c)  Explicit analyses; interagency cooperation;
                        other review and cause of action provisions.  
                  (d)  Monitoring economic impact of energy actions;
                        report and recommendations to Congress.       
                  (e)  Industrial or regional discrimination; equal
                        bearing of costs and burdens of meeting energy
                        shortages.                                    
    778.        Management oversight review; report to Administrator. 
    779.        Coordination with, and technical assistance to, State
                 governments.                                         
                  (a)  Report to Congress and State governments:
                        organization of Administration; report to the
                        public, Congress and State governments: scope
                        of nontechnical report; comments of State
                        governments respecting rules, regulations, or
                        policies and programs; energy shortages,
                        status reports; information clearinghouse.    
                  (b)  Technical assistance; task forces; conferences:
                        expenses of participation; model legislation;
                        uniform criteria, procedures, and forms for
                        grant or contract applications for State
                        government energy proposals.                  
    780.        Office of Private Grievances and Redress.             
                  (a)  Establishment; director; statement of purpose. 
                  (b)  Petition for special redress, relief, or other
                        extraordinary assistance; nature of remedy.   
                  (c)  Statement for annual report; recommendations to
                        Congress.                                     
    781.        Comprehensive energy plan.                            
                  (a)  Report to President and Congress; analytical
                        justification; scope of analysis.             
                  (b)  Alterations; analytical justifications.        
                  (c)  Monitoring activity.                           
    782.        Petrochemical report to Congress.                     
                  (a)  Scope of report.                               
                  (b)  "Petrochemical" defined.                       
    783.        Hydroelectric generating facilities; lists,
                 transmittal to Congress; construction schedule and
                 cost estimates for expedited construction program;
                 prospective accomplishments from expedited completion
                 of facilities; statement of appropriated but not
                 obligated funds.                                     
    784.        Exports of coal and refined petroleum products.       
                  (a)  File concerning export transactions, sales,
                        exchanges or shipments: establishment and
                        maintenance; scope of information.            
                  (b)  Information and report to committee of Congress
                        or head of Federal agency from Administrator;
                        exception: disclosure detrimental to national
                        security.                                     
                  (c)  Information to Administrator from Federal
                        agency.                                       
                  (d)  Collection of independent information.         
    785.        Foreign ownership; comprehensive review; sources of
                 information; report to Congress; monitoring activity.
    786.        Repealed.                                             
    787.        Project Independence Evaluation System documentation;
                 access to model by Congress and public.              
    788.        Use of commercial standards.                          
                  (a)  General notice of proposed rulemaking.         
                  (b)  Promulgation of commercial standards.          
                  (c)  Consultation with Attorney General and Chairman
                        of Federal Trade Commission; impact of rules
                        on competition.                               
                  (d)  Rules relating to Administration procurement
                        activities.                                   
                  (e)  Participation of Administration employees in
                        organizations relating to promulgation of
                        commercial standards.                         
                  (f)  "Commercial standards" defined.                
    789.        Repealed.                                             
         SUBCHAPTER II - OFFICE OF ENERGY INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS     
    790.        Establishment of Office of Energy Information and
                 Analysis.                                            
                  (a)  Director; appointment; qualifications.         
                  (b)  Delegation of authority by Administrator.      
                  (c)  "Energy information" defined.                  
    790a.       National Energy Information System; information
                 required to be maintained.                           
    790b.       Administrative provisions.                            
                  (a)  Compensation of Director.                      
                  (b)  Authorization of Director to appoint and fix
                        compensation of employees.                    
                  (c)  Delegation of functions by the Director.       
                  (d)  Access to Director by Congress; requests for
                        appropriations.                               
    790c.       Analysis and evaluation of energy information;
                 establishment and maintenance by Director of
                 professional, etc., capability; specific
                 capabilities.                                        
    790d.       Repealed.                                             
    790e.       Coordination by Director of energy information
                 gathering activities of Federal agencies.            
                  (a)  Review.                                        
                  (b)  Policy recommendations.                        
                  (c)  Report to Administrator by other Federal
                        agencies involved in collection of energy
                        information; cooperation of other Federal
                        agencies; report by Administrator to
                        President, Congress, and Energy Resources
                        Council.                                      
    790f.       Reports by Director.                                  
                  (a)  Periodic and special reports by Director to
                        Congress and public; contents.                
                  (b)  Duty of Director to insure adequate
                        documentation of forecasts and reports;
                        periodic audit and validation of analytical
                        methodologies; availability of information to
                        public.                                       
                  (c)  Approval prior to publication of forecasts and
                        reports.                                      
    790g.       Access by Director to energy information.             
                  (a)  Access by Director to energy information in
                        possession of other Federal agencies;
                        limitations.                                  
                  (b)  Authority to obtain information from original
                        or alternate sources.                         
    790h.       Congressional access to energy information; disclosure
                 by Congress.                                         
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                   CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS               
      This chapter is referred to in section 798 of this title; title
    42 sections 6273, 7194.
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