Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 42


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Chapter 73 - Notes
    Sec.                                                     
    5801.       Congressional declaration of policy and purpose.      
                  (a)  Development and utilization of energy sources. 
                  (b)  Necessity of establishing Energy Research and
                        Development Administration.                   
                  (c)  Separation of licensing and regulatory
                        functions of Atomic Energy Commission.        
                  (d)  Small business participation.                  
                  (e)  Priorities.                                    
       SUBCHAPTER I - ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION   
    5811.       Establishment of Energy Research and Development
                 Administration.                                      
    5812.       Officers of Administration.                           
                  (a)  Administrator; appointment.                    
                  (b)  Deputy Administrator.                          
                  (c)  Qualifications of Administrator and Deputy
                        Administrator.                                
                  (d)  Assistant Administrators; number; appointment;
                        qualifications.                               
                  (e)  General Counsel.                               
                  (f)  Additional officers.                           
                  (g)  Director of Military Application; functions;
                        qualifications; compensation.                 
                  (h)  Allocation of functions; responsibility for
                        international cooperation.                    
                  (i)  Order of succession.                           
    5813.       Responsibilities of Administrator.                    
    5814.       Abolition and transfers.                              
                  (a)  Abolition of Atomic Energy Commission.         
                  (b)  Transfer or lapse of functions of Atomic Energy
                        Commission.                                   
                  (c)  Functions of Atomic Energy Commission
                        transferred to Administrator.                 
                  (d)  Transfer of General Advisory Committee, Patent
                        Compensation Board, and Divisions of Military
                        Application and Naval Reactors to
                        Administration.                               
                  (e)  Transfer to Administrator of certain functions
                        of Secretary of the Interior and Department of
                        the Interior; study of potential energy
                        application of helium; report to President and
                        Congress.                                     
                  (f)  Transfer to Administrator of certain functions
                        of National Science Foundation.               
                  (g)  Transfer to Administrator of certain functions
                        of Environmental Protection Agency.           
                  (h)  Exercise of authority necessary or appropriate
                        to perform transferred functions and carry out
                        transferred programs.                         
                  (i)  Utilization of technical and management
                        capabilities of other executive agencies;
                        assignment of specific programs or projects in
                        energy research and development.              
    5815.       Administrative provisions.                            
                  (a)  Rules and regulations.                         
                  (b)  Policy planning and evaluation.                
                  (c)  Delegation of functions.                       
                  (d)  Organization.                                  
                  (e)  Field offices.                                 
                  (f)  Seal.                                          
                  (g)  Working capital fund.                          
                  (h)  Information from other agencies.               
    5816.       Personnel and services.                               
                  (a)  Appointment and compensation of officers and
                        employees.                                    
                  (b)  Employment of experts and consultants.         
                  (c)  Participation of military personnel.           
                  (d)  Status of military personnel unaffected.       
                  (e)  Transportation and per diem expenses.          
                  (f)  Personnel of other agencies.                   
                  (g)  Advisory boards.                               
                  (h)  Employment of noncitizens.                     
    5816a.      Repealed.                                             
    5817.       Powers of Administrator.                              
                  (a)  Research and development.                      
                  (b)  Facilities and real property.                  
                  (c)  Services for employees at remote locations.    
                  (d)  Acquisition of copyrights and patents.         
                  (e)  Dissemination of information.                  
                  (f)  Gifts and bequests.                            
    5817a.      Employee-suggested research projects; approval;
                 funding; reports.                                    
    5818.       Repealed.                                             
    5819.       Report to Congress on future reorganization.          
    5820.       Coordination with environmental efforts.              
    5821.       Annual authorization Acts.                            
                  (a)  General requirements; applicability to
                        appropriations.                               
                  (b)  Requirements and limitations respecting funds
                        appropriated for operating expenses.          
                  (c)  Additional requirements and limitations
                        respecting funds appropriated for operating
                        expenses.                                     
                  (d)  Requirements respecting amounts appropriated in
                        annual appropriation Act for use in programs
                        in excess of amount actually authorized for
                        use in program not presented to, or requested
                        of Congress; reduction in aggregate amount
                        available for categories of coal, etc., from
                        sums appropriated.                            
                  (e)  Requirements and limitations respecting merger
                        of amounts appropriated for operating expenses
                        or for plant and capital equipment.           
                  (f)  Availability until expended of amounts
                        appropriated for operating expenses or for
                        plant and capital equipment.                  
                  (g)  Performance of construction design services by
                        Administrator.                                
                  (h)  Retention and use for operating expenses, and
                        availability until expended, of moneys
                        received by Administration; exceptions.       
                  (i)  Requirements respecting transfers of sums
                        appropriated for operating expenses to other
                        Government agencies; merger of transferred
                        sums.                                         
          SUBCHAPTER II - NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION; NUCLEAR
                         WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION
    5841.       Establishment and transfers.                          
                  (a)  Composition; Chairman; Acting Chairman; quorum;
                        official spokesman; seal; functions of
                        Chairman and Commission.                      
                  (b)  Appointment of members.                        
                  (c)  Term of office.                                
                  (d)  Submission of appointments to Senate.          
                  (e)  Removal of members; prohibition against
                        engagement in business or other employment.   
                  (f)  Transfer of licensing and regulatory functions
                        of Atomic Energy Commission.                  
                  (g)  Additional transfers.                          
    5842.       Licensing and related regulatory functions respecting
                 selected Administration facilities.                  
    5843.       Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.                 
                  (a)  Establishment; appointment of Director.        
                  (b)  Functions of Director.                         
                  (c)  Responsibility for safe operation of
                        facilities.                                   
    5844.       Office of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards.              
                  (a)  Establishment; appointment of Director.        
                  (b)  Functions of Director.                         
                  (c)  Responsibility for safeguarding special nuclear
                        materials; high-level radioactive wastes and
                        nuclear facilities.                           
    5845.       Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.                
                  (a)  Establishment; appointment of Director.        
                  (b)  Functions of Director.                         
                  (c)  Cooperation of Federal agencies.               
                  (d)  Responsibility for safety of activities.       
                  (e)  Information and research services.             
                  (f)  Improved safety systems research.              
    5846.       Compliance with safety regulations.                   
                  (a)  Notification to Commission of noncompliance.   
                  (b)  Penalty for failure to notify.                 
                  (c)  Posting of requirements.                       
                  (d)  Inspection and enforcement.                    
    5847.       Nuclear energy center site survey.                    
    5848.       Abnormal occurrence reports.                          
    5849.       Other officers.                                       
                  (a)  Executive Director.                            
                  (b)  Functions of Executive Director.               
                  (c)  Equal employment opportunity report.           
                  (d)  Annual status report.                          
                  (e)  Additional officers.                           
    5850.       Unresolved safety issues plan.                        
    5851.       Employee protection.                                  
                  (a)  Discrimination against employee.               
                  (b)  Complaint, filing and notification.            
                  (c)  Review.                                        
                  (d)  Jurisdiction.                                  
                  (e)  Commencement of action.                        
                  (f)  Enforcement.                                   
                  (g)  Deliberate violations.                         
                  (h)  Nonpreemption.                                 
                  (i)  Posting requirement.                           
                  (j)  Investigation of allegations.                  
    5852.       Availability of funds.                                
                  (a)  Appropriations for salaries and expenses;
                        additional purposes.                          
                  (b)  Appropriations for Office of Inspector General;
                        additional purposes.                          
                  (c)  Use of program funds for salaries and expenses.
                  (d)  Use of funds to provide voluntary separation
                        incentive payments.                           
                  (e)  Fiscal year applicability.                     
        SUBCHAPTER III - MISCELLANEOUS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS    
    5871.       Transitional provisions.                              
                  (a)  Lapse of agency or other body from which
                        functions or programs have been transferred
                        and positions or offices therein.             
                  (b)  Continuation of orders, determinations, rules,
                        etc.                                          
                  (c)  Effect of chapter on proceedings pending before
                        Atomic Energy Commission or other department
                        or agency.                                    
                  (d)  Effect of chapter on suits commenced prior to
                        effective date.                               
                  (e)  Abatement of suits, actions, or other
                        proceedings by or against officer, department,
                        or agency.                                    
                  (f)  Continuation of suits; substitution of parties.
                  (g)  Judicial review of orders and actions in
                        performance of transferred functions;
                        statutory requirements relating to notices,
                        hearings, action upon record, or
                        administrative review.                        
                  (h)  References in other laws to department, agency,
                        officer, or office whose functions have been
                        transferred deemed reference to
                        Administration, Administrator, or Commission. 
                  (i)  Limitation, curtailment, etc., of presidential
                        functions or authority.                       
                  (j)  References in chapter to provision of law
                        deemed to include references thereto as
                        amended or supplemented.                      
                  (k)  Functions conferred by chapter deemed in
                        addition to and not substitution for functions
                        existing before effective date.               
    5872.       Transfer of personnel.                                
                  (a)  Provisions of law applicable.                  
                  (b)  Prohibition against separation or reduction in
                        grade or compensation for one year after
                        transfer.                                     
                  (c)  Compensation in new position at not less than
                        rate provided for previous position.          
    5873.       Director of Office of Management and Budget; power to
                 make dispositions.                                   
    5874.       Definitions.                                          
    5875.       Authorization of appropriations.                      
    5876.       Comptroller General audit.                            
    5877.       Reports to President for submission to Congress.      
                  (a)  Report by Administrator on activities of
                        Administration.                               
                  (b)  Review of desirability and feasibility of
                        transferring functions of Administrator
                        respecting military application and restricted
                        data to Department of Defense or other Federal
                        agencies; report by Administrator.            
                  (c)  Report by Commission on activities of
                        Commission.                                   
    5878.       Information to Congressional committees.              
    5878a.      Funding and encouragement of small business;
                 information for inclusion in report.                 
    5879.       Transfer of funds.                                    
                    SUBCHAPTER IV - SEX DISCRIMINATION                
    5891.       Sex discrimination prohibited.                        
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                   CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS               
      This chapter is referred to in sections 5905, 7135a, 7259a,
    10141, 10155 of this title; title 15 sections 2507, 2705; title 22
    section 3203.
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