42 USC Ch. 73: Front Matter
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 73-DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES
CHAPTER 73-DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES
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.
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.