15 USC Ch. 16B: Front Matter
From Title 15-COMMERCE AND TRADECHAPTER 16B-FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 16B-FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
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Repealed.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to (k) Repealed or Redesignated.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Repealed.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.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in section 798 of this title; title 42 sections 6273, 7194.