Notes on federal energy administration : US Code - Notes

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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 Repealed.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(d) to (k) Repealed or Redesignated.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 Repealed.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.