42 U.S.C. § 7152 : US Code - Section 7152: Transfers from Department of the Interior

Search 42 U.S.C. § 7152 : US Code - Section 7152: Transfers from Department of the Interior

(a) Functions relating to electric power
(1) There are transferred to, and vested in, the Secretary all
functions of the Secretary of the Interior under section 825s of
title 16, and all other functions of the Secretary of the Interior,
and officers and components of the Department of the Interior, with
respect to -
(A) the Southeastern Power Administration;
(B) the Southwestern Power Administration;
(C) the Bonneville Power Administration including but not
limited to the authority contained in the Bonneville Project Act
of 1937 [16 U.S.C. 832 et seq.] and the Federal Columbia River
Transmission System Act [16 U.S.C. 838 et seq.];
(D) the power marketing functions of the Bureau of Reclamation,
including the construction, operation, and maintenance of
transmission lines and attendant facilities; and
(E) the transmission and disposition of the electric power and
energy generated at Falcon Dam and Amistad Dam, international
storage reservoir projects on the Rio Grande, pursuant to the Act
of June 18, 1954, as amended by the Act of December 23, 1963.
(2) The Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power
Administration, and the Bonneville Power Administration,(!1) shall
be preserved as separate and distinct organizational entities
within the Department. Each such entity shall be headed by an
Administrator appointed by the Secretary. The functions transferred
to the Secretary in paragraphs (1)(A), (1)(B), (1)(C), and (1)(D)
shall be exercised by the Secretary, acting by and through such
Administrators. Each such Administrator shall maintain his
principal office at a place located in the region served by his
respective Federal power marketing entity.
(3) The functions transferred in paragraphs (1)(E) and (1)(F)
(!2) of this subsection shall be exercised by the Secretary, acting
by and through a separate and distinct Administration within the
Department which shall be headed by an Administrator appointed by
the Secretary. The Administrator shall establish and shall maintain
such regional offices as necessary to facilitate the performance of
such functions. Neither the transfer of functions effected by
paragraph (1)(E) of this subsection nor any changes in cost
allocation or project evaluation standards shall be deemed to
authorize the reallocation of joint costs of multipurpose
facilities theretofore allocated unless and to the extent that such
change is hereafter approved by Congress.
(b), (c) Repealed. Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23,
1981, 95 Stat. 1407
(d) Functions of Bureau of Mines
There are transferred to, and vested in, the Secretary those
functions of the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of the
Interior, and officers and components of that Department under the
Act of May 15, 1910, and other authorities, exercised by the Bureau
of Mines, but limited to -
(1) fuel supply and demand analysis and data gathering;
(2) research and development relating to increased efficiency
of production technology of solid fuel minerals, other than
research relating to mine health and safety and research relating
to the environmental and leasing consequences of solid fuel
mining (which shall remain in the Department of the Interior);
and
(3) coal preparation and analysis.