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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 16B — Federal Energy Administration

§ 762. Establishment

Statutory text

There is hereby established an independent agency in the executive branch to be known as the Federal Energy Administration (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Administration”).

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 93–275 § 3 · 88 Stat. 96

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 762

    (Pub. L. 93–275, § 3, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 97.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–275, § 3, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 97.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. There is hereby established an independent agency in the 15 USC 762. executive branch to be known as the Federal Energy Administration (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the “Administration”).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Federal Energy Administration terminated and functions vested by law in Administration or in its Administrator, officers, and components transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by sections 7151(a) and 7293 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–275, § 3, , 88 Stat. 97.)

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