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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 12G — Pacific Northwest Federal Transmission System

§ 838e. Acquisition of property

Statutory text

Subject to the provisions of section 838c of this title the Administrator may purchase or lease or otherwise acquire and hold such real and personal property in the name of the United States as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out his duties pursuant to law.

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. Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act

    Pub. L. 93–454 § 7 · 88 Stat. 1376

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 838e

    (Pub. L. 93–454, § 7, Oct. 18, 1974, 88 Stat. 1377.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–454, § 7, Oct. 18, 1974, 88 Stat. 1377.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. Subject to the provisions of section 5 of this Act the Administrator 16 USC 838e. may purchase or lease or otherwise acquire and hold such real and personal property in the name of the United States as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out his duties pursuant to law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Secretary of the Interior with respect to Bonneville Power Administration transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(a)(1)(D), (2) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, with Bonneville Power Administration to be preserved as a distinct organizational entity within Department of Energy and headed by an Administrator.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–454, § 7, , 88 Stat. 1377.)

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