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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7151a. Jurisdiction over matters transferred from Energy Research and Development Administration

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, jurisdiction over matters transferred to the Department of Energy from the Energy Research and Development Administration which on the effective date of such transfer were required by law, regulation, or administrative order to be made on the record after an opportunity for an agency hearing may be assigned to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or retained by the Secretary at his discretion.

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. Department of Energy Act of 1978—Civilian Applications

    Pub. L. 95–238 title I § 104(a) · 92 Stat. 47

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7151a

    (Pub. L. 95–238, title I, § 104(a), Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 53.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–238, title I, § 104(a), Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 53.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, jurisdiction Jurisdiction over functions, transfer. 42 USC 7151a. over matters transferred to the Department of Energy from the Energy Research and Development Administration which on the effective date of such transfer were required by law, regulation, or administrative order to be made on the record after an opportunity for an agency hearing may be assigned to the Federal Energy’ Regulatory Commission or retained by the Secretary at his discretion.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Energy Act of 1978—Civilian Applications, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–238, title I, § 104(a), , 92 Stat. 53.)

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