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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7298. Presidential authority

Statutory text

Except as provided in subchapter IV, nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate any function of, or authority available to, the President which he had immediately before ; or to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate his authority to delegate, redelegate, or terminate any delegation of functions.

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 Organization Act

    Pub. L. 95–91 title VII § 708 · 91 Stat. 565

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7298

    (Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 708, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 607.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 708, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 607.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 708. presidential authority Except as provided in title IV, nothing contained in this 42 USC 7298. Act shall be construed to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate any function of. or authority available to, the President which he had immediately before the effective date of this Act; or to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate his authority to delegate, redelegate, or terminate any delegation of functions.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, , 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 708, , 91 Stat. 607.)

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