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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7341. Effective date

Statutory text

The provisions of this chapter shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after the Secretary first takes office, or on such earlier date as the President may prescribe and publish in the Federal Register, except that at any time after , (1) any of the officers provided for in subchapters II and IV of this chapter may be nominated and appointed, as provided in those subchapters, and (2) the Secretary and the Commission may promulgate regulations pursuant to section 7295(b)(2) of this title at any time after . Funds available to any department or agency (or any official or component thereof), functions of which are transferred to the Secretary or the Commission by this chapter, may with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, be used to pay the compensation and expenses of any officer appointed pursuant to this subsection 1 until such time as funds for that purpose are otherwise available.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original.

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 IX § 901 · 91 Stat. 565

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7341

    (Pub. L. 95–91, title IX, § 901, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 612.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–91, title IX, § 901, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 612.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 901. effective date The provisions of this Act shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after the Secretary first takes office, or on such earlier date as the President may prescribe and publish in the Federal Register, except that at any time after the date of enactment of this Act, (1) any of the officers provided for in title II and title IV of this Act may be nominated and appointed, as provided in those titles, and (2) the Secretary and the Commission may promulgate regulations pursuant to section 705(b) (2) of this Act at any time after the date of enactment of this Act. Funds available to any department or agency (or any official or component thereof), functions of which are transferred to the Secretary or the Commission by this Act, may with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, be used to pay the compensation and expenses of any officer appointed pursuant to this subsection until such time as funds for that purpose are otherwise available.

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.

Executive Documents

Executive Order No. 12009

Ex. Ord. No. 12009, , 42 F.R. 46267, which prescribed , as the effective date of this chapter, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 12553, , 51 F.R. 7237.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–91, title IX, § 901, , 91 Stat. 612.)

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