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[CITE: 15USC780]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
               CHAPTER 16B--FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
 
               SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 780. Office of Private Grievances and Redress


(a) Establishment; director; statement of purpose

    The Administrator shall establish and maintain an Office of Private 
Grievances and Redress, headed by a director, to receive and evaluate 
petitions filed in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, and 
to make recommendations to the Administrator for appropriate action.

(b) Petition for special redress, relief, or other extraordinary 
        assistance; nature of remedy

    Any person, adversely affected by any order, rule, or regulation 
issued by the Administrator in carrying out the functions assigned to 
him under this chapter, may petition the Administrator for special 
redress, relief, or other extraordinary assistance, apart from, or in 
addition to, any right or privilege to seek redress of grievances 
provided in section 766 of this title.

(c) Statement for annual report; recommendations to Congress

    The Administrator shall submit to the Secretary for inclusion in the 
annual report required by section 7267 of title 42 a statement on the 
nature and number of the grievances which have been filed, and the 
action taken and relief provided, pursuant to this section; and he shall 
make recommendations to the Congress from time to time concerning 
legislative or administrative actions which may be taken to better 
assist persons adversely affected by the energy shortages and to 
distribute more equitably the burdens resulting from any measures 
adopted, or actions taken, by him.

(Pub. L. 93-275, Sec. 21, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 112; Pub. L. 96-470, 
title II, Sec. 203(h), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2244.)


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96-470 substituted ``submit to the 
Secretary for inclusion in the annual report required by section 7267 of 
title 42 a statement'' for ``report quarterly to the Congress''.

                          Transfer of Functions

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