 
                   CHAPTER 48--DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER IV--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part B--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 3471. General authority


(a) Force and effect of actions by Secretary

    In carrying out any function transferred by this chapter, the 
Secretary, or any officer or employee of the Department, may exercise 
any authority available by law (including appropriation Acts) with 
respect to such function to the official or agency from which such 
function is transferred, and the actions of the Secretary in exercising 
such authority shall have the same force and effect as when exercised by 
such official or agency.

(b) Reporting requirements

    (1) The director of any office continued in the Department the 
director of which was required, prior to May 4, 1980, to report to the 
Commissioner of Education or the Assistant Secretary for Education of 
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall report to the 
Secretary.
    (2) The Secretary is authorized to delegate reporting requirements 
vested in the Secretary by paragraph (1) to any officer or employee of 
the Department.

(Pub. L. 96-88, title IV, Sec. 411, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 683.)

                          Codification

    In subsec. (b)(1), ``May 4, 1980'' substituted for ``the effective 
date of this chapter'' pursuant to section 601 of Pub. L. 96-88, set out 
as an Effective Date note under section 3401 of this title.
