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[CITE: 42USC5815]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 73--DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES
 
      SUBCHAPTER I--ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 5815. Administrative provisions


(a) Rules and regulations

    The Administrator is authorized to prescribe such policies, 
standards, criteria, procedures, rules, and regulations as he may deem 
to be necessary or appropriate to perform functions now or hereafter 
vested in him.

(b) Policy planning and evaluation

    The Administrator shall engage in such policy planning, and perform 
such program evaluation analyses and other studies, as may be necessary 
to promote the efficient and coordinated administration of the 
Administration and properly assess progress toward the achievement of 
its missions.

(c) Delegation of functions

    Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the Administrator may 
delegate any of his functions to such officers and employees of the 
Administration as he may designate, and may authorize such successive 
redelegations of such functions as he may deem to be necessary or 
appropriate.

(d) Organization

    Except as provided in sections 5812 and 5814(d) of this title, the 
Administrator may organize the Administration as he may deem to be 
necessary or appropriate.

(e) Field offices

    The Administrator is authorized to establish, maintain, alter, or 
discontinue such State, regional, district, local, or other field 
offices as he may deem to be necessary or appropriate to perform 
functions now or hereafter vested in him.

(f) Seal

    The Administrator shall cause a seal of office to be made for the 
Administration of such device as he shall approve, and judicial notice 
shall be taken of such seal.

(g) Working capital fund

    The Administrator is authorized to establish a working capital fund, 
to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary 
for the maintenance and operation of such common administrative services 
as he shall find to be desirable in the interests of economy and 
efficiency. There shall be transferred to the fund the stocks of 
supplies, equipment, assets other than real property, liabilities, and 
unpaid obligations relating to the services which he determines will be 
performed through the fund. Appropriations to the fund, in such amounts 
as may be necessary to provide additional working capital, are 
authorized. The working capital fund shall recover, from the 
appropriations and funds for which services are performed, either in 
advance or by way of reimbursement, amounts which will approximate the 
costs incurred, including the accrual or annual leave and the 
depreciation of equipment. The fund shall also be credited with receipts 
from the sale or exchange of its property, and receipts in payment for 
loss or damage to property owned by the fund.

(h) Information from other agencies

    Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive branch 
of the Government is authorized to furnish to the Administrator, upon 
his request, any information or other data which the Administrator deems 
necessary to carry out his duties under this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 93-438, title I, Sec. 105, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1238.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Energy Research and Development 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 this title.
