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[CITE: 42USC7341]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
         SUBCHAPTER IX--EFFECTIVE DATE AND INTERIM APPOINTMENTS
 
Sec. 7341. Effective date

    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 August 4, 1977, (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 August 4, 1977. 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 until such 
time as funds for that purpose are otherwise available.

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

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 95-91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565, as amended, 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 Order No. 12009

    Ex. Ord. No. 12009, Sept. 13, 1977, 42 F.R. 46267, which prescribed 
Oct. 1, 1977, as the effective date of this chapter, was revoked by Ex. 
Ord. No. 12553, Feb. 25, 1986, 51 F.R. 7237.
