**(a) Objectives** The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and the common defense and security require positive and effective action to conserve scarce energy supplies, to insure fair and efficient distribution of, and the maintenance of fair and reasonable consumer prices for, such supplies, to promote the expansion of readily usable energy sources, and to assist in developing policies and plans to meet the energy needs of the Nation.
**(b) Necessity for reorganization** The Congress finds that to help achieve these objectives, and to assure a coordinated and effective approach to overcoming energy shortages, it is necessary to reorganize certain agencies and functions of the executive branch and to establish a Federal Energy Administration.
**(c) Creation of Federal Energy Administration** The sole purpose of this chapter is to create an administration in the executive branch, called the Federal Energy Administration, to vest in the Administration certain functions as provided in this chapter, and to transfer to such Administration certain executive branch functions authorized by other laws, where such transfer is necessary on an interim basis to deal with the Nation’s energy shortages.
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**(a) Objectives** The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and the common defense and security require positive and effective action to conserve scarce energy supplies, to insure fair and efficient distribution of, and the maintenance of fair and reasonable consumer prices for, such supplies, to promote the expansion of readily usable energy sources, and to assist in developing policies and plans to meet the energy needs of the Nation.
**(b) Necessity for reorganization** The Congress finds that to help achieve these objectives, and to assure a coordinated and effective approach to overcoming energy shortages, it is necessary to reorganize certain agencies and functions of the executive branch and to establish a Federal Energy Administration.
**(c) Creation of Federal Energy Administration** The sole purpose of this chapter is to create an administration in the executive branch, called the Federal Energy Administration, to vest in the Administration certain functions as provided in this chapter, and to transfer to such Administration certain executive branch functions authorized by other laws, where such transfer is necessary on an interim basis to deal with the Nation’s energy shortages.
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§ 761. Congressional declaration of purpose
(a) Objectives
The Congress hereby declares that the general
welfare and the common defense and security re-
quire positive and effective action to conserve
scarce energy supplies, to insure fair and effi-
cient distribution of, and the maintenance of
fair and reasonable consumer prices for, such
supplies, to promote the expansion of readily us-
able energy sources, and to assist in developing
policies and plans to meet the energy needs of
the Nation.
(b) Necessity for reorganization
The Congress finds that to help achieve these
objectives, and to assure a coordinated and ef-
fective approach to overcoming energy short-
ages, it is necessary to reorganize certain agen-
cies and functions of the executive branch and
to establish a Federal Energy Administration.
(c) Creation of Federal Energy Administration
The sole purpose of this chapter is to create an
administration in the executive branch, called
the Federal Energy Administration, to vest in
the Administration certain functions as pro-
vided in this chapter, and to transfer to such Ad-
ministration certain executive branch functions
authorized by other laws, where such transfer is
necessary on an interim basis to deal with the
Nation’s energy shortages.
(Pub. L. 93–275, § 2, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 97.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES
Section 30 of Pub. L. 93–275, as amended by Pub. L.
94–332, June 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 784; Pub. L. 94–385, title I,
§ 112(a), Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1132; Pub. L. 95–70, § 6,
July 21, 1977, 91 Stat. 277, under which this chapter be-
came effective sixty days after May 7, 1974, and was to
terminate Sept. 30, 1978, was repealed by Pub. L. 95–91,
title VII, § 709(a)(1), Aug. 4, 19