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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§770 Appointments

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 16B— - FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION › § 770

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money a department or agency already has for the duties moved to the Administrator can be used, with the President’s OK, to pay officers appointed under this law until other funds are provided. If a job that needs Senate confirmation is empty on the law’s effective date, the President can pick someone who held that job before or who was doing the same work to fill in temporarily. That person can serve up to 30 days unless the President sends their nomination to the Senate during those 30 days. Permanent employees who are moved cannot be fired, dropped in rank, or paid less for one year after the move except for cause. If someone held a job paid under the Executive Schedule in chapter 53 of title 5 on the effective date and moves without a break to a similar job in the Administration, they must keep at least the same pay.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §770

Commerce and Trade — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Funds available to any department or agency (or any official or component thereof), and lawfully authorized for any of the specific functions which are transferred to the Administrator by this chapter, may, with the approval of the President, be used to pay the compensation and expenses of any officer appointed pursuant to this chapter until such times as funds for that purpose are otherwise available.
(b)In the event that any officer required by this chapter to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall not have entered upon office on the effective date of this chapter, the President may designate any officer, whose appointment was required to be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and who was such an officer immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter, or any officer who was performing essentially the same functions immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter to act in such office until the office is filled as provided in this chapter: Provided, That any officer acting pursuant to the provisions of this subsection may act no longer than a period of thirty days unless during such period his appointment as such an officer is submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent.
(c)Transfer of nontemporary personnel pursuant to this chapter shall not cause any such employee to be separated or reduced in grade or compensation, except for cause, for one year after such transfer.
(d)Any person who, on the effective date of this chapter, held a position compensated in accordance with the Executive Schedule prescribed in chapter 53 of title 5, and who, without a break in service, is appointed in the Administration to a position having duties comparable to those performed immediately preceding his appointment, shall continue to be compensated in his new position at not less than the rate provided for his previous position.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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 section 7151(a) and 7293 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

Reference

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 770

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73