PRIA Logo™
Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§781 Comprehensive Energy Plan

Title 15 › Chapter 16B— FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter I— FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION › § 781

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must, within six months after May 7, 1974, write and send a detailed plan to the President and Congress to help with the energy shortage for the period covered by this chapter. The plan must include clear analysis: estimated energy savings for each action and for the whole plan; expected unexpected losses or gains to companies, industries, and people by socioeconomic class; how any proposed price changes would affect energy supply and use; and other options considered with reasons they were not chosen. The Administrator can change the plan later. If a congressional committee asks, the Administrator must give the analysis behind any changes. The Administrator must also watch and report on how well any parts of the plan work after they are put into action.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §781

Commerce and Trade — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Pursuant and subject to the provisions and procedures set forth in this chapter, the Administrator shall, within six months from May 7, 1974, develop and report to the Congress and the President a comprehensive plan designed to alleviate the energy shortage, for the time period covered by this chapter. Such plan shall be accompanied by full analytical justification for the actions proposed therein. Such analysis shall include, but not be limited to—
(1)estimates of the energy savings of each action and of the program as a whole;
(2)estimates of any windfall losses and gains to be experienced by corporations, industries, and citizens grouped by socioeconomic class;
(3)estimates of the impact on supplies and consumption of energy forms consequent to such price changes as are or may be proposed; and
(4)a description of alternative actions which the Administrator has considered together with a rationale in explanation of the rejection of any such alternatives in preference to the measures actually proposed.
(b)The Administrator may, from time to time, modify or otherwise alter any such plan, except that, upon request of an appropriate committee of the Congress, the Administrator shall supply analytical justifications for any such alterations.
(c)The Administrator shall be responsible for monitoring any such plans as are implemented with respect to their effectiveness in achieving the anticipated benefits.

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

Citations & Metadata

Citation

15 U.S.C. § 781

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60