15 U.S.C. § 790a: National Energy Information…

Summary

The Director must create and run a National Energy Information System. The System must have data that describe and help analyze energy supply and use in and affecting the United States. The information is for the Federal Energy Administration, Congress, other federal officials with energy policy duties, and the States when the Natural Gas Act and the Federal Power Act require it. The System must at least support the Administration’s statistics and forecasts and, as soon as possible and as resources allow, include data needed to study seven topics: how the energy system is organized and who owns or controls fuels and electricity; how fuels and electricity are used by different groups, sectors, and regions; how reserves, production, transport, and use respond to economic, environmental, and technological changes and to fuel substitutes; how to compare data from different sources; effects on industry, jobs, and regions; international economic and other energy links; and long‑term links between U.S. and world energy supply and use.

Title 15, §790a

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(a)It shall be the duty of the Director to establish a National Energy Information System (hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the “System”), which shall be operated and maintained by the Office. The System shall contain such information as is required to provide a description of and facilitate analysis of energy supply and consumption within and affecting the United States on the basis of such geographic areas and economic sectors as may be appropriate to meet adequately the needs of—

(1)the Federal Energy Administration in carrying out its lawful functions;

(2)the Congress;

(3)other officers and employees of the United States in whom have been vested, or to whom have been delegated energy-related policy decisionmaking responsibilities; and

(4)the States to the extent required by the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.] and the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.].

(b)At a minimum, the System shall contain such energy information as is necessary to carry out the Administration’s statistical and forecasting activities, and shall include, at the earliest date and to the maximum extent practical subject to the resources available and the Director’s ordering of those resources to meet the responsibilities of his Office, such energy information as is required to define and permit analysis of—

(1)the institutional structure of the energy supply system including patterns of ownership and control of mineral fuel and nonmineral energy resources and the production, distribution, and marketing of mineral fuels and electricity;

(2)the consumption of mineral fuels, nonmineral energy resources, and electricity by such classes, sectors, and regions as may be appropriate for the purposes of this chapter;

(3)the sensitivity of energy resource reserves, exploration, development, production, transportation, and consumption to economic factors, environmental constraints, technological improvements, and substitutability of alternate energy sources;

(4)the comparability of energy information and statistics that are supplied by different sources;

(5)industrial, labor, and regional impacts of changes in patterns of energy supply and consumption;

(6)international aspects, economic and otherwise, of the evolving energy situation; and

(7)long-term relationships between energy supply and consumption in the United States and world communities.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Natural Gas Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), is act

June 21, 1938, ch. 556, 52 Stat. 821, which is classified generally to chapter 15B (§ 717 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 717w of this title and Tables. The Federal Power Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), is act

June 10, 1920, ch. 285, 41 Stat. 1063, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 791a et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 791a of Title 16 and Tables.

Amendments

1977—Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 95–91 added par. (4).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 150 days after Aug. 14, 1976, see section 143 of Pub. L. 94–385, set out as a note under section 790 of this title.

Transfer of Functions

Functions assigned to Director of Office of Energy Information and Analysis under this subchapter vested in Administrator of Energy Information Administration within Department of Energy by section 7135(c) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. 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.

§790a National Energy Information System; Information Required to Be Maintained