§790c — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director must build and keep scientific, engineering, statistical, and other technical skills to analyze energy information. They must do two things: check that energy data sent to them is accurate, and make sure the Office’s data matches and can be compared with information from other federal agencies. The Director must also keep professional analytic skills to judge whether the energy information the Office and other agencies have is complete and adequate for the law’s purposes and for required analyses. These skills must cover five areas: economics/finance/accounting; evaluating reserve estimates with different methods; developing and checking energy flow and accounting models of production, distribution, and use across sectors; developing and checking short- and long-term forecasting models; and other needed capabilities.

Title 15, §790c

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(a)The Director shall establish and maintain the scientific, engineering, statistical, or other technical capability to perform analysis of energy information to—

(1)verify the accuracy of items of energy information submitted to the Director; and

(2)insure the coordination and comparability of the energy information in possession of the Office and other Federal agencies.

(b)The Director shall establish and maintain the professional and analytic capability to evaluate independently the adequacy and comprehensiveness of the energy information in possession of the Office and other agencies of the Federal Government in relation to the purposes of this chapter and for the performance of the analyses described in section 790a of this title. Such analytic capability shall include—

(1)expertise in economics, finance, and accounting;

(2)the capability to evaluate estimates of reserves of mineral fuels and nonmineral energy resources utilizing alternative methodologies;

(3)the development and evaluation of energy flow and accounting models describing the production, distribution, and consumption of energy by the various sectors of the economy and lines of commerce in the energy industry;

(4)the development and evaluation of alternative forecasting models describing the short- and long-term relationships between energy supply and consumption and appropriate variables; and

(5)such other capabilities as the Director deems necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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 the 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.

§790c Analysis and Evaluation of Energy Information; Establishment and Maintenance by Director of Professional, Etc., Capability; Specific Capabilities