20 U.S.C. § 3471: General authority

Summary

The Secretary can use any legal powers that the original office or agency had when a job is moved into the Department. When the Secretary uses those powers, the actions count the same as if the original official or agency had done them. Office directors who used to report to the Commissioner of Education or the Assistant Secretary for Education before May 4, 1980, must now report to the Secretary. The Secretary may let another Department officer or employee take over that reporting.

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(a)Force and effect of actions by Secretary

In carrying out any function transferred by this chapter, the Secretary, or any officer or employee of the Department, may exercise any authority available by law (including appropriation Acts) with respect to such function to the official or agency from which such function is transferred, and the actions of the Secretary in exercising such authority shall have the same force and effect as when exercised by such official or agency.

(b)Reporting requirements

(1)The director of any office continued in the Department the director of which was required, prior to May 4, 1980, to report to the Commissioner of Education or the Assistant Secretary for Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall report to the Secretary.

(2)The Secretary is authorized to delegate reporting requirements vested in the Secretary by paragraph (1) to any officer or employee of the Department.

Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (b)(1), “May 4, 1980” substituted for “the

Effective Date

of this chapter” pursuant to section 601 of Pub. L. 96–88, set out as an

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note under section 3401 of this title.

§3471 General Authority

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