---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 501.160"
title: "10"
number: "501.160"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/501.160"
---

# §501.160. Purpose and scope.


This subpart provides the procedures by which OFE may initiate enforcement proceedings on its own behalf and by which complaints concerning a violation of the Act or any rule or order thereunder may be filed.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.; E.O. 12009, 42 FR 46267; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 59889, Dec. 7, 1981, unless otherwise noted.