---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 778"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "778"
heading: "Management oversight review; report to Administrator"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/778"
units:
  - "Chapter 16B — Federal Energy Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Energy Administration"
---

# §778. Management oversight review; report to Administrator


The [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) may, for a period not to exceed thirty days in any one calendar year, provide for the exercise or performance of a management oversight review with respect to the conduct of any Federal or [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) (with consent of the Governor) energy program conducted pursuant to this chapter. Such review may be conducted by contract or by any Federal department or agency. A written report shall be submitted to the [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) concerning the findings of the review.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–275, § 19, May 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 111.)

## Notes

### 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 sections 7151(a) and 7293 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.