---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 787"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "787"
heading: "Project Independence Evaluation System documentation; access to model by Congress and public"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/787"
units:
  - "Chapter 16B — Federal Energy Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Energy Administration"
---

# §787. Project Independence Evaluation System documentation; access to model by Congress and public


The [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) of the Federal Energy [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) shall—

- (1) submit to the Congress, not later than September 1, 1976, full and complete structural and parametric documentation, and not later than January 1, 1977, operating documentation, of the Project Independence Evaluation System computer model;
- (2) provide access to such model to representatives of committees of the Congress in an expeditious manner; and
- (3) permit the use of such model on the computer system maintained by the Federal Energy [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) by any member of the public upon such reasonable terms and conditions as the [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) shall, by rule, prescribe. Such rules shall provide that any member of the public who uses such model may be charged a fair and reasonable fee, as determined by the [Administrator](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), for using such model.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–275, § 31, as added Pub. L. 94–385, title I, § 113, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1132.)

## 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.