---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7151a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7151a"
heading: "Jurisdiction over matters transferred from Energy Research and Development Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7151a"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter III — Transfers of Functions"
---

# §7151a. Jurisdiction over matters transferred from Energy Research and Development Administration


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, jurisdiction over matters transferred to the Department of Energy from the Energy Research and Development Administration which on the effective date of such transfer were required by law, regulation, or administrative order to be made on the record after an opportunity for an [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) hearing may be assigned to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or retained by the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) at his discretion.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–238, title I, § 104(a), Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 53.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Energy Act of 1978—Civilian Applications, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.