---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7159"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7159"
heading: "Transfer to Department of Transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7159"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter III — Transfers of Functions"
---

# §7159. Transfer to Department of Transportation


Notwithstanding [section 7151(a) of this title](/usc/42/7151.md?p=a), there are transferred to, and vested in, the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) of Transportation all of the functions vested in the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Federal Energy Administration by [section 6361(b)(1)(B) of this title](/usc/42/6361.md?p=b-1-B).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 310, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 582.)