---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7176"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7176"
heading: "Reorganization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7176"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission"
---

# §7176. Reorganization


For the purposes of [chapter 9](/usc/5/chptI/ch9.md) of title 5 the Commission shall be deemed to be an independent regulatory [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title IV, § 406, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 586.)