---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7177"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7177"
heading: "Access to information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7177"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission"
---

# §7177. Access to information

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3), each officer of the Department, and each Federal [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) shall provide to the Commission, upon request, such existing information in the possession of the Department or other Federal [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) as the Commission determines is necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3), in formulating the information to be requested in the reports or investigations under section 825c and [section 825j of title 16](/usc/16/825j.md) and section 717i and [section 717j of title 15](/usc/15/717j.md) shall include in such reports and investigations such specific information as requested by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and copies of all reports, information, results of investigations and data under said sections shall be furnished by the [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title IV, § 407, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 587.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.