---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7260"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7260"
heading: "Field offices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7260"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part C — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §7260. Field offices


The [Secretary](/usc/42/7385s.md?p=3) is authorized to establish, alter, consolidate or discontinue and to maintain such [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), regional, district, local or other field offices as he may deem to be necessary to carry out functions vested in him.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VI, § 650, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 601.)