---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7298"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7298"
heading: "Presidential authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7298"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions"
---

# §7298. Presidential authority


Except as provided in subchapter IV, nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate any function of, or authority available to, the President which he had immediately before October 1, 1977; or to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate his authority to delegate, redelegate, or terminate any delegation of functions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 708, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 607.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, 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.