PUBLIC LAW 95-91— AUG. 4, 1977 



91 STAT. 577 



(2) to require by subpena the production of ail information, 

 documents, reports, answers, records, accounts, papers, and other 

 data and documentary evidence necessary in the performance of 

 the functions assigned by this section, which subpena, in the case 

 of contumacy or refusal to obey, shall be enforceable by order of 

 any appropriate United States district court; and 



(3) to have direct and prompt access to the Secretary when 

 necessary for any purpose pertaining to the performance of func- 

 tions under tliis section. 



OrriCE OF ENERGY RESEARCH 



Sec. 200. (a) There shall be within the^'Department an Office of 

 Energy Research to be headed by a DireotOP, who shall be appointed 

 by the President, by and with the 'advice alid consent of the Senate, 

 and who shall be compensated at the rate provided for level IV of 

 the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States 

 Code. 



(b) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Director — 



(1) to advise the Secretary with respect to the physical 

 research program transferred to the Dejiartment from the Energy 

 Research and Development Administration ; 



(2) to monitor the Department's energy research and develop- 

 ment programs in order to advise the Secretary with respect to 

 any undesirable duplication or gaps in such programs; 



(3) to advise the Secretary with respect to the well-being and 

 management of the multipurpose laboratories under the juris- 

 diction of the Department, excluding laboratories that constitute 

 part of the nuclear weapons complex; 



(4) to advise the Secretary with respect to education and train- 

 ing activities required for effective short- and long-term basic and 

 applied research activities of the Department; 



(5) to advise the Secretary with respect, to grants and other 

 forms of financial assistance required for effective short- and long- 

 term basic and applied research activities of the Department ; and 



(6) to cany out such additional duties assigned to the Office 

 by the Secretary relating to basic and applied research, including 

 but not limited to supervision or support of research activities 

 carried out by any of the Assistant Secretaries designated by 

 section 203 of this Act. as the Secretarv considei-s advantageous. 



Director. 



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Duties and 

 responsibilities. 



LEASING LIAISON COMMITTEE 



Sec. 210. There is hereby established a Leasing Liaison Committee 

 which shall be composed of an equal number of members appointed 

 by the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior. 



Establishment. 

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TITLE III— TRANSFERS OF FUNCTIONS 



general TRANSFERS 



Sec. 301. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, there are 

 hereby transferred to, and vested in, the Secretary all of the functions 

 vested by law in the Administrator of the Federal Ener^ Adminis- 

 tration or the Federal Energy Administration, the Administrator of 

 the Energy Research and Development Administration or the Energy 

 Research and Development Administration ; and the functions vested 



Federal Energy 

 Administration 

 and Energy 

 Research and 

 Development 

 Administration. 

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