Federal
Title 42 — Public Health and Welfare
8,465 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 6947 — Approval of State plan; Federal assistance
- § 6948 — Federal assistance
- § 6949 — Rural communities assistance
- § 6949a — Adequacy of certain guidelines and criteria
- § 6951 — Functions
- § 6952 — Development of specifications for secondary materials
- § 6953 — Development of markets for recovered materials
- § 6954 — Technology promotion
- § 6955 — Marketing policies, establishment; nondiscrimination requirement
- § 6956 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 6961 — Application of Federal, State, and local law to Federal facilities
- § 6962 — Federal procurement
- § 6963 — Cooperation with Environmental Protection Agency
- § 6964 — Applicability of solid waste disposal guidelines to Executive agencies
- § 6965 — Chief Financial Officer report
- § 6966 — Increased use of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete
- § 6966a — Increased use of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete
- § 6966b — Use of granular mine tailings
- § 6966c — Best practices for battery recycling and labeling guidelines
- § 6966d — Consumer recycling education and outreach grant program; Federal procurement
- § 6971 — Employee protection
- § 6972 — Citizen suits
- § 6973 — Imminent hazard
- § 6974 — Petition for regulations; public participation
- § 6975 — Separability
- § 6976 — Judicial review
- § 6977 — Grants or contracts for training projects
- § 6978 — Payments
- § 6979 — Labor standards
- § 6979a — Transferred
- § 6979b — Law enforcement authority
- § 6981 — Research, demonstration, training, and other activities
- § 6982 — Special studies; plans for research, development, and demonstrations
- § 6983 — Coordination, collection, and dissemination of information
- § 6984 — Full-scale demonstration facilities
- § 6985 — Special study and demonstration projects on recovery of useful energy and materials
- § 6986 — Grants for resource recovery systems and improved solid waste disposal facilities
- § 6987 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 6991 — Definitions and exemptions
- § 6991a — Notification
- § 6991b — Release detection, prevention, and correction regulations
- § 6991c — Approval of State programs
- § 6991d — Inspections, monitoring, testing, and corrective action
- § 6991e — Federal enforcement
- § 6991f — Federal facilities
- § 6991g — State authority
- § 6991h — Study of underground storage tanks
- § 6991i — Operator training
- § 6991j — Use of funds for release prevention and compliance
- § 6991k — Delivery prohibition
- § 6991l — Tanks on tribal lands
- § 6991m — Authorization of appropriations
- § 6992 — Scope of demonstration program for medical waste
- § 6992a — Listing of medical wastes
- § 6992b — Tracking of medical waste
- § 6992c — Inspections
- § 6992d — Enforcement
- § 6992e — Federal facilities
- § 6992f — Relationship to State law
- § 6992g — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–362, title V, § 501(h)(1)(A) , Nov. 10, 1998 , 112 Stat. 3284
- § 6992h — Health impacts report
- § 6992i — General provisions
- § 6992j — Effective date
- § 6992k — Authorization of appropriations
- § 70 — Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a) , Sept. 6, 1966 , 80 Stat. 655
- § 7001 to 7011 — Repealed. Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 143(a) , Oct. 24, 1992 , 106 Stat. 2843
- § 701 — Authorization of appropriations; purposes; definitions
- § 702 — Allotment to States and Federal set-aside
- § 703 — Payments to States
- § 703a — Omitted
- § 704 — Use of allotment funds
- § 704a — Omitted
- § 704b — Nonavailability of allotments after close of fiscal year
- § 705 — Application for block grant funds
- § 706 — Administrative and fiscal accountability
- § 707 — Criminal penalty for false statements
- § 708 — Nondiscrimination provisions
- § 709 — Administration of Federal and State programs
- § 70a — Repealed. Dec. 28, 1945, ch. 597, § 4 , 59 Stat. 662
- § 71 to 71l — Transferred
- § 710 — Sexual risk avoidance education
- § 7101 — Definitions
- § 711 — Maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs
- § 7111 — Congressional findings
- § 7112 — Congressional declaration of purpose
- § 7113 — Relationship with States
- § 711a — Emergency assistance to families through home visiting programs
- § 712 — Services to individuals with a postpartum condition and their families
- § 713 — Personal responsibility education
- § 7131 — Establishment
- § 7132 — Principal officers
- § 7133 — Assistant Secretaries; appointment and confirmation; identification of responsibilities
- § 7134 — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; compensation of Chairman and members
- § 7135 — Energy Information Administration
- § 7135a — Delegation by Secretary of Energy of energy research, etc., functions to Administrator of Energy Information Administration; prohibition against required delegation; utilization of capabilities by Secretary
- § 7136 — Economic Regulatory Administration; appointment of Administrator; compensation; qualifications; functions
- § 7137 — Functions of Comptroller General
- § 7138 — Repealed. Pub. L. 100–504, title I, § 102(e)(1)(A) , Oct. 18, 1988 , 102 Stat. 2517
- § 7139 — Office of Science; establishment; appointment of Director; compensation; duties
- § 714 to 716 — Omitted
- § 7140 — Leasing Liaison Committee; establishment; composition
- § 7141 — Office of Minority Economic Impact
- § 7142 — National Atomic Museum and National Atomic Testing Museum
- § 7142a — Designation of American Museum of Science and Energy
- § 7142b — Authority
- § 7142c — Museum volunteers
- § 7142d — Definitions
- § 7143 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3294(d)(1) , Oct. 5, 1999 , 113 Stat. 970
- § 7144 — Establishment of policy for National Nuclear Security Administration
- § 7144a — Establishment of security, counterintelligence, and intelligence policies
- § 7144b — Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
- § 7144c — Repealed. Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LXIV, § 6421(b) , Dec. 20, 2019 , 133 Stat. 2199
- § 7144d — Office of Arctic Energy
- § 7144e — Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
- § 7151 — General transfers
- § 7151a — Jurisdiction over matters transferred from Energy Research and Development Administration
- § 7152 — Transfers from Department of the Interior
- § 7153 — Administration of leasing transfers
- § 7154 — Transfers from Department of Housing and Urban Development
- § 7155 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–272, § 7(b) , July 5, 1994 , 108 Stat. 1379
- § 7156 — Transfers from Department of the Navy
- § 7156a — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–85, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3403 , Nov. 18, 1997 , 111 Stat. 2059
- § 7157 — Transfers from Department of Commerce
- § 7158 — Naval reactor and military application programs
- § 7159 — Transfer to Department of Transportation
- § 7171 — Appointment and administration
- § 7172 — Jurisdiction of Commission
- § 7173 — Initiation of rulemaking procedures before Commission
- § 7174 — Referral of other rulemaking proceedings to Commission
- § 7175 — Right of Secretary to intervene in Commission proceedings
- § 7176 — Reorganization
- § 7177 — Access to information
- § 7178 — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fees and annual charges
- § 7191 — Procedures for issuance of rules, regulations, or orders
- § 7192 — Judicial review
- § 7193 — Remedial orders
- § 7194 — Requests for adjustments
- § 7195 — Report to Congress; contents
- § 71m — Omitted
- § 71n to 71q — Transferred
- § 71r — Omitted
- § 721 to 728 — Repealed. Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 240(e)(1) , Jan. 2, 1968 , 81 Stat. 915
- § 7211, 7212 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–106, div. D, title XLIII, § 4304(b)(6) , Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 664
- § 7213 to 7217 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–160, div. C, title XXXI, § 3161(a) , Nov. 30, 1993 , 107 Stat. 1957
- § 7218 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–106, div. D, title XLIII, § 4304(b)(6) , Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 664
- § 7231 — Officers and employees
- § 7232 — Senior positions
- § 7233 — Experts and consultants
- § 7234 — Advisory committees
- § 7235 — Armed services personnel
- § 7236 — Transferred
- § 7237 — Priority placement, job placement, retraining, and counseling programs for United States Department of Energy employees affected by reduction in force
- § 7238 — Temporary appointments for scientific and technical experts in Department of Energy research and development programs
- § 7239 — Transferred
- § 7251 — General authority
- § 7252 — Delegation
- § 7253 — Reorganization
- § 7254 — Rules and regulations
- § 7255 — Subpoena
- § 7256 — Contracts, leases, etc., with public agencies and private organizations and persons
- § 7256a, 7256b — Transferred
- § 7256c — Milestone-based demonstration projects
- § 7257 — Acquisition, construction, etc., of laboratories, research and testing sites, etc.
- § 7257a to 7257c — Transferred
- § 7257d — Expanded research by Secretary of Energy
- § 7258 — Facilities construction
- § 7259 — Use of facilities
- § 7259a — Activities of Department of Energy facilities
- § 7260 — Field offices
- § 7261 — Acquisition of copyrights, patents, etc.
- § 7261a — Protection of sensitive technical information
- § 7261b — Technology transfer to small businesses
- § 7261c — Technology partnerships ombudsman
- § 7262 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–206, title V, § 502 , Sept. 30, 1996 , 110 Stat. 3002
- § 7263 — Capital fund
- § 7264 — Seal of Department
- § 7265 — Regional Energy Advisory Boards
- § 7266 — Designation of conservation officers
- § 7267 — Annual report
- § 7268 — Leasing report
- § 7269 — Transfer of funds
- § 7269a — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–289, div. B, title II, § 20319 , as added Pub. L. 110–5, § 2 , Feb. 15, 2007 , 121 Stat. 21 .
- § 7269b — Transfer of unexpended appropriation balances
- § 7269c — Funding for Department of Energy activities not included in Fossil Energy account
- § 7270 — Authorization of appropriations
- § 7270a — Guards for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities
- § 7270b — Trespass on Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities
- § 7270c — Annual assessment and report on vulnerability of facilities to terrorist attack
- § 7271 — Transferred
- § 7271a — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–85, div. C, title XXXI, § 3152(h) , Nov. 18, 1997 , 111 Stat. 2042
- § 7271b — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–65, div. C, title XXXII, § 3294(f) , Oct. 5, 1999 , 113 Stat. 970
- § 7271c — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–85, div. C, title XXXI, § 3152(b) , Nov. 18, 1997 , 111 Stat. 2042
- § 7271d to 7273a — Transferred
- § 7273b — Security investigations
- § 7273c — Transferred
- § 7274 — Environmental impact statements relating to defense facilities of Department of Energy
- § 7274a to 7274d — Transferred
- § 7274e — Scholarship and fellowship program for environmental restoration and waste management
- § 7274f — Transferred
- § 7274g — Environmental restoration and waste management five-year plan and budget reports