[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 649 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.649

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven


                                 An Act


 
To amend sections of the Department of Energy Organization Act that are 
  obsolete or inconsistent with other statutes and to repeal a related 
        section of the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Energy Standardization 
Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY REQUIREMENTS WITH 
              GOVERNMENT-WIDE REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Department of Energy Regulations.--Section 501 of the 
Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7191) is amended--
        (1) by striking subsections (b) and (d),
        (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b) and by 
    redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (c), 
    (d), and (e), respectively, and
        (3) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by striking 
    ``subsections (b), (c), and (d)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)''.
    (b) Special Requirements Affecting Advisory Committees.--
        (1) Section 624.--Section 624 of the Department of Energy 
    Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7234) is amended by--
            (A) striking ``(a)''; and
            (B) striking subsection (b).
        (2) Technical and conforming amendment.--Section 17 of the 
    Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 776) is 
    repealed.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.