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<br />oil from price controls and giving FEA additional flexibility to allow higher <br />incentive oil prices for enhanced recovery projects and gravity differen- <br />tials. The 3 per cent limitation on composite price increases was removed, <br />but the total annual allowable upward price adjustment remained at 10 per <br />cent. <br /> <br />2.2.7 Department of Energy Organization Act (DOE Act) <br />By 1977, various statutes and presidential orders had created numerous <br />agencies and commissions with scattered authorities in energy matters. <br />These included the Federal Energy Administration, Nuclear Regulatory <br />Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, the Federal <br />Power Commission, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, <br />Department of Interior, and the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- <br />ment. In order to centralize and coordinate the federal government's <br />expanding influences in energy issues, the DOE Organization Act was <br />passed in October 1977.36 This Act created a new cabinet level department, <br />transferred various functions from old agencies to DOE, and outlined <br />administrative and operating procedures to guide the transition. <br />Major offices created by the DOE Act were the Economic Regulatory <br />Administration (ERA) which absorbed FEA and became responsible for <br />petroleum pricing and allocation control programs, the Energy Information <br />Administration (EIA) which compiles energy data in support of DOE's <br />programs, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) which is <br />somewhat independent of DOE and assumed the authorities of the Federal <br />Power Commission (FPC). <br /> <br /> <br />2.2.8 Regulation of Petroleum Products under EPAA, EPCA, and ECPA <br />Under EPAA, as amended, ERA has authority to regulate the price <br />and distribution of all petroleum products at each marketing level. While <br />ali products, except gasoline and propane, have been price deregulated, <br />ERA retains broad authority to restrict the allowable cost pass-throughs on <br />all products. For deregulated products, refiners may apportion the increased <br />cost of crude petroleum among products. However, they are restricted to <br /> <br />2-12 <br />