{"identifier":"/us/usc/t15/s3372","title":15,"num":"\u00a7\u202f3372.","heading":"Assignment of contractual rights to receive surplus natural gas","text":"\u00a7\u202f3372.\nAssignment of contractual rights to receive surplus natural gas\n(a)\nAuthorization of assignments\nThe Commission may, by rule or order, authorize any intrastate pipeline to assign, without compensation, to any interstate pipeline or local distribution company all or any portion of such intrastate pipeline\u2019s right to receive surplus natural gas at any first sale, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission determines appropriate.\n(b)\nEffect of authorization under subsection (a)\nFor the effect of an authorization under subsection (a), see\nsection 3431 of this title\n15 U.S.C. 717\n(c)\nSurplus natural gas\nFor purposes of this section, the term \u201csurplus natural gas\u201d means any natural gas which is determined, by the State agency having regulatory jurisdiction over the intrastate pipeline which would be entitled to receive such natural gas in the absence of any assignment to exceed the then current demands on such pipeline for natural gas.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t15/s3372.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t15/s3372","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f3372."},{"t":"heading","text":"Assignment of contractual rights to receive surplus natural gas"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t15/s3372/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Authorization of assignments"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The Commission may, by rule or order, authorize any intrastate pipeline to assign, without compensation, to any interstate pipeline or local distribution company all or any portion of such intrastate pipeline\u2019s right to receive surplus natural gas at any first sale, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission determines appropriate.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t15/s3372/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Effect of authorization under subsection (a)"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"For the effect of an authorization under subsection (a), see ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 3431 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t15/s3431","tail":" (relating to the coordination of this chapter with the Natural Gas Act ["},{"t":"ref","text":"15 U.S.C. 717","href":"/us/usc/t15/s717","tail":" et seq.])."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t15/s3372/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Surplus natural gas"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"For purposes of this section, the term \u201csurplus natural gas\u201d means any natural gas which is determined, by the State agency having regulatory jurisdiction over the intrastate pipeline which would be entitled to receive such natural gas in the absence of any assignment to exceed the then current demands on such pipeline for natural gas.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}