CHAPTER 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power
112 sections.
SUBCHAPTER I — REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES 45 sections
- § 791. — Repealed. Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847
- § 791a. — Short title
- § 792. — Federal Power Commission; creation; number; appointment; term; qualifications; vacancies; quorum; chairman; salary; place of holding sessions
- § 793. — Appointment of officers and employees of Commission; duties, and salaries; detail of officers and employees from other departments; expenditures authorized
- § 793a. — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–367, title I, § 103(5), Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 787
- §§ 794, 795. — Omitted
- § 796. — Definitions
- § 797. — General powers of Commission
- § 797a. — Congressional authorization for permits, licenses, leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc., within national parks or monuments
- § 797b. — Duty to keep Congress fully and currently informed
- § 797c. — Dams in National Park System units
- § 797d. — Third party contracting by FERC
- § 798. — Purpose and scope of preliminary permits; transfer and cancellation
- § 799. — License; duration, conditions, revocation, alteration, or surrender
- § 800. — Issuance of preliminary permits or licenses
- § 801. — Transfer of license; obligations of transferee
- § 802. — Information to accompany application for license; landowner notification
- § 803. — Conditions of license generally
- § 804. — Project works affecting navigable waters; requirements insertable in license
- § 805. — Participation by Government in costs of locks, etc.
- § 806. — Time limit for construction of project works; extension of time; termination or revocation of licenses for delay
- § 807. — Right of Government to take over project works
- § 808. — New licenses and renewals
- § 809. — Temporary use by Government of project works for national safety; compensation for use
- § 810. — Disposition of charges arising from licenses
- § 811. — Operation of navigation facilities; rules and regulations; penalties
- § 812. — Public-service licensee; regulations by State or by commission as to service, rates, charges, etc.
- § 813. — Power entering into interstate commerce; regulation of rates, charges, etc.
- § 814. — Exercise by licensee of power of eminent domain
- § 815. — Contract to furnish power extending beyond period of license; obligations of new licensee
- § 816. — Preservation of rights vested prior to June 10, 1920
- § 817. — Projects not affecting navigable waters; necessity for Federal license, permit or right-of-way; unauthorized activities
- § 818. — Public lands included in project; reservation of lands from entry
- § 819. — Repealed. Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847
- § 820. — Proceedings for revocation of license or to prevent violations of license
- § 821. — State laws and water rights unaffected
- § 822. — Reservation of right to alter or repeal chapter
- § 823. — Repeal of inconsistent laws
- § 823a. — Conduit hydroelectric facilities
- § 823b. — Enforcement
- § 823c. — Alaska State jurisdiction over small hydroelectric projects
- § 823d. — Alternative conditions and prescriptions
- § 823e. — Promoting hydropower development at existing nonpowered dams
- § 823f. — Closed-loop pumped storage projects
- § 823g. — Considerations for relicensing terms
SUBCHAPTER II — REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE 31 sections
- § 824. — Declaration of policy; application of subchapter
- § 824a. — Interconnection and coordination of facilities; emergencies; transmission to foreign countries
- § 824a–1. — Pooling
- § 824a–2. — Reliability
- § 824a–3. — Cogeneration and small power production
- § 824a–4. — Seasonal diversity electricity exchange
- § 824b. — Disposition of property; consolidations; purchase of securities
- § 824c. — Issuance of securities; assumption of liabilities
- § 824d. — Rates and charges; schedules; suspension of new rates; automatic adjustment clauses
- § 824e. — Power of Commission to fix rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transmission
- § 824f. — Ordering furnishing of adequate service
- § 824g. — Ascertainment of cost of property and depreciation
- § 824h. — References to State boards by Commission
- § 824i. — Interconnection authority
- § 824j. — Wheeling authority
- § 824j–1. — Open access by unregulated transmitting utilities
- § 824k. — Orders requiring interconnection or wheeling
- § 824l. — Information requirements
- § 824m. — Sales by exempt wholesale generators
- § 824n. — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1232(e)(3), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 957
- § 824o. — Electric reliability
- § 824o–1. — Critical electric infrastructure security
- § 824p. — Siting of interstate electric transmission facilities
- § 824q. — Native load service obligation
- § 824r. — Protection of transmission contracts in the Pacific Northwest
- § 824s. — Transmission infrastructure investment
- § 824s–1. — Incentives for cybersecurity investments
- § 824t. — Electricity market transparency rules
- § 824u. — Prohibition on filing false information
- § 824v. — Prohibition of energy market manipulation
- § 824w. — Joint boards on economic dispatch
SUBCHAPTER III — LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 32 sections
- § 825. — Accounts and records
- § 825a. — Rates of depreciation; notice to State authorities before fixing
- § 825b. — Requirements applicable to agencies of United States
- § 825c. — Periodic and special reports; obstructing filing reports or keeping accounts, etc.
- § 825d. — Officials dealing in securities
- § 825e. — Complaints
- § 825f. — Investigations by Commission
- § 825g. — Hearings; rules of procedure
- § 825h. — Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders
- § 825i. — Appointment of officers and employees; compensation
- § 825j. — Investigations relating to electric energy; reports to Congress
- § 825k. — Publication and sale of reports
- § 825l. — Review of orders
- § 825m. — Enforcement provisions
- § 825n. — Forfeiture for violations; recovery; applicability
- § 825o. — Penalties for violations; applicability of section
- § 825o–1. — Enforcement of certain provisions
- § 825p. — Jurisdiction of offenses; enforcement of liabilities and duties
- § 825q. — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1277(a), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 978
- § 825q–1. — Office of Public Participation
- § 825r. — Separability
- § 825s. — Sale of electric power from reservoir projects; rate schedules; preference in sale; construction of transmission lines; disposition of moneys
- § 825s–1. — Southwestern area sale and transmission of electric power; disposition of receipts; creation of continuing fund; use of fund
- § 825s–2. — Southeastern area sale and transmission of electric power; disposition of receipts; creation of continuing funds; use of fund
- § 825s–3. — Southwestern area sale at uniform systemwide rates of electric power over transmission lines constructed with appropriated funds or used under contractual arrangements
- § 825s–4. — Southwestern Power Administration; deposit and availability of advance payments
- § 825s–5. — Southeastern Power Administration; deposit and availability of advance payments
- § 825s–6. — Southeastern Power Administration; deposit and availability of discretionary offsetting collections
- § 825s–7. — Southwestern Power Administration; deposit and availability of discretionary offsetting collections
- § 825s–8. — Southeastern Power Administration: rates of basic and premium pay
- § 825t. — Utilization of power revenues
- § 825u. — Interest rate on power bonds held by Administrator of General Services
SUBCHAPTER IV — STATE AND MUNICIPAL WATER CONSERVATION FACILITIES 4 sections
- § 828. — Facilitation of development and construction of water conservation facilities; exemption from certain Federal requirements
- § 828a. — Definitions
- § 828b. — Exemption from formula, books and records, and project cost statement requirements; annual charges
- § 828c. — Applicability of this subchapter