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Title 16
Title 16
FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
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Short title
Federal Power Commission; creation; number; appointment; term; qualifications; vacancies; quorum; chairman; salary; place of holding sessions
Appointment of officers and employees of Commission; duties, and salaries; detail of officers and employees from other departments; expenditures authorized
Definitions
General powers of Commission
Congressional authorization for permits, licenses, leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc., within national parks or monuments
Duty to keep Congress fully and currently informed
Dams in National Park System units
Third party contracting by FERC
Purpose and scope of preliminary permits; transfer and cancellation
License; duration, conditions, revocation, alteration, or surrender
Issuance of preliminary permits or licenses
Transfer of license; obligations of transferee
Information to accompany application for license; landowner notification
Conditions of license generally
Project works affecting navigable waters; requirements insertable in license
Participation by Government in costs of locks, etc.
Time limit for construction of project works; extension of time; termination or revocation of licenses for delay
Right of Government to take over project works
New licenses and renewals
Temporary use by Government of project works for national safety; compensation for use
Disposition of charges arising from licenses
Operation of navigation facilities; rules and regulations; penalties
Public-service licensee; regulations by State or by commission as to service, rates, charges, etc.
Power entering into interstate commerce; regulation of rates, charges, etc.
Exercise by licensee of power of eminent domain
Contract to furnish power extending beyond period of license; obligations of new licensee
Preservation of rights vested prior to
Projects not affecting navigable waters; necessity for Federal license, permit or right-of-way; unauthorized activities
Public lands included in project; reservation of lands from entry
Proceedings for revocation of license or to prevent violations of license
State laws and water rights unaffected
Reservation of right to alter or repeal chapter
Repeal of inconsistent laws
Conduit hydroelectric facilities
Enforcement
Alaska State jurisdiction over small hydroelectric projects
Alternative conditions and prescriptions
Promoting hydropower development at existing nonpowered dams
Closed-loop pumped storage projects
Considerations for relicensing terms
Declaration of policy; application of subchapter
Interconnection and coordination of facilities; emergencies; transmission to foreign countries
Pooling
Reliability
Cogeneration and small power production
Seasonal diversity electricity exchange
Disposition of property; consolidations; purchase of securities
Issuance of securities; assumption of liabilities
Rates and charges; schedules; suspension of new rates; automatic adjustment clauses
Power of Commission to fix rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transmission
Ordering furnishing of adequate service
Ascertainment of cost of property and depreciation
References to State boards by Commission
Interconnection authority
Wheeling authority
Open access by unregulated transmitting utilities
Orders requiring interconnection or wheeling
Information requirements
Sales by exempt wholesale generators
Electric reliability
Critical electric infrastructure security
Siting of interstate electric transmission facilities
Native load service obligation
Protection of transmission contracts in the Pacific Northwest
Transmission infrastructure investment
Incentives for cybersecurity investments
Electricity market transparency rules
Prohibition on filing false information
Prohibition of energy market manipulation
Joint boards on economic dispatch
Accounts and records
Rates of depreciation; notice to State authorities before fixing
Requirements applicable to agencies of United States
Periodic and special reports; obstructing filing reports or keeping accounts, etc.
Officials dealing in securities
Complaints
Investigations by Commission
Hearings; rules of procedure
Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders
Appointment of officers and employees; compensation
Investigations relating to electric energy; reports to Congress
Publication and sale of reports
Review of orders
Enforcement provisions
Forfeiture for violations; recovery; applicability
Penalties for violations; applicability of section
Enforcement of certain provisions
Jurisdiction of offenses; enforcement of liabilities and duties
Office of Public Participation
Separability
Sale of electric power from reservoir projects; rate schedules; preference in sale; construction of transmission lines; disposition of moneys
Southwestern area sale and transmission of electric power; disposition of receipts; creation of continuing fund; use of fund
Southeastern area sale and transmission of electric power; disposition of receipts; creation of continuing funds; use of fund
Southwestern area sale at uniform systemwide rates of electric power over transmission lines constructed with appropriated funds or used under contractual arrangements
Southwestern Power Administration; deposit and availability of advance payments
Southeastern Power Administration; deposit and availability of advance payments
Southeastern Power Administration; deposit and availability of discretionary offsetting collections
Southwestern Power Administration; deposit and availability of discretionary offsetting collections
Southeastern Power Administration: rates of basic and premium pay
Utilization of power revenues
Interest rate on power bonds held by Administrator of General Services
Facilitation of development and construction of water conservation facilities; exemption from certain Federal requirements
Definitions
Exemption from formula, books and records, and project cost statement requirements; annual charges
Applicability of this subchapter