1994 US Code
Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 15B - NATURAL GAS
Sec. 717d - Fixing rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transportation
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE CHAPTER 15B - NATURAL GAS Sec. 717d - Fixing rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transportation |
Contains | section 717d |
Date | 1994 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 4, 1995 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | June 21, 1938, ch. 556, §5, 52 Stat. 823. |
Statutes at Large References | 52 Stat. 823 64 Stat. 1265 |
§717d. Fixing rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transportation (a) Decreases in rates
Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint of any State, municipality, State commission, or gas distributing company, shall find that any rate, charge, or classification demanded, observed, charged, or collected by any natural-gas company in connection with any transportation or sale of natural gas, subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, or that any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting such rate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, the Commission shall determine the just and reasonable rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order: Provided, however, That the Commission shall have no power to order any increase in any rate contained in the currently effective schedule of such natural gas company on file with the Commission, unless such increase is in accordance with a new schedule filed by such natural gas company; but the Commission may order a decrease where existing rates are unjust, unduly discriminatory, preferential, otherwise unlawful, or are not the lowest reasonable rates.
(b) Costs of production and transportationThe Commission upon its own motion, or upon the request of any State commission, whenever it can do so without prejudice to the efficient and proper conduct of its affairs, may investigate and determine the cost of the production or transportation of natural gas by a natural-gas company in cases where the Commission has no authority to establish a rate governing the transportation or sale of such natural gas.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, §5, 52 Stat. 823.)
Transfer of FunctionsFederal Power Commission terminated and functions with regard to establishment, review, and enforcement of rates and charges for transportation and sale of natural gas by a producer or gatherer or by a natural gas pipeline or natural gas company transferred to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by sections 7172(a)(1)(C) and 7293 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
For transfer of functions of Federal Power Commission, with certain reservations, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 9 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 717y, 3431 of this title; title 42 sections 7172, 8235e, 8441; title 50 section 167i.
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