Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§717j State compacts for conservation, transportation, etc., of natural gas

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 15B— - NATURAL GAS › § 717j

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When two or more States ask Congress to approve an agreement about conserving, making, moving, or selling natural gas, the Commission must gather relevant facts. It must publish what it finds and send a report to Congress. The report should include any suggested laws needed to help the agreement work and to support fair, orderly, and economical conservation, production, transportation, and distribution of natural gas. The Commission must also keep up-to-date information on any such agreements already approved by Congress, make that information public, and report to Congress from time to time with recommendations. The Commission should use records and help from federal departments and agencies whenever possible, and the President may order those agencies to assist.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §717j

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(a)In case two or more States propose to the Congress compacts dealing with the conservation, production, transportation, or distribution of natural gas it shall be the duty of the Commission to assemble pertinent information relative to the matters covered in any such proposed compact, to make public and to report to the Congress information so obtained, together with such recommendations for further legislation as may appear to be appropriate or necessary to carry out the purposes of such proposed compact and to aid in the conservation of natural-gas resources within the United States and in the orderly, equitable, and economic production, transportation, and distribution of natural gas.

(b)It shall be the duty of the Commission to assemble and keep current pertinent information relative to the effect and operation of any compact between two or more States heretofore or hereafter approved by the Congress, to make such information public, and to report to the Congress, from time to time, the information so obtained, together with such recommendations as may appear to be appropriate or necessary to promote the purposes of such compact.

(c)In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the Commission shall, so far as practicable, avail itself of the services, records, reports, and information of the executive departments and other agencies of the Government, and the President may, from time to time, direct that such services and facilities be made available to the Commission.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 717j

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73