Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§824u Prohibition on filing false information
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE › § 824u
Summary
People and organizations must not knowingly give false information to a federal agency about wholesale electricity prices or about how much transmission capacity is available. This rule applies when they know the information is false and they do it to fraudulently change or influence the agency’s data.
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Title 16, §824u
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No entity (including an entity described in section 824(f) of this title) shall willfully and knowingly report any information relating to the price of electricity sold at wholesale or the availability of transmission capacity, which information the person or any other entity knew to be false at the time of the reporting, to a Federal agency with intent to fraudulently affect the data being compiled by the Federal agency.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 824u
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73