§16451 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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Defines key words used in this part so people know what certain terms mean. Affiliate: a company another company owns, controls, or can vote at least 5% of its voting stock. Associate company: a company in the same holding company system. Commission: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Company: any business or organized group, including trustees or receivers. Electric utility company: a company that owns or runs plants or lines to make, move, or sell electric power. Exempt wholesale generator and foreign utility company: have the same meanings given in sections 79z–5a and 79z–5b of Title 15 as they stood the day before this part took effect. Gas utility company: a company that distributes natural or manufactured gas at retail, except for gas only in portable containers or gas supplied to tenants or employees for their own use and not for resale. Holding company: a company that owns 10% or more of a public-utility’s voting stock, or any person the Commission finds, after notice and a hearing, has controlling influence over a public-utility and should be regulated to protect customers’ rates. Holding company does not include certain banks, savings associations, trust companies, or brokers/dealers when they only hold or handle utility securities under specified, limited conditions (including a two-year and a 12-month rule). Holding company system: a holding company and its subsidiaries. Jurisdictional rates: rates the Commission accepts or sets for interstate electric transmission or wholesale electric sales and for interstate natural gas transportation or resale for public use. Natural gas company: a person that transports or sells natural gas in interstate commerce for resale. Person: an individual or company. Public utility: a person who owns or operates facilities for interstate electric transmission or wholesale electric sales. Public-utility company: an electric or gas utility company. State commission: any state or local body or official that the state law gives power to regulate public utilities. Subsidiary company: a company a holding company owns 10% or more of, or any company the Commission, after notice and a hearing, finds is controlled by the holding company and should be regulated to protect customers’ rates. Voting security: any security that currently gives the holder the right to vote in running a company.

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For purposes of this part:

(1)The term “affiliate” of a company means any company, 5 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of which are owned, controlled, or held with power to vote, directly or indirectly, by such company.

(2)The term “associate company” of a company means any company in the same holding company system with such company.

(3)The term “Commission” means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

(4)The term “company” means a corporation, partnership, association, joint stock company, business trust, or any organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or a receiver, trustee, or other liquidating agent of any of the foregoing.

(5)The term “electric utility company” means any company that owns or operates facilities used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale.

(6)The terms “exempt wholesale generator” and “foreign utility company” have the same meanings as in section 79z–5a and 79z–5b of title 15, as those sections existed on the day before the effective date of this part.

(7)The term “gas utility company” means any company that owns or operates facilities used for distribution at retail (other than the distribution only in enclosed portable containers or distribution to tenants or employees of the company operating such facilities for their own use and not for resale) of natural or manufactured gas for heat, light, or power.

(8)(A)The term “holding company” means—

(i)any company that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds, with power to vote, 10 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company or of a holding company of any public-utility company; and

(ii)any person, determined by the Commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to exercise directly or indirectly (either alone or pursuant to an arrangement or understanding with one or more persons) such a controlling influence over the management or policies of any public-utility company or holding company as to make it necessary or appropriate for the rate protection of utility customers with respect to rates that such person be subject to the obligations, duties, and liabilities imposed by this part upon holding companies.

(B)The term “holding company” shall not include—

(i)a bank, savings association, or trust company, or their operating subsidiaries that own, control, or hold, with the power to vote, public utility or public utility holding company securities so long as the securities are—

(I)held as collateral for a loan;

(II)held in the ordinary course of business as a fiduciary; or

(III)acquired solely for purposes of liquidation and in connection with a loan previously contracted for and owned beneficially for a period of not more than two years; or

(ii)a broker or dealer that owns, controls, or holds with the power to vote public utility or public utility holding company securities so long as the securities are—

(I)not beneficially owned by the broker or dealer and are subject to any voting instructions which may be given by customers or their assigns; or

(II)acquired within 12 months in the ordinary course of business as a broker, dealer, or underwriter with the bona fide intention of effecting distribution of the specific securities so acquired.

(9)The term “holding company system” means a holding company, together with its subsidiary companies.

(10)The term “jurisdictional rates” means rates accepted or established by the Commission for the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce, the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce, the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, and the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale for ultimate public consumption for domestic, commercial, industrial, or any other use.

(11)The term “natural gas company” means a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce or the sale of such gas in interstate commerce for resale.

(12)The term “person” means an individual or company.

(13)The term “public utility” means any person who owns or operates facilities used for transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce or sales of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce.

(14)The term “public-utility company” means an electric utility company or a gas utility company.

(15)The term “State commission” means any commission, board, agency, or officer, by whatever name designated, of a State, municipality, or other political subdivision of a State that, under the laws of such State, has jurisdiction to regulate public utility companies.

(16)The term “subsidiary company” of a holding company means—

(A)any company, 10 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of which are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held with power to vote, by such holding company; and

(B)any person, the management or policies of which the Commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing, determines to be subject to a controlling influence, directly or indirectly, by such holding company (either alone or pursuant to an arrangement or understanding with one or more other persons) so as to make it necessary for the rate protection of utility customers with respect to rates that such person be subject to the obligations, duties, and liabilities imposed by this part upon subsidiary companies of holding companies.

(17)The term “voting security” means any security presently entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote in the direction or management of the affairs of a company.

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This part, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle F (§§ 1261–1277) of title XII of Pub. L. 109–58, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 972, which enacted this part, amended section 824 and 824m of Title 16, Conservation, repealed chapter 2C (§ 79 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and section 825q of Title 16, and enacted provisions set out as notes under this section and section 15801 of this title. For complete classification of subtitle F to the Code, see

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note set out under section 15801 of this title and Tables. For the

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Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1274, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 977, provided that: “(a) In General.—Except for section 1272 [42 U.S.C. 16460] (relating to implementation), this subtitle [subtitle F (§§ 1261 to 1277) of title XII of Pub. L. 109–58, enacting this part, amending section 824 and 824m of Title 16, Conservation, repealing chapter 2C (§ 79 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and section 825q of Title 16, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 15801 of this title] shall take effect 6 months after the date of enactment of this subtitle [Aug. 8, 2005]. “(b) Compliance With Certain Rules.—If the [Federal Energy Regulatory] Commission approves and makes effective any final rulemaking modifying the standards of conduct governing entities that own, operate, or control facilities for transmission of electricity in interstate commerce or transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce prior to the

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of this subtitle, any action taken by a public-utility company or utility holding company to comply with the requirements of such rulemaking shall not subject such public-utility company or utility holding company to any regulatory requirement applicable to a holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (15 U.S.C. 79 et seq.).”

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of subtitle F of title XII of Pub. L. 109–58, which enacted this part, as the “Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005”, see section 1261 of Pub. L. 109–58, set out as a note under section 15801 of this title.

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