§8235e — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) can exempt sales or transport of natural gas from sections 4, 5, and 7 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717c, 717d, 717f) and titles II and IV of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C. 3341–3348 and 3391–3394). The exemption may be used when the gas is found to be saved by a prototype home energy-efficiency program approved under section 8235a(a). For regulated utilities or pipelines, the State regulator with rate-making power must say the gas was saved; for nonregulated ones, the company itself may decide. FERC must also decide the exemption is needed to let the demonstration work.

Title 42, §8235e

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may exempt from any provisions in section 4, 5, and 7 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717c, 717d, and 717f) and titles II and IV of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C. 3341 through 3348 and 3391 through 3394) the sale or transportation, by any public utility, local distribution company, interstate or intrastate pipeline, or any other person, of any natural gas which is determined (in the case of a regulated utility, company, pipeline, or person) by the State regulatory authority having rate-making authority over such utility, company, pipeline, or person, or (in the case of a nonregulated utility, company, pipeline, or person) by such utility, company, pipeline, or person, to have been conserved because of a prototype residential energy efficiency program which is established under a plan approved under section 8235a(a) of this title, if the Commission determines that such exemption is necessary to make feasible the demonstration of such prototype residential energy efficiency program.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 95–621, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3350. Title II of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 was classified generally to subchapter II (§ 3341 et seq.) of chapter 60 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, prior to its repeal by Pub. L. 100–42, § 2(a), May 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 314. Title IV of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 is classified generally to subchapter IV (§ 3391 et seq.) of chapter 60 of Title 15. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3301 of Title 15 and Tables.

Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–388 substituted “(15 U.S.C. 717c” for “(17 U.S.C. 717c”.

§8235e Authority of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to exempt application of certain laws