Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§815 Contract to Furnish Power Extending Beyond Period of License; Obligations of New Licensee

Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter I— REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES › § 815

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

If it’s in the public interest, a license holder may sign contracts to sell or deliver power that last past the license’s end date. Those contracts need approval by both the federal commission and the State’s public-service commission or similar authority. If the State has no such agency, only the federal commission must approve. If the original licensee does not get a new license when the old one ends, the United States or the new licensee, whichever applies, must take over and carry out those contracts.

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Title 16, §815

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Whenever the public interest requires or justifies the execution by the licensee of contracts for the sale and delivery of power for periods extending beyond the date of termination of the license, such contracts may be entered into upon the joint approval of the commission and of the public-service commission or other similar authority in the State in which the sale or delivery of power is made, or if sold or delivered in a State which has no such public-service commission, then upon the approval of the commission, and thereafter, in the event of failure to issue a new license to the original licensee at the termination of the license, the United States or the new licensee, as the case may be, shall assume and fulfill all such contracts.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 815

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60