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§824l Information Requirements

Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter II— REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE › § 824l

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a company that makes electricity to sell wholesale (for example, an electric utility or a federal power agency) asks a transmission company for wholesale transmission service and proposes specific rates and terms, the transmission company must either agree or, within 60 days of getting the request (or another time both sides agree on), send a written answer. That answer must explain, using the facts of the request, why it set the rates and terms it did and must describe any physical or other limits that affect providing the service. Within 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Commission must write a rule that makes transmission companies send annual information to the Commission. The reports must let potential transmission customers, state regulators, and the public know about available transmission capacity and any known limits.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §824l

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(a)Whenever any electric utility, Federal power marketing agency, or any other person generating electric energy for sale for resale makes a good faith request to a transmitting utility to provide wholesale transmission services and requests specific rates and charges, and other terms and conditions, unless the transmitting utility agrees to provide such services at rates, charges, terms and conditions acceptable to such person, the transmitting utility shall, within 60 days of its receipt of the request, or other mutually agreed upon period, provide such person with a detailed written explanation, with specific reference to the facts and circumstances of the request, stating (1) the transmitting utility’s basis for the proposed rates, charges, terms, and conditions for such services, and (2) its analysis of any physical or other constraints affecting the provision of such services.
(b)Not later than 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Commission shall promulgate a rule requiring that information be submitted annually to the Commission by transmitting utilities which is adequate to inform potential transmission customers, State regulatory authorities, and the public of potentially available transmission capacity and known constraints.

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Construction

Nothing in this section to be construed as affecting or intending to affect, or in any way to interfere with, authority of any State or local government relating to environmental protection or siting of facilities, see section 731 of Pub. L. 102–486, set out as a note under section 796 of this title.

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16 U.S.C. § 824l

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60