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§824u Prohibition on Filing False Information

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

People and organizations, including those mentioned elsewhere in the law, must not knowingly give a federal agency false information about wholesale electricity prices or transmission capacity if they intend to fraudulently change 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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16 U.S.C. § 824u

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Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60