Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§825c Periodic and Special Reports; Obstructing Filing Reports or Keeping Accounts, Etc.

Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter III— LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 825c

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Every licensee and public utility must file annual and other reports the Commission says are needed to run this law. The Commission decides the form and can require specific answers. Reports may cover finances (assets, debts, receipts, interest), investments, costs (projects, maintenance, operation, replacements), reserves and depreciation, and how electric power is produced, moved, delivered, used, and sold. The Commission can require methods to track these costs. Reports must be sworn unless the Commission allows otherwise. It is against the law to purposely block, delay, or interfere with making, filing, or keeping any required record, report, or account.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §825c

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(a)Every licensee and every public utility shall file with the Commission such annual and other periodic or special reports as the Commission may by rules and regulations or order prescribe as necessary or appropriate to assist the Commission in the proper administration of this chapter. The Commission may prescribe the manner and form in which such reports shall be made, and require from such persons specific answers to all questions upon which the Commission may need information. The Commission may require that such reports shall include, among other things, full information as to assets and liabilities, capitalization, net investment, and reduction thereof, gross receipts, interest due and paid, depreciation, and other reserves, cost of project and other facilities, cost of maintenance and operation of the project and other facilities, cost of renewals and replacement of the project works and other facilities, depreciation, generation, transmission, distribution, delivery, use, and sale of electric energy. The Commission may require any such person to make adequate provision for currently determining such costs and other facts. Such reports shall be made under oath unless the Commission otherwise specifies.

(b)It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to hinder, delay, or obstruct the making, filing, or keeping of any information, document, report, memorandum, record, or account required to be made, filed, or kept under this chapter or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 825c

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60