Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Licensees and public utilities must file yearly and other special reports with the Commission when the Commission asks. The Commission can decide the form and content of those reports and can demand specific answers. It can ask for financial and operational details, covering things like assets, liabilities, capitalization, investments, receipts, interest, depreciation and reserves, project and operating costs, and how electricity is generated, moved, delivered, used, and sold. Reports usually must be sworn to under oath unless the Commission says not to. It is illegal for anyone to intentionally block, delay, or interfere with creating, filing, or keeping any records or reports the Commission requires.

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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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102