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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§825h Administrative Powers of Commission; Rules, Regulations, and Orders

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission can make, change, or cancel any orders, rules, or regulations it needs to carry out this chapter. It can set definitions for accounting, technical, and trade words; require specific forms for statements, applications, and reports; say what information must be included; and set when those papers must be filed. It may also put people or issues into different groups and set different rules for each group. Rules usually take effect 30 days after the Commission publishes them unless a different date is given. Orders take effect on the date and in the way the Commission says. All rules must be filed with the Commission’s secretary and kept available for the public to look at during reasonable business hours.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §825h

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The Commission shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Among other things, such rules and regulations may define accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this chapter; and may prescribe the form or forms of all statements, declarations, applications, and reports to be filed with the Commission, the information which they shall contain, and the time within which they shall be filed. Unless a different date is specified therein, rules and regulations of the Commission shall be effective thirty days after publication in the manner which the Commission shall prescribe. Orders of the Commission shall be effective on the date and in the manner which the Commission shall prescribe. For the purposes of its rules and regulations, the Commission may classify persons and matters within its jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of persons or matters. All rules and regulations of the Commission shall be filed with its secretary and shall be kept open in convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Commission Review Pub. L. 99–495, § 4(c), Oct. 16, 1986, 100 Stat. 1248, provided that: “In order to ensure that the provisions of Part I of the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.], as amended by this Act, are fully, fairly, and efficiently implemented, that other governmental agencies identified in such Part I are able to carry out their responsibilities, and that the increased workload of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other agencies is facilitated, the Commission shall, consistent with the provisions of section 309 of the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 825h], review all provisions of that Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.] requiring an action within a 30-day period and, as the Commission deems appropriate, amend its

Regulations

to interpret such period as meaning ‘working days’, rather than ‘calendar days’ unless calendar days is specified in such Act for such action.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 825h

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60