Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§16452 Federal Access to Books and Records

Title 42 › CHAPTER 149 — NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS › SUBCHAPTER XII — ELECTRICITY › Part D — Repeal of Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 › § 16452

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires each holding company and its associate and affiliate companies to keep and give the Commission books, accounts, memos, and other records that the Commission finds are related to costs charged to a public utility or natural gas company that is an associate. Affiliates must also keep records about transactions with other affiliates when those records matter for costs and for protecting utility customers’ jurisdictional rates. The Commission can examine records from any company in a holding company system or its affiliates. Members, officers, and staff of the Commission must keep information they learn in these exams secret, unless the Commission or a court orders otherwise.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §16452

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(a)In general

Each holding company and each associate company thereof shall maintain, and shall make available to the Commission, such books, accounts, memoranda, and other records as the Commission determines are relevant to costs incurred by a public utility or natural gas company that is an associate company of such holding company and necessary or appropriate for the protection of utility customers with respect to jurisdictional rates.

(b)Affiliate companies

Each affiliate of a holding company or of any subsidiary company of a holding company shall maintain, and shall make available to the Commission, such books, accounts, memoranda, and other records with respect to any transaction with another affiliate, as the Commission determines are relevant to costs incurred by a public utility or natural gas company that is an associate company of such holding company and necessary or appropriate for the protection of utility customers with respect to jurisdictional rates.

(c)Holding company systems

The Commission may examine the books, accounts, memoranda, and other records of any company in a holding company system, or any affiliate thereof, as the Commission determines are relevant to costs incurred by a public utility or natural gas company within such holding company system and necessary or appropriate for the protection of utility customers with respect to jurisdictional rates.

(d)Confidentiality

No member, officer, or employee of the Commission shall divulge any fact or information that may come to his or her knowledge during the course of examination of books, accounts, memoranda, or other records as provided in this section, except as may be directed by the Commission or by a court of competent jurisdiction.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 16452

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110