15 U.S.C. § 717o

Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 73 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1960–2025 · leading case: Permian Basin Area Rate Cases, 390 U.S. 747 (1968).

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Permian Basin Area Rate Cases, 390 U.S. 747 (1968). · cites it 3× “” § 16, 15 U. S. C. § 717o. The problems and public functions of the small producers differ sufficiently to permit their separate classification, and the exemptions created by the Commission for them are fully consistent with the terms and purposes of its statutory…”

Allegheny Def. Proj. v. FERC, 964 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2020). · cites it 2× “Undeterred by the lack of authorizing language in Section 717r(a), the Commission points to another provision of the Natural Gas Act—15 U.S.C. § 717o—as the source of 29 authority for tolling orders.”

Twp. of Bordentown v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, 903 F.3d 234 (3rd Cir. 2018). “See 15 U.S.C. § 717o (granting FERC the "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 the NGA); id.”

Sierra Club v. FERC, 97 F.4th 16 (D.C. Cir. 2024). · cites it 6× “” 15 U.S.C. § 717o. Under a FERC regulation, “[a]ny authorized construction [or] extension .”

Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. United States Bureau of Land Mgmt., 698 F.3d 1101 (9th Cir. 2012). “0-3 (delegating the Department of Interior’s functions under the Mineral Leasing Act, “except mineral revenue functions and the responsibility for leasing of restricted Indian Lands,” to the Bureau of Land Management), and 15 U.S.C. § 717o (delegating administration of the…”

The Superior Oil Co. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, Mitchell Energy Corp. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, 563 F.2d 191 (5th Cir. 1977). · cites it 2× “Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S. C.A. § 717o (1976), provides in part: The Commission shall have the 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…”

Thorpe v. Hous. Auth. of Durham, 393 U.S. 268 (1969). “830 , 15 U. S. C. § 717o (Federal Power Commission).”

Fed. Power Comm'n v. Texaco Inc., 417 U.S. 380 (1974). “Section 16, 15 U. S. C. § 717o, upon which the Commission relies, is not to the contrary.”

Boston Edison Co. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, City of Holyoke Gas & Elec. Dep't, Intervenors, 856 F.2d 361 (1st Cir. 1988). “1985) (discussing analogous provision of Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717o). It is, therefore, far from an unbounded grant of remedial authority.”

The Superior Oil Co. v. Fed. Power Comm'n, 322 F.2d 601 (9th Cir. 1963). · cites it 3× “See section 16 of the Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717o. The procedures to be followed in prescribing or amending administrative rules and regulations, including those of the Commission, are dealt with in section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.”

Towns of Concord, Norwood, & Wellesley, Massachusetts v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, Boston Edison Co., Intervenor, 955 F.2d 67 (D.C. Cir. 1992). “5 The power to order refunds has been inferred from the analogous “necessary-or-appropriate” clause in section 16 of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717o. See, e.g., Consolidated Gas Transmission Corp.”

Ass'n of Oil Pipe Lines v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n, Kaneb Pipe Line Operating P'ship, L.P., Intervenors, 83 F.3d 1424 (D.C. Cir. 1996). “1987) (en banc), by relying on § 16 of the NGA, 15 U.S.C. § 717o, to establish a periodic refiling requirement under which the natural gas pipeline would bear the burden of proof.”

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