In order to secure information necessary or appropriate as a basis for recommending legislation, the Commission is authorized and directed to conduct investigations regarding the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy, however produced, throughout the United States and its possessions, whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, including the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy by any agency, authority, or instrumentality of the United States, or of any State or municipality or other political subdivision of a State. It shall, so far as practicable, secure and keep current information regarding the ownership, operation, management, and control of all facilities for such generation, transmission, distribution, and sale; the capacity and output thereof and the relationship between the two; the cost of generation, transmission, and distribution; the rates, charges, and contracts in respect of the sale of electric energy and its service to residential, rural, commercial, and industrial consumers and other purchasers by private and public agencies; and the relation of any or all such facts to the development of navigation, industry, commerce, and the national defense. The Commission shall report to Congress the results of investigations made under authority of this section.
Notes of Decisions
Union Oil Co. of California v. Fed. Power Comm'n, 542 F.2d 1036 (9th Cir. 1976).
“The producers, however, argue that because the Commission suggested to Congress that it expand the Commission’s investigatory powers under § 717m to the limits of its powers to investigate under the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. § 825j, the Commission has admitted that it lacks…”
Conway Corp. v. Fed. Power Comm'n, Arkansas Power & Light Co., Intervenor, 510 F.2d 1264 (D.C. Cir. 1975).
“Section 311, 16 U.S.C. § 825j (1970), authorizes and directs the FPC “to conduct investigations regarding the generation, transmission, distribution, *1273 and sale of electric energy whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, including the…”
Pac. Power & Light Co. v. Duncan, 499 F. Supp. 672 (D. Or. 1980).
“may provide, among other things, for uniform rates or rates uniform throughout prescribed transmission areas [and t]he recovery of the cost of the Federal transmission system shall be equitably allocated between Federal and non-Federal power utilizing such system”).”
City of Mishawaka v. Am. Elec. Power Co., 616 F.2d 976 (7th Cir. 1980).
“For example, section 311, 16 U.S.C. § 825j, pertains to investigations of matters, in this case retail rates, not subject to federal jurisdiction, and section 202(a), 16 U.”
Scenic Hudson Pres. Conf. v. Fed. Power Comm'n, 453 F.2d 463 (2d Cir. 1971).
· cites it 2× “§ 824f, the “cost of generation * * * ” and “the development of navigation, industry, commerce, and the national defense,” 16 U.S.C. § 825j. 2 On the other hand Congress has now placed a measure of responsibility with the FPC, and the other federal agencies, to take…”
Metro. Edison Co. v. Fed. Power Comm'n, 94 F.2d 943 (3rd Cir. 1938).
“We must assume that the purposes of the Commission’s inquiry are of penetration into the intricate affiliations of the Associated Gas and Electric System as that system affects the public interest. Even if the whole of that system is not engaged in the transmission and sale of…”
Sw. Elec. Power Co. v. Fed. Power Comm'n, 304 F.2d 29 (5th Cir. 1962).
“§ 825j) it is provided that the Commission is authorized to conduct investigations “regarding the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy, however produced * * whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission,” and to do this in…”
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