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[CITE: 15USC3411]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                     CHAPTER 60--NATURAL GAS POLICY
 
          SUBCHAPTER V--ADMINISTRATION, ENFORCEMENT, AND REVIEW
 
Sec. 3411. General rulemaking authority


(a) In general

    Except where expressly provided otherwise, the Commission shall 
administer this chapter. The Commission, or any other Federal officer or 
agency in which any function under this chapter is vested or delegated, 
is authorized to perform any and all acts (including any appropriate 
enforcement activity), and to prescribe, issue, amend, and rescind such 
rules and orders as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out 
its functions under this chapter.

(b) Authority to define terms

    Except where otherwise expressly provided, the Commission is 
authorized to define, by rule, accounting, technical, and trade terms 
used in this chapter. Any such definition shall be consistent with the 
definitions set forth in this chapter.

(Pub. L. 95-621, title V, Sec. 501, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3396; Pub. L. 
101-60, Sec. 3(b)(4), July 26, 1989, 103 Stat. 159.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-60 struck out subsec. (c) which 
authorized Commission to delegate to any State agency (with consent of 
such agency) any of its functions with respect to sections 3315, 
3316(b), and 3319(a)(1) and (3) of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 101-60 effective Jan. 1, 1993, see section 3(b) 
of Pub. L. 101-60, set out as a note under section 3372 of this title.
