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[CITE: 15USC717n]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                        CHAPTER 15B--NATURAL GAS
 
Sec. 717n. Hearings; rules of procedure


(a) Hearings; parties

    Hearings under this chapter may be held before the Commission, any 
member or members thereof, or any representative of the Commission 
designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept. In any 
proceeding before it, the Commission in accordance with such rules and 
regulations as it may prescribe, may admit as a party any interested 
State, State commission, municipality or any representative of 
interested consumers or security holders, or any competitor of a party 
to such proceeding, or any other person whose participation in the 
proceeding may be in the public interest.

(b) Procedure

    All hearings, investigations, and proceedings under this chapter 
shall be governed by rules of practice and procedure to be adopted by 
the Commission, and in the conduct thereof the technical rules of 
evidence need not be applied. No informality in any hearing, 
investigation, or proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall 
invalidate any order, decision, rule, or regulation issued under the 
authority of this chapter.

(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, Sec. 15, 52 Stat. 829.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Federal Power Commission terminated and functions, personnel, 
property, funds, etc., transferred to Secretary of Energy (except for 
certain functions transferred to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) 
by sections 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a), 7291, and 7293 of Title 42, The 
Public Health and Welfare.
    For transfer of functions of Federal Power Commission, with certain 
reservations, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 9 of 
1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 42 section 7172.
