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[CITE: 16USC813]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
 
SUBCHAPTER I--REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
 
Sec. 813. Power entering into interstate commerce; regulation of 
        rates, charges, etc.
        
    When said power or any part thereof shall enter into interstate or 
foreign commerce the rates charged and the service rendered by any such 
licensee, or by any subsidiary corporation, the stock of which is owned 
or controlled directly or indirectly by such licensee, or by any person, 
corporation, or association purchasing power from such licensee for sale 
and distribution or use in public service shall be reasonable, 
nondiscriminatory, and just to the customer and all unreasonable 
discriminatory and unjust rates or services are prohibited and declared 
to be unlawful; and whenever any of the States directly concerned has 
not provided a commission or other authority to enforce the requirements 
of this section within such State or to regulate and control the amount 
and character of securities to be issued by any of such parties, or such 
States are unable to agree through their properly constituted 
authorities on the services to be rendered, or on the rates or charges 
of payment therefor, or on the amount or character of securities to be 
issued by any of said parties, jurisdiction is conferred upon the 
commission, upon complaint of any person, aggrieved, upon the request of 
any State concerned, or upon its own initiative to enforce the 
provisions of this section, to regulate and control so much of the 
services rendered, and of the rates and charges of payment therefor as 
constitute interstate or foreign commerce and to regulate the issuance 
of securities by the parties included within this section, and 
securities issued by the licensee subject to such regulations shall be 
allowed only for the bona fide purpose of financing and conducting the 
business of such licensee.
    The administration of the provisions of this section, so far as 
applicable, shall be according to the procedure and practice in fixing 
and regulating the rates, charges, and practices of railroad companies 
as provided in subtitle IV of title 49, and the parties subject to such 
regulation shall have the same rights of hearing, defense, and review as 
said companies in such cases.
    In any valuation of the property of any licensee hereunder for 
purposes of rate making, no value shall be claimed by the licensee or 
allowed by the commission for any project or projects under license in 
excess of the value or values prescribed in section 807 of this title 
for the purposes of purchase by the United States, but there shall be 
included the cost to such licensee of the construction of the lock or 
locks or other aids of navigation and all other capital expenditures 
required by the United States, and no value shall be claimed or allowed 
for the rights granted by the commission or by this chapter.

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, Sec. 20, 41 Stat. 1073; renumbered pt. 
I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, Sec. 212, 49 Stat. 847.)

                          Codification

    ``Subtitle IV of title 49'' substituted in text for ``the Act to 
regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, as amended'' on authority 
of Pub. L. 95-473, Sec. 3(b), Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1466, the first 
section of which enacted subtitle IV of Title 49, Transportation.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Federal Power Commission terminated and its 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.
