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[CITE: 16USC825c]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
 
     SUBCHAPTER III--LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND 
                        ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 825c. Periodic and special reports; obstructing filing 
        reports or keeping accounts, etc.
        
    (a) Every licensee and every public utility shall file with the 
Commission such annual and other periodic or special reports as the 
Commission may by rules and regulations or order prescribe as necessary 
or appropriate to assist the Commission in the proper administration of 
this chapter. The Commission may prescribe the manner and form in which 
such reports shall be made, and require from such persons specific 
answers to all questions upon which the Commission may need information. 
The Commission may require that such reports shall include, among other 
things, full information as to assets and liabilities, capitalization, 
net investment, and reduction thereof, gross receipts, interest due and 
paid, depreciation, and other reserves, cost of project and other 
facilities, cost of maintenance and operation of the project and other 
facilities, cost of renewals and replacement of the project works and 
other facilities, depreciation, generation, transmission, distribution, 
delivery, use, and sale of electric energy. The Commission may require 
any such person to make adequate provision for currently determining 
such costs and other facts. Such reports shall be made under oath unless 
the Commission otherwise specifies.
    (b) It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to hinder, delay, 
or obstruct the making, filing, or keeping of any information, document, 
report, memorandum, record, or account required to be made, filed, or 
kept under this chapter or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder.

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, Sec. 304, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 
687, title II, Sec. 213, 49 Stat. 855.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Federal Power Commission terminated and its functions, personnel, 
property, funds, etc., transferred to Secretary of Energy (except for 
certain functions which were 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.
    Executive and administrative functions of Federal Power Commission, 
with certain reservations, transferred to Chairman of such Commission, 
with authority vested in him to authorize their performance by any 
officer, employee, or administrative unit under his jurisdiction, by 
Reorg. Plan No. 9 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 
64 Stat. 1265, set out as a note under section 792 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 42 section 7177.
