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[CITE: 49USC15501]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                 SUBTITLE IV--INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION
 
                        PART C--PIPELINE CARRIERS
 
                           CHAPTER 155--RATES
 
Sec. 15501. Standards for pipeline rates, classifications, 
        through routes, rules, and practices
        
    (a) Reasonableness.--A rate, classification, rule, or practice 
related to transportation or service provided by a pipeline carrier 
subject to this part must be reasonable. A through route established by 
such a carrier must be reasonable.
    (b) Nondiscrimination.--A pipeline carrier providing transportation 
subject to this part may not discriminate in its rates against a 
connecting line of any other pipeline, rail, or water carrier providing 
transportation subject to this subtitle or unreasonably discriminate 
against that line in the distribution of traffic that is not routed 
specifically by the shipper.

(Added Pub. L. 104-88, title I, Sec. 106(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 
923.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 10701 of this title prior to the general amendment of this 
subtitle by Pub. L. 104-88, Sec. 102(a).


                             Effective Date

    Chapter effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. 
L. 104-88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104-88, set out as a note under 
section 701 of this title.
