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15 U.S.C. § 3202 — Definitions
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) The term “gas consumer” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, to which natural gas is sold other than for purposes of resale.
(2) The term “gas utility” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, engaged in the local distribution of natural gas, and the sale of natural gas to any ultimate consumer of natural gas.
(3) The term “State regulated gas utility” means any gas utility with respect to which a State regulatory authority has ratemaking authority.
(4) The term “nonregulated gas utility” means any gas utility other than a State regulated gas utility.
(5) The term “rate” means any (A) price, rate, charge, or classification made, demanded, observed, or received with respect to sale of natural gas to a gas consumer, (B) any rule, regulation, or practice respecting any such rate, charge, or classification, and (C) any contract pertaining to the sale of natural gas to a gas consumer.
(6) The term “ratemaking authority” means authority to fix, modify, approve, or disapprove rates.
(7) The term “sale” when used with respect to natural gas, includes an exchange of natural gas.
(8) The term “State regulatory authority” means any State agency which has ratemaking authority with respect to the sale of natural gas by any gas utility (other than by such State agency).
(9) The term “integrated resource planning” means, in the case of a gas utility, planning by the use of any standard, regulation, practice, or policy to undertake a systematic comparison between demand-side management measures and the supply of gas by a gas utility to minimize life-cycle costs of adequate and reliable utility services to gas consumers. Integrated resource planning shall take into account necessary features for system operation such as
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) The term “gas consumer” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, to which natural gas is sold other than for purposes of resale.
(2) The term “gas utility” means any person, State agency, or Federal agency, engaged in the local distribution of natural gas, and the sale of natural gas to any ultimate consumer of natural gas.
(3) The term “State regulated gas utility” means any gas utility with respect to which a State regulatory authority has ratemaking authority.
(4) The term “nonregulated gas utility” means any gas utility other than a State regulated gas utility.
(5) The term “rate” means any (A) price, rate, charge, or classification made, demanded, observed, or received with respect to sale of natural gas to a gas consumer, (B) any rule, regulation, or practice respecting any such rate, charge, or classification, and (C) any contract pertaining to the sale of natural gas to a gas consumer.
(6) The term “ratemaking authority” means authority to fix, modify, approve, or disapprove rates.
(7) The term “sale” when used with respect to natural gas, includes an exchange of natural gas.
(8) The term “State regulatory authority” means any State agency which has ratemaking authority with respect to the sale of natural gas by any gas utility (other than by such State agency).
(9) The term “integrated resource planning” means, in the case of a gas utility, planning by the use of any standard, regulation, practice, or policy to undertake a systematic comparison between demand-side management measures and the supply of gas by a gas utility to minimize life-cycle costs of adequate and reliable utility services to gas consumers. Integrated resource planning shall take into account necessary features for system operation such as diversity, reliability, dispatchability, and other factors of risk and shall treat demand and supply to gas consumers on a consistent and integrated basis.
(10) The term “demand-side management” includes energy conservation, energy efficiency, and load management techniques.
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or affect any authority of the Secretary or the Commission under any other provision of law.
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Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by this Act affects—
(1) the applicability of the antitrust laws to any electric utility or gas utility (as defined in [section 3202 of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3202&num=0&edition=prelim)), or
(2) any authority of the Secretary or of the Commission under any other provision of law (including the Federal Power Act [[16 U.S.C. 791a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section791a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] and the Natural Gas Act [[15 U.S.C. 717](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section717&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]) respecting unfair methods of competition or anticompetitive acts or practices.
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**(a) Energy efficiency grants** The Secretary is authorized in accordance with the provisions of this section to provide grants to State regulatory authorities in an amount not to exceed $250,000 per authority, for purposes of encouraging demand-side management including energy conservation, energy efficiency and load management techniques and for meeting the requirements of paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) of [section 2621(d) of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section2621/d&num=0&edition=prelim) and as a means of meeting gas supply needs and to meet the requirements of paragraphs (3) and (4) of [section 3203(b) of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3203/b&num=0&edition=prelim). Such grants may be utilized by a State regulatory authority to provide financial assistance to nonprofit subgrantees of the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program in order to facilitate participation by such subgrantees in proceedings of such regulatory authority to examine energy conservation, energy efficiency, or other demand-side management programs.
**(b) Plan** A State regulatory authority wishing to receive a grant under this section shall submit a plan to the Secretary that specifies the actions such authority proposes to take that would achieve the purposes of this section.
**(c) Secretarial action**
(1) In determining whether, and in what amount, to provide a grant to a State regulatory authority under this section the Secretary shall consider, in addition to other appropriate factors, the actions proposed by the State regulatory authority to achieve the purposes of this section and to consider implementation of the ratemaking standards established in—
(A) paragraphs (
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Page 1994
TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 3201
1 So in original. The comma probably should not appear.
2 So in original. A comma probably should appear.
§ 3201. Purposes; coverage
(a) Purposes
The purposes of this chapter are to encour-
age—
(1) conservation of energy supplied by gas
utilities;
(2) the optimization of the efficiency of use
of facilities and resources by gas utility sys-
tems; and
(3) equitable rates to gas consumers of nat-
ural gas.
(b) Volume of total retail sales
This chapter applies to each gas utility in any
calendar year, and to each proceeding relating
to each gas utility in such year, if the total
sales of natural gas by such utility for purposes
other than resale exceeded 10 billion cubic feet
during any calendar year beginning after De-
cember 31, 1975, and before the immediately pre-
ceding calendar year.
(c) Exclusion of wholesale sales
The requirements of this chapter do not apply
to the operations of a gas utility, or to pro-
ceedings respecting such operations, to the ex-
tent that such operations or proceedings relate
to sales of natural gas for purposes of resale.
(d) List of covered utilities
Before the beginning of each calendar year,
the Secretary shall publish a list identifying
each gas utility to which this chapter applies
during such calendar year. Promptly after publi-
cation of such list, each State regulatory au-
thority shall notify the Secretary of each gas
utility on the list for which such State regu-
latory authority has ratemaking authority.
(Pub. L. 95–617, title III, § 301, Nov. 9, 1978, 92
Stat. 3149.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
DEFINITIONS
The definition of Secretary in section 2602 of Title 16,
Conservation, applies to this section.
§ 3202. Definitions
For purposes of this
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