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15 U.S.C. § 3301 — Effect on State laws
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**(a) Authority to prescribe maximum lawful prices** Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of any State to establish or enforce any maximum lawful price for the first sale of natural gas produced in such State.
**(b) Common carriers** No person shall be subject to regulation as a common carrier under any provision of Federal or State law by reason of any transportation—
(1) pursuant to any order under section 3362(c) or section 3363(b), (c), (d), or (i) of this title; or
(2) authorized by the Commission under [section 3371(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3371/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Authority to prescribe maximum lawful prices** Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of any State to establish or enforce any maximum lawful price for the first sale of natural gas produced in such State.
**(b) Common carriers** No person shall be subject to regulation as a common carrier under any provision of Federal or State law by reason of any transportation—
(1) pursuant to any order under section 3362(c) or section 3363(b), (c), (d), or (i) of this title; or
(2) authorized by the Commission under [section 3371(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3371/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Commission approval of transportation**
(1) **Interstate pipelines**
(A) *In general* — The Commission may, by rule or order, authorize any interstate pipeline to transport natural gas on behalf of—
(i) any intrastate pipeline; and
(ii) any local distribution company.
(B) *Just and reasonable rates* — The rates and charges of any interstate pipeline with respect to any transportation authorized under subparagraph (A) shall be just and reasonable (within the meaning of 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.]).
(2) **Intrastate pipelines**
(A) *In general* — The Commission may, by rule or order, authorize any intrastate pipeline to transport natural gas on behalf of—
(i) any interstate pipeline; and
(ii) any local distribution company served by any interstate pipeline.
(B) *Rates and charges*
(i) *Maximum fair and equitable price* — The rates and charges of any intrastate pipeline with respect to any transportation authorized under subparagraph (A), including any amount computed in accordance with the rule prescribed under clause (ii), shall be fair and equitable and may not exceed an amount which is reasonably comparable to the rates and charges which interstate pipelines would be permitted to charge for providing similar transportation service.
(ii) *Commission rule* — The Commission shall, by rule, establish the method for calculating an amount necessary to—
(I) reasonably compensate any intrastate pipeline for expenses incurred by the pipeline and associated with the providing of any gathering, treatment, processing, transportation, delivery, or similar service provided by such pipeline in connection with
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**(a) Just and reasonable rates and charges** All rates and charges made, demanded, or received by any natural-gas company for or in connection with the transportation or sale of natural gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, and all rules and regulations affecting or pertaining to such rates or charges, shall be just and reasonable, and any such rate or charge that is not just and reasonable is declared to be unlawful.
**(b) Undue preferences and unreasonable rates and charges prohibited** No natural-gas company shall, with respect to any transportation or sale of natural gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, (1) make or grant any undue preference or advantage to any person or subject any person to any undue prejudice or disadvantage, or (2) maintain any unreasonable difference in rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, either as between localities or as between classes of service.
**(c) Filing of rates and charges with Commission; public inspection of schedules** Under such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe, every natural-gas company shall file with the Commission, within such time (not less than sixty days from June 21, 1938) and in such form as the Commission may designate, and shall keep open in convenient form and place for public inspection, schedules showing all rates and charges for any transportation or sale subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, and the classifications, practices, and regulations affecting such rates and charges, together with all contracts which in any manner affect or relate to such rates, charges, classifications, and services.
**(d) Changes in rates and charges; notice to Commission** Unless the Commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any natural
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**(a) Determination of entitlement**
(1) For purposes of determining the natural gas entitlement of any local distribution company under any curtailment plan, if the Commission revises any base period established under such plan, the volumes of natural gas which such local distribution company demonstrates—
(A) were sold by the local distribution company, for a priority use immediately before the implementation of conservation measures, and
(B) were conserved by reason of the implementation of such conservation measures,
shall be treated by the Commission following such revision as continuing to be used for the priority use referred to in subparagraph (A).
(2) The Commission shall, by rule, prescribe methods for measurement of volumes of natural gas to which subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) apply.
**(b) Conditions, limitations, etc.** Subsection (a) shall not limit or otherwise affect any provision of any curtailment plan, or any other provision of law or regulation, under which natural gas may be diverted or allocated to respond to emergency situations or to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
**(c) Definitions** For purposes of this section—
(1) The term “conservation measures” means such energy conservation measures, as determined by the Commission, as were implemented after the base period established under the curtailment plan in effect on November 9, 1978.
(2) The term “local distribution company” means any person engaged in the transportation, or local distribution, of natural gas and the sale of natural gas for ultimate consumption.
(3) The term “curtailment plan” means a plan (including any modification of such plan required by the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 [[15 U.S.C. 3301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid
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**(a) Transfer of contractual interests**
(1) In order to facilitate voluntary conversion of facilities from the use of natural gas to the use of heavy petroleum fuel oil, the Commission shall, by rule, provide a procedure for the approval by the Commission of any transfer to any person described in paragraph 2(B)(i), (ii), or (iii) of contractual interests involving the receipt of natural gas described in paragraph 2(A).
(2)
(A) The rule required under paragraph (1) shall apply to—
(i) natural gas—
(I) received by the user pursuant to a contract entered into before September 1, 1977, not including any renewal or extension thereof entered into on or after such date other than any such extension or renewal pursuant to the exercise by such user of an option to extend or renew such contract;
(II) other than natural gas the sale for resale or the transportation of which was subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission under 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.] as of September 1, 1977;
(III) which was used as a fuel in any facility in existence on September 1, 1977.
(ii) natural gas subject to a prohibition order issued under [section 717z of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section717z&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) The rule required under paragraph (1) shall permit the transfer of contractual interests—
(i) to any interstate pipeline;
(ii) to any local distribution company served by an interstate pipeline; and
(iii) to any person served by an interstate pipeline for a high priority use by such person.
(3) The rule required under paragraph (1) shall pro
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For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Secretary, or his duly authorized agent or agents, shall have the same powers and authorities as the Federal Trade Commission under [section 49 of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section49&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to all functions vested in, or transferred or delegated to, the Secretary or such agents by this chapter. For purposes of carrying out its responsibilities under the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 [[15 U.S.C. 3301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Commission shall have the same powers and authority as the Secretary has under this section.
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**(a) Marginal Areas** Each State in which all or part of a Marginal Area is located shall, with respect to the Marginal Area (or portion thereof, to the extent specified in this subsection), submit to the Administrator the State implementation plan revisions (including the plan items) described under this subsection except to the extent the State has made such submissions as of November 15, 1990.
(1) **Inventory** — Within 2 years after November 15, 1990, the State shall submit a comprehensive, accurate, current inventory of actual emissions from all sources, as described in [section 7502(c)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7502/c/3&num=0&edition=prelim), in accordance with guidance provided by the Administrator.
(2) **Corrections to the State implementation plan** — Within the periods prescribed in this paragraph, the State shall submit a revision to the State implementation plan that meets the following requirements—
(A) *Reasonably available control technology corrections* — For any Marginal Area (or, within the Administrator’s discretion, portion thereof) the State shall submit, within 6 months of the date of classification under [section 7511(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7511/a&num=0&edition=prelim), a revision that includes such provisions to correct requirements in (or add requirements to) the plan concerning reasonably available control technology as were required under [section 7502(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7502/b&num=0&edition=prelim) (as in effect immediately before November 15, 1990), as interpreted in guidance issued by the Administrator under [section 7408 of
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may exempt from any provisions in sections 4, 5, and 7 of the Natural Gas Act ([15 U.S.C. 717c](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section717c&num=0&edition=prelim), 717d, and 717f) and titles II and IV of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 ([15 U.S.C. 3341](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3341&num=0&edition=prelim) through 3348 and 3391 through 3394) the sale or transportation, by any public utility, local distribution company, interstate or intrastate pipeline, or any other person, of any natural gas which is determined (in the case of a regulated utility, company, pipeline, or person) by the State regulatory authority having rate-making authority over such utility, company, pipeline, or person, or (in the case of a nonregulated utility, company, pipeline, or person) by such utility, company, pipeline, or person, to have been conserved because of a prototype residential energy efficiency program which is established under a plan approved under [section 8235a(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8235a/a&num=0&edition=prelim), if the Commission determines that such exemption is necessary to make feasible the demonstration of such prototype residential energy efficiency program.
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 3301
Sec.
SUBCHAPTER III—ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES
AND REQUIREMENTS
PART A—EMERGENCY AUTHORITY
3361.
Declaration of emergency.
3362.
Emergency purchase authority.
3363.
Emergency allocation authority.
3364.
Miscellaneous provisions.
PART B—OTHER AUTHORITIES AND REQUIREMENTS
3371.
Authorization of certain sales and transpor-
tation.
3372.
Assignment of contractual rights to receive
surplus natural gas.
3373.
Effect of certain natural gas prices on indefi-
nite price escalator clauses.
3374.
Clauses prohibiting certain sales, transpor-
tation, and commingling.
3375.
Filing of contracts and agreements.
SUBCHAPTER IV—NATURAL GAS CURTAILMENT
POLICIES
3391.
Natural gas for essential agricultural uses.
3391a.
‘‘Essential agricultural use’’ defined.
3392.
Natural gas for essential industrial process
and feedstock uses.
3393.
Establishment and implementation of prior-
ities.
3394.
Limitation on revoking or amending certain
pre-1969 certificates of public convenience
and necessity.
SUBCHAPTER V—ADMINISTRATION,
ENFORCEMENT, AND REVIEW
3411.
General rulemaking authority.
3412.
Administrative procedure.
3413.
Repealed.
3414.
Enforcement.
3415.
Intervention.
3416.
Judicial review.
3417.
Repealed.
3418.
Applicability of other Federal statutory pro-
visions relating to information-gathering.
SUBCHAPTER VI—COORDINATION WITH NATURAL
GAS ACT; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
3431.
Coordination with the Natural Gas Act.
3432.
Effect on State laws.
§ 3301. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter—
(1) Natural gas
The term ‘‘natural gas’’ means either nat-
ural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural
and artificial gas.
(2) Well
The term ‘‘well’’ means any well for the dis-
covery or production of
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