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15 U.S.C. § 717a — Definitions
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When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires—
(1) “Person” includes an individual or a corporation.
(2) “Corporation” includes any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or receivers, trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall not include municipalities as hereinafter defined.
(3) “Municipality” means a city, county, or other political subdivision or agency of a State.
(4) “State” means a State admitted to the Union, the District of Columbia, and any organized Territory of the United States.
(5) “Natural gas” means either natural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.
(6) “Natural-gas company” means a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
(7) “Interstate commerce” means commerce between any point in a State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the same State but through any place outside thereof, but only insofar as such commerce takes place within the United States.
(8) “State commission” means the regulatory body of the State or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality.
(9) “Commission” and “Commissioner” means the Federal Power Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
(10) “Vehicular natural gas” means natural gas that is ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.
(11) “LNG terminal” includes all natural gas facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural gas that is imported to the Unit
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When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires—
(1) “Person” includes an individual or a corporation.
(2) “Corporation” includes any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or receivers, trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall not include municipalities as hereinafter defined.
(3) “Municipality” means a city, county, or other political subdivision or agency of a State.
(4) “State” means a State admitted to the Union, the District of Columbia, and any organized Territory of the United States.
(5) “Natural gas” means either natural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.
(6) “Natural-gas company” means a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
(7) “Interstate commerce” means commerce between any point in a State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the same State but through any place outside thereof, but only insofar as such commerce takes place within the United States.
(8) “State commission” means the regulatory body of the State or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality.
(9) “Commission” and “Commissioner” means the Federal Power Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
(10) “Vehicular natural gas” means natural gas that is ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.
(11) “LNG terminal” includes all natural gas facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural gas that is imported to the United States from a foreign country, exported to a foreign country from the United States, or transported in interstate commerce by waterborne vessel, but does not include—
(A) waterborne vessels used to deliver natural gas to or from any such facility; or
(B) any pipeline or storage facility subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under [section 717f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section717f&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Extension or improvement of facilities on order of court; notice and hearing** Whenever the Commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing, finds such action necessary or desirable in the public interest, it may by order direct a natural-gas company to extend or improve its transportation facilities, to establish physical connection of its transportation facilities with the facilities of, and sell natural gas to, any person or municipality engaged or legally authorized to engage in the local distribution of natural or artificial gas to the public, and for such purpose to extend its transportation facilities to communities immediately adjacent to such facilities or to territory served by such natural-gas company, if the Commission finds that no undue burden will be placed upon such natural-gas company thereby: Provided, That the Commission shall have no authority to compel the enlargement of transportation facilities for such purposes, or to compel such natural-gas company to establish physical connection or sell natural gas when to do so would impair its ability to render adequate service to its customers.
**(b) Abandonment of facilities or services; approval of Commission** No natural-gas company shall abandon all or any portion of its facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, or any service rendered by means of such facilities, without the permission and approval of the Commission first had and obtained, after due hearing, and a finding by the Commission that the available supply of natural gas is depleted to the extent that the continuance of service is unwarranted, or that the present or future public convenience or necessity permit such abandonment.
**(c) Certificate of public convenience and necessity**
(1)
(A) No natural-gas comp
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 717a
over the sale, sale for resale, or transportation
of vehicular natural gas.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 1, 52 Stat. 821; Mar. 27,
1954, ch. 115, 68 Stat. 36; Pub. L. 102–486, title IV,
§ 404(a)(1), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2879; Pub. L.
109–58, title III, § 311(a), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat.
685.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2005—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–58 inserted ‘‘and to the
importation or exportation of natural gas in foreign
commerce and to persons engaged in such importation
or exportation,’’ after ‘‘such transportation or sale,’’.
1992—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102–486 added subsec. (d).
1954—Subsec. (c). Act Mar. 27, 1954, added subsec. (c).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TERMINATION OF FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION;
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
The Federal Power Commission was terminated, and
its functions, personnel, property, funds, etc., were
transferred to Secretary of Energy (except for certain
functions which were transferred to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission) by sections 7151(b), 7171(a),
7172(a), 7291, and 7293 of Title 42, The Public Health and
Welfare.
STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS
Pub. L. 102–486, title IV, § 404(b), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat.
2879, provided that: ‘‘The transportation or sale of nat-
ural gas by any person who is not otherwise a public
utility, within the meaning of State law—
‘‘(1) in closed containers; or
‘‘(2) otherwise to any person for use by such person
as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle,
shall not be considered to be a transportation or sale of
natural gas within the meaning of any State law, regu-
lation, or order in effect before January 1, 1989. This
subsection shall not apply to any provision of any
State law, regulation, or order to the extent that
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