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15 U.S.C. § 3412 — General rulemaking authority
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**(a) In general** Except where expressly provided otherwise, the Commission shall administer this chapter. The Commission, or any other Federal officer or agency in which any function under this chapter is vested or delegated, is authorized to perform any and all acts (including any appropriate enforcement activity), and to prescribe, issue, amend, and rescind such rules and orders as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out its functions under this chapter.
**(b) Authority to define terms** Except where otherwise expressly provided, the Commission is authorized to define, by rule, accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this chapter. Any such definition shall be consistent with the definitions set forth in this chapter.
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**(a) In general** Except where expressly provided otherwise, the Commission shall administer this chapter. The Commission, or any other Federal officer or agency in which any function under this chapter is vested or delegated, is authorized to perform any and all acts (including any appropriate enforcement activity), and to prescribe, issue, amend, and rescind such rules and orders as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out its functions under this chapter.
**(b) Authority to define terms** Except where otherwise expressly provided, the Commission is authorized to define, by rule, accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this chapter. Any such definition shall be consistent with the definitions set forth in this chapter.
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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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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 3393
an industrial process or as a feedstock which
the Secretary determines is essential.
(2) High-priority user
The term ‘‘high-priority user’’ has the same
meaning as given such term in section
3391(f)(2) of this title.
(Pub. L. 95–621, title IV, § 402, Nov. 9, 1978, 92
Stat. 3395.)
§ 3393. Establishment and implementation of pri-
orities
(a) Establishment of priorities
The Secretary of Energy shall prescribe the
rules under sections 3391 and 3392 of this title
pursuant to his authority under the Department
of Energy Organization Act [42 U.S.C 7101 et
seq.] to establish and review priorities for cur-
tailments under the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C.
717 et seq.].
(b) Implementation of priorities
The Commission shall implement the rules
prescribed under sections 3391 and 3392 of this
title pursuant to its authority under the Depart-
ment of Energy Organization Act [42 U.S.C. 7101
et seq.] to establish, review, and enforce curtail-
ments under the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717
et seq.].
(Pub. L. 95–621, title IV, § 403, Nov. 9, 1978, 92
Stat. 3396.)
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The Department of Energy Organization Act, referred
to in subsecs. (a) and (b), is Pub. L. 95–91, Aug. 4, 1977,
91 Stat. 565, which is classified principally to chapter 84
(§ 7101 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Wel-
fare. For complete classification of this Act to the
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7101 of
Title 42 and Tables.
The Natural Gas Act, referred to in subsecs. (a) and
(b), is act June 21, 1938, ch. 556, 52 Stat. 821, which is
classified generally to chapter 15B (§ 717 et seq.) of this
title. For complete classification of this act to the
Code, see section 717w of this title and
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