Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - Interstate commerce |
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Page 602 - Integrated public-utility system " means — (A) As applied to electric utility companies, a system consisting of one or more units of generating plants and/or transmission lines and/or distributing facilities, whose utility assets, whether owned by one or more electric utility companies, are physically interconnected or capable of physical interconnection and which under normal conditions may be economically operated as a single interconnected and coordinated system confined in its operations to...
Page 45 - It is one of the happy incidents of the Federal system that a single courageous State, may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Page 604 - goods and services" that the Bill has in mind would certainly include the cost of fuel purchased from a fuel subsidiary. The report of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
Page 3 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Commerce on the Judiciary, 96th Cong., 1st Sess.
Page 33 - The NARUC is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization founded in 1889. Within its membership are the .governmental agencies of the fifty States and of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. Our chief objective is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America.
Page 902 - When Congress enacted the Natural Gas Act, it was motivated by a desire "to protect consumers against exploitation at the hands of natural gas companies.
Page 769 - Whenever the Commission, upon application of any State commission or of any person engaged in the transmission or sale of electric energy, and after notice to each State commission and public utility affected and after opportunity for hearing, finds such action necessary or appropriate in the public interest it may by order direct a public utility (if the Commission finds that no undue burden will be placed upon such public utility thereby) to establish physical connection of its transmission facilities...
Page 693 - Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States House of Representatives.
Page 902 - Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana, Power d Liglit Co., 406 US 621. 631, 640-641 (1972) the Court observed : "The Natural Gas Act of 1938 granted FPC broad powers 'to protect consumers against exploitation at the hands of natural gas companies.
Page 1125 - That the Commission shall have no authority to compel the enlargement of generating facilities for such purposes, nor to compel such public utility to sell or exchange energy when to do so would impair its ability to render adequate service to its customers.