Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 46 — Public Utility Regulatory Policies
§ 2624. Lifeline rates
Statutory text
Lower rates
No provision of this chapter prohibits a State regulatory authority (with respect to an electric utility for which it has ratemaking authority) or a nonregulated electric utility from fixing, approving, or allowing to go into effect a rate for essential needs (as defined by the State regulatory authority or by the nonregulated electric utility, as the case may be) of residential electric consumers which is lower than a rate under the standard referred to in section 2621(d)(1) of this title.
Determination
If any State regulated electric utility or nonregulated electric utility does not have a lower rate as described in subsection (a) in effect two years after , the State regulatory authority having ratemaking authority with respect to such State regulated electric utility or the nonregulated electric utility, as the case may be, shall determine, after an evidentiary hearing, whether such a rate should be implemented by such utility.
Prior proceedings
Section 2634 of this title shall not apply to the requirements of this section.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
Pub. L. 95–617 title I § 114 · 92 Stat. 3117
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 2624
(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, § 114, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3124.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, § 114, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3124.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC 114. LIFELINE RATES. (a) Lower Rates.— No provision of this title prohibits a State regulatory authority (with respect to an electric utility for which it has ratemaking authority) or a nonregulated electric utility from fixing, approving, or allowing to go into effect a rate for essential needs (as defined by the State regulatory authority or by the nonregulated electric utility, as the case may be) of residential electric consumers which is lower than a rate under the standard referred to in section 111(d)(1). . . . (b) Determination.— If any State regulated electric utility or non-regulated electric utility does not have a lower rate as described in subsection (a) in effect two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the State regulatory authority having ratemaking authority with respect to such State regulated electric utility or the nonregulated electric utility, as the case may be, shall determine, after an evidentiary hearing, whether such a rate should be implemented by such utility. (c) Prior Proceedings.— Section 124 shall not apply to the requirements of this section.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I (§ 101 et seq.) of Pub. L. 95–617, , 92 Stat. 3120, which enacted subchapters I to IV of this chapter and section 6808 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and amended sections 6802 to 6807 of Title 42. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.