§ 802. Information to accompany application for license; landowner notification

Statutory text

Each applicant for a license under this chapter shall submit to the commission—

Such maps, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost as may be required for a full understanding of the proposed project. Such maps, plans, and specifications when approved by the commission shall be made a part of the license; and thereafter no change shall be made in said maps, plans, or specifications until such changes shall have been approved and made a part of such license by the commission.

Satisfactory evidence that the applicant has complied with the requirements of the laws of the State or States within which the proposed project is to be located with respect to bed and banks and to the appropriation, diversion, and use of water for power purposes and with respect to the right to engage in the business of developing, transmitting and distributing power, and in any other business necessary to effect the purposes of a license under this chapter.

 1 Such additional information as the commission may require.

Upon the filing of any application for a license (other than a license under section 808 of this title) the applicant shall make a good faith effort to notify each of the following by certified mail:

Any person who is an owner of record of any interest in the property within the bounds of the project.

Any Federal, State, municipal or other local governmental agency likely to be interested in or affected by such application.

Footnotes

1 See Codification note below.

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.

1920
Pub. L. 66–285 · 41 Stat. 1063
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 802
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 9, 41 Stat. 1068
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 9, 41 Stat. 1068
1986
Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1986
Pub. L. 99–495 § 14 · 100 Stat. 1243
1. Amended · 16 U.S.C. § 802
  Pub. L. 99–495 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
2. Redesignated · 16 U.S.C. § 802
  Pub. L. 99–495 redesignated former subsecs. (a) and (b) as pars. (1) and (2) of subsec. (a)
3. Added · 16 U.S.C. § 802
  Pub. L. 99–495 added subsec. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 99–495 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), redesignated former subsecs. (a) and (b) as pars. (1) and (2) of subsec. (a), and added subsec. (b).
Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 14. LANDOWNER NOTIFICATION. Section 9 of the Federal Power Act is amended by inserting “(a)” 16 USC 802. after “9”, by redesignating existing subsections (a) and (b) as paragraphs (1) and (2), and by adding the following at the end thereof: “(b) Upon the filing of any application for a license (other than a license under section 15) the applicant shall make a good faith effort 16 USC 808. to notify each of the following by certified mail: “(1) Any person who is an owner of record of any interest in the property within the bounds of the project. “(2) Any Federal, State, municipal or other local governmental State and local governments. agency likely to be interested in or affected by such application.”.
Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–495 effective with respect to each license, permit, or exemption issued under this chapter after Oct. 16, 1986, see section 18 of Pub. L. 99–495, set out as a note under section 797 of this title.

3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Former subsec. (c), included in the provisions designated as subsec. (a) by Pub. L. 99–495, has been editorially redesignated as par. (3) of subsec. (a) as the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–495 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), redesignated former subsecs. (a) and (b) as pars. (1) and (2) of subsec. (a), and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 99–495 effective with respect to each license, permit, or exemption issued under this chapter after Oct. 16, 1986, see section 18 of Pub. L. 99–495, set out as a note under section 797 of this title.

Credits

1920–1986 · 3 acts

1920June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 9, 41 Stat. 1068
1935renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847
1986Pub. L. 99–495, § 14, Oct. 16, 1986, 100 Stat. 1257.

Show as published

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 9, 41 Stat. 1068; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847; Pub. L. 99–495, § 14, Oct. 16, 1986, 100 Stat. 1257.)