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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 12E — Niagara Power Project

§ 836a. Rules governing issuance of license

Statutory text

The license issued under the terms of this chapter shall be granted in conformance with Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but in the event of any conflict, the provisions of this chapter shall govern in respect of the project herein authorized.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 85–159 § 2 · 71 Stat. 401

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 836a

    Pub. L. 85–159, § 2, Aug. 21, 1957, 71 Stat. 402

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 85–159, § 2, Aug. 21, 1957, 71 Stat. 402

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The license issued under the terms of this Act shall be granted in conformance with Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Federal Power Commission, but in the event of any conflict, the provisions of this Act shall govern in respect of the project herein authorized.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“Federal Energy Regulatory Commission” substituted for “Federal Power Commission” in subsecs. (a) and (b) pursuant to Pub. L. 95–91, § 402(a)(1)(A), which is classified to section 7172(a)(1)(A) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

The Federal Power Commission was terminated, and its functions, personnel, property, funds, etc., were transferred to the 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.

Credits

1957–1977 · 2 acts
  1. 1957Pub. L. 85–159, § 2, , 71 Stat. 402
  2. 1977Pub. L. 95–91, title IV, § 402(a)(1)(A), , 91 Stat. 583.
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(Pub. L. 85–159, § 2, , 71 Stat. 402; Pub. L. 95–91, title IV, § 402(a)(1)(A), , 91 Stat. 583.)

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