§ 837g. Transmission lines between Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest; prohibition against construction of lines or related facilities; exceptions of lines and facilities recommended by Secretary or authorized by Congress; authority of Secretary to construct other transmission lines unaffected

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. 1964

   Pub. L. 88–552 § 8 · 78 Stat. 755

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 837g

   Pub. L. 88–552, § 8, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 758

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 88–552, § 8, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 758

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. No electric transmission lines or related facilities shall be constructed by any Federal agency outside the Pacific Northwest for the purpose of transmitting electric energy between the Pacific North-west and Pacific Southwest, nor shall any arrangement for transmission capacity be. executed by any Federal agency for the purpose of financing such lines and related facilities to be constructed by non-Federal entities, except those lines and facilities recommended for Federal construction in the Report of the Secretary of the Interior submitted to Congress on June 24, 1964, as supplemented on July 27, 1964, or as hereafter specifically authorized by Congress: Provided, That, except with respect to electric transmission lines and related facilities for the purpose of transmitting electric energy between the two regions above mentioned, nothing herein shall be construed as expanding or diminishing in any way the present authority of the Secretary of the Interior to construct transmission lines to market power and energy.

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