§ 6807. State utility regulatory assistance

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. 1976

   Energy Conservation and Production Act

   Pub. L. 94–385 title II § 207 · 90 Stat. 1125

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6807

   Pub. L. 94–385, title II, § 207, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1144

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 94–385, title II, § 207, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1144

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 207. authorizations of appropriations (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title (other than section 205) for the period beginning July 1, 1976, and ending September 30, 1977, not to exceed $13,056,000, of which not more than $1,000,000 may be assigned for purposes of section 204 (2) and (3). (b) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out section 205 for such period not to exceed $2,000,000.

2. 1978

   Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978

   Pub. L. 95–617 title I § 141 · 92 Stat. 3117

   Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 6807

   Pub. L. 95–617 substituted provisions relating to grants to State utility regulatory commissions and nonregulated electric utilities for provisions authorizing appropriations to carry out this subchapter

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 95–617 substituted provisions relating to grants to State utility regulatory commissions and nonregulated electric utilities for provisions authorizing appropriations to carry out this subchapter.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 141. GRANTS TO CARRY OUT TITLES I AND III. Section 207 of title IT of the Energy Conservation and Production 42 USC 6807. Act is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 207. “state utility regulatory assistance (a) The Secretary may make grants to State utility regulatory commissions and nonregulated electric utilities (as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978) to carry out duties and responsibilities under titles I and III, and section 210, of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. No grant may be made under this section to any Federal agency. “(b) Any requirements established by the Secretary with respect to grants under this section may be only such requirements as are necessary to assure that such grants are expended solely to carry out duties and responsibilities referred to in subsection (a) or such as are other-wise required by law. “(c) No grant may be made under this section unless an application for such grant is submitted to the Secretary in such form and manner as the Secretary may require. The Secretary may not approve an application of a State utility regulatory commission or nonregulated electric utility unless such commission or nonregulated electric utility assures the Secretary that funds made available under this section will be in addition to, and not in substitution for, funds made available to such commission or nonregulated electric utility from other governmental sources. “(d) The funds appropriated for purposes of this section shall be apportioned among the States in such manner that grants made under this section in each State shall not exceed the lesser of— “(1) the amount determined by dividing equally among all States the total amount available under this section for such grants, or “(2) the amount which the Secretary is authorized to provide pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this section for such State.”.

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