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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATION COMMITTEE (FERC) FERC is an independent agency that regulates non-federal hydroelectric projects by authorizing their construction and operation. The Commission was created through the Department of Energy Organization Act on October 1, 1977. At that time, the FPC, which was established in 1920, was abolished and the Commission inherited most of the FPC’s regulatory mission. FEDERAL POWER ACT The Federal Power Act (FPA), codified in 16 U.S.C. §§ 791 to 823d, was enacted in 1935 and grants the Commission jurisdiction over nonfederal hydropower projects throughout the United States, 22 as well as the power to regulate the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity in interstate commerce. The FPA comprises three Parts: Part I addresses hydropower licensing, administration, and safety, and Parts II and III address electric transmission and …show more content…

Such conditions assure the high productivity of renewable resources as provided by the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act and National Forest Management Act. Under FPA section 4(e), FERC must find the license will not interfere or be inconsistent with the original purposes of such reservation.” Second, the federal agency managing the reservation may require whatever conditions it finds are necessary for the reservation’s protection and use, although such conditions may not expressly veto the license. FERC must incorporate these conditions into the license. FERC may reject or condition a license if it believes a condition exceeds the scope of FPA section 4(e). In this event, FERC may issue the license under protest after which it may join in judicial review of that condition. FERC, however, may not amend or delete the condition on its own

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