Exemption of Certain Public Utilities from Federal Power Commission Jurisdiction: Hearings, 89th Congress, 1st Session, May 12-June 10, 1965

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Page 19 - Commission shall make such order only if it finds that such issue or assumption: (a) is for some lawful object within its corporate purposes, and compatible with the public interest, which is necessary or appropriate for or consistent with the proper performance by the carrier of service to the public as a common carrier, and which will not impair its ability to perform that service, and (b) is reasonably necessary and appropriate for such purpose.
Page 252 - Part next following and of that part of such business which consists of the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and the sale of such energy at wholesale in interstate commerce is necessary in the public interest, such Federal regulation, however, to extend only to those matters which are not subject to regulation by the States.
Page 58 - Commission shall have jurisdiction over all facilities for such transmission or sale of electric energy, but shall not have jurisdiction, except as specifically provided in this Part and the Part next following, over facilities used for the generation of electric energy or over facilities used in local distribution or only for the transmission of electric energy in intrastate commerce, or over facilities for the transmission of electric energy consumed wholly by the transmitter.
Page 19 - Applicant is not organized and operating in a State, under the laws of which the security issue here involved is regulated by a State commission...
Page 411 - The provisions of this Act shall apply to the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, to the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale for ultimate public consumption for domestic, commercial, industrial, or any other use, and to natural-gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale, but shall not apply to any other transportation or sale of natural gas or to the local distribution of natural gas or to the facilities used for such distribution or to the production...
Page 130 - I, Charles P. Caldwell, secretary of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, certify that the attached is a true and complete copy of a resolution entered by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia on May 6, 1965. as the same appears on file and of record in my office.
Page 114 - Massachusetts to regulate, under the interstate commerce clause. Public Utilities Commission of Rhode Island v. Attleboro Steam & Electric Co., 273 US 83.
Page 413 - ... any of the States directly concerned has not provided a commission or other authority to enforce the requirements of this section within such State or to regulate and control the amount and character of securities to be issued by any of such parties or such States are unable to agree through their properly constituted authorities...
Page 19 - ... unless and until, and then only to the extent that, upon application by the carrier, and after investigation by the Commission of the purposes and uses of the proposed issue and the proceeds thereof...
Page 408 - S.Ct. 807, because of the importance of the question in the administration of the revenue laws and because of an asserted conflict in principle of the decision below with that of Lucas v. Earl, 281 US ll1, 50 S.Ct.

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