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legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-12/section-824r.md

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+title: "16 U.S.C. § 824r"
+description: "Protection of transmission contracts in the Pacific Northwest"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "12"
+chapter_name: "FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER"
+section: "824r"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 824r"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s824r"
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+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 824r - Protection of transmission contracts in the Pacific Northwest
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Definition of electric utility or person In this section, the term “electric utility or person” means an electric utility or person that—
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+(1) as of August 8, 2005, holds firm transmission rights pursuant to contract or by reason of ownership of transmission facilities; and
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+(2) is located—
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+(A) in the Pacific Northwest, as that region is defined in section 839a of this title; or
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+(B) in that portion of a State included in the geographic area proposed for a regional transmission organization in Commission Docket Number RT01–35 on the date on which that docket was opened.
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+(b) Protection of transmission contracts Nothing in this chapter confers on the Commission the authority to require an electric utility or person to convert to tradable or financial rights—
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+(1) firm transmission rights described in subsection (a); or
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+(2) firm transmission rights obtained by exercising contract or tariff rights associated with the firm transmission rights described in subsection (a).
+
+(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 218, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1235, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 960.)