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PART B-GAS

NATURAL GAS ACT

(89)

NATURAL GAS ACT

[PUBLIC-No. 688-75TH CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 556-3D SESSION]

[H. R. 6586]

AN ACT

To regulate the transportation and sale of natural gas in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

NECESSITY FOR REGULATION OF NATURAL-GAS COMPANIES

policy.

SECTION 1. (a) As disclosed in reports of the Federal Declaration of Trade Commission made pursuant to Senate Resolution 83 (Seventieth Congress, first session) and other reports made pursuant to the authority of Congress, it is hereby declared that the business of transporting and selling natural gas for ultimate distribution to the public is affected with a public interest, and that Federal regulation in matters relating to the transportation of natural gas and the sale thereof in interstate and foreign commerce is necessary in the public interest. [52 Stat. 821 (1938); 15 U. S. C. § 717 (a)]

(b) 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 or gathering of natural gas. [15 U. S. C. § 717 (b)]

Act applies to and sale for ural gas in

transportation

resale of nat

interstate commerce.

Not to apply to tation or sale distribution or facilities or

other transpor

or to the local

gathering of natural gas.

tion.

(c) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any state jurisdic person engaged in or legally authorized to engage in the transportation in interstate commerce or the sale in interstate commerce for resale, of natural gas received by such person from another person within or at the boundary of a State if all the natural gas so received is ultimately consumed within such State, or to any facilities used by such person for such transportation or sale, provided that

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