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Calendar No. 469
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-278
FAIR RATEPAYER ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY,
AND EFFICIENCY STANDARDS ACT
JUNE 18, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 186]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 186) to amend the Federal Power Act to provide
that any inaction by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
that allows a rate change to go into effect shall be treated as an
order by the Commission for purposes of rehearing and court re-
view, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the end of Section 1, the Short Title, and insert
the following:
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL POWER ACT.
Section 205 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824d) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
(g) INACTION OF COMMISSIONERS.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-If the Commission permits the expiration of the 60-day pe-
riod established under the first sentence of subsection (d) because the members
of the Commission are divided two against two as to the lawfulness of the
change, as a result of vacancy, incapacity, or recusal on the Commission-
(A) the failure to act by the Commission shall be considered to be an
order issued by the Commission accepting the change for purposes of sec-
tion 313(a); and
(B) there shall be added to the record of the proceeding of the Commis-
sion-
(i) the proposed order;
(ii) notice of the division of the Commissioners with respect to the
proposed order; and
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