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    16 USC Sec. 837g                                             01/26/98

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION


    CHAPTER 12F - PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONSUMER POWER PREFERENCE;


         RECIPROCAL PRIORITY IN OTHER REGIONS

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    Sec. 837g. Transmission lines between Pacific Northwest and Pacific


        Southwest; prohibition against construction of lines or related


        facilities; exceptions of lines and facilities recommended by


        Secretary or authorized by Congress; authority of Secretary to


        construct other transmission lines unaffected

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      No electric transmission lines or related facilities shall be


    constructed by any Federal agency outside the Pacific Northwest for


    the purpose of transmitting electric energy between the Pacific


    Northwest and Pacific Southwest, nor shall any arrangement for


    transmission capacity be executed by any Federal agency for the


    purpose of financing such lines and related facilities to be


    constructed by non-Federal entities, except those lines and


    facilities recommended for Federal construction in the Report of


    the Secretary of the Interior submitted to Congress on June 24,


    1964, as supplemented on July 27, 1964, or as hereafter


    specifically authorized by Congress: Provided, That, except with


    respect to electric transmission lines and related facilities for


    the purpose of transmitting electric energy between the two regions


    above mentioned, nothing herein shall be construed as expanding or


    diminishing in any way the present authority of the Secretary of


    Energy to construct transmission lines to market power and energy.

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    (Pub. L. 88-552, Sec. 8, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 758; Pub. L.


    95-91, title III, Sec. 302(a), Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 578.)

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                           TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS


      ''Secretary of Energy'' substituted for ''Secretary of the


    Interior'' in the proviso in text pursuant to Pub. L. 95-91, Sec.


    302(a), which is classified to section 7152(a) of Title 42, The


    Public Health and Welfare.

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                   SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS


      This section is referred to in section 837g-1 of this title.