---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 39.9"
title: "18"
number: "39.9"
heading: "Enforcement of Commission Rules and Orders."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/39.9"
---

# §39.9. Enforcement of Commission Rules and Orders.

- (a) The Commission may take such action as is necessary and appropriate against the Electric Reliability Organization or a Regional Entity to ensure compliance with a Reliability Standard or any Commission order affecting the Electric Reliability Organization or a Regional Entity, including, but not limited to:
  - (1) **After notice and opportunity for hearing, imposition of civil penalties under the Federal Power Act.**
  - (2) After notice and opportunity for hearing, suspension or decertification of the Commission's certification to be the Electric Reliability Organization.
  - (3) After notice and opportunity for hearing, suspension or rescission of the Commission's approval of an agreement to delegate certain Electric Reliability Organization authorities to a Regional Entity.
- (b) The Commission may periodically audit the Electric Reliability Organization's performance under this part.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 824o.

### Source

Source: Order 672, 71 FR 8736, Feb. 17, 2006, unless otherwise noted.