---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3394"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3394"
heading: "Limitation on revoking or amending certain pre-1969 certificates of public convenience and necessity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3394"
units:
  - "Chapter 60 — Natural Gas Policy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Natural Gas Curtailment Policies"
---

# §3394. Limitation on revoking or amending certain pre-1969 certificates of public convenience and necessity

- (a) **General rule—** The [Commission](/usc/15/3301.md?p=24) may not, during the 10-year period beginning on November 9, 1978, revoke or amend any [certificate](/usc/15/3301.md?p=23) of public convenience and necessity issued before January 1, 1969, under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act [[15 U.S.C. 717f](/usc/15/717f.md)] for the transportation of [natural gas](/usc/15/3301.md?p=1) owned by any [electric utility](/usc/15/3301.md?p=28) except upon the application of the [person](/usc/15/3301.md?p=26) to whom such [certificate](/usc/15/3301.md?p=23) was issued.
- (b) **Commission curtailment authority—** The limitation under [subsection (a)](#a) shall not affect the authority of the [Commission](/usc/15/3301.md?p=24) to enforce any curtailment of deliveries of [natural gas](/usc/15/3301.md?p=1) under the Natural Gas Act [[15 U.S.C. 717](/usc/15/717.md) et seq.].

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–621, title IV, § 404, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3396.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Natural Gas Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is act June 21, 1938, ch. 556, 52 Stat. 821, which is classified generally to chapter 15B (§ 717 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this act to the Code, see section 717w of this title and Tables.