---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 717w"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "717w"
heading: "Short title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/717w"
units:
  - "Chapter 15B — Natural Gas"
---

# §717w. Short title


This chapter may be cited as the “Natural Gas Act.”


## Source credit

(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 26, formerly § 24, 52 Stat. 833; renumbered § 26, Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 314(b)(1)(A), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 690.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 1988 Amendment

Pub. L. 100–474, § 1, Oct. 6, 1988, 102 Stat. 2302, provided that: “This Act [amending section 717f of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 717f of this title] may be cited as the ‘Uniform Regulatory Jurisdiction Act of 1988’.”