---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 824u"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "824u"
heading: "Prohibition on filing false information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/824u"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter II — Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce"
---

# §824u. Prohibition on filing false information


No entity (including an entity described in [section 824(f) of this title](/usc/16/824.md?p=f)) shall willfully and knowingly report any information relating to the price of electricity sold at wholesale or the availability of transmission capacity, which information the [person](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) or any other entity knew to be false at the time of the reporting, to a Federal agency with intent to fraudulently affect the data being compiled by the Federal agency.


## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 221, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1282, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 979.)