---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 825h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "825h"
heading: "Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/825h"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter III — Licensees and Public Utilities; Procedural and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §825h. Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders


The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Among other things, such rules and regulations may define accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this chapter; and may prescribe the form or forms of all statements, declarations, applications, and reports to be filed with the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), the information which they shall contain, and the time within which they shall be filed. Unless a different date is specified therein, rules and regulations of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be effective thirty days after publication in the manner which the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall prescribe. Orders of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be effective on the date and in the manner which the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall prescribe. For the purposes of its rules and regulations, the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may classify [persons](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) and matters within its jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of [persons](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) or matters. All rules and regulations of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be filed with its [secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) and shall be kept open in convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours.


## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 309, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 858.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Commission Review

Pub. L. 99–495, § 4(c), Oct. 16, 1986, 100 Stat. 1248, provided that: “In order to ensure that the provisions of Part I of the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.], as amended by this Act, are fully, fairly, and efficiently implemented, that other governmental agencies identified in such Part I are able to carry out their responsibilities, and that the increased workload of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other agencies is facilitated, the Commission shall, consistent with the provisions of section 309 of the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 825h], review all provisions of that Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.] requiring an action within a 30-day period and, as the Commission deems appropriate, amend its regulations to interpret such period as meaning ‘working days’, rather than ‘calendar days’ unless calendar days is specified in such Act for such action.”