---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 837f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "837f"
heading: "Purchaser priority on Pacific Northwest power; amendment of existing contracts and new contracts to include priority provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/837f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12F — Pacific Northwest Consumer Power Preference; Reciprocal Priority in Other Regions"
---

# §837f. Purchaser priority on Pacific Northwest power; amendment of existing contracts and new contracts to include priority provisions


The [Secretary](/usc/16/837.md?p=a) shall offer to amend, without imposing any other requirements as a condition to such amendment, all existing contracts for the sale or exchange of electric power generated at Federal hydroelectric plants in the [Pacific Northwest](/usc/16/837.md?p=b) to include, and shall include in all new contracts, provisions giving the purchaser priority on electric power generated at such plants in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–552, § 7, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 758.)