---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 839h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "839h"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/839h"
units:
  - "Chapter 12H — Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation"
---

# §839h. Separability


If any provision of [section 839b(a)](/usc/16/839b.md?p=a) through (c) of this title or any other provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), [Indian tribe](/usc/16/839a.md?p=11), entity, or circumstance is held invalid, neither the remainder of [section 839b of this title](/usc/16/839b.md) or any other provisions of this chapter, nor the application of such provisions to other [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), [Indian tribes](/usc/16/544.md?p=g), entities, or circumstances, shall be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–501, § 12, Dec. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 2736.)