---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch12F"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 12F"
heading: "Pacific Northwest Consumer Power Preference; Reciprocal Priority in Other Regions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch12F"
sections_count: 10
---

# Chapter 12F — Pacific Northwest Consumer Power Preference; Reciprocal Priority in Other Regions

Title 16 — Conservation

## Sections

- [§837. Definitions](/usc/16/837.md)
- [§837a. Limitation of sale, delivery, and exchange of electric energy and electric peaking capacity for use outside Pacific Northwest to surplus energy and surplus peaking capacity; notice to customers; inspection of contract drafts](/usc/16/837a.md)
- [§837b. Contract terms and conditions for use of electric energy outside Pacific Northwest](/usc/16/837b.md)
- [§837c. Contract limitations and conditions for use of electric energy and peaking capacity of plants in other marketing areas for use within Pacific Northwest](/usc/16/837c.md)
- [§837d. Exchange contracts](/usc/16/837d.md)
- [§837e. Transmission lines for other electric energy; rates](/usc/16/837e.md)
- [§837f. Purchaser priority on Pacific Northwest power; amendment of existing contracts and new contracts to include priority provisions](/usc/16/837f.md)
- [§837g. Transmission lines between Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest; prohibition against construction of lines or related facilities; exceptions of lines and facilities recommended by Secretary or authorized by Congress; authority of Secretary to construct other transmission lines unaffected](/usc/16/837g.md)
- [§837g–1. Construction of additional facilities by Secretary of Energy for mutually beneficial power sales between Pacific Northwest and California; contribution of funds by non-Federal entities](/usc/16/837g-1.md)
- [§837h. Provisions not applicable to Canyon Ferry project or benefits and exchanges under Treaty between Canada and United States; preference of power users in Montana not modified](/usc/16/837h.md)