---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16457"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16457"
heading: "Effect on other regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16457"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter XII — Electricity"
  - "Part D"
---

# §16457. Effect on other regulations


Nothing in this part precludes the [Commission](/usc/42/16451.md?p=3) or a [State commission](/usc/42/16451.md?p=15) from exercising its jurisdiction under otherwise applicable law to protect utility [customers](/usc/42/7275.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1269, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 976.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This part, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle F (§§ 1261–1277) of title XII of Pub. L. 109–58, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 972, which enacted this part, amended sections 824 and 824m of Title 16, Conservation, repealed chapter 2C (§ 79 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and section 825q of Title 16, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 15801 and 16451 of this title. For complete classification of subtitle F to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 15801 of this title and Tables.