16 USC § 824u - Prohibition on filing false information
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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s824u"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 824u - Prohibition on filing false information"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "824u"
section_name: "Prohibition on filing false information"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "REGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITY COMPANIES ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 221, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1282, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 979.)"
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# § 824u. Prohibition on filing false information
section 824(f) of this title
No entity (including an entity described in ) shall willfully and knowingly report any information relating to the price of electricity sold at wholesale or the availability of transmission capacity, which information the person or any other entity knew to be false at the time of the reporting, to a Federal agency with intent to fraudulently affect the data being compiled by the Federal agency.
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**Source Credit**: (June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 221, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1282, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 979.)