15 U.S.C. § 3375
Section 3375 · Filing of contracts and agreements
Amended 3 times on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Office of Consumers' Counsel v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1986)
Most recently applied in Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Co. v. Martin (July 1987)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Commission may, by rule or order, require any first sale purchaser of natural gas under a new contract, a successor to an existing contract, or a rollover contract to file with the Commission a copy of such contract, together with all ancillary agreements and any existing contract applicable to such natural gas.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1989—Pub. L. 101 60, in section catchline, substituted “Filing of contracts and agreements” for “Contract duration; filing of contracts and agreements”, and in text, struck out subsec. (a) designation, heading “Contract duration”, and text relating to power of Commissioner to specify minimum duration of contracts for purchase of natural gas and requiring nondiscriminatory exercise of such authority, and struck out subsec. (b) designation and heading “Filing of contracts and ancillary agreements”.
1988—Pub. L. 100 439, §2(b)(1), struck out “right of first refusal;” after “Contract duration;” in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100 439, §1, struck out last sentence which directed that provisions of par. (1) did not apply to contracts of natural gas subject to requirements of par. (3).
Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 100 439, §1, struck out par. (3) which related to contracts for purchase of natural gas produced from reservoirs on Outer Continental Shelf.
Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 100 439, §2(a), redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which related to certain rights of first refusal with respect to certain natural gas committed or dedicated to interstate commerce on November 8, 1978.