ELR Citation: ELR 21429
No(s). 90-1597 (D.C. Cir. May 5, 1992)

The court holds that the Federal Power Act's (FPA's) civil penalty provision, §31(c), does not authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to impose a civil penalty of $2,024,000 on an unlicensed utility, based on the utility's long-standing failure to obtain the licenses required to ...