ALABAMA POWER COMPANY, Utah Power & Light Company, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the Montana Power Company, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, and Pacific Power & Light Company, Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 17, 1982.
Rehearing and Rehearing November 12, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
George H. Williams, Jr., FERC, Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Eugene O. Gehl, Madison, Wis., for Wisconsin Power & Light Co.
Richard M. Merriman, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Sullivan, Butte, Mont., for Montana Power Co.
Gerry Levenberg, P.C., R. Keith Guthrie, Van Ness, Feldman, Sutcliffe, Curtis & Levenberg, Washington, D. C., for Utah Power & Light Co.
Joseph C. Swidler, Leva, Symington, Martin & Oppenheimer, Thomas M. Lemberg, William H. Taft, IV, Washington, D. C., Malcolm H. Furbush, Jack F. Fallin, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas and Elec. Co.
Hugh Smith, Portland, Or., for Pacific Power and Light.
Frederick T. Searls, William A. Keheo, III, William J. Madden, Jr., Thomas Debevoise, Debevoise & Liberman, Washington, D. C., for Hydroelectric Utility Co. Group and Alabama Power Co.
Daniel Davidson, Robert Bear, Washington, D. C., for City of Santa Clara, Cal.
Kirk Howard Betts, Law Office of Northcutt Ely, Northcutt Ely, Washington, D. C., for American Public Power Assoc.
Stewart L. Udall, Phoenix, Ariz., for City of Bountiful, Utah.
Christopher D. Williams, McCarty, Noone & Williams, Washington, D. C., for Clark Cowlitz Joint Operating Agency.
Before RONEY, TJOFLAT and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc November 12, 1982.
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
We are faced with a purely legal question regarding the statutory construction of section 7(a) of the Federal Power Act (Act), 16 U.S.C.A. § 800(a) (West 1974). We affirm the decision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
I. BACKGROUND
The Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C.A. § 791a et seq. (West 1974), authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
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