TOPN: Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act

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How the US Code is built.

The United States Code is meant to be an organized, logical compilation of the laws passed by Congress. At its top level, it divides the world of legislation into fifty topically-organized Titles, and each Title is further subdivided into any number of logical subtopics. In theory, any law -- or individual provisions within any law -- passed by Congress should be classifiable into one or more slots in the framework of the Code. On the other hand, legislation often contains bundles of topically unrelated provisions that collectively respond to a particular public need or problem. A farm bill, for instance, might contain provisions that affect the tax status of farmers, their management of land or treatment of the environment, a system of price limits or supports, and so on. Each of these individual provisions would, logically, belong in a different place in the Code. (Of course, this isn't always the case; some legislation deals with a fairly narrow range of related concerns.)

The process of incorporating a newly-passed piece of legislation into the Code is known as "classification" -- essentially a process of deciding where in the logical organization of the Code the various parts of the particular law belong. Sometimes classification is easy; the law could be written with the Code in mind, and might specifically amend, extend, or repeal particular chunks of the existing Code, making it no great challenge to figure out how to classify its various parts. And as we said before, a particular law might be narrow in focus, making it both simple and sensible to move it wholesale into a particular slot in the Code. But this is not normally the case, and often different provisions of the law will logically belong in different, scattered locations in the Code. As a result, often the law will not be found in one place neatly identified by its popular name. Nor will a full-text search of the Code necessarily reveal where all the pieces have been scattered. Instead, those who classify laws into the Code typically leave a note explaining how a particular law has been classified into the Code. It is usually found in the Note section attached to a relevant section of the Code, usually under a paragraph identified as the "Short Title".

How the LII Table of Popular Names works.

Our Table of Popular Names is organized alphabetically by popular name. You'll find three types of link associated with each popular name (though each law may not have all three types). One, a reference to a Public Law number, is a link to the bill as it was originally passed by Congress, and will take you to the LRC THOMAS legislative system, or GPO FDSYS site. So-called "Short Title" links, and links to particular sections of the Code, will lead you to a textual roadmap (the section notes) describing how the particular law was incorporated into the Code. Finally, acts may be referred to by a different name, or may have been renamed, the links will take you to the appropriate listing in the table.

Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act

Pub. L. 96-501, Dec. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 2697 ( 16 U.S.C. 839 et seq.)

Short title, see 16 U.S.C. 839 note

Pub. L. 89-665

Classification

Pub. L. Section	Status	United States Code
		Title	Section	Authorizes
401-407	Rev. T. 54	16	470x to 470x-6 470x 470x-1 470x-2 470x-3 470x-4 470x-5 470x-6
301-309	Rev. T. 54	16	470w to 470w-8 470w 470w-1 470w-2 470w-3 470w-4 470w-5 470w-6 470w-7 470w-8
208-216	Rev. T. 54	16	470p to 470v-2 470p 470q 470r 470s 470t 470u 470v 470v-1 470v-2	§ 470p 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470q 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470r 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470s 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 800 43 CFR 7 § 470t 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
207	Rev. T. 54	16	470o	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
206	Rev. T. 54	16	470n	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
201-205	Rev. T. 54	16	470i to 470m 470i 470j 470k 470l 470m	§ 470i 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470j 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470k 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470l 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470m 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
113	Rev. T. 54	16	470h-5	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
109-112	Rev. T. 54	16	470h-1 to 470h-4 470h-1 470h-2 470h-3 470h-4	§ 470h-1 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470h-2 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 41 CFR 102-78 43 CFR 7 50 CFR 37 § 470h-3 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 18 296 43 CFR 7 § 470h-4 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
103-108	Rev. T. 54	16	470c to 470h 470c 470d 470e 470f 470g 470h	§ 470c 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470d 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 73 296 43 CFR 7 § 470e 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470f 7 CFR 3100 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 34 CFR 75 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470g 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7 § 470h 18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
102	Rev. T. 54	16	470b	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 296 43 CFR 7
101	Rev. T. 54	16	470a	18 CFR 1312 22 CFR 1104 32 CFR 229 36 CFR 67 296 43 CFR 7
2	Rev. T. 54	16	470-1	7 CFR 656 30 CFR 731 732 772 773 779 780 783 784 36 CFR 60 61 65 68 78 79
1(b)	Elim.	16	470	7 CFR 650 656 30 CFR 731 732 772 773 779 780 783 784 32 CFR 552 767 33 CFR 209 36 CFR 60 61 63 65 68 78 79 800 801 805 810 811
1(a)		54	100101 nt	36 CFR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 13

Authorizes

CFR Title	Part
3098	32	Part 229