Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation v. Federal Power Commission, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America v. Federal Power Commission

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The novel orders of the Federal Power Commission attacked in these proceedings mark the Commission’s decision to take a new and close look at its jurisdiction over refunds generated under Sec tion 4(e) of the Natural Gas Act. 1 Does the statute permit and does sound policy require the Commission to control the disposition of refunds? To what extent may the Commission require the flow-through of refunds from natural gas producers to jurisdictional pipeline companies to non-jurisdictional local distributors and, indirectly, to the ultimate consumers for whom, the Supreme…