[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 62023-62024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24976]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
18 CFR Part 35
[Docket No. RM10-23-000]
Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning
and Operating Public Utilities
September 29, 2010.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; request for reply comments.
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SUMMARY: On June 17, 2010, the Commission issued a Notice of proposed
rulemaking (75 FR 37884) proposing to amend the transmission planning
and cost allocation requirements established in Order No. 890 to ensure
that Commission-jurisdictional services are provided on a basis that is
just, reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential. With
respect to transmission planning, the proposed rule would provide that
local and regional transmission planning processes account for
transmission needs driven by public policy requirements established by
state or federal laws or regulations; improve coordination between
neighboring transmission planning regions with respect to interregional
facilities; and remove from Commission-approved tariffs or agreements a
right of first refusal created by those documents that provides an
incumbent transmission provider with an undue advantage over a
nonincumbent transmission developer. Neither incumbent nor nonincumbent
transmission facility developers should, as a result of a Commission-
approved tariff or agreement, receive different treatment in a regional
transmission planning process. Further, both should share similar
benefits and obligations commensurate with that participation,
including the right, consistent with state or local laws or
regulations, to construct and own a facility that it sponsors in a
regional transmission planning process and that is selected for
inclusion in the regional transmission plan. With respect to cost
allocation, the proposed rule would establish a closer link between
transmission planning processes and cost allocation and would require
cost allocation methods for intraregional and interregional
transmission facilities to satisfy newly established cost allocation
principles. The Commission is providing interested persons an
opportunity to file reply comments on the proposed rule.
DATES: Reply comments to the proposed rule published June 30, 2010 (75
FR 37884) are due November 12, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit reply comments, identified by Docket No.
RM10-23-000, by any of the following methods:
Agency Web Site: http://www.ferc.gov. Documents created
electronically using word processing software should be filed in native
applications or print-to-PDF format and not in a scanned format.
Mail/Hand Delivery: Commenters unable to file comments
electronically must mail or hand deliver an original and 14 copies of
their comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of the
Secretary, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Russell Profozich (Technical
Information), Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Telephone: (202) 502-6478, E-mail: [email protected].
John Cohen (Legal Information), Office of the General Counsel,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426, Telephone: (202) 502-8705, E-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice Establishing Reply Comment Period
On September 28, 2010, Western Independent Transmission Group filed
a motion to establish a period for filing reply comments to the
Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued June 17, 2010, in the
above-docketed proceeding.\1\
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The period for filing initial comments in this proceeding ran
through September 29, 2010. Upon
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consideration, the Commission establishes a period for filing reply
comments in this proceeding, which will run to and including November
12, 2010.
Any interested person may file a reply to initial comments made by
other interested persons in this proceeding. Reply comments should not
raise new arguments that are not directly responsive to arguments
presented in initial comments, nor should a reply be repetitive of
arguments that an interested person made in its initial comments.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-24976 Filed 10-6-10; 8:45 am]
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