[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4432-4433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2421]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RM95-3-000; Docket No. RM95-4-000]


Filing and Reporting Requirements for Interstate Natural Gas 
Companies Rate Schedules and Tariffs; Revisions to Uniform System of 
Accounts Forms, Statements, and Reporting Requirements for Natural Gas 
Companies; Notice of Time and Agenda for Working Groups

January 31, 1996.
    Take notice that the dates for the second meetings of the working 
groups established pursuant to the orders issued in Docket Nos. RM95-3-
000 and RM95-4-000 \1\ are as follows:

    \1\ Filing and Reporting Requirements for Interstate Natural Gas 
Companies Rate Schedules and Tariffs, Order No. 582, 60 FR 52960 
(October 11, 1995), 72 FERC para. 61,300 (1995); and, Revisions to 
Uniform System of Accounts Forms, Statements, and Reporting 
Requirements for Natural Gas Companies, Order No. 581, 60 FR 53019 
(October 11, 1995), 72 FERC para. 61,301 (1995).
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The meeting for WORKING GROUP-FORMS will begin at 9 a.m., Wednesday, 
February 7, 1996.
The meeting for WORKING GROUP-FILINGS will begin at 9 a.m., Thursday, 
February 8, 1996.

    These meetings will take place in a room of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    All interested persons are invited to attend. Participation in the 
working groups is not limited to those who have already signed up.
    The goals for the February 7, 1996 meeting of Working Group-Forms 
are to:

--Complete work on Form No. 11;
--Discuss the data model for Form No. 2;
--Discuss some of the problem pages in Form No. 2 identified at the 
last working group meeting.

    The goals for the February 8, 1996 meeting of Working Group-Filings 
are to discuss:

--The test pipelines' experiences creating their sample rate case 
schedules in tab delimited format;
--File naming conventions;
--Amount of data to be included in each file; and
--Statements G, O, and P.

    In order for the meetings to be as productive as possible, the 
Commission has established a separate menu item on the Gas Pipeline 
Data (GPD) portion of the Commission's bulletin board system entitled 
``Order 581/582 Working Groups.'' This portion of the GPD will be 
further subdivided into subsections for Form 2, Form 11, rate filings, 
and comments. The following Information may be found under these 
subsections:
Comments
--All comments submitted to staff dealing with issues under discussion 
in the working groups.
--Summaries of the working group meetings.
Form 2; Form 11; Rate Filings
--Items upon which staff wishes working group participants to comment.
--Sample electronic filing specifications.
--Sample delimited files.

    Under the subsection for Form 11, staff has made available several 
items discussed at the working group meeting on December 12, including:

--A pro forma file specification for Form 11 for discussion purposes,
--A sample tab delimited file for Form 11, and
--An image of the sample spreadsheet containing the Form 11 data 
prepared for printing.

    The Comments section contains the comments received on December 15, 
1995, discussing the appropriate treatment of text in the electronic 
filings.
    The rate filings section contains the test files and related 
comments of the pipelines who agreed to create tab delimited files for 
selected cost of service statements. We encourage working group 
participants to download and review these files prior to our next 
working group meeting.
    Staff is making every effort to complete the Form No. 2 data model 
so it can be available on GPD prior to the next working group meeting. 
When available, the file will be found under the Form 2 subsection of 
the Order 581/582 Working Groups menu. Similarly, staff will attempt to 
make a more detailed agenda available prior to the meetings. If 
available in time, this agenda will appear in the Comments subsection 
of the Order 581/582 Working Groups menu.
    The sample spreadsheet and file specifications for Form No. 11 and 
some of the comments are in a file format produced by Adobe Acrobat 
software. To read these files, you must download the Acrobat Reader. 
With this software, you will be able to read or print all files with 
the extension .pdf. If you experience printing problems, please refer 
to the file entitled, readme__r.txt, accompanying the Acrobat software.
    Staff invites written comments on the above listed issues and 
topics of discussion. Comments should be addressed to Richard A. White, 
Office of General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments should be received by 
February 2, 1996. We encourage commenters to submit their comments on a 
3\1/2\'' diskette in Rich Text Format or ASCII so they can be posted on 
the Commission's bulletin board.
    Any parties wishing to make a presentation at the meetings should 
contact Richard White, PHONE: (202) 208-0491, FAX: (202) 208-0017.
    This document is available for inspection or copying by accessing 
the 

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Commission Issuance Posting System (CIPS). CIPS and GPD are part of the 
Commission's electronic bulletin board service providing access to 
documents issued by or available electronically from the Commission. 
CIPS and GPD are available at no charge to the user and may be accessed 
using a personal computer with a modem by dialing (202) 208-1397, if 
local, or 1-800-856-3920, if long distance.
    In addition to this notice, the most current list of those that 
signed up for participation in the working groups will also be posted 
on CIPS. Information concerning working group meetings will be posted 
on CIPS on a regular basis. Up-to-date information can be found in 
bulletin 20 on CIPS or bulletin 9 on GPD. A summary of the meeting held 
on December 12, 1995, can be found on GPD under the Working Group 
section of the menu in the Comments subsection.
    To access the Commission's bulletin board system, set your 
communications software to 19200, 14400, 12000, 9600, 7200, 4800, 2400, 
1200, or 300 bps, full duplex, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. 
The full text of this document will be available on CIPS for 60 days 
from the date of issuance in ASCII and WordPerfect 5.1 format.
    The Commission's bulletin board system can also be accessed through 
the FedWorld system directly by modem or through the Internet.
    By modem:
    Dial (703) 321-3339 and logon to the FedWorld system. After logging 
on, type:

/go FERC
Through the Internet:
Telnet to: fedworld. gov
Select the option: [1] FedWorld
Logon to the FedWorld system
Type: /go FERC
Or:
Point your Web Browser to: http://www.fedworld.gov
Scroll down the page to select FedWorld Telnet Site
Select the option: [1] FedWorld
Logon to the FedWorld system
Type: /go FERC
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-2421 Filed 2-5-96; 8:45 am]
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