[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 207 (Thursday, October 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 55147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27213]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Notice of New Docket Prefix

October 18, 1996.
    Notice is hereby given that a new docket prefix has been 
established for petitions for declaratory order requesting a Commission 
determination on stranded costs.
    Under the stranded cost procedures set forth in Order No. 888, 
Promoting Wholesale Competition Through Open Access Nondiscriminatory 
Transmission Services by Public Utilities, and Recovery of Stranded 
Costs by Public Utilities and Transmitting Utilities, 61 FR 21540 (May 
10, 1996), FERC Stats. & Regs. para. 31,036 at 31,844 (1996), reh'g 
pending, a customer may file a petition for declaratory order:

to seek a Commission determination as to whether: (i) the utility 
has met the reasonable expectation standard; (ii) the proposed 
stranded cost charge satisfies the other evidentiary standards set 
forth in this Rule; (iii) the amount of released capacity and the 
amount of associated energy proposed by the utility is reasonable; 
or (iv) the utility's proposal for any contract amendment needed to 
implement the customer's payment of stranded costs is reasonable.

    In order to properly docket and manage this type of case and assess 
Commission resources applicable to this type of work, it is necessary 
to establish a new docket preflex for stranded cost declaratory order 
petitions. The new docket prefix will be SCFY-NN-NNN, where the FY 
stands for the fiscal year in which the filing was made and the NN and 
NNN are sequential numbers. For example, the first stranded cost 
declaratory order petition made this fiscal year will be assigned SC97-
1-000, the second will be SC97-2-000, etc.
    The establishment of the new docket will apply only to stranded 
cost determinations sought in declaratory order proceedings. If 
stranded cost determinations are sought in Section 205 rate filings or 
in Section 206 complaints to amend existing contracts, they will be 
given their normal ER and EL docket designations.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-27213 Filed 10-23-96; 8:45 am]
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