[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 251 (Monday, December 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 68728]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33130]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Secretary of Energy Advisory Board; Notice of Open Meeting.

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

SUMMARY: Consistent with the provisions of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is hereby given of 
the following advisory committee meeting:
    Name: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board--Electric System 
Reliability Task Force.
    Dates and Times: Thursday, January 16, 1997, 8:30 AM--5:00 PM.
    Place: JW Marriott Hotel, Capital Ballroom--Salon E, 1331 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard C. Burrow, Secretary of Energy 
Advisory Board (AB-1), U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence 
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586-1709.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The electric power industry is in the midst of a complex transition 
to competition, which will induce many far-reaching changes in the 
structure of the industry and the institutions which regulate it. This 
transition raises many reliability issues, as new entities emerge in 
the power markets and as generation becomes less integrated with 
transmission.

Purpose of the Task Force

    The purpose of the Electric System Reliability Task Force is to 
provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy Advisory 
Board regarding the critical institutional, technical, and policy 
issues that need to be addressed in order to maintain the reliability 
of the nation's bulk electric system in the context of a more 
competitive industry.

Tentative Agenda

8:30--9:15 Opening Remarks
    Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy
    Bob Hanfling, Chairman, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board
    Phil Sharp, Chairman, Electric System Reliability Task Force
9:15--9:30 Task Force Member Introductions
9:30--9:45 Break
9:45--10:30 Institutional Reliability Issues
    Mike Gent, National Electric, Reliability Council
11:15 Technical Reliability Issues
    Karl Stahlkopf, Electric Power, Research Institute
11:15--11:45 State Reliability Perspectives
    Duncan Kincheloe, Missouri, Public Utility Commission
11:45--1:00 Lunch
1:00--1:30 Federal Policy Issues
    Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary of Energy
1:30--2:00 Public Comment
2:00--4:30 Development of a Task Force Work Plan
4:30 Adjourn
    This tentative agenda is subject to change. The final agenda will 
be available at the meeting.

Public Participation

    The Chairman of the Task Force is empowered to conduct the meeting 
in a fashion that will, in the Chairman's judgment, facilitate the 
orderly conduct of business. During its meeting in Washington, D.C. the 
Task Force welcomes public comment. Members of the public will be heard 
in the order in which they sign up at the beginning of the meeting. The 
Task Force will make every effort to hear the views of all interested 
parties. Written comments may be submitted to David Cheney, Acting 
Executive Director, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, AB-1, 1000 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585.

Minutes

    Minutes and a transcript of the meeting will be available for 
public review and copying approximately 30 days following the meeting 
at the Freedom of Information Public Reading Room, 1E-190 Forrestal 
Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, between 9:00 AM 
and 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday except Federal holidays.

    Issued at Washington, DC, on December 23, 1996.
Gail Cephas,
Acting Deputy Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-33130 Filed 12-27-96; 8:45 am]
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