[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 48615]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23089]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. PL99-4-000]


Public Access to Information; Notice of Y2K Docket Number Format

August 31, 1999.
    Take notice that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) is clarifying its docketing procedures for new dockets 
created in Fiscal Year 2000, which begins October 1, 1999.
    The Commission will issue documents with the year component of the 
docket number expressed as a 2-digit number. The year 2000 will appear 
as ``00'' in all FY2000 docket numbers that contain a fiscal year 
component. For example, the first docket number assigned to a pipeline 
certificate application on October 1, 1999, will be CP00-1-000. 
Similarly, for an electric rate filing, the first docket number will be 
ER00-1-000. Some filings (including those in TM dockets) submitted 
before October 1, 1999, in order to become effective on or after the 
date have already received the ``00'' docket number. The docketing 
format for hydropower licensing project (``P'' docket prefix) is not 
affected since it does not contain a year component.
    Retaining the current display format for docket numbers will 
minimize the impact of Y2K transition issues for the Commission, 
regulated entities, and others by reducing or eliminating the need for 
change to existing systems.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-23089 Filed 9-3-99; 8:45 am]
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