[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2002)]
[Proposed Rules]
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[FR Doc No: 02-30032]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

18 CFR Part 35

[Docket No. RM01-12-000]


Remedying Undue Discrimination Through Open Access Transmission 
Service and Standard Electricity Market Design

November 20, 2002.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of technical conference.

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SUMMARY: Commission staff will convene a technical conference on 
December 6, 2002 to discuss the cyber-security provisions described in 
Section M and Appendix G of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in 
this docket on July 31, 2002. See 67 FR 55,452 (Aug. 29, 2002). There 
will be an opportunity for interested persons to make very brief public 
statements at the conference, following the presentations.

DATES: Requests to speak are due November 27, 2002. The conference will 
take place on December 6, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Send requests to speak to: Office of the Secretary, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    The conference will take place at: Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah McKinley, Office of External 
Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Technical Conference

    1. Take notice that a technical conference will be held on December 
6, 2002, from approximately 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., in the Commission 
Meeting Room on the second floor of the offices of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC. The goal 
of the conference is to discuss and analyze proposed rules for cyber-
security.
    2. Conference panelists will discuss the security provisions 
described in Section M and Appendix G of the Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking (NOPR) published in this docket on July 31, 2002. They will 
also address the updated proposal that the North American Electricity 
Reliability Council (NERC) filed in this docket on November 15, 2002. 
There will be a discussion of the public comments filed in response to 
the system security provisions described in the NOPR, and an 
opportunity to make additional public comments, as described below.
    3. Copies of the NOPR security proposal may be obtained from: 
http://www.ferc.fed.us/Electric/RTO/Mrkt-Strct-comments/discussion_paper.htm. Copies of the NERC security proposal are available in 
Appendix A at: ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/ferc/RM01-12-000-SMD.pdf.
    4. Commission staff has asked selected individuals to speak at this 
conference, and is not entertaining requests to make presentations. 
However, interested persons will be permitted to make very brief public 
statements. Such statements should not be repetitive of materials that 
speakers have already filed in the public record of this docket. 
Persons interested in making brief statements should file a request to 
speak on or before November 27, 2002, in Docket No. RM01-12-000. If 
possible, interested speakers should also send a copy of their request 
to speak by e-mail to [email protected]. The request should clearly 
specify the name of the speaker; his or her title; the person or entity 
the speaker represents; the speaker's mailing address, telephone 
number, facsimile number and e-mail address; and a brief description of 
the issues the speaker wishes to address. As the number of potential 
speakers may exceed the time allotted for the conference, interested 
speakers are encouraged to coordinate their efforts with others who may 
have similar interests.
    5. All interested persons may attend the technical conference, and 
registration is not required. Further details of the conference, and 
the conference agenda, will be provided in a subsequent notice.
    6. Transcripts of the conference will be immediately available from 
Ace Reporting Company (202-347-3700 or 1-800-336-6646), for a fee. They 
will be available for the public on the Commission's FERRIS system two 
weeks after the conference. Additionally, Capitol Connection offers the 
opportunity for remote listening and viewing of the conference. It is 
available for a fee, live over the Internet, via C-Band Satellite. 
Persons interested in receiving the broadcast, or who need information 
on making arrangements should contact David Reininger or Julia Morelli 
at the Capitol Connection (703-993-3100) as soon as possible or visit 
the Capitol Connection Web site at http://www.capitolconnection.gmu.edu 
and click on ``FERC.''
    7. For more information about the conferences, please contact Sarah 
McKinley at (202) 502-8004 or [email protected].

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-30032 Filed 11-26-02; 8:45 am]
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