[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27554-27555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12623]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. PA02-2-000]


Fact Finding Investigation of Potential Manipulation of Electric 
and Natural Gas Prices; Notice of Intent to Re-Release Information

May 14, 2003.
    On March 5, 2003, the Commission issued a notice that it intended 
to release to the public information collected in its investigation 
into the manipulation of energy prices in the west, and sought, by 
March 12, 2003, comments from those companies and individuals who 
submitted information during the course of the investigation. On March 
21, 2003, the Commission issued an order addressing the comments and 
responses to its March 5 notice, and further announced that it would 
release the information, except as noted in the order, in no less than 
five days after issuance of the order.\1\ One exception to the release 
was personal personnel information. Thereafter, on March 26, 2003, the 
Commission released the remaining information.
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    \1\ 102 FERC ] 61,311 (2003).
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    Subsequent to the release of the information, on March 28, 2003, 
the Commission received the first of numerous motions from Enron asking 
that certain parts of the released information be removed from public 
access. These motions in particular attempted to identify Enron 
employees' personal information. The Commission also received calls on 
its Enforcement Hotline from Enron employees who were concerned about 
their personal information being available on the internet. As quickly 
as possible, the Commission staff accommodated these requests in 
keeping with the Commission's stated concerns in the March 21 order 
about releasing certain personal data.
    On April 7, 2003, the Commission removed all Enron e-mails from its 
web site. The Commission's action removing the Enron e-mails from its 
Web site coincided exactly with the United States Court of Appeals for 
the Fifth Circuit's stay of the March 21 order to the extent the stay 
action implicated the withdrawal of Enron e-mails from the agency's web 
site. See Enron Corp. v. FERC, No. 03-60295.
    On April 22, 2003, the Commission issued an order stating that it 
would not re-release any of the documents that respondents sought to be 
withheld with specificity until the Commission reviewed those documents 
and gave the respondents and the public notice of its intent to re-
release specific documents.\2\ In the April 22 order, the Commission 
directed its staff to review the data proffered for removal and 
ascertain whether indeed it should be in the public domain. With 
respect to the data that was removed from the Commission's Web site 
pursuant to the April 7 notice but that was not identified by any 
company or individual for permanent removal, the Commission directed 
its staff to return that data to the agency's web site.
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    \2\ 103 FERC [rsqbb] 61,077 (2003).
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    Take notice that pursuant to the Commission's April 22 order in 
this docket, no later than May 14, 2003, the Commission shall re-
release the data that was removed from the Commission's Web site 
pursuant to the April 7 notice but was not identified by any company or 
individual for permanent removal. The data that was identified for 
permanent removal will not be re-released, if at all, until the 
Commission's staff has reviewed the documents as directed by the April 
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order. The Commission will issue further orders as that review 
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progresses.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-12623 Filed 5-19-03; 8:45 am]
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