[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8405-8406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-365]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. RM01-8-000 and ER02-2001-000]


Revised Public Utility Filing Requirements Electric Quarterly 
Reports; Notice of Electric Quarterly Reports Information

February 18, 2004.
    This notice announces:
     The availability of a new version of Electric 
Quarterly Report (EQR) submission software (2.0) which implements the 
changes mandated in Order No. 2001-E.
     A two-day EQR Users Group Workshop in 
Washington, DC, on March 11 and 12, 2004.
     An outreach session for western EQR filers on 
February 24, 2004, at the California ISO.
     The availability of a function to download the 
entire EQR database to a remote site.
    On April 25, 2002, the Commission issued Order No. 2001,\1\ a final 
rule which requires public utilities to file Electric Quarterly 
Reports. Order 2001-E, issued December 23, 2003, made certain changes 
in the filing requirements which are effective beginning with the first 
quarter 2004 filing, due April 30, 2004. The enhancements have been 
made to the EQR submission software and users' EQR software will be 
automatically updated to the new version when they open their software 
on a computer that is connected to the Internet. A newly revised Users 
Guide and guidance for the changes resulting from Order No. 2001-E have 
been posted on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eqr/eqr-soft.asp.
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    \1\ Revised Public Utility Filing Requirements, Order No. 2001, 
67 FR 31043, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,127 (April 25, 2002); reh'g 
denied, Order No. 2001-A, 100 FERC ] 61,074, reconsideration and 
clarification denied, Order No. 2001-B, 100 FERC ] 61.342 (2002).
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    On March 11 and 12, 2004, there will be an EQR Users Group 
Workshop. All interested parties are invited to attend. The meeting 
will be held in the Commission Meeting Room at FERC headquarters, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC. For those unable to attend in 
person, access to some of the workshop sessions will be available by 
teleconference. These sessions are intended to be interactive meetings 
with considerable discussion of detailed elements of the EQR.
    The teleconferenced Users Group Meeting will run from 1 p.m. to 5 
p.m. on Thursday, March 11 and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, March 
12. There will be informal working sessions Thursday morning, from 9:30 
a.m. until 12 p.m., and Friday afternoon, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Those 
sessions will not be available via teleconference. Those interested in 
participating in person or via teleconference are asked to register 
online by March 1, 2004, at http://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/eqr_0311-form.asp. There is no registration fee.
    On February 24, 2004, Barbara Bourque (EQR Program Manager) and 
Steven Reich will hold an EQR outreach session at the offices of the 
California Independent System Operator. The meeting will be held at 151 
Blue Ravine Road in Folsom, California and will run from 1:30 p.m. to 
5:30 p.m. It will include a discussion of the changes mandated by Order 
No. 2001-E and an extended question and answer session. Those 
interested in attending the meeting are asked to register online by 11 
a.m. Pacific time on Friday, February 20, 2004, at http://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/eqr_0224-form.asp. There is no registration 
fee. Questions and comments may be submitted in advance by filing them 
in ER02-2001 as described below, or by submitting them online at http://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/question-form.asp.
    Beginning February 18, 2004, interested parties may download a copy 
of the entire EQR database from the

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FERC Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eqr/database-down-new.asp. The database is in Visual FoxPro (VFP) format. The file is 
over 500 MB compressed, expanding to over 7,500 MB when decompressed. 
This file will be updated each Saturday, and only one user at a time 
will be allowed to download it because of its size. For that reason and 
because of the computer sophistication required to use a VFP database, 
only parties with IT departments capable of supporting the database 
should attempt to download it.
    Interested parties wishing to file comments may do so under the 
above-captioned Docket Numbers. Those filings will be available for 
review at the Commission or may be viewed on the Commission's Web site 
at http://www.ferc.gov, using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket 
number excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or via phone at (866) 208-3676 (toll-free). 
For TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
    For additional information, please contact Barbara Bourque of 
FERC's Office of Market Oversight & Investigations at (202) 502-8338 or 
by e-mail, [email protected].

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-365 Filed 2-23-04; 8:45 am]
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