[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40368-40369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-1436]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM03-8-001]


Quarterly Financial Reporting and Revisions to the Annual 
Reports; Notice Granting Extension of Time

June 22, 2004.
    1. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published in the 
Federal Register of February 26, 2004, Order No. 646, a Final Rule 
amending the Commission's financial reporting regulations establishing 
new quarterly financial reporting for respondents that currently file 
Annual Reports with the Commission.\1\ These new quarterly financial 
reports are the FERC Form No. 3-Q, Quarterly Financial Report of 
Electric Companies, Licensees, and Natural Gas Companies, and the FERC 
Form No. 6-Q, Quarterly Financial Report of Oil Pipeline Companies.
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    \1\ Quarterly Financial Reporting and Revisions to the Annual 
Reports, Order No. 646, 69 FR 9030 (Feb. 26, 2004), III FERC Stat. & 
Regs. ] 31,158 (Feb. 11, 2004).
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    2. On June 10, 2004, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the 
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) filed a joint 
motion for an extension of the deadlines for submitting the first two 
quarterly financial reports required by the Commission in the Final 
Rule. EEI and INGAA state that the software needed to file the new 
quarterly financial reports is not expected to be released for general 
use until June 30, 2004, which will leave filers only nine days from 
the current July 9, 2004 filing date. Additionally, they state that 
additional time would be needed for filers to familiarize themselves 
with the software, prepare electronic copies of the quarterly reports, 
have the reports internally reviewed, approved and filed.
    3. At a minimum EEI and INGAA request an extension of the filing 
deadline for first quarterly report to August 23, 2004, and an 
extension of the filing deadline for the second quarterly report to 
September 23, 2004. They state these dates would space the first FERC 
reports two weeks away from the U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission's August 9, 2004 deadline, and space the two FERC reports a 
month apart.
    4. Based on the above, filing dates for the first two quarterly 
financial reports for all respondents are extended as shown in the 
tables below:

                     Extension of Filing Dates for Major Electric and Natural Gas Companies
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                                               Filing dates for
                                              major electric and
                        Quarterly period          natural gas         Filing extension for major electric and
                                             respondents in final             natural gas respondents
                                                     rule
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1.................       1/1/2004-3/31/2004  July 9, 2004........  August 23, 2004.
2.................       4/1/2004-6/31/2004  September 8, 2004...  September 23, 2004.
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            Extension of Filing Dates for Nonmajor Electric, Natural Gas and All Oil Pipeline Filers
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                                               Filing dates for
                                              nonmajor electric,
                                               nonmajor natural       Filing extension for nonmajor electric,
                        Quarterly period       gas, and all oil    natural gas, and all oil pipeline respondents
                                             pipeline respondents
                                                 in final rule
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1.................       1/1/2004-3/31/2004  July 23, 2004.......  September 3, 2004.
2.................       4/1/2004-6/31/2004  September 22, 2004..  October 7, 2004.
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Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-1436 Filed 6-28-04; 8:45 am]
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