[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 222 (Thursday, November 18, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 67573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3232]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM04-7-000]


Market-Based Rates for Public Utilities; Notice of Technical 
Conference

November 12, 2004.
    Take notice that a technical conference will be held concerning 
issues associated with the rulemaking proceeding on market-based rates. 
The technical conference will take place on December 7, 2004, from 9:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST), in the Commission Meeting Room at the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC. 
Members of the Commission will attend the conference. An agenda 
providing more details of the conference will be issued at a later 
time.
    The topic of the conference will be issues associated with 
transmission vertical market power and barriers to entry in electric 
markets, two of the four prongs the Commission currently uses to 
determine whether to grant market-based rate authority. The conference 
will address whether the Commission's pro forma open access 
transmission tariff adequately mitigates transmission market power, 
other proposals to identify and mitigate transmission market power, as 
well as whether and, if so, to what extent there are other barriers to 
entry that the Commission should consider.
    The conference will be transcribed. Those interested in acquiring 
the transcript should contact Ace Reporters at 202-347-3700 or 800-336-
6646. Transcripts will be placed in the public record ten days after 
the Commission receives the transcripts. Additionally, Capitol 
Connection offers the opportunity for remote listening and viewing of 
the conference. It is available for a fee, live over the Internet, by 
phone or via satellite. Persons interested in receiving the broadcast, 
or who need information on making arrangements, should contact David 
Reininger or Julia Morelli at Capitol Connection (703-993-3100) as soon 
as possible or visit the Capitol Connection Web site at http://www.capitolconnection.org and click on ``FERC.''
    A two-day technical conference will also be held in January 2005, 
dates to be announced, concerning additional issues associated with the 
rulemaking proceeding. The topic of this latter conference will be 
issues associated with affiliate abuse/reciprocal dealing and 
generation market power.
    For more information about the conference, please contact Kelly 
Perl at 202-502-6421 or [email protected].
    A supplemental notice of this conference will be issued later that 
will provide details of the conference, including the panelists.

Linda Mitry,
Deputy Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-3232 Filed 11-17-04; 8:45 am]
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