[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 97 (Friday, May 20, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29301-29302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-2546]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Combined Filing Notices; Notice Announcing New Combined Notice of 
Filings

May 13, 2005.
    Effective May 17, 2005, the Commission will use a new method, 
Combined Notice of Filings, to issue notices of filings. Initially, 
this new method will apply only to electric rate filings. In time, the 
Commission expects to issue the majority of notices of filings using 
the new method. In the future, the Office of the Secretary will 
announce by public notice the start-up date for the new notice method 
with respect to other types of filings.
    As a result of this initiative, the Office of the Secretary is 
making the following changes to the filing procedures for electric rate 
filings:
    1. Filers are no longer required to include draft notices in floppy 
disk format with the filing.
    2. Filers requesting a short comment period for the filing must 
clearly state such request in the ``Re:'' section of the filing, for 
example:

Re: Hot Spring Power Company
    Docket No. ER05-------
    Request for shortened comment period.

    The notices issued under the new method will be added to eLibrary 
and will be published in the Federal Register under the name ``Combined 
Notice of Filings.'' These new notices will list between 10 and 20 
filings already incorporated into eLibrary. Each filing will be listed 
with its identifying details as follows:
    Docket Number--This item will contain a hyperlink to the eLibrary 
docket sheet for the docket number.
    Name of Applicant(s)--This item will show the applicant name as it 
appears on the filing.
    Description--This item will contain a basic description of the 
filing and a hyperlink that will open the filed document in eLibrary, 
as stored in eLibrary.
    Filing Date--This item will show the date on which the document was 
filed with the Commission.
    Accession Number--This item will contain a hyperlink that will open 
the ``Info'' area of eLibrary for the filed document. There may be 
instances in which the accession number for the particular filing 
changes after issuance of the combined notice. In this case, the user 
will have to search eLibrary to access the document.
    Comment Date--This item will indicate the comment date for the 
particular filing.
    The ``Combined Notice of Filings'' will be indexed in eLibrary as 
follows, for example: ``Combined Notice of Filings, May 20, 2005: This 
notice contains information concerning multiple filings received by 
FERC.'' The Commission may issue more than one ``Combined Notice of 
Filings'' on any given day. In this case, the eLibrary index will read 
as follows, for example: ``Combined Notice of Filings; May 20, 2005 
2: This notice contains information concerning multiple 
filings received by FERC.''
    The Commission first announced the new ``Combined Notice of 
Filings'' during the April 13, 2004 open meeting. The ``Combined Notice 
of Filings'' is similar to the electric rate group notices that the 
Commission currently publishes in the Federal Register. By this 
initiative, the Commission seeks to simplify the manner in which the 
Commission's staff prepares notices and thereby expedite the public 
issuance of notices.
    A sample ``Combined Notice of Filings'' is attached.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.

Attachment

SAMPLE

United States of America Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Notice of Filings (Thursday, May 12, 2005)

    Take notice that the Commission received the following electric 
rate filings.
    Docket Numbers: ER00-2603-003.
    Applicants: Trigen-Syracuse Energy Corporation.
    Description: Trigen-Syracuse Energy Corp advises FERC of the 
changes to the Triennial Market Power Update under ER00-2603.
    Filed Date: 05/10/2005.
    Accession Number: 20050511-0295.
    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

    Docket Numbers: ER05-952-000.
    Applicants: Western Systems Power Pool.
    Description: Western Systems Power Pool, Inc requests for FERC 
to amend the WSPP Agreement to include the City of Corona Department 
of Water and Power et al as members under ER05-952.
    Filed Date: 05/10/2005.
    Accession Number: 20050511-0293.
    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

    Docket Numbers: ER05-953-000.
    Applicants: Phelps Dodge Power Marketing, LLC.
    Description: Application for market-based rate authorization, 
certain waivers and blanket authorizations re Phelps Dodge Power 
Marketing, LLC under ER05-953.
    Filed Date: 05/10/2005.

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    Accession Number: 20050511-0291.
    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

    Docket Numbers: ER05-954-000.
    Applicants: USGen New England, Inc.
    Description: USGen New England, Inc submits a notice of 
cancellation of its FERC Electric Rate Tariff, Original Volume 1 
under ER05-954.
    Filed Date: 05/10/2005.
    Accession Number: 20050511-0298.
    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest in any of the above 
proceedings must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 
385.214) on or before 5 pm Eastern time on the specified comment date. 
It is not necessary to separately intervene again in a subdocket 
related to a compliance filing if you have previously intervened in the 
same docket. Protests will be considered by the Commission in 
determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to 
make protestants parties to the proceeding to the proceeding. Anyone 
filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that 
document on the Applicant. For filings on or before the comment 
deadline, it is not necessary to serve copies on persons other than the 
Applicant.
    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and 
interventions in lieu of paper, using the FERC Online links at http://www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic service, persons with Internet 
access who will eFile a document and/or be listed as a contact for an 
intervenor must create and validate an eRegistration account using the 
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling line to log on and submit the 
intervention or protests.
    Persons unable to file electronically should submit an original and 
14 copies of the intervention or protest to the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    The filings in the above proceedings are accessible in the 
Commission's eLibrary system by clicking on the appropriate link in the 
above list. They are also available for review in the Commission's 
Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an eSubscription link 
on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive e-mail notification 
when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For Assistance with 
any FERC Online service, please e-mail [email protected] or 
call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.

[FR Doc. E5-2546 Filed 5-19-05; 8:45 am]
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