[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56655-56656]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5214]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. EY05-14-001, RM01-10-000 and EY05-13-000]


Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers and Entergy 
Services, Inc.; Notice Granting Extension of Waiver of Recordkeeping 
Requirements

September 16, 2005.
    Due to the emergency conditions in the Gulf Coast area of the 
United States created by Hurricane Katrina, on August 31, 2005, the 
Commission issued a notice that, among other things, allowed affected 
transmission providers to delay, until September 30, 2005, compliance 
with the requirement of section 358.4(a)(2) of the Commission's 
regulations, 18 CFR 358.4(a)(2)(2005), to report to the Commission and 
post on the OASIS or Internet Web site, as applicable, each emergency 
that resulted in any deviation from the standards of conduct.\1\
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    \1\ Notice Granting Extension Of Time To Comply With Posting And 
Other Requirements, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers, 
Docket No. EY05-14-000, et al. (August 31, 2005).
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    Due to the extreme nature of the emergency, the Commission also 
waived, on September 7, 2005, the requirement to record and retain a 
record of each deviation of the standards of conduct, until September 
16, 2005.\2\ The notice added that ``[t]he

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Commission [would] consider extending the waiver if it continues to be 
needed after that date.''
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    \2\ Notice Waiving Recordkeeping Requirements, Standards of 
Conduct for Transmission Providers, Docket Nos. EY05-14-001 and 
RM01-10-000 (September 7, 2005).
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    Entergy Services, on behalf of Entergy Operating Companies, seeks a 
two-week extension, through September 30, 2005, of the waiver of the 
requirement that Entergy record a log of each individual deviation from 
the standards of conduct associated with the information sharing and 
joint operations activities necessitated by the hurricane. It explains 
that due to the extreme flooding and damage caused by the hurricane in 
the City of New Orleans and the Amite-South area, it continues to 
experience emergency circumstances affecting system reliability, 
including a previously-unseen stability limit. These circumstances, 
according to Entergy, require detailed communication, coordination and 
joint operations among Entergy's transmission and merchant units on 
virtually an hourly basis and the requirement to log each individual 
deviation would be an extremely burdensome task that would complicate 
Entergy's restoration operation. Entergy proposes to limit the 
application of the waiver to deviations associated with information 
sharing and joint operations activities necessitated by Hurricane 
Katrina, but would not apply to deviations from standard OATT 
practices.
    The Commission grants Entergy's request for this limited waiver 
under these emergency circumstances.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E5-5214 Filed 9-27-05; 8:45 am]
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