[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 5823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1442]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. ER99-3491-007; ER00-2184-005 ; ER00-2185-005 ; EL05-124-
002]


PPL Montana, LLC; PPL Colstrip I, LLC; PPL Colstrip II, LLC; 
Notice Establishing Comment Date

January 27, 2006.
    In a notice issued by the Secretary of the Commission, on January 
17, 2006, the deadline for comments responding to the October 31, 2005 
compliance filing made by PPL Montana, LLC, PPL Colstrip I, LLC, and 
PPL Colstrip II, LLC (collectively, PPL Parties) was suspended, pending 
Commission action on a protest filed by the Montana Consumer Counsel 
(MCC). In its protest, MCC requested that the comment deadline be 
suspended, pending the Commission's ruling regarding the obligations of 
the PPL Parties to make a software program utilized by PPL Parties, in 
preparing its compliance filing, available to the MCC. MCC's protest 
also raised additional issues addressing the merits of PPL Parties' 
compliance filing.
    On January 23, 2006, PPL Parties submitted an answer to MCC's 
protest. In the answer, PPL Parties state, among other things, that to 
expedite this proceeding, the PPL Parties will obtain, at their own 
expense, a license allowing MCC to use the software program for which 
it has sought access, i.e., the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) 
computer program, with the delivery of that license scheduled for 
January 24, 2006.
    Accordingly, upon consideration of the arguments presented, a 
comment period of 30 days, ending February 23, 2006, is hereby 
established. All remaining issues raised by MCC in its protest may be 
renewed by MCC within the comment deadline established herein.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-1442 Filed 2-2-06; 8:45 am]
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