[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 12, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52105-52106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17926]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. MS083107]


Notice Announcing Combined Notice of Gas Rate Filings

August 31, 2007.
    Effective August 31, 2007, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(FERC or Commission) will issue notices of natural gas: (1) Rate 
filings/applications, (2) refund reports, (3) compliance filing and (4) 
waiver requests (collectively, natural gas filings) using the RP docket 
number prefix through its Combined Notice of Filings method, already in 
place for most electric rate filings.
    As of this date, the Secretary of the Commission is making the 
following changes to the filing procedures for natural gas filings:
    1. Filers are no longer required to include a draft form of notice 
or diskette containing that form of notice for any RP-docketed 
application, compliance filing, refund report, or waiver request.
    2. Filers requesting a shortened comment period for the filing must 
clearly state such request in the title or heading for the filing. For 
example:

Re: (Name of Natural Gas Pipeline)
    Docket No. RP07-------
    (Title/Description) and Request for shortened comment period

    The notices issued under this method for RP dockets will be added 
to eLibrary and published in the Federal Register under the name 
``Combined Notice of Filings.'' These notices will list natural gas 
filings added to eLibrary since publication of the last notice. Each 
filing will be listed with its identifying details as follows:
    Name of Applicant(s)--This item will show the applicant name as it 
appears on the filing.

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    Docket Number--This item will contain a hyperlink to the eLibrary 
docket sheet for the docket number.
    Description--This item will contain a brief description of the 
filing and a hyperlink that will open an image version of the filed 
document 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 document ``Info'' area of eLibrary for the filed document.
    Comment Date--This item will indicate the comment deadline for the 
filing.
    The Commission first announced the new ``Combined Notice of 
Filings'' during the April 13, 2004 Open Commission Meeting. 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. Consolidating notices in this manner also reduces 
the cost of publishing the notices in the Federal Register.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-17926 Filed 9-11-07; 8:45 am]
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