[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22125-22126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9684]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM04-7-006]


Market-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, 
Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities; Notice of New 
Docket Prefix ``LA'' for Land Acquisition Reports and Guidelines for 
Filing Under Order No. 697-C

April 20, 2010.
    Notice is hereby given that a new docket prefix ``LA'' has been 
established for `Land Acquisition Reports' (LA Reports) filed by 
market-based utilities on a quarterly basis, pursuant to Order No. 697-
C.\1\
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    \1\ Market-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Electric Energy, 
Capacity and Ancillary Services by Public Utilities, Order No. 697-
C, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,291 (2009).
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    In that Order, the Commission required that all market-based rate 
sellers must report on a quarterly basis the acquisition of control of 
a site or sites for new generation capacity development for which site 
control has been demonstrated in the interconnection process and for 
which the potential number of megawatts that are reasonably 
commercially feasible on the site or sites for new generation capacity 
development is equal to 100 megawatts or more. If a Seller elects to 
make a monetary deposit so that it may demonstrate site control at a 
later time in the interconnection process, the monetary deposit will 
trigger the quarterly reporting requirement instead of the 
demonstration of site control. A notification of change in status that 
is submitted to report the acquisition of control of a site or sites 
for new generation capacity development must include:
    (1) The number of sites acquired;
    (2) The relevant geographic market in which the sites are located; 
and
    (3) The maximum potential number of megawatts (MW) that are 
reasonably commercially feasible on the sites reported.
    Each LA Report will now receive a new prefix ``LA'' as part of its 
designated docket number and will be enumerated quarterly so that the 
first quarterly filing received will be filed under LA10-1-000, the 
second quarterly filing will be filed under LA10-2-000 and so on. 
Accordingly, each quarter and year the LA docket number will change and 
the Commission will no longer sub-docket these reports under the 
formerly used ``ER'' docket prefixes that were used previously for 
these reports.
    For 2010 filings, the docket numbers will appear as follows:

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         Docket No.             Periods covering         Date filed
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LA10-1-000..................  First quarter of      Filed in April 2010
                               calendar year 2010.   for January-March
                                                     2010.
LA10-2-000..................  Second quarter of     Filed in July 2010
                               calendar year 2010.   for April-June
                                                     2010.
LA10-3-000..................  Third quarter of      Filed in October
                               calendar year 2010.   2010 for July-
                                                     September 2010.
LA10-4-000..................  Fourth quarter of     Filed in January
                               calendar year 2010.   2011 for October-
                                                     December 2010.
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    Filing guidelines for the ``LA'' prefix are attached to this notice 
and will be posted on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/help/how-to.asp. The Commission encourages electronic filing of all LA 
reports.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.

Attachment--Filing Guidelines for ``LA'' Reports Under FERC Order No. 
697-C

Reporting Requirements Under 18 CFR 35.42

    Order No. 697-C established filing requirements for quarterly 
reports filed by an electric utility under 18 CFR 35.42.
    This report should be submitted using the Commission's eFiling 
system. The content of each report must conform to the applicable 
regulation under which the report is filed. Filers are requested to 
select the applicable LA docket number(s) that correspond with the 
appropriate calendar quarter filed and also select all the former ER 
docket numbers that apply.
    A FERC Online eRegistration account is a prerequisite for anyone 
submitting an electronic filing to FERC and anyone that will be 
identified during the eFiling process as a person responsible for the 
filing. Links to both eRegistration and eFiling are available on the 
Commission's Web site at: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.

[FR Doc. 2010-9684 Filed 4-26-10; 8:45 am]
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