[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 208 (Tuesday, October 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64185-64186]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25542]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL15-8-000]


Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Central Valley Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc., Lea County 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., West Texas Municipal Power Agency (Complainants) v. Southwestern 
Public Service Company (Respondent); Notice of Complaint

    Take notice that on October 20, 2014, pursuant to Rule 206 of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules of Practice 
and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.206 and sections 201, 206, and 306 of the 
Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824, 824(e), and 825(e), Golden Spread 
Electric Cooperative, Central Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc., Lea County Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, Inc., and West Texas 
Municipal Power Agency (collectively, Complainants) filed a formal 
complaint against Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS or 
Respondent), alleging that the production formula rate of each of their 
respective Replacement Power Sales Agreements with SPC and that the 
open access transmission tariff formula rate applicable to pricing of 
transmission service over the facilities of SPS contain an unjust and 
unreasonable rate of return of common equity. In addition, the 
Complainants request that this proceeding be consolidated with Docket 
Nos. EL13-78-000 and EL12-59-000.
    The Complainants certifies that copies of the complaint were served 
on the contacts for SPS as listed on the Commission's list of Corporate 
Officials.
    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must 
file in

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accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 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. Any 
person wishing to become a party must file a notice of intervention or 
motion to intervene, as appropriate. The Respondent's answer and all 
interventions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. 
The Respondent's answer, motions to intervene, and protests must be 
served on the Complainants.
    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and 
interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an 
original and 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link and is available for electronic 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 email notification when a document is added to a subscribed 
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service, please email 
[email protected], or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 30, 2014.

    Dated: October 21, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-25542 Filed 10-27-14; 8:45 am]
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