[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 156 (Monday, August 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 40033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17355]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. ER16-1341-000 and ER16-1341-001]


Southwest Power Pool, Inc.; Notice Affording the Parties an 
Opportunity To File Briefs

    1. On January 5, 2018, Xcel Energy Services Inc. filed with the 
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 
(D.C. Circuit) a petition for review of the Commission's orders in 
Southwest Power Pool, Inc., 156 FERC ] 61,020 (2016) and Southwest 
Power Pool, Inc., 161 FERC ] 61,144 (2017). On July 19, 2018, the 
Commission filed an unopposed motion for voluntary remand of the above-
captioned proceedings \1\ so that it may consider the implications of 
the D.C. Circuit's decision in Old Dominion Electric Cooperative v. 
FERC.\2\ In the Voluntary Remand Motion, the Commission stated that it 
``will permit the parties to file, within 30 days of the Court's order 
on this motion, supplemental pleadings on the significance of the Old 
Dominion decision (or on any matter of relevance).'' \3\ On July 31, 
2018, the D.C. Circuit granted the Voluntary Remand Motion.\4\
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    \1\ Xcel Energy Serv. Inc. v. FERC, Unopposed Motion of 
Respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Voluntary 
Remand, No. 18-1005 (filed July 19, 2018) (Voluntary Remand Motion).
    \2\ Old Dominion Elec. Coop. v. FERC, No. 16-1111, 2018 WL 
2993205 (D.C. Cir. 2018) (Old Dominion).
    \3\ Voluntary Remand Motion at 2.
    \4\ Xcel Energy Serv. Inc. v. FERC, No. 18-1005, Order (issued 
July 31, 2018).
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    2. Accordingly, the parties are hereby afforded the opportunity to 
file briefs with the Commission by August 31, 2018, addressing the 
significance to these proceedings of the Old Dominion decision or any 
other matter of relevance.

    Dated: August 6, 2018.
 Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-17355 Filed 8-10-18; 8:45 am]
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