[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51331-51332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13284]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM01-5-000]


Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of Revisions to eTariff

    Take notice that on September 30, 2024, the Commission will 
implement revisions to the eTariff program to enhance the capabilities 
of the system by enabling filing pipelines and utilities to identify 
the correct lead applicants for a proceeding and to have more 
flexibility in the programs used to create and file tariffs by filing 
tariff records in Microsoft Word or Excel format.
    As a result of adding the capability to file in Word or Excel, 
certain changes will be made in the way eTariff is displayed on the 
eTariff Public Viewer and eLibrary. The tariff files will be converted 
to .pdf using print-to-pdf for display. The Public Viewer display 
should appear as it does today for .pdf filings. The tariff files in 
eLibrary will display in a FERC Generated PDF document. The metadata 
for each tariff record will display on one page (rather than at the top 
of the page) and the tariff text will follow on the next page.
    Along with this document, the Commission also is posting, under the 
same eLibrary Accession Number, a marked version of the revised XML 
schema and the revised validation codes that will be associated with 
these revisions.
    Starting on June 28, 2024, a sandbox will be made available for 
pipeline and utility companies to make test filings under the new XML 
schema.
    In addition, pursuant to the Commission's previous practice in 
developing eTariff standards,\1\ the North American Standards 
Organization (NAESB) will be hosting a virtual meeting with Commission 
staff on July 23, 2024, starting at 10 a.m. EST to discuss these 
issues. People wishing to attend the meeting should contact NAESB at: 
(713) 356-0060 or [email protected] to register and obtain log-on 
information.
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    \1\ Electronic Tariff Filings, Order No. 714, 124 FERC ] 61,270 
(2008).
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I. Lead Applicant Identification

    The eTariff XML schema will add a mandatory lead applicant field. 
The lead applicant field will determine the lead party making the 
filing and will be added to the Commission's service list. This change 
will require the filing pipeline or utility to add the Company 
Identifier (CID) for the lead applicant to the XML schema. Filings 
without a lead applicant CID will be rejected. Filers also must 
continue to include the company id field to identify the company whose 
tariff is being revised. If pipelines and utilities are filing with 
themselves as the lead applicant, they will include their own CID in 
both the lead_applicant_id field and the company_id field if they are 
filing for themselves.
    The Commission also will post on the eTariff website, https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/etariff, a CSV file with CID numbers and will 
endeavor to update that file monthly.
    Pipelines and utilities will continue to make the eTariff filings 
through the eFiling web page at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/Login.aspx. 
The contact information associated with the CID of the lead applicant 
will be added to the Commission's service list. Filers need to be aware 
that although the filing pipeline or utility will be presented with the 
following screen and will have to enter an email address as signer, the 
company and email will not be added to the service list.

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    If the pipeline or utility wants to be considered a co-applicant, 
or enter additional email addresses, they must enter that information 
on a subsequent screen in the eFiling process along with information 
about any other co-applicants.
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II. Flexibility To Include Microsoft Word and Excel Files as Tariff 
Records

    Filing pipelines and utilities will be able to include tariff 
records in Microsoft Word and Excel as well as submitting tariff 
records as RTF or PDF. The Commission wants to provide as much 
flexibility in making these filings as possible, particularly in Excel, 
but to assure that tariff records can be read easily, certain 
formatting requirements are necessary.

A. Word Files

    Word files may be in portrait or landscape format with a format no 
larger than 11''x17'' ledger size.

B. Excel Files

    The following are the formatting requirements for Excel files.
    1. Filings may be in portrait or landscape.
    2. Page size may be no larger than 11''x17'' ledger size.
    3. Excel file must properly define the print range, including print 
titles and print page order, so the document can render properly in 
PDF. Filers need to be careful to ensure that their print range does 
not result in generating numerous blank pages.
    4. If columns or rows roll over to subsequent pages, columns or row 
headers need to be repeated so that subsequent pages are easily 
understood.
    5. An accurate marked version of the tariff record still must be 
filed as an attachment.
    Questions on these changes should be directed to: Michael 
Goldenberg at [email protected] or James Sarikas at 
[email protected].

    Dated: June 11, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-13284 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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