Notice Providing Agenda for Technical Conference on RTO/ISO Responsiveness, 5779-5780 [2010-2265]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Emergency Agency
Information Collection
AGENCY:
U.S. Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Department
of Energy (DOE) invites public comment
on a proposed emergency collection of
information that DOE is developing for
management of financial assistance
grants funded under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before February 18,
2010. If you anticipate difficulty in
submitting comments within that
period, contact the person listed in
ADDRESSES as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
sent to: Matthew Grosso, U.S.
Department of Energy, OE/Forrestal
Building, 1000 Independence Ave., SW.,
Washington, DC 20585 or by fax at 202–
586–5860, or by e-mail at
matthew.grosso@hq.doe.gov and DOE
Desk Officer, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Matthew Grosso at
matthew.grosso@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
emergency information collection
request contains: (1) OMB No.: New; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability Recovery Act Smart Grid
Grant Program Status Report; (3) Type of
Review: Emergency; (4) Purpose: To
collect information on the status of
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California Independent System Operator Corporation .............................
Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc .....................
Southwest Power Pool, Inc ......................................................................
ISO New England, Inc. and New England Power Pool ...........................
PJM Interconnection, LLC ........................................................................
New York Independent System Operator, Inc .........................................
On November 13, 2009, the
Commission issued a notice announcing
that the Commission staff would hold a
technical conference in the near future
to address issues raised in the abovereferenced Order No. 719 compliance
proceedings.1 The notice indicated that
the date, time, and agenda for the
conference would be announced in a
subsequent notice. On January 8, 2010,
the Commission issued a notice
providing an agenda for the conference.
The notice indicated that the panelists
were subject to change. Attached is an
up-dated agenda with the panelists as of
the date of this notice.
1 Wholesale Competition in Regions with
Organized Electric Market, Order No. 719, 73 FR
64,100 (Oct. 28, 2008), FERC Stats & Regs. ¶ 31,281
(2008); order onreh’g, 74 FR 37,772 (July 29, 2009),
128 FERC ¶ 61,059 (2009) (Order No. 719–A).
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grantee activities, expenditures, and
results, to ensure that program funds are
being used appropriately, effectively
and expeditiously (especially important
for Recovery Act funds); (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents: 132;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total
Responses: 1,656; (7) Annual Estimated
Number of Burden Hours: 3,312; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $621,000
for the first year, $138,000 each
subsequent year.
Authority: Title V, Subtitle E of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007
(EISA; Pub. L. 110–140).
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 28,
2010.
Terri T. Lee,
Chief Operating Officer, Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice Providing Agenda for Technical
Conference on RTO/ISO
Responsiveness
January 27, 2010.
No. ER09–1048–000.
No. ER09–1049–000.
Nos. ER09–1050–000, ER09–1192–000.
No. ER09–1051–000.
No. ER09–1063–000.
No. ER09–1142–000.
The staff technical conference will be
held on Thursday, February 4, 2010,
from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST) in
the Commission Meeting Room at the
Commission’s Washington, D.
headquarters, 888 First Street, NE.
This conference will be webcast. All
interested parties are invited, and there
is no registration fee to attend.
FERC conferences are accessible
under section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973. For accessibility
accommodations please send an e-mail
to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free
(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502–
8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208–
2106 with the required
accommodations.
Questions about the technical
conference may be directed to Kurt
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Longo at kurt.longo@ferc.gov, (202)
502–8048.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Agenda—Technical Conference on
RTO/ISO Responsiveness
February 4, 2010
12:30 Panel 1—Stakeholder Process
Bill Fields, Maryland Office of
People’s Counsel
Paul Williams, Portland Cement
Association (Industrial Consumers)
John Anderson, Electric Consumers
Resource Council
Patrick E. McCullar, Delaware
Municipal Electric Corporation, on
behalf of American Public Power
Association
Tamara Linde, Public Service Electric
& Gas
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Don Fuller, California Independent
System Operator Corporation
Stephen Kozey, Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator, Inc.
Stacy Duckett, Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Ray Hepper, ISO New England, Inc.
Andrew Ott, PJM Interconnection,
LLC
Robert Fernandez, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.
2:15 Break
2:30 Panel 2—Board Process and other
Governance Issues
Janine Migden-Ostrander, Office of
the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel
Randy Rismiller, Illinois Commerce
Commission
Lisa Fink, Maine Public Utilities
Commission
Jed Nosal, Assistant Attorney General
for the State of Massachusetts
Tamara Linde, Public Service Electric
& Gas
Don Fuller, California Independent
System Operator Corporation
Stephen Kozey, Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator, Inc.
Stacy Duckett, Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Ray Hepper, ISO New England, Inc.
Vincent Duane, PJM Interconnection,
LLC
Robert Fernandez, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.
4:15 Closing Remarks
* Panelists subject to change.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 13653–000]
Claverack Creek, LLC; Notice of
Preliminary Permit Application
Accepted for Filing and Soliciting
Comments, Motions To Intervene, and
Competing Applications
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January 27, 2010.
On January 11, 2010, Claverack Creek,
LLC filed an application, pursuant to
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act,
proposing to study the feasibility of the
Claverack Creek Hydroelectric Project
No. 13653, to be located on Claverack
Creek, in Columbia County, New York.
The proposed project would consist
of: (1) The existing 16-foot-high, 170foot-long Stottville Mill Dam; (2) an
existing 11.4-acre impoundment with a
normal water surface elevation of 106
feet mean sea level; (3) an existing
turbine with a new generator and a new
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turbine-generator with a total capacity
of 450 kilowatts; (4) an existing 10-footwide, 8-foot-deep intake canal; (5) new
trash racks, head gates, and stop log
structure; (6) an existing 6-footdiameter, 10-foot-long penstock and a
new 10-foot-long penstock extension; (7)
a new 40-foot-wide, 60-foot-long
powerhouse; (8) an existing 10-footwide, 20-foot-long tailrace; (9) a new
approximately 200-foot-long, 13.2kilovolt transmission line from the
powerhouse to a nearby distribution
line; (10) a redeveloped 100-foot-long
access road; (11) and appurtenant
facilities. The project would have an
estimated annual generation of 2,182
megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: William Fay, 189
River Road, Ware, MA 01082, (413)
244–6445.
FERC Contact: Brandon Cherry, (202)
502–8328.
Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, competing applications
(without notices of intent), or notices of
intent to file competing application: 60
days from the issuance of this notice.
Comments, motions to intervene,
notices of intent, and competing
applications may be filed electronically
via the Internet. See 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission’s Web site under the
‘‘eFiling’’ link. If unable to be filed
electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight
copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D.
Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For
more information on how to submit
these types of filings please go to the
Commission’s Web site located at
https://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp.
More information about this project
can be viewed or printed on the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link of the Commission’s
Web site at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket
number (P–13653) in the docket number
field to access the document. For
assistance, call toll-free 1–866–208–
3372.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL10–36–000]
Green Borders Geothermal, LLC,
Complainant, v. Terra-Gen Dixie Valley,
LLC, Respondent; Notice of Complaint
January 28, 2010.
Take notice that on January 25, 2010,
Green Borders Geothermal, LLC (Green
Borders) filed a formal complaint
against Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC (f/
k/a Caithness Dixie Valley, LLC) (TerraGen) pursuant to section 206 of the
Federal Power Act, and 18 CFR 385.206,
alleging that Terra-Gen violated prior
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) Orders 1 and the
Commission’s open access policies 2
when it failed to file an Open Access
Transmission Tariff and Large Generator
Interconnection Agreement with the
Commission once Green Borders
requested open access interconnection
and transmission service on Terra-Gen’s
Dixie Valley Line that extends from
Churchill County, Nevada through
Mineral County, Nevada and ultimately
interconnects with Southern California
Edison Company’s (‘‘SCE’’) transmission
system at SCE’s Control Substation
within the California Independent
System Operator Corp.’s Control Area.
Green Borders certifies that copies of
the complaint were served on the
contacts for Terra-Gen, as listed on the
Commission’s list of Corporate Officials.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
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
1 Oxbow Power Marketing, Inc., 76 FERC ¶ 61,
031 (1996) and Oxbow Power Marketing, Inc., 79
FERC ¶ 61, 193.
2 Promoting Wholesale Competition Through
Open Access Non-Discriminatory Transmission
Servs. by Pub. Utils.; Recovery of Stranded Costs by
Pub. Utils. and Transmitting Utilities, Order No.
888, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996), order on
reh’g, Order No. 888–A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶
31,048 (1997), order on reh’g, Order No. 888–B, 81
FERC ¶ 61,248 (1997), order on reh’g, Order No.
888–C, 82 FERC ¶ 61,046 (1998), aff’d in part and
rev’d in part sub nom. Transmission Access Policy
Study Group, et al. v. FERC, 225 F.3d 667 (D.C. Cir.
2000), cert. granted in part and denied in part, New
York v. FERC, 535 U.S. 1 (2002); see also Preventing
Undue Discrimination and Preference in
Transmission Serv., Order No. 890, FERC Stats. &
Regs. ¶ 31,241, order on reh’g, Order No. 890–A,
FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,261 (2007), order on reh’g
and clarification, Order No. 890–B, 123 FERC ¶
61,299 (2008), order on reh’g and clarification,
Order No. 890–C, 126 FERC ¶ 61,228 (2009), order
on reh’g and clarification, Order No. 890–D, 129
FERC ¶ 61,126 (2009).
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice Providing Agenda for Technical Conference on RTO/ISO
Responsiveness
January 27, 2010.
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California Independent System Operator Docket No. ER09-1048-000.
Corporation.
Midwest Independent Transmission System Docket No. ER09-1049-000.
Operator, Inc.
Southwest Power Pool, Inc.............. Docket Nos. ER09-1050-000, ER09-
1192-000.
ISO New England, Inc. and New England Docket No. ER09-1051-000.
Power Pool.
PJM Interconnection, LLC............... Docket No. ER09-1063-000.
New York Independent System Operator, Docket No. ER09-1142-000.
Inc.
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On November 13, 2009, the Commission issued a notice announcing
that the Commission staff would hold a technical conference in the near
future to address issues raised in the above-referenced Order No. 719
compliance proceedings.\1\ The notice indicated that the date, time,
and agenda for the conference would be announced in a subsequent
notice. On January 8, 2010, the Commission issued a notice providing an
agenda for the conference. The notice indicated that the panelists were
subject to change. Attached is an up-dated agenda with the panelists as
of the date of this notice.
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\1\ Wholesale Competition in Regions with Organized Electric
Market, Order No. 719, 73 FR 64,100 (Oct. 28, 2008), FERC Stats &
Regs. ] 31,281 (2008); order onreh'g, 74 FR 37,772 (July 29, 2009),
128 FERC ] 61,059 (2009) (Order No. 719-A).
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The staff technical conference will be held on Thursday, February
4, 2010, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST) in the Commission Meeting
Room at the Commission's Washington, D. headquarters, 888 First Street,
NE.
This conference will be webcast. All interested parties are
invited, and there is no registration fee to attend.
FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please
send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106
with the required accommodations.
Questions about the technical conference may be directed to Kurt
Longo at kurt.longo@ferc.gov, (202) 502-8048.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Agenda--Technical Conference on RTO/ISO Responsiveness
February 4, 2010
12:30 Panel 1--Stakeholder Process
Bill Fields, Maryland Office of People's Counsel
Paul Williams, Portland Cement Association (Industrial Consumers)
John Anderson, Electric Consumers Resource Council
Patrick E. McCullar, Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, on
behalf of American Public Power Association
Tamara Linde, Public Service Electric & Gas
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Don Fuller, California Independent System Operator Corporation
Stephen Kozey, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Stacy Duckett, Southwest Power Pool, Inc.
Ray Hepper, ISO New England, Inc.
Andrew Ott, PJM Interconnection, LLC
Robert Fernandez, New York Independent System Operator, Inc.
2:15 Break
2:30 Panel 2--Board Process and other Governance Issues
Janine Migden-Ostrander, Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel
Randy Rismiller, Illinois Commerce Commission
Lisa Fink, Maine Public Utilities Commission
Jed Nosal, Assistant Attorney General for the State of
Massachusetts
Tamara Linde, Public Service Electric & Gas
Don Fuller, California Independent System Operator Corporation
Stephen Kozey, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Stacy Duckett, Southwest Power Pool, Inc.
Ray Hepper, ISO New England, Inc.
Vincent Duane, PJM Interconnection, LLC
Robert Fernandez, New York Independent System Operator, Inc.
4:15 Closing Remarks
* Panelists subject to change.
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