Department of Energy March 27, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is proposing to revise its Standards of Conduct for transmission providers to make them clearer and to refocus the rules on the areas where there is the greatest potential for affiliate abuse. By doing so, we will make compliance less elusive and facilitate Commission enforcement. We also propose to conform the Standards to the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation v. FERC, 468 F.3d 831 (D.C. Cir. 2006). On January 18, 2007, the Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (initial NOPR), and received both initial and reply comments from interested persons. After giving consideration to these comments and to our own experience in enforcing the Standards, the Commission believes it to be necessary and appropriate to modify the approach proposed in the initial NOPR. The Commission is therefore issuing a new NOPR, and invites all interested persons to submit comments in response to the regulations proposed herein.