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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 72 / Friday, April 14, 2006 / Notices

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Comment Date: 5 p.m. on May 4,

2006.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RR06–1–000]

North American Electric Reliability

Council and North American Electric

Reliability Corporation; Notice of Filing

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April 7, 2006.

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Take notice that on April 4, 2006, the

North American Electric Reliability

Council and its affiliate, North

American Electric Reliability

Corporation, (jointly ‘‘NERC’’) tendered

for filing an application for certification

as the Electric Reliability Organization

(‘‘ERO’’) pursuant to section 215 of the

Federal Power Act. NERC claims to

meet all statutory and regulatory

requirements to serve as the ERO for the

United States and to ensure reliable

operation of the North American bulk

power system. NERC also seeks

Commission approval of its certificate of

incorporation, its bylaws, and its rules

of procedure, all of which will become

the ‘‘ERO Rules.’’ In a companion filing,

NERC is seeking approval of its

currently-effective reliability standards.

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

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. Such notices, motions, or

protests must be filed on or before the

comment date. On or before the

comment date, it is not necessary to

serve motions to intervene or protests

on persons other than the Applicant.

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 14 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

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 e-mail notification when a

document is added to a subscribed

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC

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Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RM05–30–000]

Rules Concerning Certification of the

Electric Reliability Organization; and

Procedures for the Establishment,

Approval and Enforcement of Electric

Reliability Standards; Notice of New

Docket Prefixes ‘‘RR’’, ‘‘RD’’, and RC

for Reliability Organizations and

Standards

April 7, 2006.

Notice is hereby given that new

docket prefixes ‘‘RR’’, ‘‘RD’’, and ‘‘RC’’

have been established for certain filings

pursuant to Order No. 672, issued

February 3, 2006.1

The prefixes are defined as:

RR—ERO Rules and Organizational

Filings,

RD—Electric Reliability Standards,

RC—Compliance and Enforcement of

Reliability Standards and the following

examples illustrate the types of

reliability organization filings that fall

under each of the new prefixes.

A. RR Prefix Filings—ERO Rules and

Organizational Filings

1. Application for certification as the

Electric Reliability Organization

[39.3(a)].

2. The ERO’s assessment of its

performance [39.3(c)].

3. Request to modify the formula or

method for the allocation and

assessment of ERO dues, fees and

charges [39.4(a)].

4. The ERO’s proposed annual budget,

including the annual budget for each

Regional Entity [39.4(b)].

5. Request for authorization to collect

a special assessment [39.4(d)].

6. Request for approval of penalty

guidelines that set forth a range of

penalties for the violation of Reliability

Standards [39.7(g)(2)].

1 Rules Concerning Certification of the Electric

Reliability Organization; and Procedures for the

Establishment, Approval, and Enforcement of

Electric Reliability Standards (Order No. 672), 114

FERC 61,104 (2006).

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7. Agreement to delegate authority to

a Regional Entity for the purpose of

proposing Reliability Standards to the

ERO and enforcing Reliability Standards

[39.8(c)].

8. Application for assignment to an

entity of the ERO’s authority to enforce

Reliability Standards within the entity’s

region [39.8(f)].

9. Request for approval of any

proposed ERO Rule or Rule change or

proposed Regional Entity Rule or Rule

change [39.10(a)].

10. Petition to establish a Regional

Advisory Body [39.13(a)].

B. RD Prefix Filings—Electric

Reliability Standards

1. Each proposed Reliability Standard

or modification to a Reliability Standard

that is processed as an Order (a

proposed reliability standard processed

as a rulemaking will be designated an

RM docket prefix) [39.5(a)].

2. Notification of the possible conflict

of a Reliability Standard with a

function, rule, order, tariff, rate

schedule, or agreement accepted,

approved, or ordered by the

Commission [39.6(a)].

3. Application for a determination of

consistency of a state action with a

Reliability Standard [39.12(b)].

C. RC Prefix Filings—Compliance and

Enforcement of Reliability Standards

1. Report to the Commission of any

self-reported violation or investigation

of a violation or an alleged violation of

a Reliability Standard and its eventual

disposition [39.7(b)].

2. Such periodic summary reports as

the Commission shall from time to time

direct on violations of Reliability

Standards [39.7(b)(5)].

3. Notice of penalty for violation of a

Reliability Standard [39.7(c)(2)].

4. Application for review of a penalty

[39.7(e)(1)].

5. Report on the ERO’s assessment of

the reliability of the Bulk-Power System

in North America [39.11(a)].

6. Report on the ERO’s assessment of

the adequacy of the Bulk-Power System

in North America [39.11(b)].

7. Notice of proposed penalty, filed by

ERO.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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