Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 241 / Friday, December 15, 2006 / Notices

Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 241 / Friday, December 15, 2006 / Notices

This constitutes notice, in accordance

with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt

of prohibited and exempt off-the-record

communications.

Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222,

September 22, 1999) requires

Commission decisional employees, who

make or receive a prohibited or exempt

off-the-record communication relevant

to the merits of a contested proceeding,

to deliver to the Secretary of the

Commission, a copy of the

communication, if written, or a

summary of the substance of any oral

communication.

Prohibited communications are

included in a public, non-decisional file

associated with, but not a part of, the

decisional record of the proceeding.

Unless the Commission determines that

the prohibited communication and any

responses thereto should become a part

of the decisional record, the prohibited

off-the-record communication will not

be considered by the Commission in

reaching its decision. Parties to a

proceeding may seek the opportunity to

respond to any facts or contentions

made in a prohibited off-the-record

communication, and may request that

the Commission place the prohibited

communication and responses thereto

in the decisional record. The

Commission will grant such a request

only when it determines that fairness so

Docket No.

Date received

p. Agency Comments—Federal, State,

and local agencies are invited to file

comments on the described application.

A copy of the application may be

obtained by agencies directly from the

Applicant. If an agency does not file

comments within the time specified for

filing comments, it will be presumed to

have no comments. One copy of an

agency’s comments must also be sent to

the Applicant’s representatives.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RM98–1–000]

Records Governing Off-the-Record

Communications; Public Notice

December 8, 2006.

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Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RM06–22–000]

Mandatory Reliability Standards for

Critical Infrastructure Protection;

Notice of Comment Period

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December 11, 2006.

On August 28, 2006, the North

American Electric Reliability Council,

on behalf of its wholly-owned

subsidiary, the North American Electric

Reliability Corporation (collectively

NERC), filed eight proposed Reliability

Standards concerning Critical

Infrastructure Protection (CIP) for

Commission approval, pursuant to its

role as the Electric Reliability

Organization (ERO) under section 215 of

the Federal Power Act (FPA). On

September 18, 2006, the Commission

issued a notice announcing that it

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established a new rulemaking

proceeding, Docket No. RM06–22–000,

to address the proposed CIP Reliability

Standards.1

Concurrent with today’s notice, the

Commission is releasing a staff

preliminary assessment of the eight

proposed CIP Reliability Standards.

This assessment is a preliminary

technical analysis by staff and does not

offer legal conclusions or recommend

any particular action to be taken by the

Commission. The Commission will

issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

(NOPR) with its proposal on each

Reliability Standard after receiving

comments on the staff preliminary

assessment. Interested persons will also

have an opportunity to file comments

on the NOPR.

NERC should respond to this

preliminary assessment by February 12,

2007. We also invite other interested

persons to file comments on the staff

preliminary assessment by the comment

date. Comments should respond to

1 In addition, the Notice explained that nineteen

other new and revised proposed Reliability

Standards submitted by NERC in the same August

28, 2006 filing would be addressed in Docket No.

RM06–16–000.

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requires. Any person identified below as

having made a prohibited off-the-record

communication shall serve the

document on all parties listed on the

official service list for the applicable

proceeding in accordance with Rule

2010, 18 CFR 385.2010.

Exempt off-the-record

communications are included in the

decisional record of the proceeding,

unless the communication was with a

cooperating agency as described by 40

CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR

385.2201(e)(1)(v).

The following is an off-the-record

communication recently received by the

Secretary of the Commission. This filing

is available for review at the

Commission in the Public Reference

Room or may be viewed on the

Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link.

Enter the docket number, excluding the

last three digits, in the docket number

field to access the document. For

assistance, please contact FERC, Online

Support at

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY,

contact (202) 502–8659.

Exempt:

Presenter or requester

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

issues discussed in the preliminary

assessment in the order in which they

appear, and take care to identify which

issue, Reliability Standard, or specific

provision of a Reliability Standard is

being addressed. Commenters may also

address related issues not raised in the

staff preliminary assessment to assist

the Commission to make more informed

decisions regarding the proposed CIP

Reliability Standards.

The Commission encourages

electronic submission of comments

using the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file

electronically should submit an original

and 14 copies of their comments to the

Secretary of the Commission, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

The staff preliminary assessment is

accessible online 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 email notification when a document is

added to a subscribed docket(s). For

assistance with any FERC Online

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