Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 189 / Monday, October 1, 2007 / Notices

Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 189 / Monday, October 1, 2007 / Notices

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Combined Notice of Filings #1

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September 21, 2007.

Take notice that the Commission

received the following electric rate

filings:

Docket Numbers: ER06–200–000;

ER07–254–000; ER07–460–000; ER05–

534–000; ER05–365–000; ER05–1262–

000; ER06–1093–000; ER05–332–000;

ER07–287–000; ER07–242–000; ER04–

94–000; ER05–1146–000; ER05–481–

000; ER07–240–000.

Applicants: Big Horn Wind Project,

LLC; Casselman Windpower, LLC;

Dillon Wind, LLC; Eastern Desert

Power, LLC, Elk River Wind, LLC, Flat

Rock Windpower, LLC; Flat Rock

Windpower II, LLC, Klondike Wind

Power II, LLC; Klondike Wind Power III,

LLC; MinnDakota Wind, LLC, Mountain

View Power Partners III, LLC; Shiloh I

Wind Project, LLC; Trimont Wind I,

LLC; Twin Buttes Wind, LLC.

Description: Big Horn Wind Project,

LLC, et al. notifies FERC that they do

not currently engage in reporting of

transactions to publishers of electricity

or natural gas price indices.

Filed Date: 09/18/2007.

Accession Number: 20070919–0102.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

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Docket Numbers: ER07–539–002;

ER07–540–002.

Applicants: Niagara Mohawk Power

Corporation.

Description: Niagara Mohawk Power

Corp dba National Grid submits a

second amendment to its 2/14/07

filings.

Filed Date: 09/19/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0114.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Wednesday, October 10, 2007.

Docket Numbers: ER07–1050–001.

Applicants: PJM Interconnection,

LLC.

Description: PJM Interconnection,

LLC submits their response to questions

posed in the 8/17/07 Order concerning

the capacity resource delisting process,

and submits revisions to the PJM OATT.

Filed Date: 09/17/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0046.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

Docket Numbers: ER07–1172–001.

Applicants: Idaho Power Company.

Description: Idaho Power Company

requests that the Commission accept

their proposed use of the ICE Mid-C

index in Schedules 4 and 10 of its Order

890 OATT filed on 7/13/07 in response

to the 8/30/07 deficiency letter.

Filed Date: 09/17/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0045.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

Docket Numbers: ER07–1374–000.

Applicants: South Carolina Electric &

Gas Company.

Description: South Carolina Electric &

Gas Co submits an Industrial Tap

Agreement with the City of Orangeburg,

SC.

Filed Date: 09/14/2007.

Accession Number: 20070918–0137.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Friday, October 5, 2007.

Docket Numbers: ER07–1385–000.

Applicants: Entergy Services, Inc.

Description: Entergy Operations, Inc.,

et al. submit their First Revised Rate

Schedule 435, etc.

Filed Date: 09/17/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0049.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

Docket Numbers: ER07–1386–000.

Applicants: Tatanka Wind Power,

LLC

Description: Application of Tatanka

Wind Power, LLC for order accepting

market-based rate tariff, granting

authorizations and blanket authority,

and waiving certain requirements.

Filed Date: 09/17/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0048.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

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Docket Numbers: ER07–1387–000.

Applicants: Maine Electric Power

Company, Inc.

Description: Maine Electric Power Co,

Inc and ISO New England, Inc. submits

a revised Attachment H of the OATT.

Filed Date: 09/17/2007.

Accession Number: 20070920–0047.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on Friday, September 28, 2007.

Any person desiring to intervene or to

protest in any of the above proceedings

must file in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern

time on the specified comment date. It

is not necessary to separately intervene

again in a subdocket related to a

compliance filing if you have previously

intervened in the same docket. 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.

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or

protest must serve a copy of that

document on the Applicant. In reference

to filings initiating a new proceeding,

interventions or protests submitted on

or before the comment deadline need

not be served on persons other than the

Applicant.

The Commission encourages

electronic submission of protests and

interventions in lieu of paper, using the

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic

service, persons with Internet access

who will eFile a document and/or be

listed as a contact for an intervenor

must create and validate an

eRegistration account using the

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling

link to log on and submit the

intervention or protests.

Persons unable to file electronically

should submit an original and 14 copies

of the intervention or protest to the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC

20426.

The filings in the above proceedings

are accessible in the Commission’s

eLibrary system by clicking on the

appropriate link in the above list. They

are also 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 dockets(s). For

assistance with any FERC Online

service, please e-mail

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call

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(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call

(202) 502–8659.

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,

Acting Deputy Director.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

I. Current Commission Policy on Fuel

Retention

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RM07–20–000]

Fuel Retention Practices of Natural

Gas Companies

September 20, 2007.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry.

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission is seeking

comments on its policy regarding the inkind recovery of fuel and lost and

unaccounted-for gas by natural gas

pipeline companies. The Commission is

inviting interested persons to submit

comments, and other information on the

matters, issues and specific questions

identified in this notice.

DATES: Comments are due November 30,

2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,

identified by Docket No. RM07–20–000.

by one of the following methods:

Æ Agency Web Site: http://

www.ferc.gov. Follow the instructions

for submitting comments via the eFiling

link found in the Comment Procedures

Section of the preamble.

Æ Mail: Commenters unable to file

comments electronically must mail an

original and 14 copies of their

comments to: Federal Energy NE.,

Washington, DC, 20426. Please refer to

the Comment Procedure Section of the

preamble for additional information on

how to file paper comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ingrid M. Olson, Office of the General

Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8406.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Inquiry

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September 20, 2007.

1. In this Notice of Inquiry, the

Commission is seeking comments on its

policy regarding the in-kind recovery of

fuel and lost and unaccounted-for gas by

natural gas pipeline companies. Current

policy, described below, gives pipelines

two options for recovering these costs,

and pipelines follow a variety of

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practices regarding fuel and lost and

unaccounted-for gas. The Commission is

seeking comments on whether it should

change its current policy and prescribe

a uniform method for all pipelines to

use in recovering these costs.1

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2. Interstate natural gas pipelines

frequently require that customers

contribute a small percentage of the

volumes of natural gas tendered for

transportation service to provide fuel for

compressors and to make up for lost and

unaccounted-for gas.2 Each pipeline

states the percentage it retains in its

open access tariff. Currently effective

tariff fuel retention rates range from

fractions of a percent to as high as 13

percent.3

3. The Commission established its

current policy concerning the in-kind

recovery of fuel and unaccounted-for

gas in ANR Pipeline Company (ANR).4

In its January 2005 order in the ANR

case,5 the Commission stated that

pipelines have two options to recover

these costs. The first option is to

establish a fixed fuel retention

percentage in a general section 4 rate

case, and leave that percentage

unchanged until the pipeline files its

next general section 4 rate case. The

1 In this proceeding, the Commission is seeking

comments on several specific proposals for rate

recovery of fuel and lost and unaccounted-for gas,

as well as answers to specific questions. It also

should be noted that the Commission has initiated

a separate proceeding in Docket No. RM07–9–000

inquiring about the need for changes or revisions

in the Commission’s reporting requirements for its

financial forms including the Form Nos. 2 and 2–

A, Annual Reports of Major and Nonmajor Natural

Gas Companies. Assessment of Information

Requirements for FERC Financial Forms, Notice of

Inquiry, FERC Stats & Regs. ¶ 35,554 (February 15,

2007). The Commission received a number of

comments and suggestions in that proceeding

regarding the adequacy of information reported in

the Form No. 2 concerning gas retained, used for

compression, and lost and unaccounted-for.

Accordingly, the reporting requirements related to

gas retained, used for compression, and lost and

unaccounted-for will be addressed in the Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking which the Commission is

concurrently issuing in Docket No. RM07–9–000,

120 FERC ¶ 61,256.

2 Some pipelines do not require shippers to

contribute in-kind a portion of the gas tendered to

the pipeline for transportation for the pipeline’s

use.

3 See, e.g., MIGC, Inc., FERC Gas Tariff, First

Revised Volume No. 1, Eleventh Revised Sheet No.

6 (fuel retention percentages up to 13 percent); Gas

Transmission Northwest, FERC Gas Tariff, Third

Revised Volume No. 1–A, Seventh Revised Sheet

No. 6 (0.005 percent fuel retention).

4 ANR Pipeline Co., order on compliance filing,

108 FERC ¶ 61,050 (2004), order inviting comments,

109 FERC ¶ 61,038 (2004), order on reh’g and

compliance filing, 110 FERC ¶ 61,069 (2005), order

on reh’g and compliance filing, 111 FERC ¶ 61,290

(2005).

5 110 FERC ¶ 61,069, at P18–28.

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second option allows the pipeline to

include in its tariff a mechanism

permitting periodic changes in its fuel

retention percentage outside of a general

section 4 rate case, as allowed by

section 154.403 of the Commission’s

regulations.6 ANR held that, if a

pipeline chooses the second option, it

must include in its tariff a mechanism

to true-up any over- and underrecoveries of fuel, absent agreement

otherwise by all interested parties.

4. In ANR, the Commission explained

that its general ratemaking policy,

established in Order No. 436, is that

pipelines must design their rates based

on estimated units of service without

any type of true-up mechanism.7 This

means that the pipeline is at risk for

under-recovery of its costs between rate

cases and may retain any over-recovery.

This gives pipelines an incentive both to

minimize their costs and maximize the

service they provide. A cost tracker

undercuts these incentives by

guaranteeing the pipeline revenues

sufficient to recover its costs regardless

of the level of costs or services

provided.

5. However, as the Commission

explained in ANR, it had permitted an

exception to this policy for a few cost

items that are subject to significant

changes from year to year and thus are

difficult to predict. Among these cost

items is fuel. The Commission

explained that section 154.403 of its

regulations permits a pipeline to adjust

its fuel retention percentages in periodic

limited section 4 rate filings pursuant to

a methodology set forth in the pipeline’s

tariff. The Commission stated that

section 154.403 does not expressly

require that pipelines include true-up

mechanisms as part of the tariff

provision permitting periodic

adjustments to their fuel retention

percentages. Instead, the Commission

stated, it had addressed this issue on a

case-by-case basis and required a trueup when the facts of a particular case so

warranted.

6. In ANR, the Commission changed

this approach and held that, if a

pipeline wishes to take full advantage of

the incentives underlying our general

ratemaking policy with respect to inkind fuel recovery, then it can choose

the first option which requires

establishing a fixed fuel retention

percentage. However, if the pipeline

chooses the second option and tracks its

fuel costs, then there must be an

assurance that the fuel costs are tracked

accurately so that the pipeline does not

over-recover its fuel costs under any

6 18 CFR 154.403.

7 18 CFR 284.10(c)(2).

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