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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 65 / Thursday, April 5, 2007 / Notices

reports are required. In a rapidly

changing business environment, annual

reporting is simply insufficient.

Financial accounting and reporting

provides needed information

concerning a company’s past

performance and its future prospects.

Without reliable financial statements

prepared in accordance with the

Commission’s Uniform System of

Accounts and related regulations, the

Commission would be unable to

accurately determine the costs that

relate to a particular time period, service

or line of business. Additionally, it

would be difficult to determine whether

a given entity has previously been given

the opportunity to recover its cost

through rates, or to compare how the

financial performance and results of

operations of one regulated entity

relates to that of another.

The need for current and better

disclosures in financial statements

drives the increasing demand for timely,

relevant and reliable financial

information. As such, the FERC Form 6–

Q Quarterly Report provides the

Commission with a more timely and

informative picture of the jurisdictional

oil pipeline entities’ financial and

operational condition.

More specifically, the Commission’s

Office of Enforcement (OE) uses the

FERC Form 6–Q data collected to assist

in the implementation of its financial

and operational audits and investigation

programs, in the review of the financial

condition of regulated companies, and

in the assessment of energy markets.

The Office of Energy Markets and

Reliability (OEMR) uses the data

collected for its various rate proceedings

and economic analysis. The Office of

Administrative Litigation (OAL) uses

the data collected for background

research for use in litigation. The Office

of General Counsel (OGC) uses the data

in its programs relating to the

administration of the ICA.

5. Respondent Description: The

respondent universe currently

comprises 138 companies (on average)

subject to the Commission’s

jurisdiction.

6. Estimated Burden: 62,100 total

hours, 138 respondents (average), 3

responses per respondent, and 150

hours per response (average).

7. Estimated Cost Burden to

respondents: 62,100 hours/2080 hours

per years × $117,321 per year =

$3,646,494. The cost per respondent is

equal to $26,424.

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Statutory Authority: 49 App. U.S.C. §§ 1–

85 (1988).

Philis J. Posey,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. E7–6322 Filed 4–4–07; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2205–039]

Central Vermont Public Service

Commission; Notice Dismissing Filing

as Deficient

March 30, 2007.

On February 13, 2007, Commission

staff issued an order modifying and

approving a recreation plan under

article 415 of the project license for the

Lamoille Hydroelectric Project, located

on the Lamoille River in Chittenden,

Franklin, and Lamoille Counties,

Vermont.1 On March 14, 2007, Central

Vermont Public Service Corporation

(Central Vermont or the licensee) filed

a timely request for rehearing, seeking to

modify the February order.

Specifically, the licensee requests

rehearing of a provision in the February

order regarding an access area for

canoes and car-top boats at the south

end of Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir.

The February order modified the

licensee’s recreation plan. Ordering

paragraph (C) of the February order

provided that:

The licensee shall acquire title in fee or the

right to use in perpetuity all lands necessary

to improve the access area at the south end

of Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir to provide

carry-in access for canoes and car-top boats.

The licensee shall file documentation of the

land acquisition with the Commission and

include the access area at the south end of

Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir in the asbuilt drawings.

The licensee requests that the paragraph

(C) requirement be deleted and suggests

that, instead, the licensee will conduct

a study of alternative access sites.

The licensee’s rehearing request is

deficient because it fails to include a

Statement of Issues section separate

from its arguments, as required by Rule

713 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure.2 Rule 713(c)(2)

1 118 FERC ¶ 62,125 (2007).

2 18 C.F.R. § 385.713(c)(2) (2006). See Revision of

Rules of Practice and Procedure Regarding Issue

Identification, Order No. 663, 70 FR 55723

(September 23, 2005), FERC Statutes and

Regulations ¶ 31,193 (2005). See also, Order 663–A,

effective March 23, 2006, which amended Order

663 to limit its applicability to rehearing requests.

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requires that a rehearing request must

include a separate section entitled

‘‘Statement of Issues’’ listing each issue

presented to the Commission in a

separately enumerated paragraph that

includes representative Commission

and court precedent on which the

participant is relying.3 Under Rule 713,

any issue not so listed will be deemed

waived. Accordingly, Central Vermont’s

rehearing request is dismissed.4

We note that, even if the pleading had

included the required statement of facts,

we would nevertheless deny rehearing.

Central Vermont concedes that ‘‘the

provision of public access for canoes

and car-top boats at the south end of

[Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir] is

desired,’’ and that ‘‘no detailed analysis

of alternative south end access for

canoes and car-top boats has been

performed.’’ It shows no deficiency in

the February order, but merely

speculates that some other form of

access might be preferable. Accordingly,

we find the request for rehearing to be

without merit.5

Philis J. Posey,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. E7–6325 Filed 4–4–07; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP07–364–000]

Destin Pipeline Company, L.L.C.;

Notice of Tariff Filing and NonConforming Service Agreement

March 30, 2007.

Take notice that on March 23, 2007,

Destin Pipeline Company, L.L.C.

(Destin) tendered for filing with the

Regarding Issue Identification, Order No. 663–A, 71

FR 14640 (March 23, 2006), FERC Statutes and

Regulations ¶ 31,211 (2006).

3 As explained in Order No. 663, the purpose of

this requirement is to benefit all participants in a

proceeding by ensuring that the filer, the

Commission, and all other participants understand

the issues raised by the filer, and to enable the

Commission to respond to these issues. Having a

clearly articulated Statement of Issues ensures that

issues are properly raised before the Commission

and avoids the waste of time and resources

involved in litigating appeals regarding which the

courts of appeals lack jurisdiction because the

issues on appeal were not clearly identified before

the Commission. See Order No. 663 at P 3–4.

4 See, e.g., South Carolina Electric & Gas

Company, 116 FERC ¶ 61,218 (2006); and Duke

Power Company, LLC, 116 FERC ¶ 61,171 (2006).

5 We note that the licensee may file a request for

an amendment to the license that would allow for

the consideration of an alternative site for an access

area, but note that such a proposal would require

consultation with relevant resource agencies as well

as public notice with the opportunity for comment.

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