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b. Project Nos.: 12606–000 and 2545–

091.

c. Date Filed: July 28, 2005.

d. Applicant: Avista Corporation.

e. Name of Projects: (1) Post Falls and

(2) Spokane River Development of the

Spokane River.

f. Location: Post Falls—on the

Spokane River and Coeur d’Alene Lake

in portions of Kootenai and Benewah

counties, Idaho. The project occupies

Federal lands under the supervision of

the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and

may occupy lands under the

supervision of the U.S. Forest Service

and the U.S. Bureau of Land

Management.

Spokane River Developments—on the

Spokane River in portions of Steven and

Lincoln counties, Washington. No

federal lands are included.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Bruce F.

Howard, License Manager, Avista

Corporation, 1411 East Mission, P.O.

Box 3727, Spokane, Washington 99220–

3727; telephone: (509) 495–2941.

i. FERC Contact: John S. Blair, at (202)

502–6092, john.blair@ferc.gov.

j. Deadline for filing motions to

intervene and protests and requests for

cooperation agency status: 60 days from

the issuance date of this notice.

All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: Magalie R.

Salas, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

require all intervenors filing with the

Commission to serve a copy of that

document on each person on the official

service list for the project. Further, if an

intervenor files comments or documents

with the Commission relating to the

merits of an issue that may affect the

responsibilities of a particular resource

agency, they must also serve a copy of

the document on that resource agency.

Motions to intervene and protest and

requests for cooperating agency status

may be filed electronically via the

Internet in lieu of paper. The

Commission strongly encourages

electronic filings. See 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s Web site (http://

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link.

k. This application is accepted, but is

not ready for environmental analysis at

this time.

l. The Post falls hydroelectric

development, has a seasonal storage

capacity consisting of the 40,402 acre

Coeur d’Alene Lake with a usable

storage capacity of 223,100 acre-feet.

The facility is composed of a 431-footlong, 31-foot-high dam across the north

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channel of the Spokane River, a 127foot-long, 25-foot-high dam across the

south channel, and a 215-foot-long, 64foot-high dam across the middle

channel; six 56-foot-long, 11.25-footdiameter penstocks; and a 6-unit

powerhouse integral to the middle

channel dam with a generator

nameplate capacity of 14.75 megawatts.

The Spokane River Developments

include four hydroelectric

developments (HED) with a total

authorized capacity of 122.92 MW as

follows:

(1) Upper Falls HED is a run-of-river

facility consisting of a 366-foot-long,

35.5-foot-high dam across the north

channel of the Spokane River; a 70-footlong, 30-foot-high intake structure

across the south channel; an 800-acrefoot reservoir; a 350-foot-long, 18-footdiameter penstock; and a single-unit

powerhouse with a generator nameplate

capacity of 10 MW.

(2) Monroe Street HED is a run-ofriver facility consisting of a 240-footlong, 24-foot-high dam; a 30-acre-foot

reservoir; a 332-foot-long, 14-footdiameter penstock; and an underground

single-unit powerhouse with a generator

nameplate capacity of 14.82 MW.

(3) Nine Mile HED is a run-of-river

facility consisting of a 466-foot-long, 58foot-high dam; a 4,600 acre-foot

reservoir; a 120-foot-long, 5 footdiameter diversion tunnel; and a 4-unit

powerhouse with a nameplate capacity

of 26.4 MW.

(4) Long Lake HED is a storage-type

facility consisting of a 593-foot-long,

213-foot-high main dam; a 247-footlong, 108-foot-high cutoff dam; a

105,080-acre-foot reservoir; four 236foot-long, 16-foot-diameter penstocks;

and a 4-unit powerhouse with a

nameplate capacity of 71.7 MW.

m. A copy of the application is

available for review in the

Commission’s Public Reference Room or

may be viewed on its Web site: 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, contact FERC Online

Support at

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY,

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also available

for inspection and reproduction at the

address in item h above.

You may also register online at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances

related to this or other pending projects.

For assistance, contact FERC Online

Support.

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n. Anyone may submit a protest or a

motion to intervene in accordance with

the requirements of Rules of Practice

and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210,

386.211, and 385.214. In determining

the appropriate action to take, the

Commission will consider all protests

filed, but only those who file a motion

to intervene in accordance with the

Commission’s Rules may become a

party to the proceeding. Any protests or

motions to intervene must be received

on or before the specified deadline date

for the particular application.

All filings must (1) Bear in all capital

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST’’ or

‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE;’’ (2) set

forth in the heading the name of the

applicant and the project number of the

application to which the filing

responds; (3) furnish the name, address,

and telephone number of the person

protesting or intervening; and (4)

otherwise comply with the requirements

of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.

Agencies may obtain copies of the

application directly from the applicant.

A copy of any protest motion to

intervene must be served upon each

representative of the applicant specified

in the particular application.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E6–607 Filed 1–19–06; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. AD06–2–000; ER06–406–000;

ER02–2330–040; ER03–345–006; ER01–

3001–014]

Assessment of Demand Respose

Resources; PJM Interconnection,

L.L.C.; ISO New England Inc.; ISO New

England Inc.; New York Independent

Transmission System Operator, Inc.;

Notice of Agenda and Procedures for

Technical Conference on Demand

Response and Advanced Metering

January 13, 2006.

This notice establishes the agenda and

procedures for the technical conference

to be held on Wednesday, January 25,

2006, at 9:00 am (EST),1 on demand

response and advanced metering

regarding issues raised by the Energy

Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) section

1 The initial notice setting the date of this

technical conference was issued on December 12,

2005. 70 Fed. Reg. 74,804 (2005).

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1252(e)(3).2 This notice includes

additional dockets numbers because

those filings all contain issues

associated with demand response and

those issues may be discussed within

presentations. The technical conference

will be held in the Commission Meeting

Room at the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426. The conference

will be open for the public to attend and

advance registration is not required.

This will be a staff conference, but

Commissioners may attend.

The agenda for this conference is

attached. In order to allot sufficient time

for questions and responses, each

speaker will be provided with five

minutes for prepared remarks. Due to

the limitation of time, slides and

graphic displays (i.e, PowerPoint

presentations) will not be permitted

during the conference. Presenters who

want to distribute copies of their

prepared remarks or handouts should

bring 100 double-sided copies to the

technical conference. Presenters who

wish to include comments,

presentations, or handouts in the record

for this proceeding should file their

comments with the Commission.

Comments may either be filed on paper

or electronically via the eFiling link on

the Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov.

A free webcast of this event will be

available through http://www.ferc.gov.

Anyone with Internet access who

desires to view this event can do so by

navigating to http://www.ferc.gov’s

Calendar of Events and locating this

event in the Calendar. The event will

contain a link to its Webcast. The

Capitol Connection provides technical

support for the webcasts. It also offers

access to this event via television in the

Washington, DC area and via phone

bridge for a fee. Visit http://

www.CapitolConnection.org or contact

Danelle Perkowski or David Reininger at

the Capitol Connection 703–993–3100

for information about this service.

Commission conferences are

accessible under section 508 of the

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For

accessibility accommodations please

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov

or call toll free 866–208–3372 (voice) or

202–208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to

202–208–2106 with the required

accommodations.

For further information on the

technical conference, please contact:

David Kathan (Technical Information),

Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates,

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–

6404, David.Kathan@ferc.gov.

Aileen Roder (Legal Information), Office

of the General Counsel, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC

20426, (202) 502–6022,

Aileen.Roder@ferc.gov.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E6–611 Filed 1–19–06; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RM98–1–000]

Records Governing Off-the-Record

Communications; Public Notice

January 13, 2006.

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.

Docket number

Date

received

1. CP05–25–000 ........................................

2. CP06–32–000 ........................................

1–5–06

12–22–05

2 Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109–58,

§ 1252(e)(3), 119 Stat. 594, (2005) (EPAct section

1252(e)(3)). Section 1252(e)(3) requires the

Commission, not later than one year after the date

of enactment of the EPAct 2005, to draft and

publish a report, by appropriate region, that

assesses demand response resources, including

those available from all consumer classes.

Specifically, the Commission must identify and

review:

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Presenter or requester

Charles Brown.

Hon. Tom Allen.

(A) Saturation and penetration rates of advanced

meters and communications technologies, devices

and systems;

(B) existing demand response programs and timebased rate programs;

(C) the annual resource contribution of demand

resources;

(D) the potential for demand response as a

quantifiable, reliable resource for regional planning

purposes;

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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

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 a list of off-therecord communications recently

received by the Secretary of the

Commission. The communications

listed are grouped by docket numbers in

ascending order. These filings are

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:

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(E) steps taken to ensure that, in regional

transmission planning and operations, demand

resources are provided equitable treatment as a

quantifiable, reliable resource relative to the

resource obligations of any load-serving entity,

transmission provider, or transmitting party; and

(F) regulatory barriers to improved customer

participation in demand response, peak reduction

and critical period pricing programs.

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