80_FR_67105 80 FR 66895 - Staff Notice of Alleged Violations

80 FR 66895 - Staff Notice of Alleged Violations

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 210 (October 30, 2015)

Page Range66895-66896
FR Document2015-27674

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 210 (Friday, October 30, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 210 (Friday, October 30, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66895-66896]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27674]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Staff Notice of Alleged Violations

    Take notice \1\ that in a nonpublic investigation pursuant to 18 
CFR part 1b (2015), the staff of the Office of Enforcement of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has preliminarily determined that 
Berkshire Power Company LLC (Berkshire) and Powerplant Management 
Services LLC violated the Commission's Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 CFR 
1c.2 (2015) by engaging in a manipulative scheme to conceal maintenance 
work and associated outages beginning at least as early as January 2008 
and continuing through March 2011.
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    \1\ Enforcement of Statutes, Regulations, and Orders, 129 FERC ] 
61,247 (2009), order on reh'g, 134 FERC ] 61,054 (2011).
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    Staff also has preliminarily determined that Berkshire violated 
Commission-approved reliability standards by failing to provide outage 
information to its Transmission Operator and failing to inform its 
Transmission Operator and Host Balancing Authority of all generation 
resources available for use.
    Finally, Staff also has preliminarily determined that Berkshire 
violated Commission regulations 35.41(a) by failing to comply with 
various provisions of the ISO-New England (ISO-NE) Tariff and Sec.  
35.41(b) by making false and misleading statements to ISO-NE regarding 
its maintenance work and associated outages.
    This notice does not confer a right on third parties to intervene 
in the investigation or any other right with respect to the 
investigation.


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    Dated: October 23, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-27674 Filed 10-29-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 210 / Friday, October 30, 2015 / Notices 66895 she answers survey questions, reads Issued in Washington, DC, on October 26, and 214 of the Commission’s survey materials, or completes other 2015. Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and activities as part of a survey process. A Nanda Srinivasan, 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern number of different techniques may be Director, Office of Survey Development and time on the specified comment date. involved, including asking respondents Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy Protests may be considered, but what specific words or phrases mean, Information Administration. intervention is necessary to become a and asking respondents probing [FR Doc. 2015–27721 Filed 10–29–15; 8:45 am] party to the proceeding. questions to determine how they BILLING CODE 6450–01–P eFiling is encouraged. More detailed estimate or calculate specific data information relating to filing elements on a survey form. The requirements, interventions, protests, objective of these interviews is to DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY service, and qualifying facilities filings identify problems of ambiguity or can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ misunderstanding, to identify other Federal Energy Regulatory docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For difficulties respondents have answering Commission other information, call (866) 208–3676 questions, reduce measurement error in (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. Combined Notice of Filings #1 a survey, and assess the burden for Dated: October 26, 2015. reporting energy information. Take notice that the Commission Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Usability Interviews. Usability received the following electric corporate Deputy Secretary. interviews are similar to cognitive filings: [FR Doc. 2015–27672 Filed 10–29–15; 8:45 am] interviews in which a respondent is Docket Numbers: EC16–18–000. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P typically asked to ‘‘think aloud’’ or Applicants: Cedar Bluff Wind, LLC, asked ‘‘retrospective questions’’ as he or Golden Hills Wind, LLC, Golden Hills she reviews an electronic questionnaire, Interconnection, LLC. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Web site and/or associated materials, or Description: Application for Approval hard copy form. The objective of a under Section 203 of the Federal Power Federal Energy Regulatory usability interview is to make sure that Act and Request for Expedited Action of Commission respondents can easily and intuitively Cedar Bluff Wind, LLC, et al. navigate electronic questionnaires, Web Filed Date: 10/23/15. Staff Notice of Alleged Violations sites and other associated materials, or Accession Number: 20151023–5400. Take notice 1 that in a nonpublic other survey instruments. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/15. investigation pursuant to 18 CFR part 1b Focus Groups. Focus groups involve Take notice that the Commission (2015), the staff of the Office of group sessions guided by a moderator received the following electric rate Enforcement of the Federal Energy who follows a topic guide containing filings: Regulatory Commission has questions or topics focused on a Docket Numbers: ER15–2647–000. preliminarily determined that Berkshire particular issue rather than adhering to Applicants: Tres Amigas, LLC. Power Company LLC (Berkshire) and a standardized questionnaire. Focus Description: Supplement to Powerplant Management Services LLC groups are useful for surfacing and September 11, 2015 Tres Amigas, LLC violated the Commission’s Anti- exploring issues with populations of submits tariff filing. Manipulation Rule, 18 CFR 1c.2 (2015) interest, e.g., a specific group of Filed Date: 10/23/15. by engaging in a manipulative scheme stakeholders. Accession Number: 20151023–5396. to conceal maintenance work and (5) Annual Estimated Number of Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/30/15 associated outages beginning at least as Respondents: 2,000; early as January 2008 and continuing Docket Numbers: ER15–2676–000. through March 2011. (6) Annual Estimated Number of Applicants: Cedar Bluff Wind, LLC. Staff also has preliminarily Total Responses: 2,000; Description: Revision to September determined that Berkshire violated (7) Annual Estimated Number of 18, 2015 Cedar Bluff Wind, LLC tariff Commission-approved reliability Burden Hours: 2,000; filing. standards by failing to provide outage Filed Date: 10/20/15. information to its Transmission (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Accession Number: 20151020–5264. Recordkeeping Cost Burden: There are Operator and failing to inform its Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/10/15. Transmission Operator and Host no additional costs associated with these survey methods other than the Take notice that the Commission Balancing Authority of all generation burden hours. The information is received the following qualifying resources available for use. maintained in the normal course of facility filings: Finally, Staff also has preliminarily business. The cost of burden hours to Docket Numbers: QF16–132–000. determined that Berkshire violated the respondents is estimated to be Applicants: Hollingsworth & Vose Commission regulations 35.41(a) by $143,940 (2,000 burden hours times Company. failing to comply with various $71.97 per hour), which represents a Description: Form 556 of provisions of the ISO–New England reduction of 1,006 burden hours from Hollingsworth & Vose Company. (ISO–NE) Tariff and § 35.41(b) by the prior renewal of this collection. Filed Date: 10/23/15. making false and misleading statements Therefore, other than the cost of burden Accession Number: 20151023–5135. to ISO–NE regarding its maintenance hours, EIA estimates that there are no Comments Due: None Applicable. work and associated outages. This notice does not confer a right on tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES additional costs for generating, The filings are accessible in the third parties to intervene in the maintaining and providing the Commission’s eLibrary system by investigation or any other right with information. clicking on the links or querying the respect to the investigation. Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the docket number. Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, Any person desiring to intervene or 1 Enforcement of Statutes, Regulations, and Public Law 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. protest in any of the above proceedings Orders, 129 FERC ¶ 61,247 (2009), order on reh’g, 772(b). must file in accordance with Rules 211 134 FERC ¶ 61,054 (2011). VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:37 Oct 29, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\30OCN1.SGM 30OCN1

66896 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 210 / Friday, October 30, 2015 / Notices Dated: October 23, 2015. Accession Number: 20151023–5165. above referenced docket a prior notice Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/15. application pursuant to sections Deputy Secretary. Take notice that the Commission 157.205, 157.208, and 157.210 of the [FR Doc. 2015–27674 Filed 10–29–15; 8:45 am] received the following electric securities Federal Energy Regulatory BILLING CODE 6717–01–P filings: Commission’s (Commission) regulations Docket Numbers: ES15–71–000. under the Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Applicants: PPL Electric Utilities Eastern Shore’s blanket certificate DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Corporation. issued in Docket No. CP96–128–000. Description: Amendment to Eastern Shore seeks authorization to Federal Energy Regulatory September 18, 2015 Application under increase the certificated capacity of its Commission Section 204 of the Federal Power Act of Receipt Zone 1 facilities by 53,000 PPL Electric Utilities Corporation. dekatherms per day, all as more fully set Combined Notice of Filings #1 Filed Date: 10/22/15. forth in the application, which is open Take notice that the Commission Accession Number: 20151022–5288. to the public for inspection. received the following electric corporate Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/2/15. The filing may also be viewed on the filings: Docket Numbers: ES15–72–000. Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the Docket Numbers: EC16–16–000. Applicants: Interstate Power and ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket Applicants: Entergy Rhode Island Light Company. number excluding the last three digits in State Energy, L.P. Description: Amendment to the docket number field to access the Description: Application of Entergy September 18, 2015 Application under document. For assistance, please contact Rhode Island State Energy, L.P. for Section 204 of the Federal Power Act of FERC Online Support at Section 203 approval and request for Interstate Power and Light Company. FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll shortened notice period and expedited Filed Date: 10/22/15. free at (866) 208–3676, or TTY, contact treatment. Accession Number: 20151022–5286. (202) 502–8659. Filed Date: 10/22/15. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/12/15. Any questions concerning this Accession Number: 20151022–5294. The filings are accessible in the application may be directed to William Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/12/15. Commission’s eLibrary system by Rice, King & Spalding LLP, 1700 clicking on the links or querying the Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 200, Take notice that the Commission docket number. Washington, DC 20006, by phone 202– received the following exempt Any person desiring to intervene or 626–9602, by fax 202–626–3737, or by wholesale generator filings: protest in any of the above proceedings email wrice@kslaw.com. Docket Numbers: EG16–13–000. must file in accordance with Rules 211 Specifically, Eastern Shore’s Receipt Applicants: Marshall Wind Energy and 214 of the Commission’s Zone 1 consists of eight-mile long LLC. Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and sixteen-inch diameter pipeline and Description: Self-Certification as an 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern interconnect with Texas Eastern Exempt Wholesale Generator of time on the specified comment date. Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) in Marshall Wind Energy LLC. Protests may be considered, but Chester County, PA. Eastern Shore Filed Date: 10/23/15. intervention is necessary to become a proposes to increase meter capacity and Accession Number: 20151023–5157. party to the proceeding. upgrade pressure and flow control Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/15. eFiling is encouraged. More detailed equipment at the interconnect with Take notice that the Commission information relating to filing Texas Eastern to accommodate received the following electric rate requirements, interventions, protests, additional capacity. Eastern Shore states filings: service, and qualifying facilities filings that proposed project has been designed Docket Numbers: ER16–137–000. can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ based on the customer requests received Applicants: Enserco Energy LLC. docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For during an open season that Eastern Description: Tariff Cancellation: other information, call (866) 208–3676 Shore conducted in the month of June, Cancellation to be effective 12/23/2015. (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 2015. Eastern Shore further states that Filed Date: 10/23/15. Dated: October 23, 2015. the total estimated cost of the project is Accession Number: 20151023–5102. $1,375,038 and will be covered by the Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/15. customer commitments. Deputy Secretary. Docket Numbers: ER16–138–000. Any person or the Commission’s staff [FR Doc. 2015–27676 Filed 10–29–15; 8:45 am] Applicants: Southern California may, within 60 days after issuance of BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Edison Company. the instant notice by the Commission, Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: file pursuant to Rule 214 of the Letter Agreement Addressing RAS Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Affecting Silver State Solar Power South 385.214) a motion to intervene or notice LGIA to be effective 10/24/2015. Federal Energy Regulatory of intervention and pursuant to section Filed Date: 10/23/15. Commission 157.205 of the regulations under the Accession Number: 20151023–5145. NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/15. [Docket No. CP16–5–000] request. If no protest is filed within the Docket Numbers: ER16–139–000. Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; time allowed therefore, the proposed tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, Notice of Request Under Blanket activity shall be deemed to be Inc. Authorization authorized effective the day after the Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: time allowed for filing a protest. If a Revisions to Attachment W to Update Take notice that on October 13, 2015 protest is filed and not withdrawn Index of Grandfathered Agreements to Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company within 30 days after the allowed time be effective 1/1/2016. (Eastern Shore), 1110 Forrest Avenue, for filing a protest, the instant request Filed Date: 10/23/15. 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