80 FR 8636 - Sage Grouse Energy Project, LLC v. PacificCorp; Notice of Complaint

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 32 (February 18, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8636-8637]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03261]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL15-44-000]


Sage Grouse Energy Project, LLC v. PacificCorp; Notice of 
Complaint

    Take notice that on February 9, 2015, pursuant to section 206 of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.206, Sage Grouse Energy Project, LLC 
(Complainant) filed a formal complaint against the PacificCorp 
(Respondent) alleging that PacifiCorp has implemented actions and 
activities to: (1) Ignore the Commission's regulatory authority; (2) 
circumvent the Commission's December 16, 2013 Order in Docket No. EL-
14-1-000; \1\ (3) violate the Respondent's Open Access Transmission 
Tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Volume No. 11 (OATT); (4) violate FERC 
Orders for the Standardization of Generator Interconnection Agreements 
and Procedures, including FERC Order 2003; (5) engage in trickery 
including the submission of subtle misrepresentations of tariff 
language sufficient to alter and change the original meaning and intent 
of the tariff; (6) engage in activities and practices that include acts 
against individuals in protected classes such as race, color, religion, 
sex and even citizenship and immigration status as defined in Civil 
Rights and Anti-Discrimination Laws; (7) disparaging treatment with 
respect to the Respondent requiring the Complainant to produce 
additional information in excess of the mandated requirements in order 
to process the Complainants' Interconnection Request; (8) the 
processing of an invalid Interconnection Request for a Respondent 
favored Interconnection Customer, Blue Mountain Power Partners, LLC on 
parcels of land whereby the developmental rights for said parcels of 
land belong to the Complainant; and (9) the processing of an invalid 
Interconnection Request for a Respondent favored Interconnection 
Customer, Latigo Wind Park, LLC on land where a transmission cable from 
the Interconnection Customer's Generating Facility Collector Substation 
to the Point of Interconnection, Pinto Substation crosses land whereby 
the developmental rights belong to the Complainant, as more fully 
explained in the complaint.
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    \1\ Pioneer Wind Park I, LLC, 145 FERC ] 61,215 (2013).
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    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must 
file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 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. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of 
intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. The Respondent's 
answer and all interventions, or protests must be filed on or before 
the comment date. The Respondent's answer, motions to intervene, and 
protests must be served on the Complainants.

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    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and 
interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an 
original and 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link and is available for electronic 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 service, please email 
[email protected], or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 11, 2015.

    Dated: February 11, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-03261 Filed 2-17-15; 8:45 am]
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