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However, the non-party commentary, 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions via the Internet in lieu 

of paper. 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. 

Dated: March 8, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5784 Filed 3–11–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of FERC Staff Attendance at the 

ICT Stakeholders Policy Committee 

and Entergy Regional State Committee 

Meetings 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) hereby gives 

notice that members of its staff may 

attend the meetings noted below. Their 

attendance is part of the Commission’s 

ongoing outreach efforts. 

ICT Stakeholder Policy Committee 

Meeting 

March 16, 2011 (1 p.m.–5 p.m.) 

March 17, 2011 (8 a.m.–12 p.m.) 

Entergy Regional State Committee 

Meeting 

March 17, 2011 (1 p.m.–5 p.m.) 

March 18, 2011 (8 a.m.–12 p.m. 

Astor Crowne Plaza, 

739 Canal Street, 

New Orleans, LA 70130, 

504–962–0500. 

The discussions may address matters 

at issue in the following proceedings: 

Docket No. 

OA07–32 .......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

EL00–66 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL01–88 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL07–52 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL08–51 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL08–60 ........... Ameren Services Co. v. 

Entergy Services, Inc. 

EL09–43 ........... Arkansas Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL09–50 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL09–61 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL10–55 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

EL10–65 ........... Louisiana Public Service 

Commission v. Entergy 

Services, Inc. 

Docket No. 

ER05–1065 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER07–682 ......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER07–956 ......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER08–1056 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER09–636 ......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER09–833 ......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER09–1224 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER10–794 ......... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER10–1350 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER10–1367 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER10–2748 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

ER11–2131 ....... Entergy Arkansas, Inc. 

ER11–2132 ....... Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

ER11–2133 ....... Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

ER11–2134 ....... Entergy Mississippi, Inc. 

ER11–2135 ....... Entergy New Orleans, Inc. 

ER11–2136 ....... Entergy Texas, Inc. 

ER11–2562 ....... Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

ER11–3357 ....... Entergy Services, Inc. 

These meetings are open to the 

public. 

For more information, contact Patrick 

Clarey, Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (317) 249–5937 or 

patrick.clarey@ferc.gov. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5710 Filed 3–11–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Supplemental Notice of Technical 

Conference 

Docket No. 

Priority Rights to New Participant-Funded Transmission ................................................................................................................. AD11–11–000 

Alta Wind I, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................................... EL10–62–000 

Alta Wind II, LLC ..............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind III, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind IV, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind V, LLC ..............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind VI, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind VII, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Wind VIII, LLC ...........................................................................................................................................................................

Alta Windpower Development, LLC .................................................................................................................................................

TGP Development Company, LLC ...................................................................................................................................................

Puget Sound Energy, Inc ................................................................................................................................................................. EL10–72–001 

Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC, TGP Dixie Development Company, LLC, and New York Canyon, LLC .......................................... EL10–29–002 

Green Borders Geothermal, LLC v. Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC ................................................................................................... EL10–36–002 

Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................ ER11–2127–001 

Northern Pass Transmission, LLC ................................................................................................................................................... ER11–2377–000 

Cedar Creek Wind Energy, LLC ....................................................................................................................................................... RC11–1–000 

Milford Wind Corridor Phase I, LLC ................................................................................................................................................. RC11–2–000 

SunZia Transmission, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................... EL11–24–000 

On February 22, 2011, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) announced that a 

Technical Conference on Priority Rights 

to New Participant-Funded 

Transmission will be held on Tuesday, 

March 15, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 

p.m. (EST). The staff-led conference will 

be held in the Commission Meeting 

Room at the Commission’s headquarters 

at 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. The conference will be open for 

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1See, e.g., Chinook Power Transmission, LLC, 126 

FERC ¶ 61,134 (2009). 

2See, e.g., Milford Wind Corridor, LLC, 129 FERC 

¶ 61,149 (2009). 

the public to attend and advance 

registration is not required. Members of 

the Commission may attend the 

conference. 

Attached to this supplemental notice 

is an agenda for the conference. If any 

changes are made, the revised agenda 

will be posted prior to the event on the 

Calendar of Events on the Commission’s 

Web site, http://www.ferc.gov. 

Notice is also hereby given that 

discussions at the conference may 

address matters at issue in the abovereferenced individual proceedings that 

are either pending or within their 

rehearing period. 

A free webcast of the technical 

conference will be available. Anyone 

with internet access who desires to 

listen to this event can do so by 

navigating to the Calendar of Events on 

the Commission’s Web site and locating 

this event in the Calendar. The event 

will contain a link to its webcast. The 

Capitol Connection provides technical 

support for webcasts and will offer the 

option of listening to the conference via 

phone-bridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions about the webcast, visit 

http://www.CapitolConnection.org or 

call (703) 993–3100. 

This conference will also be 

transcribed. Transcripts will be 

available immediately, for a fee, from 

Ace Reporting Company (202–347–3700 

or 800–336–6646). 

FERC 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) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the requested 

accommodations. 

For further information please contact 

Becky Robinson at (202) 502–8868 or 

Becky.Robinson@ferc.gov; or Pierson 

Stoecklein at (202) 502–6372 or 

Pierson.Stoecklein@ferc.gov. 

Dated: March 7, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

Priority Access to New Participant-Funded 

Transmission 

AD11–11–000 

March 15, 2011 

Agenda 

9:30–9:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening 

Remarks 

Introduction 

The electric industry has evolved since 

Order No. 888 was adopted. In addition to 

the traditional utility structure of vertical 

integration, new models for developing, 

owning, and operating electric transmission 

infrastructure have been the subject of 

petitions before the Commission. In several 

of these proceedings, various proposals have 

been made regarding priority access to the 

transmission capacity developed. 

Commission staff would like to explore 

issues related to priority rights to use 

transmission infrastructure developed under 

these new business models in two contexts: 

independent and/or merchant transmission 1

and generator lead lines.2

In both contexts, participants are 

encouraged to identify and discuss the 

appropriate balance between the 

Commission’s requirements for open access 

and the needs of project developers. 

Participants are encouraged to propose and 

discuss possible regulatory alternatives that 

are consistent with the Commission’s open 

access policies and its statutory 

responsibility to ensure that rates, terms, and 

conditions of service are just and reasonable 

and not unduly discriminatory or 

preferential. 

Panel 1 

9:45–11:45 a.m. Independent and/or 

Merchant Transmission Lines 

Transmission infrastructure is no longer 

solely developed, owned, and operated by 

incumbent utilities serving native load 

within their traditional footprint, but also by 

non-incumbent, independent developers on a 

cost-of-service or negotiated rate basis. The 

purpose of this panel is to discuss whether 

to allow these non-traditional entities 

flexibility in the allocation of priority rights 

to the use of transmission facilities and, if so, 

how such flexibility could be implemented 

consistent with Commission open access 

policies. Panelists are encouraged to address: 

• The effect of the Commission’s current 

affiliate rules and pricing structures (e.g., 

cost-based or negotiated rates) on the 

economics of a proposed project, as well as 

on efforts to right-size/up-size a proposed 

project; 

• The need for and appropriate application 

of mechanisms to ensure customer interest in 

and access to new transmission (including, 

but not necessarily limited to anchor 

shipper/tenant arrangements and open 

seasons) and how such mechanisms can be 

implemented to accommodate developers’ 

project development and customers’ needs, 

while satisfying the Commission’s open 

access policies and responsibility to ensure 

that rates are just and reasonable and not 

unduly discriminatory or preferential. 

Panelists 

➢ Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President 

for Strategic Development, Anbaric 

Transmission, LLC & NEITC 

➢ Terry Wolf, Manager, Transmission 

Services, Missouri River Energy Services 

➢ Mike Cashell, Chief Transmission 

Officer, NorthWestern Energy 

➢ Cynthia Marlette, Special Counsel, 

Patton Boggs LLP (Western Independent 

Transmission Group) 

➢ Michael Skelly, President, Clean Line 

Energy 

➢ David Raskin, Partner, Steptoe & 

Johnson LLP 

➢ Robert van Beers, Chief Development 

Officer, Tonbridge Power, Inc. 

➢ Tyson Utt, Project Manager, Horizon 

Wind Energy LLC 

➢ Kenneth Houston, Director, 

Transmission Services, PacifiCorp 

11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. BREAK 

Panel 2 

1–3 p.m. Generator Lead Lines 

Increasingly, generation owners have 

chosen to build, administer, and operate the 

transmission facilities that interconnect their 

generation facilities with the network 

transmission system, referred to herein as 

generator lead lines. In that situation, 

generation owners also have sought to secure 

priority rights to use the capacity on these 

lines. The purpose of this panel is to address 

the application of the Commission’s open 

access policies to generator lead lines in the 

instance when affiliated or unaffiliated thirdparty generators also seek to use these 

facilities. Panelists are encouraged to 

address: 

• The unique attributes of generator lead 

lines among transmission facilities (including 

ownership structures, physical or operational 

characteristics, etc.); 

• The implications for generation 

developers and potential transmission 

customers of the Commission applying open 

access polices in the same manner to 

generator lead lines as it applies those 

policies to other transmission facilities, and 

whether the Commission should apply its 

open access policies to generator lead line 

facilities in a manner different from the way 

it applies such policies to other transmission 

facilities; 

• The showing required to justify priority 

usage allocations (e.g., types of ownership/ 

lease arrangements and expansion/ 

development plans with definite dates and 

milestones for construction), and the extent 

to which this showing accommodates 

developers’ project development and 

customers’ needs, while satisfying the 

Commission’s open access policies and 

responsibility to ensure that rates are just and 

reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or 

preferential. 

Panelists 

➢ Brad Oachs, Chief Operating Officer, 

Minnesota Power 

➢ Joel Newton, Senior Attorney, NextEra 

Energy Resources LLC 

➢ Tom DeBoer, Director, Rates and 

Regulatory Affairs, Puget Sound Energy, 

Inc. 

➢ Richard Lorenzo, Partner, Loeb & Loeb 

LLP 

➢ Adam Wenner, Partner, Chadbourne & 

Parke LLP 

➢ Kurt Adams, Executive Vice President & 

Chief Development Officer, First Wind 

➢ Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Regulatory 

Affairs and Transmission, Invenergy LLC 

3–3:15 p.m. Wrap-Up 

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