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7 18 CFR 385.214. 

8 18 CFR 157.10. 

9The applicant has 15 days from the submittal of 

a motion to intervene to file a written objection to 

the intervention. 

10 18 CFR 385.214(c)(1). 

11 18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and (d). 

1 New Source Performance Standards for 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, 

and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 

Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Fossil 

Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; and Repeal of 

the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, 88 FR 33240 

(proposed May 23, 2023) (to be codified at 40 CFR 

part 60). 

in accordance with Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure 7 and the regulations under 

the NGA 8 by the intervention deadline 

for the project, which is October 13, 

2023. As described further in Rule 214, 

your motion to intervene must state, to 

the extent known, your position 

regarding the proceeding, as well as 

your interest in the proceeding. For an 

individual, this could include your 

status as a landowner, ratepayer, 

resident of an impacted community, or 

recreationist. You do not need to have 

property directly impacted by the 

project in order to intervene. For more 

information about motions to intervene, 

refer to the FERC website at https://

www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/ 

intervene.asp. 

There are two ways to submit your 

motion to intervene. In both instances, 

please reference the Project docket 

number CP23–539–000 in your 

submission. 

(1) You may file your motion to 

intervene by using the Commission’s 

eFiling feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. New eFiling users must first 

create an account by clicking on 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making; first 

select ‘‘General’’ and then select 

‘‘Intervention.’’ The eFiling feature 

includes a document-less intervention 

option; for more information, visit 

https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/ 

document-less-intervention.pdf.; or 

(2) You can file a paper copy of your 

motion to intervene, along with three 

copies, by mailing the documents to the 

address below. Your motion to 

intervene must reference the Project 

docket number CP23–539–000. 

To file via USPS: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426 

To file via any other courier: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852 

The Commission encourages 

electronic filing of motions to intervene 

(option 1 above) and has eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Protests and motions to intervene 

must be served on the applicant either 

by mail or email at: Matthew Bley, 

Director, Gas Transmission Certificates, 

6603 West Broad Street, Richmond, 

Virginia 23230 or at Matthew.bley@

bhegts.com. Any subsequent 

submissions by an intervenor must be 

served on the applicant and all other 

parties to the proceeding. Contact 

information for parties can be 

downloaded from the service list at the 

eService link on FERC Online. Service 

can be via email with a link to the 

document. 

All timely, unopposed 9 motions to 

intervene are automatically granted by 

operation of Rule 214(c)(1).10 Motions to 

intervene that are filed after the 

intervention deadline are untimely, and 

may be denied. Any late-filed motion to 

intervene must show good cause for 

being late and must explain why the 

time limitation should be waived and 

provide justification by reference to 

factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the 

Commission’s Rules and Regulations.11

A person obtaining party status will be 

placed on the service list maintained by 

the Secretary of the Commission and 

will receive copies (paper or electronic) 

of all documents filed by the applicant 

and by all other parties. 

Tracking the Proceeding 

Throughout the proceeding, 

additional information about the project 

will be available from the Commission’s 

Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208– 

FERC, or on the FERC website at 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 

as described above. The eLibrary link 

also provides access to the texts of all 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. For more information and to 

register, go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp. 

Intervention Deadline: 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on October 13, 2023. 

Dated: September 22, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21261 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD23–9–000] 

Reliability Technical Conference; 

Supplemental Notice of Technical 

Conference 

As announced in the Notice of 

Technical Conference issued in this 

proceeding on August 3, 2023, the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) will convene its annual 

Reliability Technical Conference in the 

above-referenced proceeding on 

Thursday, November 9, 2023, from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern 

time. The conference will include 

Commissioner-led and staff-led panels. 

The conference will be held in-person at 

the Commission’s headquarters at 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426 

in the Commission Meeting Room. 

The purpose of this conference is to 

discuss policy issues related to the 

reliability and security of the BulkPower System. The conference will also 

discuss the impact of the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s proposed rule 

under section 111 of the Clean Air Act 

on electric reliability.1

The conference will be open for the 

public to attend, and there is no fee for 

attendance. Supplemental notices will 

be issued prior to the conference with 

further details regarding the agenda. 

Information on this technical conference 

will also be posted on the Calendar of 

Events on the Commission’s website, 

www.ferc.gov, prior to the event. 

The conference will also be 

transcribed. Transcripts will be 

available for a fee from Ace Reporting, 

(202) 347–3700. 

Those who wish to nominate 

themselves for consideration as a panel 

participant should submit their name, 

title, company (or organization they are 

representing), telephone, email, a oneparagraph biography, picture, and panel 

in which they wish to participate to: 

2023_Reliability_Conf@ferc.gov by close 

of business on October 2, 2023. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

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

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

(202) 208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For more information about this 

technical conference, please contact 

Michael Gildea at Michael.Gildea@

ferc.gov or (202) 502–8420. For 

information related to logistics, please 

contact Sarah McKinley at 

Sarah.Mckinley@ferc.gov or (202) 502– 

8368. 

Dated: September 22, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

2023 Reliability Technical Conference 

Docket No. AD23–9–000 

November 9, 2023, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 

Morning Session: Bulk Power System 

Reliability and the Evolving Grid 

9:00–9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks and 

Introductions 

9:15–10:45 a.m. Morning Panel 1: State 

of Bulk Power System Reliability 

with a Focus on the Changing 

Resource Mix and Resource 

Adequacy (Commission Led) 

The transformation of the Bulk-Power 

System is resulting in significant 

changes to the nation’s power supply 

portfolio. These changes include 

increased penetrations of inverter-based 

resources, the increased use and 

importance of natural gas generating 

units for system balancing, and the 

participation of distributed energy 

resources. Ensuring the adequate supply 

of electric energy to service loads during 

peak hours and during extreme weather 

conditions is also becoming more 

challenging in many regions of North 

America. This panel will explore the 

current state of grid reliability, and 

resource and energy adequacy, and 

efforts that can be undertaken to 

improve them. 

The panel will begin with a 

presentation by NERC of the findings, 

conclusions, and recommendations 

from its annual State of Reliability 

report. 

This panel may include a discussion 

of the following topics and questions: 

(1) What should the Commission’s top 

reliability priorities be for the next one 

to three years? What are potential 

actions the Commission could take to 

improve reliability regarding these 

priorities? 

(2) What trends and risks identified in 

NERC’s 2023 State of Reliability Report 

and the 2023 ERO Reliability Risk 

Priorities Report warrant the most 

attention and effort? 

(3) Resource adequacy traditionally 

has been characterized in terms of 

planning reserve margin, which assesses 

the excess generating capacity required 

to meet peak load. NERC and industry 

have recently been discussing the 

notion of energy adequacy, which 

assesses whether there is sufficient 

energy—power over time—to meet 

customers’ energy needs. Is energy 

adequacy a more appropriate metric to 

characterize reliability risks given the 

changing grid? 

(4) NERC has highlighted essential 

reliability services (e.g., frequency 

response, voltage control, and ramping 

capability) as core to maintaining 

reliable operation of the grid. How does 

the changing resource mix and 

characteristics of load affect the needed 

amount and provision of these essential 

reliability services? What actions, and 

by whom, are necessary to ensure 

adequate levels of these services? 

(5) The electric grid is undergoing its 

most significant changes in a century. 

How should reliability oversight adapt 

to this change? Is the existing reliability 

oversight model flexible and agile 

enough to help lead the change? 

(6) In recent years, reliance on natural 

gas as a fuel for electric generation has 

steadily increased. At the Commission’s 

recommendation, the North American 

Energy Standards Board (NAESB) held 

forums between August 2022 and July 

2023 to discuss the growing 

interdependence between the natural 

gas and electric sectors. NAESB issued 

recommendations to enhance market 

coordination to address challenges 

posed by this growing interdependence. 

Should the Commission prioritize 

pursuing any specific NAESB 

recommendation? 

(7) Wildfires are no longer considered 

only a California or Western states issue 

for grid reliability, as drought 

conditions are expanding into 

additional regions including MISO, 

ERCOT and SPP creating further 

reliability impacts. What preparations 

have you taken (or are you considering) 

to address emerging wildfire and 

drought reliability risks in your region? 

10:45–11:00 a.m. Break 

11:00–12:30 p.m. Morning Panel 2: CIP 

Reliability Standards and the 

Evolving Grid (Commission Led) 

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and 

threats continue to evolve at a pace that 

tests utility cybersecurity programs. 

These quickly evolving threats present a 

challenge when assessing whether 

security controls, including the CIP 

Reliability Standards, adequately 

respond to the latest cyber risks. Most 

utilities and other electric sector 

stakeholders with mature cybersecurity 

programs implement an overarching 

cybersecurity program to oversee all 

aspects of their cybersecurity activities, 

including identification of the assets to 

be protected, staffing, technology 

selection and procurement, and 

compliance with the CIP Reliability 

Standards. However, ongoing and 

anticipated changes to the 

interconnected electric grid, such as the 

shift in the types of energy sources used 

to generate electricity may disrupt cyber 

programs. Utilities are digitizing their 

grids while managing an increasing 

number of grid-connected devices. As a 

consequence, utilities require more 

advanced tools to process and analyze 

large amounts of data for grid planning, 

operations, and security. These changes 

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these digital assets will fit into the 

cybersecurity regulatory framework and 

what tools can be used to effectively 

manage them or even what the future 

may bring as cyberattacks continue to 

grow in sophistication. This panel will 

discuss how the evolving grid affects 

cybersecurity, the CIP Reliability 

Standards and compliance, as well as 

best practices; the challenges of 

implementing appropriate oversight; 

and ways in which industry can address 

these challenges to improve its response 

to evolving vulnerabilities and threats to 

reduce the risk to the Bulk-Power 

System. 

(1) Discuss the primary security issues 

facing electric utilities and describe the 

prioritization of resources and 

investment. What are some lessons 

learned and best practices? 

(2) With regard to evolving cyber 

threats, describe how your cybersecurity 

program identifies and responds to such 

conditions. When responding, how do 

you assess the risk posed to your 

systems by the threats? 

(3) Describe the benefits and 

challenges of implementing and 

maintaining a cybersecurity program as 

the resource mix continues to evolve. 

How does this program interact with 

actions to comply with the CIP 

Reliability Standards? How does such a 

program help to identify and prioritize 

security concerns, and what actions are 

taken to address those concerns, 

including the application of best 

practices? 

(4) Describe how supply chain 

security and the use of third-party 

systems, such as cloud services, are 

addressed in your risk assessments and 

implemented in the cybersecurity 

program. What concerns still exist 

related to supply chain and third-party 

systems? 

(5) What additional actions can the 

Commission, NERC, and industry take 

to further protect the grid from security 

threats, both physical and cyber? 

12:30–1:15 p.m. Lunch Break 

Afternoon Session: EPA’s ‘‘Clean Power 

Plan 2.0’’ and Reliability 

On May 23, 2023 the EPA issued a 

notice of proposed rulemaking under 

section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Several 

comments submitted to EPA on the 

proposed rule indicated that 

implementation of the proposal would 

affect electric reliability. The afternoon 

panels will discuss the possible 

reliability impacts of the rule and 

possible mitigations. 

1:15–2:15 p.m. Afternoon Panel 1: EPA 

Presentation of EPA Section 111 

Proposed Rule (Commission Led) 

Joseph Goffman, Principal Deputy 

Assistant Administrator for the Office of 

Air and Radiation (OAR), 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), accompanied by staff, will 

provide an overview of the Section 111 

Proposed Rule, and highlight specific 

issues relevant to the reliable operation 

of the electric system. 

2:15–4:50 p.m. Afternoon Panels 2 and 

3: Discuss the Proposed Rule (Staff 

Led) 

—2:15–3:30 p.m. Electric Industry 

Stakeholders 

—3:30–3:40 p.m. Break 

—3:40–4:50 p.m. Regional, State, 

and Local Regulatory Entities 

Afternoon Panels 2 and 3 will present 

perspectives on reliability aspects of the 

proposed rule, followed by an 

opportunity for questions and answers. 

Panelists for both Panels 2 and 3 should 

be prepared to discuss the following 

topics and questions: 

(1) Will the rule, if implemented as 

proposed, affect electric reliability? In 

what ways? 

(2) What tools and processes should 

the Commission, other federal and state 

agencies, and industry consider in order 

to implement the proposed rule? What 

authority should the Commission and 

other federal and state agencies have in 

order to address potential reliability 

issues that could arise during 

implementation of the proposed rule? 

(3) What existing processes for 

coordination will enable federal and 

state agencies, planning entities, and 

industry stakeholders to share ongoing 

developments relevant to the 

implementation of the proposed rule? 

(4) What specific tools are currently 

available to agencies to consider 

impacts to retail consumers? Are there 

additional tools that should be 

developed to consider these issues? 

4:50–5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks 

[FR Doc. 2023–21262 Filed 9–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER23–2899–000] 

MS Solar 6, LLC; Supplemental Notice 

That Initial Market-Based Rate Filing 

Includes Request for Blanket Section 

204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of MS 

Solar 6, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene, or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is October 12, 

2023. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (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. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 


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