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7The purpose of a PAD under the Commission’s 

Integrated Licensing Process is to provide detailed 

information about a proposed project to enable 

interested entities to identify issues, develop study 

requests and study plans, and prepare documents 

analyzing any license application that may be filed. 

See 18 CFR 5.6 (2006). 

8Fall Creek later filed its PAD and a notice of 

intent to file a license application in a new 

proceeding (docketed Project No. 12778–000) on 

February 16, 2007, eight days after the filing of its 

request for rehearing. Finding the PAD to be 

deficient, partially because of Fall Creek’s failure to 

consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service 

and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, staff by 

letter dated February 28, 2007, gave Fall Creek 75 

days to file an updated PAD or an addendum to the 

originally filed PAD. 

9The Corps is the only consulted federal entity 

and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife the 

only consulted resource agency. 

application Document (PAD), 7 a step in 

the license application process.8 As 

evidence of its ‘‘substantial progress’’

and due diligence, Fall Creek states that 

it made two site visits (November 2002 

and July 2003) and held two meetings 

(May 2006 and January 2007). It also 

describes nine ‘‘consultations’’ made in 

preparation of its PAD, all but one of 

which occurred in a ten-day period after 

the dismissal of its permit application.9

Finally it cites to 52 documents, 

publications, and Web sites that it 

reviewed in preparing its PAD. These 

efforts are too little, too late. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4716 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Motions To 

Intervene and Protests 

March 9, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 2242–078. 

c. Date Filed: November 24, 2006. 

d. Applicant: Eugene Water and 

Electric Board. 

e. Name of Project: Carmen-Smith 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the McKenzie River in 

Lane and Linn Counties, near McKenzie 

Bridge, Oregon. The project occupies 

approximately 560 acres of the 

Willamette National Forest. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Randy L. 

Berggren, General Manager, Eugene 

Water and Electric Board, 500 East 4th 

Avenue, P.O. Box 10148, Eugene, OR 

97440, (541) 484–2411. 

i. FERC Contact: Bob Easton, (202) 

502–6045 or robert.easton@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests: 60 days from the 

issuance date of this notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Philis J. 

Posey, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

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 protests 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 ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

k. This application has been accepted, 

but is not ready for environmental 

analysis at this time. 

l. The Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric 

Project consists of two developments, 

the Carmen development and the Trail 

Bridge development. The Carmen 

development includes: (1) A 25-foothigh, 2,100-foot-long, and 10-foot-wide 

earthen Carmen diversion dam with a 

concrete weir spillway, (2) a 11,380- 

foot-long by 9.5-foot-diameter concrete 

Carmen diversion tunnel located on the 

right abutment of the spillway, (3) a 

235-foot-high, 1,100-foot-long, and 15- 

foot-wide earthen Smith diversion dam 

with a gated Ogee spillway, (4) a 7,275- 

foot-long by 13.5 foot-diameter concretelined Smith power tunnel, (5) a 1,160- 

foot-long by 13-foot-diameter steel 

underground Carmen penstock, (6) a 86- 

foot-long by 79-foot-wide Carmen 

powerhouse, (7) two Francis turbines 

each with a generating capacity of 52.25 

megawatts (MW) for a total capacity of 

104.50 MW, (8) a 19-mile, 115-kilovolt 

(kV) transmission line that connects the 

Carmen powerhouse to the Bonneville 

Power Administration’s Cougar-Eugene 

transmission line, and (9) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The Trail Bridge development 

includes: (1) A 100-foot-high, 700-footlong, and 24-foot-wide earthen Trail 

Bridge dam section with a gated Ogee 

spillway, (2) a 1,000-foot-long and 20- 

foot-wide emergency spillway section, 

(3) a 300-foot-long by 12-foot-diameter 

concrete penstock at the intake that 

narrows to a diameter of 7 feet, (4) a 66- 

foot-long by 61-foot-wide Trail Bridge 

powerhouse, (5) one Kaplan turbine 

with a generating capacity of 9.975 MW, 

and (6) a one-mile, 11.5-kV distribution 

line that connects the Trail Bridge 

powerhouse to the Carmen powerhouse. 

m. A copy of the application is 

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, 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. 

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, 

385.211, 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 or motion to 

intervene must be served upon each 


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representative of the applicant specified 

in the particular application. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4717 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD07–8–000] 

Review of Market Monitoring Policies; 

Second Notice of Technical 

Conference 

March 9, 2007. 

On January 25, 2007, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) announced that a 

conference will be held to review the 

Commission’s general policies regarding 

market monitoring, on April 5, 2007, at 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426 in the 

Commission Meeting Room. The 

Commission had announced its intent to 

hold this conference in PJM 

Interconnection, LLC., order on reh’g, 

117 FERC ¶ 61,263 (2006). 

The Commission is making one 

change in the schedule with this notice, 

viz., to change the beginning of the 

conference from 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. 

(EDT). 

All interested persons are invited to 

attend. There is no registration fee to 

attend. 

Proactive oversight of the activities of 

regulated entities is a relatively recent 

development in the history of the 

Commission’s utility regulation, one 

largely driven by the Commission’s 

efforts to make greater use of market 

forces to discipline the activities of 

regulated entities. A significant aspect 

of this oversight effort has been the 

development of market monitoring units 

(MMUs) in the Commission-regulated 

Independent System Operators (ISOs) 

and Regional Transmission 

Organizations (RTOs), along with the 

establishment of independent market 

monitors (IMMs) of certain vertically 

integrated utilities as a condition of 

approving those utilities’ mergers or 

acquisition of assets. In addition, almost 

five years ago, the Commission 

dedicated staff members, now located in 

the Office of Enforcement’s Division of 

Energy Market Oversight (DEMO), to 

monitor natural gas and electricity 

markets. In that capacity, DEMO staff 

works closely with the MMUs and 

IMMs. 

In the technical conference, the 

Commission would like to explore the 

effectiveness of MMUs and IMMs both 

in performing market oversight and in 

serving a variety of interested 

stakeholders. The Commission does not 

intend to evaluate any individual MMU 

or IMM or to discuss issues in any 

pending proceeding. Rather, the 

Commission would like to focus on the 

concepts and principles involved in 

market monitoring and the relationship 

between the market monitors and the 

Commission market monitoring staff, 

informed by the experience of the 

industry since the inception of market 

monitoring. Of course, the Commission 

does not go into this conference with a 

blank slate. To the contrary, the 

Commission has spoken on many 

occasions on the role of market monitors 

in generic and case-specific 

proceedings. The Commission also 

issued a policy statement in May 2005. 

See Policy Statement on Market 

Monitoring Unit, 111 FERC ¶ 61,267 

(2005) (and citations therein). 

Accordingly, rather than hearing about 

what it has done, the Commission 

would like to hear about what it should 

do to improve its market monitoring 

program. 

With these thoughts in mind, the 

technical conference will be made up of 

two panels, each examining the role and 

effectiveness of market monitors from 

their respective perspectives, especially 

as that relates to market monitoring in 

the RTOs and ISOs. The panelists may 

discuss the IMMs as well as the MMUs. 

After time reserved for initial 

statements by the Members of the 

Commission starting at 9 a.m., the first 

panel (9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.) will 

consist of individuals who have 

participated in, written about, or are 

otherwise informed about the 

development of the concept and 

function of market monitoring. Members 

of this panel will be asked to answer the 

following questions: 

1. What is the Commission’s market 

monitoring role in the context of 

ensuring the competitiveness of 

wholesale electricity markets? 

2. How do MMUs (as a concept or 

function) generally serve or facilitate 

that role? 

3. What changes, if any, in the current 

structure of MMUs could enhance their 

ability to assist the Commission in its 

market monitoring role? 

4. Are there other industries that are 

subject to comparable monitoring 

activities, and, if so, how are these 

activities structured? 

The next panel will be held in three 

parts (10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., 12 noon 

to 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.) and will 

consist of representatives from the 

MMUs, the ISOs or RTOs, and the 

various Stakeholders (including market 

participants, state regulators, and 

consumers), respectively. Members of 

these panels will be asked to answer the 

following questions: 

1. MMUs’ Role With Respect to FERC: 

• What are the key functions of the 

role that MMUs have performed? 

• Should these functions be changed 

or improved? 

• What changes, if any, in the current 

structure of MMUs would allow them to 

more effectively assist the Commission 

in performing its market oversight 

activities? 

2. MMUs’ Role with Respect to ISOs/ 

RTOs: 

• What are the key functions of the 

role that MMUs have performed with 

respect to the operations of the ISOs/ 

RTOs, including the operation of the 

transmission grid and Day 1 or Day 2 

energy markets? 

• Should these functions be changed 

or improved? 

• What changes, if any, in the current 

structure of MMUs would allow them to 

more effectively assist ISOs/RTOs? 

3. MMUs’ Role with Respect to the 

various Stakeholders: 

• What are the key functions of the 

role that MMUs have performed with 

respect to stakeholders? 

• Should these functions be changed 

or improved? 

• What changes, if any, in the current 

structure of MMUs would allow them to 

more effectively assist stakeholders? 

Anyone interested in serving on one 

of these panels should contact Saida 

Shaalan at 202–502–8278 or by e-mail at 

Saida.Shaalan@ferc.gov on or before 

March 22, 2007. Please be advised, 

however, that the Commission may not 

be able to accommodate everyone who 

asks to be a panelist. Persons interested 

in serving on panels are therefore 

encouraged to coordinate their positions 

and choose a single panel 

representative. The Commission will 

issue a subsequent notice naming the 

panelists and providing further 

guidance on the format for 

presentations, which will be limited in 

time (probably five minutes) to provide 

sufficient opportunity for discussion. 

As stated in the first notice issued 

January 25, 2007, a free webcast of this 

event will be available through 

www.ferc.gov. Anyone with Internet 

access who desires to view this event 

can do so by accessing 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 Web casts and offers 


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