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1 118 FERC ¶ 62,125 (2007). 

2 18 C.F.R. § 385.713(c)(2) (2006). See Revision of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure Regarding Issue 

Identification, Order No. 663, 70 FR 55723 

(September 23, 2005), FERC Statutes and 

Regulations ¶ 31,193 (2005). See also, Order 663–A, 

effective March 23, 2006, which amended Order 

663 to limit its applicability to rehearing requests. 

Revision of Rules of Practice and Procedure 

Regarding Issue Identification, Order No. 663–A, 71 

FR 14640 (March 23, 2006), FERC Statutes and 

Regulations ¶ 31,211 (2006). 

3As explained in Order No. 663, the purpose of 

this requirement is to benefit all participants in a 

proceeding by ensuring that the filer, the 

Commission, and all other participants understand 

the issues raised by the filer, and to enable the 

Commission to respond to these issues. Having a 

clearly articulated Statement of Issues ensures that 

issues are properly raised before the Commission 

and avoids the waste of time and resources 

involved in litigating appeals regarding which the 

courts of appeals lack jurisdiction because the 

issues on appeal were not clearly identified before 

the Commission. See Order No. 663 at P 3–4. 

4See, e.g., South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company, 116 FERC ¶ 61,218 (2006); and Duke 

Power Company, LLC, 116 FERC ¶ 61,171 (2006). 

5We note that the licensee may file a request for 

an amendment to the license that would allow for 

the consideration of an alternative site for an access 

area, but note that such a proposal would require 

consultation with relevant resource agencies as well 

as public notice with the opportunity for comment. 

reports are required. In a rapidly 

changing business environment, annual 

reporting is simply insufficient. 

Financial accounting and reporting 

provides needed information 

concerning a company’s past 

performance and its future prospects. 

Without reliable financial statements 

prepared in accordance with the 

Commission’s Uniform System of 

Accounts and related regulations, the 

Commission would be unable to 

accurately determine the costs that 

relate to a particular time period, service 

or line of business. Additionally, it 

would be difficult to determine whether 

a given entity has previously been given 

the opportunity to recover its cost 

through rates, or to compare how the 

financial performance and results of 

operations of one regulated entity 

relates to that of another. 

The need for current and better 

disclosures in financial statements 

drives the increasing demand for timely, 

relevant and reliable financial 

information. As such, the FERC Form 6–

Q Quarterly Report provides the 

Commission with a more timely and 

informative picture of the jurisdictional 

oil pipeline entities’ financial and 

operational condition. 

More specifically, the Commission’s 

Office of Enforcement (OE) uses the 

FERC Form 6–Q data collected to assist 

in the implementation of its financial 

and operational audits and investigation 

programs, in the review of the financial 

condition of regulated companies, and 

in the assessment of energy markets. 

The Office of Energy Markets and 

Reliability (OEMR) uses the data 

collected for its various rate proceedings 

and economic analysis. The Office of 

Administrative Litigation (OAL) uses 

the data collected for background 

research for use in litigation. The Office 

of General Counsel (OGC) uses the data 

in its programs relating to the 

administration of the ICA. 

5. Respondent Description: The 

respondent universe currently 

comprises 138 companies (on average) 

subject to the Commission’s 

jurisdiction. 

6. Estimated Burden: 62,100 total 

hours, 138 respondents (average), 3 

responses per respondent, and 150 

hours per response (average). 

7. Estimated Cost Burden to 

respondents: 62,100 hours/2080 hours 

per years × $117,321 per year = 

$3,646,494. The cost per respondent is 

equal to $26,424. 

Statutory Authority: 49 App. U.S.C. §§ 1–

85 (1988). 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6322 Filed 4–4–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2205–039] 

Central Vermont Public Service 

Commission; Notice Dismissing Filing 

as Deficient 

March 30, 2007. 

On February 13, 2007, Commission 

staff issued an order modifying and 

approving a recreation plan under 

article 415 of the project license for the 

Lamoille Hydroelectric Project, located 

on the Lamoille River in Chittenden, 

Franklin, and Lamoille Counties, 

Vermont.1 On March 14, 2007, Central 

Vermont Public Service Corporation 

(Central Vermont or the licensee) filed 

a timely request for rehearing, seeking to 

modify the February order. 

Specifically, the licensee requests 

rehearing of a provision in the February 

order regarding an access area for 

canoes and car-top boats at the south 

end of Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir. 

The February order modified the 

licensee’s recreation plan. Ordering 

paragraph (C) of the February order 

provided that: 

The licensee shall acquire title in fee or the 

right to use in perpetuity all lands necessary 

to improve the access area at the south end 

of Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir to provide 

carry-in access for canoes and car-top boats. 

The licensee shall file documentation of the 

land acquisition with the Commission and 

include the access area at the south end of 

Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir in the asbuilt drawings. 

The licensee requests that the paragraph 

(C) requirement be deleted and suggests 

that, instead, the licensee will conduct 

a study of alternative access sites. 

The licensee’s rehearing request is 

deficient because it fails to include a 

Statement of Issues section separate 

from its arguments, as required by Rule 

713 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure.2 Rule 713(c)(2) 

requires that a rehearing request must 

include a separate section entitled 

‘‘Statement of Issues’’ listing each issue 

presented to the Commission in a 

separately enumerated paragraph that 

includes representative Commission 

and court precedent on which the 

participant is relying.3 Under Rule 713, 

any issue not so listed will be deemed 

waived. Accordingly, Central Vermont’s 

rehearing request is dismissed.4

We note that, even if the pleading had 

included the required statement of facts, 

we would nevertheless deny rehearing. 

Central Vermont concedes that ‘‘the 

provision of public access for canoes 

and car-top boats at the south end of 

[Arrowhead Mountain Reservoir] is 

desired,’’ and that ‘‘no detailed analysis 

of alternative south end access for 

canoes and car-top boats has been 

performed.’’ It shows no deficiency in 

the February order, but merely 

speculates that some other form of 

access might be preferable. Accordingly, 

we find the request for rehearing to be 

without merit.5

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6325 Filed 4–4–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP07–364–000] 

Destin Pipeline Company, L.L.C.; 

Notice of Tariff Filing and NonConforming Service Agreement 

March 30, 2007. 

Take notice that on March 23, 2007, 

Destin Pipeline Company, L.L.C. 

(Destin) tendered for filing with the 


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