20528 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 79 / Wednesday, April 25, 2007 / Notices 

1 72 Fed. Reg. 14,801 (March 29, 2007). 1FERC Docket ER06–615 (2006). 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD07–7–000] 

Conference on Competition in 

Wholesale Power Markets; 

Supplemental Notice of Conference 

April 19, 2007. 

As announced in the Notice of 

Conference issued on March 23, 2007,1

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission will hold a conference on 

Tuesday, May 8, 2007, to examine 

specific topics relating to the state of 

wholesale power markets. The 

conference will be held in the 

Commission Meeting Room at the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC, 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. The 

conference will be open for the public 

to attend and advance registration is not 

required. Members of the Commission 

may attend the conference. 

The agenda for this conference is 

attached, and contains questions the 

panelists will be asked to address. If any 

changes to the agenda occur, a revised 

agenda will be posted on the calendar 

page for this event on the Commission’s 

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

the event. 

Transcripts of the conference will be 

immediately available from Ace 

Reporting Company (202–347–3700 or 

1–800–336–6646) for a fee. They will be 

available for the public on the 

Commission’s eLibrary system seven 

calendar days after FERC receives the 

transcript. 

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 

navigating to www.ferc.gov’s Calendar 

of Events and locating this event in the 

Calendar. The event will contain a link 

to its Web cast. The Capitol Connection 

provides technical support for the Web 

casts. It also offers access to this event 

via television in the Washington, DC 

area and via phone bridge for a fee. Visit 

http://www.CapitolConnection.org or 

contact Danelle Perkowski or David 

Reininger at the Capitol Connection 

703–993–3100 for information about 

this service. 

Commission 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 

202–208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to 

202–208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information on the 

technical conference, please contact: 

Robert Hellrich-Dawson (Technical 

Information), Office of Markets, Tariffs 

and Rates, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–6360, 

robert.hellrich-dawson@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7869 Filed 4–24–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Proposed Final Resource 

Adequacy Plan for Transactions in the 

California Independent System 

Operator Corporation’s Balancing 

Authority Area 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed final 

resource adequacy plan. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) is conducting 

a public process to propose a Final 

Resource Adequacy (RA) Plan for 

transactions in the California 

Independent System Operator 

Corporation’s (CAISO) Balancing 

Authority Area. Pending the 

development of this Final RA Plan, 

Western has established interim RA 

Plans to facilitate its transactions in the 

CAISO Balancing Authority Area. 

Western is developing this proposed 

Final RA Plan as a Local Regulatory 

Authority (LRA). The Final RA Plan 

implemented by Western will be 

submitted to the CAISO and will be 

utilized by Western when Western is 

acting as a Load Serving Entity (LSE) in 

the CAISO Balancing Authority Area. 

Western’s Current RA Plan became 

effective on September 30, 2006, and 

will remain in effect until superseded 

by the Final RA Plan developed in this 

process. 

DATES: The consultation and comment 

period will begin on the date of 

publication of this Federal Register 

notice and will end on May 25, 2007. 

Western will present a detailed 

explanation of the proposed Final RA 

Plan at a public information forum on 

May 2, 2007, 1:30 p.m. PDT, Rancho 

Cordova, CA. Western will hold a public 

comment forum on May 9, 2007, 1:30 

p.m. PDT, Rancho Cordova, CA. At the 

public comment forum, the public may 

provide oral and written comments. In 

addition, the public may submit written 

comments to Western at any time during 

the comment period. Western must 

receive all comments by the close of the 

comment period to ensure they are 

considered. After the Administrator 

approves the Final RA Plan, it is 

anticipated that it will go into effect on 

July 17, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Western will hold the 

public information and comment 

forums at the Marriott, 11211 Point East 

Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA. Written 

comments can be mailed, faxed, or emailed to Ms. Sonja A. Anderson, 

Acting Power Marketing Manager, Sierra 

Nevada Region, Western Area Power 

Administration, 114 Parkshore Drive, 

Folsom, CA 95630–4710, fax (916) 985–

1931, e-mail sanderso@wapa.gov. Oral 

comments must be presented at the 

public comment forum which will be 

held on May 9, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Jeanne Haas, Contracts and Energy 

Services Manager, Sierra Nevada 

Customer Service Region, Western Area 

Power Administration, 114 Parkshore 

Drive, Folsom, CA 95630–4710, 

telephone (916) 353–4438, e-mail 

haas@wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authorities 

Western is developing this proposed 

Final RA Plan in accordance with its 

power marketing authorities, which 

includes the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 

Stat. 388), the Act of August 26, 1937 

(50 Stat. 844), the Act of August 4, 1939 

(53 Stat. 1187), and the Department of 

Energy Organization Act of August 4, 

1977 (91 Stat. 565), including all acts 

amendatory and/or supplementary to 

the above listed. 

Background 

On February 9, 2006, the CAISO filed 

its comprehensive Market Redesign 

Technology Upgrade (MRTU) Tariff 

with the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission).1 Under the 

MRTU Tariff, the CAISO proposed to 

end the current ‘‘must offer’’ structure 

and transition to a capacity-based 

system. In this capacity-based system, 

the California Public Utilities 

Commission (CPUC) and other LRAs 

establish procurement requirements for 

all LSEs within their jurisdiction to 

obtain sufficient resources to meet their 

load with an adequate reserve margin 

and to ensure appropriate resources will 

be made available to the CAISO in the 

Day-Ahead Market, the Hour-Ahead 


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