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1The regional reliability organizations are 

currently the Florida Reliability Coordinating 

Council, the Midwest Reliability Organization, the 

Northeast Power Coordinating Council, 

ReliabilityFirst Corporation, SERC Reliability 

Corporation, the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), and 

the Western Electricity Coordinating Council. See 

https://www.nerc.com/pa/comp/Pages/RegionalPrograms.aspx. 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive 

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practice in the field of use of respirator 

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facilities and structures, in the United 

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invention described in U.S. Patent No. 

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Incorporating/Bridged Periodic 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Procedures for Conducting Electric 

Transmission Congestion Studies 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity, 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of procedures for studies 

and request for written comments. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Power Act (FPA) 

requires the Department of Energy 

(Department or DOE) to complete a 

study, in consultation with affected 

states, of electric transmission 

congestion every three years. DOE has 

issued three previous congestion 

studies, in August 2006, December 

2009, and September 2015. The 

forthcoming Congestion Study will be of 

a similar scope. 

DOE expects to release its next 

triennial study in 2019 for a 45-day 

comment period. After reviewing and 

considering the comments received, 

DOE will publish a report concerning 

whether it will propose any National 

Corridors on the basis of the study. 

Interested persons may submit 

comments in response to this notice in 

the manner indicated in the ADDRESSES

section. 

DATES: Comments in response to this 

notice are due by October 9, 2018. DOE 

recognizes that some commenters may 

wish to draw upon or point to studies 

or analyses that are now in process and 

may not be completed. DOE requests 

that commenters submit such materials 

as they become available. However, 

materials submitted after December 31, 

2018, will not be included in the study. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments to http://energy.gov/oe/ 

congestion-study, or by mail to the 

Office of Electricity, OE–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585. The following electronic file 

formats are acceptable: Microsoft Word 

(.doc), Corel Word Perfect (.wpd), 

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Rich Text Format 

(.rtf), plain text (.txt), Microsoft Excel 

(.xls), and Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt). 

The Department intends to use only 

data that is publicly available for this 

study. Accordingly, please do not 

submit information that you believe is 

or should be protected from public 

disclosure. DOE is responsible for the 

final determination concerning 

disclosure or nondisclosure of 

information submitted to DOE and for 

treating it in accordance with the DOE’s 

Freedom of Information regulations (10 

CFR 1004.11). All comments received 

by DOE regarding the congestion study 

will be posted on http://energy.gov/oe/ 

congestion-study for public review. 

Note: Delivery of the U.S. Postal Service 

mail to DOE may be delayed by several 

weeks due to security screening. DOE 

therefore encourages those wishing to 

comment to submit their comments 

electronically by email. If comments are 

submitted by regular mail, the Department 

requests that they be accompanied by a CD 

containing electronic files of the submission. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Meyer, DOE Office of Electricity, 

(202) 586–1411, david.meyer@

hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Transmission Congestion Study 

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. 

L. 109–58) (EPAct) added several new 

provisions to the Federal Power Act (16 

U.S.C. 791a et seq.) (FPA), including 

FPA section 216, 16 U.S.C. 824p. FPA 

section 216(a)(1) requires the Secretary 

of Energy to conduct a study of electric 

transmission congestion within one year 

from the date of enactment of EPAct and 

every three years thereafter. The 2006, 

2009, and 2015 Congestion Studies 

reviewed congestion nationwide except 

for the portion of Texas covered by the 

Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, 

to which FPA section 216 does not 

apply. FPA section 216(a) requires that 

the congestion study be conducted in 

consultation with affected states. Also, 

in exercising its responsibilities under 

section 216, DOE is required to consult 

regularly with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC), any 

appropriate regional entity referred to in 

FPA section 215, i.e., the regional 

electric reliability organizations,1 and 

Transmission Organizations approved 

by FERC. 

Transmission congestion occurs when 

a constraint within an area’s 

transmission network prevents the 

network from accommodating all 

transactions desired at a given time by 

authorized users. The most common 

form of transmission congestion is 

economic congestion. This occurs when 

the transmission system’s capacity is 

sufficient to enable compliance with 

NERC reliability standards, but is not 

able to allow purchasers of wholesale 

power to obtain supplies from the leastcost sellers at all times. The premium 

involved may or may not be sufficiently 

large or persistent to justify investment 

in additional transmission capacity. 


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