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1Promoting Transmission Investment Through 

Pricing Reform, Order No. 679, FERC Stats. & Regs. 

¶ 31,222, order on reh’g, Order No. 679–A, FERC 

Stats. & Regs. ¶ 3l 31,236 (2006), order on reh’g, 

119FERC ¶ 61,062 (2007). 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

seven copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental cementers will be placed 

on the Commission’s environmental 

mailing list, will receive copies of the 

environmental documents, and will be 

notified of meetings associated with the 

Commission’s environmental review 

process. Environmental cementers will 

not be required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the nonparty commenters will 

not receive copies of all documents filed 

by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and seven 

copies of the protest or intervention to 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. This filing is 

accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov 

using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is 

available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the Web site 

that enables subscribers to receive email 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please 

email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free) or TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on April 16, 2012 

Dated: March 26, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7644 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL12–49–000] 

Northern Indiana Public Service 

Company; Notice of Petition for 

Declaratory Order 

Take notice that on March 16, 2012, 

pursuant to Rule 207 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s 

(Commission) Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207, section 219 

of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 

824e, and 824s(a), and Order No. 679,1

Northern Indiana Public Service 

Company (NIPSCO) filed a Petition for 

Declaratory Order, requesting that the 

Commission issue an order granting 

transmission rate incentives related to 

the Reynolds to Burr Oak to Hiple 345 

kV transmission line, a Multi-Value 

Project approved under the Midwest 

Independent Transmission System 

Operator, Inc. Transmission Expansion 

Plan process. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on April 16, 2012. 

Dated: March 26, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7645 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14354–000] 

Long Canyon Pumped Storage Project; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

On January 12, 2012, Utah 

Independent Power, Inc., Nevada, filed 

an application for a preliminary permit, 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the 

feasibility of the Long Canyon Pumped 

Storage Project to be located near the 

town of Moab, Grand County, Utah. The 

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project would affect federal lands 

administered by the Bureau of Land 

Management. The sole purpose of a 

preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant 

the permit holder priority to file a 

license application during the permit 

term. A preliminary permit does not 

authorize the permit holder to perform 

any land-disturbing activities or 

otherwise enter upon lands or waters 

owned by others without the owners’ 

express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following: (1) An upper reservoir 

formed by a 160-foot-high by 6,750-footlong, roller-compacted concrete (RCC) 

dam (an open ‘‘U’’—shaped structure 

varying from grade to roughly 160-foothigh) having a total storage capacity of 

5,530 acre-feet and a water surface area 

of 90 acres at full pool elevation of 6,000 

feet above mean-sea-level (msl); (2) a 

lower reservoir formed by a 200-foothigh by 730-foot-long, RCC dam, having 

a total storage capacity of 5,530 acre-feet 

and a water surface area of 110 acres at 

full pool elevation of 4,200 feet msl; (3) 

two 8,510-foot-long by 16-foot-diameter 

penstocks; (4) an underground 

powerhouse roughly 750-feet-long by 

175-feet-high by 70-feet-wide; (5) two 

320-foot-long by two 18-foot diameter 

tailraces; (6) an access tunnel roughly 

36-feet-in-diameter and 2,470-feet-long, 

connecting the project’s powerhouse to 

Grand County Highway 279; (7) the 

existing trail-road relocated to the south 

side of the reservoir to an elevation of 

4,210 feet msl; and (8) pump-turbines 

with a capacity of roughly 800 

megawatts (MW) (3 units × 267 MW 

unit). The annual energy output would 

be approximately 1,077,000 

megawatthours. Twin 25—kilovolt (kV) 

circuit transmission lines would 

interconnect with an existing Rocky 

Mountain Power transmission line via a 

40-mile-long interconnection. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Frank L. 

Mazzone, Utah Independent Power, 

Inc., 957 Fairway Drive, Sonoma, CA 

95476; phone (707) 996–2573. 

FERC Contact: Brian Csernak; phone: 

(202) 502–6144. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to 

intervene, notices of intent, and 

competing applications may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 

Enter the docket number (P–14354) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: March 23, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7642 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–12–003] 

Increasing Market and Planning 

Efficiency Through Improved Software; 

Notice of Technical Conference: 

Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead 

Market Efficiency Through Improved 

Software 

Take notice that Commission staff 

will convene a technical conference on 

June 25, 26, and 27, 2012 to discuss 

opportunities for increasing real-time 

and day-ahead market efficiency 

through improved software. A detailed 

agenda with the list of and times for the 

selected speakers will be published on 

the Commission’s Increasing Market and 

Planning Efficiency Web site 1 after May 

14, 2012. 

This conference will bring together 

diverse experts from ISOs/RTOs, nonmarket utilities, the software industry, 

government, research centers and 

academia for the purposes of 

stimulating discussion and sharing of 

information about the technical aspects 

of these issues and identifying fruitful 

avenues for research. This conference is 

intended to build on the discussions 

initiated in the Commission’s June 2010 

and June 2011 staff technical 

conferences on increasing market and 

planning efficiency through improved 

software. 

The conferences held in June 2010 

and June 2011 produced presentations 

on several advanced approaches to 

market modeling which appear to have 

significant promise for potential 

efficiency improvements: Stochastic 

modeling; optimal transmission 

switching; AC optimal power flow 

modeling; and use of active and 

dynamic transmission ratings. 

Significant computational impediments 

to efficiently and reliably implement 

these approaches must be understood 

and overcome before benefits can be 

realized. In this conference, we seek to 

explore research and technical steps 

that would be needed to implement 

these and other advanced technologies 

in the future. 

In particular we solicit proposals for 

presentations on topics and questions 

such as the following: 

(1) Stochastic modeling for unit 

commitment and operating reserves: 

Given the difficulty in formulating and 

solving full-scale stochastic unitcommitment problems, what interim 

steps might be taken to more 

intelligently incorporate information 

about uncertainty into unit-commitment 

and dispatch? Specifically: 

D How can uncertainty be described 

in a manageable set of scenarios or 

constraints that improve unitcommitment and dispatch while 

allowing good solutions to be achieved 

in the required timeframe? 

D If a stochastic unit-commitment 

model is used, how should day-ahead 

prices be calculated, given that the 

stochastic formulation no longer 

produces as part of its solution a single 

set of deterministic shadow prices for 

power at each location? 

D How would a stochastic day-ahead 

unit commitment mechanism alter 

current market software for other 

processes (for example, reliability unitcommitment processes)? 

D What steps toward better 

incorporation of uncertainty into unitcommitment might be taken over the 

next 5 to 10 years? 

D What methods can be used to 

calculate requirements for contingency 

reserves and regulating reserves? 

Æ How can reserves calculations more 

completely capture the uncertainty and 

variability of the system, including 

forecast error? 

Æ How can outage probability be 

captured in contingency reserve 

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