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the resource agency recommendations

that staff did not recommended for

adoption. Anyone wishing to participate by

teleconference should call 1–888–928–

9122. They will need to give the

operator the passcode ‘‘COSTELLO’’

and the leader ‘‘JOHN COSTELLO’’. If you have any questions about the

teleconference, please call John Costello

at (202) 219–2914 or e-mail at

john.costello@ferc.fed.us.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–1428 Filed 1–17–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Third Interstate Natural Gas

Facility-Planning Seminar

January 11, 2001.

The Office of Energy Projects will

hold the third in a series of public

meetings around the country for the

purposes of exploring and enhancing

strategies for constructive public

participation in the earliest stages of

natural gas facility planing. This

seminar will be held in Tampa, Florida

on Thursday, February 15, 2001. We are

inviting interstate natural gas

companies; Federal, state and local

agencies; landowners and nongovernmental organizations with an

interest in developing new ways of

doing business to join us in this effort.

We will discuss the facility planning

process, not the merits of any pending

or planned pipeline projects. The staff of the Commission’s Office

of Energy Projects will give a briefing on

the results of our first two seminars in

Albany, NY and Chicago, IL. We will

discuss problems that were identified

and potential solutions that were offered

in the seminars.

Join us as we continue to explore new

strategies being employed by the natural

gas industry, agencies, and citizens to

learn about each others’ concerns and to

engage the public and agencies in

participatory project design. Interactive

discussions will be held with panelists

from various Federal and state agencies,

representatives from natural gas

companies, and private landowners or

citizen representatives who have had

relevant experiences. There will be

substantial opportunity for the sharing

of experiences and knowledge during

both the panel discussions and in the

interactive ‘‘brainstorming’’ session. So,

bring your ideas with you and prepare

to share them.

The objectives of the meeting are:

• Build upon the discussions from

the first two seminars in Albany, NY

and Chicago, IL. • Explore steps taken to identify the

parties directly involved with and

affected by natural gas facility siting

and/or permitting, so they can work

together and resolve issues. • Explore the best avenues for

involving people and agencies toward

fostering settlements through creative

issue resolution. • To encourage the submission of

filings with no or few contested issues

in order to reduce the Commission’s

processing time. • Discuss the potential benefits of an

interstate natural gas pipeline project.

Note: One of our panels this time will

focus on the potential benefits of pipelines

from each parties’ perspective.

We are building on what was learned

at our prior meetings and continuing to

work toward developing a toolbox of the

best available techniques for increasing

public involvement and developing

solutions to issues during the pre-filing

planning process. This will help to plan

projects with less opposition that can

achieve faster action from the

Commission with less controversy and

fewer conditions.

The meeting in Tampa, Florida will

be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre,

located in Tampa, Florida. The meeting

is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. and

finish at 4 p.m. A preliminary agenda

and directions to the Holiday Inn City

Centre are enclosed. Also, see

attachment 2 regarding the selection of

locations of future meetings. If you plan to attend, please email our

team at: gasoutreach@ferc.fed.us by

February 6, 2001. Or, you can respond

via facsimile to Pennie Lewis-Partee at

202–208–0353. Please include in the

response the names, addresses, and

telephone numbers of all attendees from

your organization. We will send an

acknowledgment of your request. To help us enhance our panel

discussions, please consider issues and/

or questions you would like to have

addressed at the meetings and email

them to us. If you have any questions,

you may contact any of the staff listed

below:

Richard Hoffmann, 202/208–0066

Lauren O’Donnell, 202/208–0325

Jeff Shenot, 202/219–2178

Howard Wheeler, 202/208–2299

J. Mark Robinson,

Director, Division of Environmental &

Engineering Review, Office of Energy Projects.

Attachments (2).

Agenda

3rd Interstate Natural Gas Facility

Planning Seminar, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Holiday Inn

City Centre, Tampa, Florida

February 15, 2001—9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

9:30 a.m.—Introductions

Welcome: Mark Robinson, Director,

Division of Environmental &

Engineering Review, Office of

Energy Projects, FERC, Rich

Hoffmann, Office of Energy Projects

(OEP), FERC

9:45—The Pipeline Planning/

Approval Process—Lauren

O’Donnell, OEP, What’s the role of

FERC?

10:00—Summary of Comments from

the Albany and Chicago

Meeetings—Rich Hoffmann

10:30—Panel 1. Perspectives on

Project Announcement, Route

Planning, and How To Work

Together—Howard Wheeler, OEP,

Moderator.

[Discussion of factors re:

announcement of the project,

planning of the route, types of

surveys needed; extent of

disturbance, and who to tell. What

are the needs of the various

stakeholders?]

Representative from Duke Energy

John Ryan, League of

Environmental Organizations, Ken

Huntington, Florida Department of

Environmental Protection

[10-minute discussion by each

panelist with interactive Q&A

session with panelists and audience

for remainder of Panel]

12:00—Lunch

1:00—Panel 2. What are the Benefits

(real and potential) of a natural gas

project and right-of-way?—Lauren

O’Donnell, Moderator

[Discussion of the various types of

benefits of a pipeline project to the

company, the individual, local area,

region and/or state. How to identify

them, how to advertize them.]

Pal Mulieri, County Commissioner,

Pasco County, FL, John Shafer,

Enron, Citizen/NGO Representative

[10 minute discussion by each

panelist with interactive Q&A

session with panelists and audience

for remainder of Panel]

2:00—Discussion by Kearns & West,

Inc., on Stakeholder Involvement.—

Ann Gunning

2:15—Brainstorming Session * * *

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OEP Staff will lend an allparticipants discussion of issues

regarding:

• How best to involve landowners

and communities.

• How best to work with applicants

and agencies;

• How to coordinate with multiple

agencies/jurisdictions;

• How to get information on the need

for a project; and

• How to describe workspace/rightof-way requirements.

3:55—Summary of the Day

Directions to: Holiday Inn City Centre

[813–223–1351]

• Holiday Inn City Centre is located

at 111 West Fortune Street, Tampa, FL

33602

• Take Interstate I–275 to exit #25—

Ashley Street; Keep bearing right

(Fortune St. will ‘‘Y’’ into Ashley St.—

stay right); Holiday Inn is on the right

side of the street.

Future Meetings?

Between now and September of 2001,

we will conduct additional seminars at

locations around the country. Locations

for the meetings will be selected based

on the history of past, present and

especially future pipeline projects

where interstate natural gas markets are

developing or expanding.

Areas we are considering for meetings

include:

Boston, Massachusetts/Portland, Maine

Area.—March/April, 2001

Seattle/Puget Sound Washington—May/

June, 2001 and/or

Reno, Nevada or Salt Lake City, Utah—

July/August, 2001

If you care to voice your opinion

about these or other areas, please follow

the instructions for contacting us in the

notice.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. ER00–3591–000, ER00–1969–

001, ER01–94–000, and ER01–180–000]

New York Independent System

Operator, Inc.; Supplemental Notice of

Technical Conference

January 11, 2001.

The December 11, 2000, notice in this

proceeding indicated that a technical

conference will be held on January 22

and 23, 2001. That conference will be

held in Hearing Rooms 5 and 6 (which

will be combined to form one large

room) at the offices of the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

The conference will commence at 9:30

a.m. on January 22, 2001.

The agenda for the conference is set

forth below. To facilitate efficient

discussion, the various industry sectors

should designate a spokesperson for

their sector, although additional views

may be stated as necessary. By 5:00 p.m.

on January 18, 2001, participants should

inform Stanley Wolf at 202–208–0891 or

stanley.wolf@ferc.fed.us or Penny

Murrell at 202–208–0531 or

penny.murrell@ferc.fed.us, who the

spokesperson for the industry sectors

are, and for which sessions/topics listed

below. If the industry sector cannot

reach consensus on its selection of

spokespersons, members of that sector

may separately inform Mr. Wolf or Ms.

Murrell of their selections. Staff may

select some or all of these to participate

in the discussions. Rather than repeat at

length prior pleadings, spokespersons

are requested to merely refer to such

pleadings where appropriate.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

Technical Conference Schedule

Day 1: Morning Session 9:30–12:30

I. State of the Markets—Panel—3 hours

This panel will be comprised of a

representative from each sector

including, NYISO, Transmisison

Owners, the Public Service Commission

of New York State, Generators, Power

Marketers, Endusers, and Public Power

and Environment. The discussion will

focus on the overall state of NYISO’s

markets; how things are going overall;

whether the markets are generally

working; what the major problems are in

the markets; whether there are structural

issues; whether there are any major

problems with market rules and, if so,

the solutions to the problems. This

session will include a presentation by

NYISO’s Project Priority Team on the

current status of its efforts to identify

and assign priorities to the tasks facing

the NYISO, focusing on preparations for

the Summer 2001.

Lunch

Day 1: Afternoon Session 1:30–6:00

II. Energy Markets: What needs to be in

place by Summer 2001? 31⁄2 hours

This session will start with a

presentation by NYISO on the changes

that are proposed to be in place by

Summer 2001. Discussions can include

the details of the specific projects and

whether the priorities proposed for

theses projects are reasonable. The

discussion may include the following

topics:

NYISO ‘‘hybrid’’ fixed block

generation pricing proposal

Out of merit commitment

Prorata curtailments

System security and adequacy during

Summer 2001

Other reliability concerns

NOX issues

Demand Response Mechanism

Billing issues

Data posting requirements

Communication and market

information issues

III. Non-Spinning Reserves Markets—1

hour

This presentation will begin with a

presentation by NYISO regarding the

state of its NSR markets and the projects

underway to make this a more

competitive market. Discussions will

follow concerning the short-term and

long-term problems associated with

these markets and the changes that are

necessary to address these problems.

Topics include:

Competitiveness of 10-minute nonspinning reserves markets

Physical self-supply of operating

reserves

Use of western resources to meet

operating reserves requirements

Locational pricing

Day 2: Morning Session 9:30–12:00

IV. Market Protection Measures—21⁄2

hours

This session will include a

presentation by NYISO regarding the

use of its authority under its TEP.

Discussions should follow regarding the

extent of NYISO’s price corrections and

issuances of Extraordinary Corrective

Actions (ECAs) under this authority and

whether certain authority of the TEP

should continue temporarily or if

certain authority should be made a

permanent part of the tariff. Participants

may also discuss participant proposals

concerning various market protection

measures such as: circuit breaker, bid

caps, in-city mitigation, and expanded

rate correction authority

Lunch

Day 2: Afternoon Session 1:00–4:30

V. Energy Markets: Longer-term Fixes—

2 hours

This session will start with a

presentation by NYISO regarding the

longer term changes necessary in its

energy markets. Discussions can focus

on the projects that will need to be in

place in the longer term and whether

the priorities established for these

changes are reasonable. Topics include: