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filings PacifiCorp files with each 

Regulatory Body. 

8. Treatment of Purchased Power and 

Sales for Resale Credit 

Purchased power and sales for resale 

are subject to significant variability for 

a number of reasons including: 

Temperature—colder than normal 

winters increase the demand for 

electricity, resulting in increased 

purchases of electricity for utilities that 

rely on market purchases for meeting a 

portion of retail load. 

Precipitation—heavier than normal 

precipitation in the Columbia River 

Basin increases the amount of electricity 

available at the regional hydroelectric 

facilities and could lower the need for 

additional electricity. 

Prices—the price of electricity 

purchased by utilities varies with 

temperature and precipitation, but also 

the price of natural gas, which is the 

fuel on the margin for most hours of the 

year, and therefore affects the price of 

electricity in power markets. 

Regulatory Bodies use a process 

called normalization to adjust quantity 

and price for purchased power and sales 

for resale in regulatory proceedings. 

Normalization of purchased power and 

sales for resale credits is a process used 

by utilities and Regulatory Bodies to 

adjust actual data to reflect what would 

likely occur under conditions (water, 

weather, market prices) that are closer to 

long-term averages. For this reason, BPA 

proposes to generally use a rolling 5- 

year average of short-term (less than 1 

year) energy sales and energy purchases 

in the Appendix 1. For pricing, BPA 

proposes to use the same models and 

methodologies used to develop market 

price forecasts in BPA’s wholesale 

power rate filings. 

BPA understands this area is not 

simple, and its treatment can have a big 

impact on hydro-intensive utilities. BPA 

welcomes different approaches and 

ideas on how to account for the 

significant variability in this area. 

9. Future Revision of Average System 

Cost Methodology To Address Tiered 

Rate Issues 

BPA and its customers are currently 

discussing the design of a Tiered Rates 

Methodology (TRM) for BPA’s future 

wholesale power rates. BPA expects to 

conduct a hearing under section 7(i) of 

the Northwest Power Act in 2008 in 

order to establish a TRM, which would 

be implemented in the rate period 

beginning FY 2012. The establishment 

of the TRM may affect the 

implementation of the REP for 

consumer-owned utilities. For example, 

BPA may propose as part of the TRM 

that a consumer-owned utility that 

elects to receive an individual Contract 

High Water Mark will have an ASC that 

excludes costs of any resources added 

by the utility after September 30, 2006. 

Other REP-related proposals and issues 

will undoubtedly be raised in 

connection with the TRM. 

Consequently, BPA has included 

placeholder language in the Proposed 

Revised Average System Cost 

Methodology that the Methodology will 

be revised if necessary or appropriate to 

accommodate establishment and 

implementation of tiered rates. 

The Proposed Revised Average 

System Cost Methodology, 

Functionalization for Average System 

Cost Methodology, Endnotes and the 

Proposed Average System Cost template 

are incorporated herein by reference and 

are available at the following link: 

http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/Finance/ 

ascm. 

In consideration of the foregoing 

discussion, BPA proposes to revise the 

Average System Cost Methodology as 

set forth below. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, January 31, 

2008. 

Stephen J. Wright, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–2258 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

[BPA Docket No. WI–09] 

Proposed Wind Integration—WithinHour Balancing Service Rate for Public 

Hearing, and Opportunity for Public 

Review and Comment 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Wind Integration—

Within-Hour Balancing Service Rate 

(Notice), BPA Docket No. WI–09. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of the hearing is 

to adopt a rate for Wind Integration—

Within-Hour Balancing Service. As 

increasing amounts of wind generation 

have integrated into BPA’s Balancing 

Authority, the variability and 

uncertainty of wind generation have led 

to increased costs through the need for 

additional reserve capacity, the shift of 

energy generation from heavy load 

hours to light load hours, and reduced 

system efficiency. The Wind 

Integration—Within-Hour Balancing 

Service rate will ensure that these costs 

are borne by the parties causing the 

costs. 

DATES: Persons wishing to intervene and 

become parties in the rate case must file 

a petition to intervene by 5 p.m., Pacific 

Standard Time, on February 13, 2008. 

The petition must state the name and 

address of the intervenor and the 

intervenor’s interest in the outcome of 

the proceeding. Written comments by 

non-party participants must be received 

by BPA no later than April 15, 2008, to 

be considered in the Record of Decision 

(‘‘ROD’’). The Administrator will issue a 

Final Record of Decision in these 

proceedings by July 28, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Petitions to intervene 

should be directed to Brandon Hignite, 

Hearing Clerk—2009 Wind Integration 

Rate Case, L–7, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE 11th Avenue, 

Portland, OR 97232 or by e-mail to: 

wi09rate@bpa.gov, and must be received 

no later than 5 p.m., Pacific Standard 

Time, on February 13, 2008. In addition, 

a copy of the petition must be served 

concurrently on BPA’s General Counsel 

and directed to Barry Bennett, LC–7, 

Office of General Counsel, Bonneville 

Power Administration, 905 NE 11th 

Avenue, Portland, OR 97232 or by email to: bbennett@bpa.gov. Written 

comments may be made online at BPA’s 

website: www.bpa.gov/comment, or by 

mail to: BPA Public Affairs, DKE–7, P.O. 

Box 14428, Portland, OR, 97293–4428. 

Please label your submission ‘‘2009 

Wind Integration Rate Case.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Elliot E. Mainzer, Transmission Policy 

and Strategy Manager, at (360) 619–

6252. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Part I—Introduction and Procedural 

Background 

A. Statutory Provisions Governing This 

Rate Proceeding 

Section 7 of the Northwest Power Act, 

16 U.S.C. 839e, sets forth a number of 

general directives that the BPA 

Administrator must consider in 

establishing rates for the sale of electric 

energy and capacity and transmission 

services. In particular, section 7(a)(1), 16 

U.S.C. 839e(a)(1), provides in part that 

‘‘[s]uch rates shall be established and, as 

appropriate, revised to recover, in 

accordance with sound business 

principles, the costs associated with the 

acquisition, conservation, and 

transmission of electric power, 

including the amortization of the 

Federal investment in the Federal 

Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) 

(including irrigation costs required to be 

repaid out of power revenues) over a 

reasonable period of years and the other 

costs and expenses incurred by the 


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Administrator pursuant to this Act and 

other provisions of law.’’

Rates established by BPA are effective 

on an interim or final basis as approved 

by FERC. 16 U.S.C. 839e(a)(2). In 

addition to the Northwest Power Act, 

BPA ratemaking is governed by the 

Bonneville Project Act, 16 U.S.C. 832, et 

seq., the Federal Columbia River 

Transmission System (FCRTS) Act, 16 

U.S.C. 838, et seq., and the Flood 

Control Act of 1944, 16 U.S.C. 825, et 

seq. 

Section 7(i) of the Northwest Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C., 839e(i), requires that 

BPA’s rates be set according to certain 

procedures, including issuance of a 

Federal Register notice announcing the 

proposed rates; one or more hearings 

conducted as expeditiously as 

practicable by a hearing officer; public 

opportunity to provide oral and written 

views related to the proposed rates; 

opportunity to offer refutation or 

rebuttal of submitted material; and a 

decision by the Administrator based on 

the record. This proceeding will be 

governed by the Procedures Governing 

Bonneville Power Administration Rate 

Hearings, 51 FR 7611 (March 5, 1986), 

which implement and, in most 

instances, expand these statutory 

requirements. 

B. Proposed Schedule Concerning This 

Rate Proceeding 

The hearing will be conducted under 

the rule for general rate proceedings, 

section 1010.9 of the Procedures 

Governing Bonneville Power 

Administration Rate Hearings. The 

following proposed schedule is 

provided for informational purposes. A 

final schedule will be established by the 

Hearing Officer at the prehearing 

conference. 

14 February 2008—Prehearing/BPA 

Direct Case 

20–21 February 2008—Clarification of 

BPA Direct Case 

22 February 2008—Motions to Strike 

22 February 2008—Data Request 

Deadline 

29 February 2008—Answers to Motions 

to Strike 

29 February 2008—Data Response 

Deadline 

4 March 2008—Public Hearing 

(Portland) 

14 March 2008—Parties file Direct Case 

17–18 March 2008—Clarification of 

Parties’ Direct Cases 

20 March 2008—Motions to Strike 

20 March 2008—Data Request Deadline 

27 March 2008—Answers to Motions to 

Strike 

27 March 2008—Data Response 

Deadline 

15 April 2008—Parties file Rebuttal 

15 April 2008—Close of Participant 

Comment Period 

16–17 April 2008—Clarification of 

Rebuttal 

18 April 2008—Motions to Strike 

18 April 2008—Data Request Deadline 

25 April 2008—Answers to Motions to 

Strike 

25 April 2008—Data Response Deadline 

1–2 May 2008—Cross Examination 

9 May 2008—Initial Briefs Filed 

19May 2008—Oral Argument 

30 May 2008—Draft ROD issued 

16 June 2008—Briefs on Exceptions 

By 28 July 2008—Final ROD—Final 

Proposal 

C. Ex Parte Communications Prohibited 

Section 1010.7 of the BPA Hearing 

Procedures prohibits ex parte 

communications. The ex parte rule 

applies to all BPA and DOE employees 

and contractors. Except as provided 

below, any outside communications 

with BPA and/or DOE personnel 

regarding BPA’s rate case by other 

Executive Branch agencies, Congress, 

existing or potential BPA customers 

(including tribes), and nonprofit or 

public interest groups are considered 

outside communications and are subject 

to the ex parte rule. The general rule 

does not apply to communications 

relating to: (1) Matters of procedure only 

(the status of the rate case, for example); 

(2) exchanges of data in the course of 

business or under the Freedom of 

Information Act; (3) requests for factual 

information; (4) matters for which BPA 

is responsible under statutes other than 

the ratemaking provisions; or (5) matters 

which all parties agree may be made on 

an ex parte basis. The ex parte rule 

remains in effect until the 

Administrator’s Final ROD is issued, 

which is scheduled to occur by July 28, 

2008. 

Part II—Purpose and Scope of Hearing 

A. Purpose of the Hearing 

The purpose of the hearing is to adopt 

a rate for Wind Integration—WithinHour Balancing Service. As increasing 

amounts of wind generation have 

integrated into BPA’s transmission 

system, the variability and uncertainty 

of wind generation have led to increased 

costs through the need for additional 

reserve capacity, the shift of energy 

generation from heavy load hours to 

light load hours, and reduced system 

efficiency. The Wind Integration—

Within-Hour Balancing Service Rate is 

intended to ensure that these costs are 

borne by the parties causing the costs. 

B. Scope 

Pursuant to Rule 1010.3(f) of BPA’s 

Procedures, the Administrator limits the 

scope of this hearing to issues 

concerning the rate for Wind 

Integration—Within-Hour Balancing 

Service described in Part IV hereof. In 

particular, the following issues are not 

part of the scope of the case, and the 

Hearing Officer is directed to strike all 

testimony contesting these issues: how 

BPA operates the FCRPS to provide 

control area services and ancillary 

services; how or from which entities 

BPA’s transmission business obtains 

capacity to provide any such services; 

program levels and program level 

forecasts for any BPA program; and rates 

previously established or to be 

established in any other rate case, 

including BPA’s WP–07 Supplemental 

Wholesale Power Rate Case. 

C. National Environmental Policy Act 

Evaluation 

BPA is in the process of assessing the 

potential environmental effects of the 

Wind Integration Within-Hour 

Balancing Service rate, consistent with 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(‘‘NEPA’’). The NEPA process is 

conducted separately from BPA’s formal 

rate proceedings. Therefore, the 

Administrator directs the Hearing 

Officer to exclude from the record all 

evidence and argument that seek in any 

way to address the potential 

environmental impacts of the rates 

being developed in the 2009 Wind 

Integration—Within-Hour Balancing 

Service Rate Case. 

BPA’s Business Plan Environmental 

Impact Statement (‘‘Business Plan EIS’’), 

completed in June 1995, evaluated the 

environmental impacts of a range of 

business plan alternatives that could be 

varied by applying various policy 

modules, including one for rates. Any 

combination of alternative policy 

modules should allow BPA to balance 

its costs and revenues. The Business 

Plan EIS also addressed response 

strategies, including adjusting rates that 

BPA could pursue if BPA’s costs 

exceeded its revenues. 

In August 1995, the BPA 

Administrator issued a Record of 

Decision (‘‘Business Plan ROD’’) that 

adopted the Market-Driven Alternative 

from the Business Plan EIS. This 

alternative was selected because, among 

other reasons, it allows BPA to: (1) 

Recover costs through rates; (2) 

competitively market BPA’s products 

and services; (3) develop rates that meet 

customer needs for clarity and 

simplicity; (4) continue to meet BPA’s 

legal mandates; and (5) avoid adverse 


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environmental impacts. BPA also 

committed to apply as many response 

strategies as necessary when BPA’s costs 

and revenues do not balance. 

In April 2007, BPA completed and 

issued a Supplement Analysis to the 

Business Plan EIS. The Supplement 

Analysis found that the Business Plan 

EIS’s relationship-based and policylevel analysis of potential 

environmental impacts from BPA’s 

business practices remains valid, and 

that BPA’s current business practices 

remain consistent with BPA’s MarketDriven approach. The Business Plan EIS 

and ROD thus continue to provide a 

sound basis for making determinations 

under NEPA concerning BPA’s policylevel decisions, including rates. 

Because the Wind Integration rate 

proposal likely would assist BPA in 

accomplishing the goals identified in 

the Business Plan ROD, the proposal 

appears consistent with these aspects of 

the Market-Driven Alternative. In 

addition, this rate proposal is similar to 

the type of rate designs and resulting 

rate levels evaluated in the Business 

Plan EIS; thus implementation of this 

rate proposal would not be expected to 

result in significantly different 

environmental impacts from those 

examined in the Business Plan EIS. 

Therefore, BPA expects that this rate 

proposal will fall within the scope of 

the Market-Driven Alternative that was 

evaluated in the Business Plan EIS and 

adopted in the Business Plan ROD. 

As part of the Administrator’s Record 

of Decision that will be prepared 

regarding the Wind Integration—

Within-Hour Balancing Service rate, 

BPA may tier its decision under NEPA 

to the Business Plan ROD. However, 

depending upon the ongoing 

environmental review, BPA may, 

instead, issue another appropriate NEPA 

document. Persons may submit 

comments regarding the potential 

environmental effects of the proposal to 

Katherine Pierce, NEPA Compliance 

Officer, KEC–4, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, 

Portland, OR 97232. Any such 

comments received by the comment 

deadline in Part III.A above will be 

considered by BPA’s NEPA compliance 

staff in the NEPA process that will be 

conducted for this proposal. 

Part III—Public Participation 

A. Distinguishing Between Participants 

and Parties 

BPA distinguishes between 

participants in and parties to the 

hearings. Apart from the formal hearing 

process, BPA will accept comments, 

views, opinions, and information from 

participants, who are defined in the 

BPA Procedures as persons who may 

submit comments without being subject 

to the duties of, or having the privileges 

of, parties. Participants are not entitled 

to participate in the prehearing 

conference; may not cross examine 

parties’ witnesses, seek discovery, or 

serve or be served with documents; and 

are not subject to the same procedural 

requirements as parties. 

Participants’ written and oral 

comments will be made part of the 

official record and considered by the 

Administrator, if they are submitted on 

or before April 15, 2008. Participants’

written views, supporting information, 

questions, and arguments should be 

submitted to the address noted in the 

ADDRESSES section of this Notice or at 

the public hearing. 

The second category of interest is that 

of a party as defined in Rules 1010.2 

and 1010.4 of the BPA Procedures. 51 

Fed. Reg. 7611 (1986). Parties may 

participate in any aspect of the hearing 

process. 

B. Petitions To Intervene 

Persons wishing to become parties to 

BPA’s rate proceeding must notify BPA 

in writing of their interest by submitting 

a petition to intervene. Petitions to 

intervene are due to the Hearing Officer 

by February 13, 2008, and should be 

directed to Brandon Hignite, Hearing 

Clerk, L–7, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, 

Portland, OR 97232 or by e-mail to: 

wi09rate@bpa.gov, and must be received 

no later than 5 p.m., Pacific Standard 

Time, on February 13, 2008. In addition, 

a copy of the petition must be served 

concurrently on BPA’s General Counsel 

and directed to Barry Bennett, LC–7, 

Office of General Counsel, Bonneville 

Power Administration, 905 NE. 11th 

Avenue, Portland, OR 97232 or by email to: bbennett@bpa.gov. 

Petitions shall state the name and 

address of the person requesting party 

status and the person’s interest in the 

hearing. Petitioners must explain their 

interests in sufficient detail to permit 

the Hearing Officer to determine 

whether they have a relevant interest in 

the hearing. Pursuant to Rule 1010.1(d) 

of BPA’s Procedures, BPA waives the 

requirement in Rule 1010.4(d) that an 

opposition to an intervention petition be 

filed and served 24 hours before the 

prehearing conference. Any opposition 

to an intervention petition may instead 

be made at the prehearing conference. 

Any party, including BPA, may oppose 

a petition for intervention. All timely 

applications will be ruled on by the 

Hearing Officer. Late interventions are 

strongly disfavored. Opposition to an 

untimely petition to intervene shall be 

filed and received by BPA within two 

days after service of the petition. 

C. Developing the Record 

The record will include, among other 

things, the testimony and evidence 

submitted by the parties, the transcripts 

of any hearings and cross-examination, 

written material submitted by the 

participants, and evidence accepted into 

the record by the Hearing Officer. The 

Hearing Officer will review the record 

and certify the record to the 

Administrator for decision. Parties will 

have the opportunity to file initial briefs 

at the close of cross-examination. After 

the close of the hearings, and following 

submission of initial briefs, BPA will 

issue a draft ROD that states the 

Administrator’s preliminary decision(s). 

Parties may file briefs on exceptions, 

after that the Administrator will issue 

the final ROD establishing the rate. 

The Administrator will develop the 

final rate for Wind Integration—WithinHour Balancing Service based on the 

entire record. The Administrator will 

serve copies of the final Record of 

Decision on all parties and will file the 

final proposed rate, together with the 

record, with FERC for confirmation and 

approval. 

Part IV—Summary of the Proposal 

In 2006 BPA and the Northwest 

Power and Conservation Council 

convened a regional forum to discuss 

the operational and economic issues 

raised by the expected integration of 

significant amounts of wind generation 

into the Pacific Northwest power 

system. In March 2007 the group, which 

included investor-owned utilities, 

public power organizations, 

environmental groups, and others, 

produced the Northwest Wind 

Integration Action Plan. The Action 

Plan recognized that the emergence of 

wind energy as a significant resource on 

the Northwest transmission grid—which 

has 17 separate Balancing Authorities—

raised new cost recovery and cost 

allocation issues. 

Historically, most of the variability 

and uncertainty in a Balancing 

Authority’s operations has been caused 

by loads. As a result, most Northwest 

transmission providers do not have rate 

schedules that charge generators for the 

variability they add to the system. 

However, the output of wind generators 

is significantly more variable and 

uncertain than the output of traditional 

generation sources. The variability and 

uncertainty associated with wind 

generation increases the demand for 

reserves required to maintain Balancing 

Authority reliability. 


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Under current rate schedules, BPA 

power customers pay most of the costs 

of these additional reserves. For BPA, 

wind integration cost recovery is a 

particularly important issue because the 

majority of the 1,425 MW of wind 

generation in the BPA Balancing 

Authority is exported to other Balancing 

Authorities to serve the loads of other 

regional utilities. Therefore, BPA power 

customers are paying the costs of 

providing balancing services for wind 

generation used to serve other loads. 

This pattern of large-scale exports of 

wind generation is expected to continue 

through the end of 2009, at which point 

BPA expects that 2,880 MW of wind 

will be interconnected to the BPA 

system. 

To better align cost causation and cost 

allocation, BPA is proposing a Wind 

Integration—Within-Hour Balancing 

Service rate under which wind 

generators will be charged for the costs 

of the additional reserve capacity that is 

needed to support their operations, as 

well as other incremental costs caused 

by the variability of wind generation. 

Additional costs are caused by the need 

to shift energy generation from heavy 

load hours to light load hours to 

preserve the ability to change generation 

levels to compensate as wind output 

changes and by reduced efficiency 

because demands on the system become 

less predictable as wind generation 

increases. The new rate is intended to 

ensure that BPA recovers the costs that 

wind generation places on the system, 

and that the costs are allocated to the 

parties that cause the costs. 

BPA currently estimates that, during 

FY 2009, it will need an average of 203 

MW of capacity to provide these 

balancing services for wind generation. 

Therefore, BPA is proposing a wind 

integration rate to recover the embedded 

costs of 203 MW of Federal system 

resources plus the other costs, noted 

above, that wind generation places on 

the system. 

BPA projects the cost of providing 

this service is $22.9 million. To recover 

this cost, BPA is proposing a rate not to 

exceed $0.81 per installed kW of wind 

capacity per month. 

The proposed rate schedule is 

attached at the end of this Notice. 

Issued this 30th day of January, 2008. 

Stephen J. Wright, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

ACS–09 

ANCILLARY SERVICES AND CONTROL 

AREA SERVICES RATE 

SECTION I. AVAILABILITY 

* * * 

Control Area Service rates available 

under this rate schedule are: 

* * * 

5. Wind Integration—-Within-Hour 

Balancing Service 

* * * 

SECTION III. CONTROL AREA 

SERVICE RATES 

E. WIND INTEGRATION—WITHINHOUR BALANCING SERVICE 

The rate below applies to all wind 

plants in the BPA Control Area. WithinHour Balancing Service provides the 

generation capability to follow withinhour variations of wind resources in the 

BPA Control Area and to maintain the 

power system frequency at 60 Hz in 

conformance with NERC and WECC 

reliability standards. 

1. RATE 

The rate shall not exceed $0.81 per 

kilowatt per month. 

2. BILLING FACTOR 

The Billing Factor is as follows: 

i. For each wind plant, or phase of a 

wind plant, that has completed 

installation of all units no later than the 

15th day of the month prior to the 

billing month, the billing factor will be 

the nameplate of the plant in kW. A unit 

has completed installation when it has 

generated and delivered power to the 

BPA system. 

ii. For each wind plant, or phase of a 

wind plant, for which some but not all 

units have been installed by the 15th 

day of the month prior to the billing 

month, the billing factor will be the 

maximum measured hourly output of 

the plant through the 15th day of the 

prior month in kW. 

[FR Doc. E8–2253 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2146–117] 

Alabama Power Company; Notice of 

Application for Amendment of License 

and Soliciting Comments, Motions to 

Intervene, and Protests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Application Type: Non-Project Use 

of Project Lands and Waters. 

b. Project No: 2146–117. 

c. Date Filed: January 18, 2008. 

d. Applicant: Alabama Power 

Company. 

e. Name of Project: Coosa River 

Project. 

f. Location: On the Coosa River, in 

Elmore County, Alabama, and Floyd 

County, Georgia. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Keith Bryant, 

600 18th Street North, Birmingham, AL 

35203; (205) 257–1403. 

i. FERC Contact: Gina Krump, 

Telephone (202) 502–6704, and e-mail: 

Gina.Krump@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protest: 

March 3, 2008. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person whose name appears on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervener files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. A copy of any 

motion to intervene must also be served 

upon each representative of the 

Applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

k. Description of Request: Alabama 

Power Company is seeking Commission 

approval to issue a permit to RHEMA, 

LLC for the construction of a boat ramp, 

four boat docks, totaling 60 slips, 

walking trails, and two storm water 

drains. The proposed facilities would 

serve the residents of Sunset Shores 

Condominiums. APC is also seeking 

authorization to allow RHEMA, LLC to 

withdrawal of up to 2,400 gallons per 

day of water from the project reservoir 

for landscape watering, as needed. The 

proposal would not require dredging or 

excavation. 

l. Locations of the Application: A 

copy of the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. This filing may also be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. You may also register online 

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

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, call 1–866–208–3676 or 


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