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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2017–0036] 

Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot 

Program 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted 

two separate Collaborative Search Pilot 

Programs (CSPs) during the period of 

2015 through 2017. One of these 

programs was conducted with the Japan 

Patent Office (JPO) and the other with 

the Korean Intellectual Patent Office 

(KIPO). Improvements in patent quality 

and examination pendency were 

identified as positive outcomes from 

these two original CSPs. Building on the 

success of these two programs, the 

USPTO is participating in a new, 

expanded CSP (Expanded CSP) in 

which applicants may request that 

multiple partnering Intellectual 

Property (IP) offices exchange search 

results for their counterpart applications 

prior to formulating and issuing their 

office actions. In Expanded CSP, each 

designated partner IP office will 

independently conduct a prior art 

search for its corresponding counterpart 

application. The search results will then 

be exchanged between the designated 

partner IP office(s) and the USPTO 

before any IP office issues an office 

action. By this exchange of search 

results, the examiners in all designated 

partner IP offices will have a more 

comprehensive set of prior art 

references to consider when making 

initial patentability determinations. In 

addition to changing the number of IP 

offices that may be providing search 

results to the USPTO, Expanded CSP 

provides applicants with more 

flexibility by not requiring that 

applicants follow the procedures of the 

First Action Interview Pilot Program 

(FAI). Expanded CSP will allow the 

USPTO to study the impact on 

examination processes resulting from 

exchanges of search results between the 

USPTO and multiple partner IP offices 

prior to formulating and issuing office 

actions. 

DATES: Under Expanded CSP, the 

USPTO and partner IP offices will each 

accept requests to participate from 

November 1, 2017, through November 1, 

2020, and each IP office will not grant 

more than 400 requests per year per 

partner office. The offices may extend 

the pilot program (with or without 

modification), if necessary. Each office 

reserves the right to withdraw from the 

program at any time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Inquiries regarding the handling of any 

specific application participating in the 

pilot may be directed to Daniel Hunter, 

Director of International Work Sharing, 

Planning, and Implementation, Office of 

International Patent Cooperation, by 

telephone at (571) 272–8050. Any 

inquiries regarding this pilot program 

can be emailed to csp@uspto.gov. 

Inquiries concerning this notice may be 

directed to Joseph F. Weiss, Jr., Senior 

Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal 

Administration, by phone (571) 272– 

7759. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The USPTO is 

continually looking for ways to improve 

the quality of issued patents and to 

promote work sharing with other IP 

offices throughout the world. Work 

sharing benefits applicants by 

promoting compact prosecution, 

reducing pendency, and supporting 

patent quality by reducing the 

likelihood of inconsistencies in 

patentability determinations (not 

predicated upon differences in national 

patent laws) between IP offices. The 

USPTO has launched numerous work 

sharing pilot programs, including the 

recently completed CSPs with JPO and 

KIPO. In these completed CSPs, the 

participating offices implemented 

administrative procedures to facilitate 

work sharing between the USPTO and a 

single designated partner IP office in the 

form of sharing search results of related 

counterpart applications. Feedback from 

the completed CSPs showed sufficiently 

positive benefits to justify expanding 

CSP to permit work sharing between the 

USPTO and more than one designated 

partner IP office for the same U.S. 

application. 

The USPTO will cooperate in an 

Expanded CSP to determine whether 

exchanging the results from searches 

independently performed by multiple IP 

offices, which occur substantially 

simultaneously, also increases the 

efficiency and quality of patent 

examination. This Expanded CSP is 

designed so that this exchange of search 

results would occur prior to the IP 

offices making initial patentability 

determinations. The current partner IP 

offices for the Expanded CSP are JPO 

and KIPO. The USPTO will announce 

future partner IP offices when they are 

designated. 

Currently, applicants in the USPTO 

having U.S. applications with claims of 

foreign priority may have search results 

and prior art cited to them by the 

foreign IP office during pendency of 

their U.S. applications. Often, 

applicants submit the prior art after 

examination on the merits is already 

underway in their U.S. application. 

Upon evaluation of the search results 

and cited prior art, the U.S. examiner 

may determine that the prior art cited by 

the foreign office is relevant to 

patentability and merits being used in 

further examination before making a 

final determination on patentability of 

the pending claims. This delay caused 

by further examination results in 

additional cost to applicants and the 

USPTO that could have been avoided if 

the U.S. examiner was in possession of 

the foreign office’s search results before 

commencing examination of the U.S. 

application. Furthermore, in light of the 

USPTO’s various expedited examination 

programs, the possibility exists that a 

U.S. application may reach final 

disposition before the applicant is in 

receipt of a foreign office’s search 

results. The exchange of search results 

between IP offices before an initial 

determination on patentability should 

increase efficiency and promote patent 

examination quality. 

In order to study the benefits of the 

exchange of search results between 

multiple IP offices, current USPTO 

examination practice will be modified 

for applications in Expanded CSP so 

that a search will be conducted and 

search results generated, without 

issuance of an Office action. The U.S. 

applications in Expanded CSP will also 

be ‘‘made special’’ pursuant to USPTO 

procedures to ensure that they are 

contemporaneously searched with their 

corresponding counterpart applications. 

In the original version of the CSP, the 

USPTO required the use of the First 

Action Interview Pilot Program (FAI), 

which bifurcated the prior art search 

from issuance of an Office action. The 

USPTO has determined that it is 

unnecessary to require applicants 

participating in Expanded CSP to use 

FAI procedures. Instead, applications in 

Expanded CSP will be accorded special 

status prior to first action on the merits 

(FAOM) and prior art references 

provided through the exchange of 

search results will be included in the 

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Expanded CSP in the U.S. requires a 

petition to make special for the 

participating application and 

authorization to exchange information 

with the designated partner IP office(s) 

prior to an initial determination of 

patentability. As this work sharing 

program is operating under a common 

framework across all agreements 

between the USPTO and all partner 

offices, it is permissible to participate in 

Expanded CSP with multiple partner 

offices simultaneously, and the program 

is open to adding additional partner IP 

offices once appropriate agreements are 

in place. 

II. Overview of Expanded CSP: An 

application must meet all the 

requirements set forth in section III of 

this notice to be accepted into Expanded 

CSP. Applicants must file a Petition to 

Make Special Under the Expanded 

Collaborative Search Pilot Program 

using form PTO/SB/437 via EFS-web in 

a U.S. application. Use of the form is 

mandatory and will assist applicants in 

complying with the pilot program’s 

requirements, as well as assist the 

USPTO in quickly identifying 

participating applications. Form PTO/ 

SB/437 is available at: http://

www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/ 

international-protection/collaborativesearch-pilot-program-csp. The 

collection of information involved in 

this pilot program has been submitted to 

OMB. This collection will be available 

at OMB’s Information Collection Review 

Web site, www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. 

In addition to a petition being filed 

with the USPTO, a request must also be 

filed in the corresponding counterpart 

applications in each applicantdesignated partner IP office, in 

accordance with the requirements of 

that office. (Partner IP offices may 

require a petition or a request; therefore, 

for purposes of this notice, usage of the 

term ‘request’ refers to the initial 

submission that a partner IP office 

requires to initiate participation in 

Expanded CSP.) As each partner IP 

office’s conditions for entry may differ, 

applicants should review the 

requirements of the relevant partner IP 

offices to ensure compliance. 

No fee for a petition to make special 

under 37 CFR 1.102 is required for 

participation in Expanded CSP. 

New patent applications are normally 

taken up for examination in the order of 

their U.S. filing date. Applications 

accepted into Expanded CSP will 

receive expedited processing by being 

granted special status and taken out of 

turn until issuance of an FAOM, but 

will not maintain special status 

thereafter. Designated partner IP offices 

and the USPTO will be sharing search 

results before issuance of an initial 

determination on patentability. 

Participants in Expanded CSP should 

review the references cited in each 

respective office’s initial determination 

on patentability. If the references cited 

by any partner IP office are not already 

of record in the USPTO application and 

the applicant wants to ensure that the 

examiner considers the references, then 

the applicant should file an Information 

Disclosure Statement (IDS) that includes 

a copy of the communication along with 

copies of any missing or newly cited 

references in accordance with 37 CFR 

1.97, 37 CFR 1.98, and Manual of Patent 

Examining Procedure (MPEP) sec. 

609.04(a)–(b). See also MPEP secs. 609 

and 2001.06(a). 

Each office may reevaluate the 

workload and resources needed to 

administer Expanded CSP at any time. 

The USPTO will provide notice of any 

substantive changes to the program 

(including early termination of the 

program) at least 30 days prior to 

implementation of any changes. 

III. Requirements for Participation in 

Expanded CSP: The following 

requirements must be satisfied for a 

petition under Expanded CSP to be 

granted: 

(1) The application must be a nonreissue, non-provisional utility 

application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a); 

or an international application that has 

entered the national stage in compliance 

with 35 U.S.C. 371, with an effective 

filing date of no earlier than March 16, 

2013. For corresponding counterpart 

applications filed in accordance with 

the agreement between the USPTO and 

KIPO only, plant applications filed 

under 35 U.S.C. 161 are also eligible. 

The U.S. application and all 

corresponding counterpart applications 

must have a common earliest priority 

date that is no earlier than March 16, 

2013. The disclosures of the U.S. 

application and all counterpart 

applications must support the claimed 

subject matter as of a common date. The 

U.S. application must be complete and 

eligible to receive a filing receipt at the 

time the petition is filed. 

(2) A completed petition form PTO/ 

SB/437 must be filed in the application 

via EFS-Web. Form PTO/SB/437 is 

available at: http://www.uspto.gov/ 

patents-getting-started/internationalprotection/collaborative-search-pilotprogram-csp. Based upon the 

agreements reached between the USPTO 

and the partner IP offices, a separate 

petition to make special must be filed in 

the U.S. application for each partner IP 

office that the applicant designates. 

The petition (Form PTO/SB/437) 

includes: 

(A) An express written consent under 

35 U.S.C. 122(c) for the USPTO to 

accept and consider prior art references 

and comments from each designated 

partner IP office during the examination 

of the U.S. application; 

(B) Written authorization for the 

USPTO to provide to the designated 

partner IP office access to the 

participating U.S. application’s 

bibliographic data and search results in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 122(a) and 37 

CFR 1.14(c); and 

(C) A statement that the applicant 

agrees not to file a request for a refund 

of the search fee and any excess claim 

fees paid in the application after the 

mailing of the decision on the petition 

to join Expanded CSP. Note: Any 

petition for express abandonment under 

37 CFR 1.138(d) to obtain a refund of 

the search fee and excess claim fee filed 

after the mailing of a decision on the 

petition will be granted, but the fees 

will not be refunded. 

(3) Petitions must be filed before 

examination has commenced. 

Examination may commence at any time 

after an application has been assigned to 

an examiner. Petitions should preferably 

be filed before the application has been 

assigned to an examiner to ensure that 

the USPTO does not examine the 

application before recognizing the 

petition. Therefore, applicants should 

check the status of the application using 

the Patent Application Information and 

Retrieval (PAIR) system to see if the 

application has been assigned to an 

examiner. If the application has been 

assigned to an examiner, the applicant 

should contact the examiner to confirm 

that the application has not been taken 

up for examination and inform the 

examiner that a petition to participate in 

Expanded CSP is being filed. Following 

this guidance will minimize delays 

caused by remedial corrective action 

when a petition is not recognized before 

examination commences. Further, 

examination must not have commenced 

in the identified corresponding 

counterpart application(s) before each 

designated partner IP office when filing 

petitions requesting participation in the 

U.S. application. 

(4) The petition filed in the USPTO 

and any request filed in a designated 

partner IP office must be filed within 15 

days of each other. If the petition and 

request(s) are not filed within 15 days 

of each other, the applicant runs the risk 

of one of the pending applications being 

acted upon by an examiner before entry 

into the pilot program, which will result 

in the applications being denied entry 

into Expanded CSP. The request for 


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participation filed in the corresponding 

counterpart application(s) for Expanded 

CSP must be granted by at least one of 

the designated partner IP offices in 

order to participate in Expanded CSP. 

(5) The petition submission must 

include a claims correspondence table, 

which at a minimum must establish 

‘‘substantial corresponding scope’’ 

between all independent claims present 

in the U.S. application and the 

corresponding counterpart 

application(s) filed in the designated 

partner IP office(s). The claims 

correspondence table must individually 

list the claims of the instant U.S. 

application and correlate them to the 

claims of the corresponding counterpart 

application having a substantially 

corresponding scope. Claims are 

considered to have a ‘‘substantially 

corresponding scope’’ where, after 

accounting for differences due to claim 

format requirements, the scope of the 

corresponding claims in the 

corresponding counterpart 

application(s) would either anticipate or 

render obvious the subject matter 

recited under U.S. law. Additionally, 

claims in the U.S. application that 

introduce a new/different category of 

claims than those presented in the 

corresponding counterpart 

application(s) are not considered to 

substantially correspond. For example, 

where the corresponding counterpart 

application(s) contain only claims 

relating to a process of manufacturing a 

product, any product claims in the U.S. 

application are not considered to 

substantially correspond, even if the 

product claims are dependent on 

process claims that do substantially 

correspond to claims in the 

corresponding counterpart 

application(s). Applicants may file a 

preliminary amendment in compliance 

with 37 CFR 1.121 to amend the claims 

of the U.S. application to satisfy this 

requirement when attempting to make 

the U.S. application eligible for the 

program. A translated copy of the claims 

in English for each counterpart 

application is required if the application 

in the designated partner IP office(s) is 

not publicly available in English. A 

machine translation is sufficient. Noncorresponding claims need not be listed. 

(6) The U.S. application must contain 

3 or fewer independent claims and 20 

or fewer total claims. The U.S. 

application must not contain any 

multiple dependent claims; the 

corresponding counterpart application 

may contain multiple dependent claims 

in accordance with national practice of 

the partner IP office where it is filed. 

For a U.S. application that contains 

more than 3 independent claims or 20 

total claims, or any multiple dependent 

claims, applicants may file a 

preliminary amendment in compliance 

with 37 CFR 1.121 to cancel the excess 

claims and/or the multiple dependent 

claims to make the application eligible 

for the program. 

IV. Treatment of Petition: As 

discussed in section III, the number of 

petitions to make special filed in the 

U.S. application must equal the number 

of designated partner IP offices where a 

corresponding counterpart application 

has been filed. At least one designated 

partner office must grant the request in 

order for that application and the 

counterpart U.S. application to 

participate in Expanded CSP. 

If examination commences in either 

the U.S. or a given designated 

corresponding counterpart application 

before either the petition or request is 

filed, then that combination of U.S. 

application and designated 

corresponding counterpart application 

cannot participate in Expanded CSP. 

Applicants are advised that, even if they 

timely file a request with a designated 

partner office, if the USPTO is not 

informed by the designated partner 

office of the filing of the request in the 

corresponding counterpart application 

within 20 days of a petition filing with 

the USPTO, then the USPTO may 

initially dismiss the petition. In such 

situation, the applicant may request 

reconsideration, as discussed in Item B, 

below. 

A. Petition Grant by USPTO: Once a 

determination is made that all the 

requirements of Section III of this notice 

are satisfied, the USPTO petition will be 

granted and the application will be 

placed on the examiner’s special docket 

until an FAOM is issued. The USPTO 

and the designated partner IP office(s) 

will then have four months to provide 

search results. As a result, once the 

USPTO grants the petition, the 

applicant will no longer have a right to 

file a preliminary amendment that 

amends the claims. Any preliminary 

amendment filed after the petition is 

granted and before issuance of an 

FAOM amending the claims will not be 

entered unless approved by the 

examiner. After the petition is granted 

and before issuance of the FAOM, the 

applicant may still submit preliminary 

amendments to the specification that do 

not affect the claims. All such 

submissions for the participating U.S. 

application must be filed via EFS–Web. 

B. Petition Dismissal by USPTO: If the 

applicant files an incomplete Form 

PTO/SB/437, or if an application 

accompanied by Form PTO/SB/437 does 

not comply with the requirements set 

forth in this Notice, the USPTO will 

notify the applicant of the deficiencies 

by dismissing the petition and the 

applicant will be given a single 

opportunity to correct the deficiencies. 

If the applicant still wishes to 

participate in the pilot program, the 

applicant must make appropriate 

corrections within 1 month or 30 days 

of the mailing date of the dismissal 

decision, whichever is longer. The time 

period for reply is not extendable under 

37 CFR 1.136(a). If the applicant timely 

files a response to the dismissal 

decision correcting all the noted 

deficiencies without introducing any 

new deficiencies, the USPTO will grant 

the petition if a grantable request has 

been filed in a corresponding 

counterpart application. 

If the applicant fails to correct the 

noted deficiencies within the time 

period set forth, the USPTO may 

dismiss the petition and notify the 

designated partner IP office(s). The U.S. 

application will then be taken up for 

examination in accordance with 

standard examination procedures, 

unless designated special in accordance 

with another established procedure 

(e.g., Request for Prioritized 

Examination, Petition to Make Special 

Based on Applicant’s Age). 

C. Withdrawal of Petition: An 

application can be withdrawn from the 

pilot program only by filing a request to 

withdraw the petition to participate in 

the pilot program prior to issuance of a 

decision granting the petition. Once the 

petition for participation in the pilot 

program has been granted, withdrawal 

from the pilot program is not permitted. 

V. Requirement for Restriction: The 

claims must be directed to a single 

invention. If the examiner determines 

that not all the claims presented are 

directed to a single invention, the 

telephone restriction practice set forth 

in MPEP sec. 812.01 will be followed. 

The applicant must make an election 

without traverse during the telephonic 

interview. If the applicant refuses to 

make an election without traverse, or if 

the examiner cannot reach the applicant 

after a reasonable effort (i.e., three 

business days), the examiner will treat 

the first claimed invention (the group of 

claim 1) as constructively elected 

without traverse for examination and 

include a basis for the restriction or lack 

of unity requirement in the FAOM. 

When a telephonic election is made, the 

examiner will provide a complete 

record of the telephonic interview, 

including the restriction or lack of unity 

requirement and the applicant’s 

election, in the FAOM. Applicants are 

strongly encouraged to ensure that 

applications submitted for Expanded 

CSP are written such that they claim a 


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single, independent, and distinct 

invention. The applicant is responsible 

to ensure the same invention is elected 

in both the U.S. and all corresponding 

counterpart applications for concurrent 

treatment in Expanded CSP. 

VI. First Action on the Merits (FAOM): 

During examination, the USPTO 

examiner will consider all exchanged 

search results and all references 

submitted by the applicant in 

accordance with 37 CFR 1.97 and 37 

CFR 1.98. Search results that are not 

received by the USPTO within four 

months may not be included in the 

FAOM. The examiner will prepare and 

issue an Office action and notify the 

applicant if any designated partner IP 

office did not provide search results 

prior to the issuance of the Office 

action. Once an FAOM issues, the 

application will no longer be treated as 

special under Expanded CSP. 

Dated: October 25, 2017. 

Joseph Matal, 

Associate Solicitor, performing the functions 

and duties of the Under Secretary of 

Commerce for Intellectual Property and 

Director of the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC17–184–000. 

Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc., 

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Inc. 

Description: Supplement to 

September 19, 2017 Application for 

Authorization Under Section 203 of the 

Federal Power Act of Puget Sound 

Energy, Inc., et al. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5173. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/30/17. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER08–1281–013. 

Applicants: New York Independent 

System Operator, Inc. 

Description: Motion to Terminate the 

Reporting Obligation of the New York 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Filed Date: 3/27/2017. 

Accession Number: 20170327–5298. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2027–001. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Deficiency Response—Integrated 

Transmission Planning Process Tariff 

Revisions to be effective 10/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5477. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER17–2560–001. 

Applicants: Avista Corporation. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Avista Corp NITSA BPA Kalispel SA T– 

1140 Amendment to be effective 

10/1/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5114. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–135–000. 

Applicants: AEP Texas Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: AEP 

TX-Oncor IA Second Amended & 

Restated to be effective 9/26/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5475. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–136–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

2017–10–23_Revisions to MISO–PJM 

JOA to address congestion overlap 

issues to be effective 3/1/2018. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5483. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–137–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Revisions to MISO–PJM JOA re: 

Overlapping Congestion Charges to be 

effective 3/1/2018. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5484. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/13/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–138–000. 

Applicants: First Solar Development, 

LLC. 

Description: Petition for Limited 

Waiver of Tariff Submission Deadline of 

First Solar Development, LLC. 

Filed Date: 10/23/17. 

Accession Number: 20171023–5628. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/6/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–139–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Amendment to ISA No. 3198 and CSA 

Nos. 2642 and 2643; Queue No. T157/ 

W4–037 to be effective 9/1/2010. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5072. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–140–000. 

Applicants: Lackawanna Energy 

Center LLC. 

Description: Baseline eTariff Filing: 

Application for Market-Based Rate 

Authorization to be effective 

12/24/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5079. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–141–000. 

Applicants: Southern California 

Edison Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

LGIA Alamitos Energy Center Project 

SA No 197 to be effective 10/25/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5080. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–142–000. 

Applicants: Southern California 

Edison Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

LGIA Huntington Beach Energy Project 

SA No 196 to be effective 10/25/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5081. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–143–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Revisions to OATT 10.4 and OA 15.6 

RE: Limitation on Claims to be effective 

12/23/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5084. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–144–000. 

Applicants: Southern California 

Edison Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

Interconnection Agreement Bob SwitchEldorado 220-kV Transmission Line to 

be effective 10/25/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5112. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–145–000. 

Applicants: Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

2017–10–24_SA 2637 Border WindsNSP E&P (J290) Termination to be 

effective 10/25/2017. 

Filed Date: 10/24/17. 

Accession Number: 20171024–5127. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/14/17. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 


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