This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

65858

Vol. 66, No. 246

Friday, December 21, 2001

1The Coalition includes representatives from:

generators, marketers, transmission owners,

industrial power producers, transmission

dependent utilities, regional transmission

organizations, independent system operators,

distributed resources and state commissions. A list

of the Coalition Members is included in Attachment

1 of the Coalition’s Status Report.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

18 CFR Part 35

[Docket No. RM02–1–000]

Standardizing Generator

Interconnection Agreements and

Procedures; Notice of Extension of

Time

December 14, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time.

SUMMARY: On October 25, 2001, the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

issued an Advance Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking (ANOPR) seeking

comments on a standard generator

interconnection agreement and

procedures that would be applicable to

all public utilities that own, operate or

control transmission facilities under the

Federal Power Act, 66 FR 55140

(November 1, 2001). The date for filing

comments is being extended at the

request of various interested parties.

DATES: Comments on the filing of a

single consensus document are

extended to and including January 11,

2002. Comments on issues posed by the

ANOPR shall be filed on or before

January 25, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linwood A. Watson, Jr., Acting

Secretary 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426 (202) 208–0400.

On December 14, 2001, the Generator

Interconnection Coalition 1 (Coalition),

on behalf of its members, filed its Status

Report on its Consensus Process and (1)

an interim draft standard connection

agreement and (2) an interim draft

standard interconnection procedures

document on which Coalition Members

have made substantial progress (Status

Report), in response to the

Commission’s Advance Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) issued

October 25, 2001, in the above-docketed

proceeding. With the Status Report, the

Coalition also requested an extension of

time to complete the consensus process

and to respond fully to the issues raised

by the Commission in its ANOPR. In its

motion, the Coalition states that

finalizing consensus documents will

require the continued significant

investment of time and resources on the

part of the Coalition Members and that

an extension would allow Coalition

Members to integrate and finalize

consensus documents that are

consistent with the Commission’s

mandate in the ANOPR. The motion

also states that an extension will allow

all stakeholders in the ANOPR process

to have the opportunity to seek

clarification and comment orally on the

draft documents during the plenary

meetings.

Upon consideration, notice is hereby

given that an extension of time to file a

single consensus document is granted to

and including January 11, 2002.

Comments on issues posed by the

ANOPR shall be filed on or before

January 25, 2002.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–31442 Filed 12–20–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

30 CFR Part 936

[OK–029–FOR]

Oklahoma Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment

period and opportunity for public

hearing on proposed amendment.

SUMMARY: We, the Office of Surface

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

(OSM), are announcing receipt of a

proposed amendment to the Oklahoma

regulatory program (the Oklahoma

program) under the Surface Mining

Control and Reclamation Act of 1977

(SMCRA or the Act). The Oklahoma

Department of Mines (Department or

Oklahoma) proposes revisions to and

additions of rules about areas

designated by act of Congress as

unsuitable for mining and coal

exploration operations. Oklahoma

intends to revise its program to be

consistent with the corresponding

Federal regulations.

This document gives the times and

locations that the Oklahoma program

and proposed amendment to that

program are available for your

inspection, the comment period during

which you may submit written

comments on the amendment, and the

procedures that we will follow for the

public hearing, if one is requested.

DATES: We will accept written

comments on this amendment until 4

p.m., c.s.t., January 22, 2002. If

requested, we will hold a public hearing

on the amendment on January 17, 2002.

We will accept requests to speak at a

hearing until 4 p.m., c.s.t. on January 7,

2002.

ADDRESSES: You should mail or hand

deliver written comments and requests

to speak at the hearing to Michael C.

Wolfrom, Director, Tulsa Field Office, at

the address listed below.

You may review copies of the

Oklahoma program, this amendment, a

listing of any scheduled public hearings,

and all written comments received in

response to this document at the

addresses listed below during normal

business hours, Monday through Friday,