Document ID: FERC-2016-0226-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications
Posted Date: 2016-02-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7781-7782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03024]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM98-1-000]

Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications; Public Notice

    This constitutes notice, in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of 
the receipt of prohibited and exempt off-the-record communications.
    Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, September 22, 1999) requires Commission 
decisional employees, who make or receive a prohibited or exempt off-
the-record communication relevant to the merits of a contested 
proceeding, to deliver to the Secretary of the Commission, a copy of 
the communication, if written, or a summary of the substance of any 
oral communication.
    Prohibited communications are included in a public, non-decisional 
file associated with, but not a part of, the decisional record of the 
proceeding. Unless the Commission determines that the prohibited 
communication and any responses thereto should become a part of the 
decisional record, the prohibited off-the-record communication will not 
be considered by the Commission in reaching its decision. Parties to a 
proceeding may seek the opportunity to respond to any facts or 
contentions made in a prohibited off-the-record communication, and may 
request that the Commission place the prohibited communication and 
responses thereto in the decisional record. The Commission will grant 
such a request only when it determines that fairness so requires. Any 
person identified below as having made a prohibited off-the-record 
communication shall serve the document on all parties listed on the 
official service list for the applicable proceeding in accordance with 
Rule 2010, 18 CFR 385.2010.

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    Exempt off-the-record communications are included in the decisional 
record of the proceeding, unless the communication was with a 
cooperating agency as described by 40 CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR 
385.2201(e)(1)(v).
    The following is a list of off-the-record communications recently 
received by the Secretary of the Commission. The communications listed 
are grouped by docket numbers in ascending order. These filings are 
available for electronic review at the Commission in the Public 
Reference Room or may 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. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659.

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           Docket No.               File date     Presenter or requester
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Prohibited:
    1. CP16-96-000.............       1-27-2016  Paul M. Blanch.
    2. CP15-554-000............       1-27-2016  Peggy Quarles.
    3. CP15-500-000............       1-27-2016  Brent Ducker.
    4. CP15-500-000............       1-29-2016  Joe Moore.
    5. CP15-89-000.............        2-1-2016  FERC Staff.\1\
    6. CP15-500-000............        2-2-2016  Grouped Letters.\2\
    7. CP15-500-000............        2-2-2016  Grouped Letters.\3\
    8. CP15-500-000............        2-2-2016  James Glendinning.
    9. CP15-500-000............        2-2-2016  Barbel Helmert.
    10. CP15-500-000...........        2-2-2016  Case Southerland.
    11. CP15-500-000...........        2-2-2016  Linda Kay Wilde.
    12. CP15-500-000...........        2-3-2016  Williams McGhee.
    13. CP15-500-000...........        2-4-2016  Grouped Letters.\4\
    14. CP16-21-000............        2-5-2016  North Central
                                                  Massachusetts Chamber
                                                  of Commerce.
Exempt:
    1. CP15-91-000.............       1-12-2016  FERC Staff.\5\
    2. CP14-347-000............       1-27-2016  U.S. Senator David
                                                  Vitter.
    3. CP15-91-000.............       1-28-2016  FERC Staff.\6\
    4. CP16-10-000, CP15-554-         1-29-2016  State of Virginia
     000.                                         Delegate Tony Wilt.
    5. CP15-554-000............       1-29-2016  State of North Carolina
                                                  General Assembly
                                                  Senator Philip E.
                                                  Berger.
    6. CP15-89-000.............        2-2-2016  State of New Jersey
                                                  Legislature.\7\
    7. CP15-554-000............        2-4-2016  FERC Staff.\8\
    8. CP09-6-001..............        2-8-2016  FERC Staff.\9\
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\1\ Phone Memorandum dated February 1, 2016 with Keith Sturn (New Jersey
  Natural Gas) regarding Garden State Expansion Project.
\2\ Mass Mailing: 82 letters have been sent to FERC Commissioners and
  staff under this docket number.
\3\ Mass Mailing: 82 letters have been sent to FERC Commissioners and
  staff under this docket number.
\4\ Mass Mailing: 33 letters have been sent to FERC Commissioners and
  staff under this docket number.
\5\ Email dated January 12, 2016 between Lisa Connolly of Spectra Energy
  Transmissions and FERC Staff.
\6\ Memo to the File regarding two meetings (January 7 and 13, 2016)
  between FERC, Spectra/East Tennessee staff, and Spectra/East Tennessee
  contractors.
\7\ Senator Samuel D. Thompson, Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer, and
  Assemblyman Robert D. Clifton.
\8\ Record of Project Meeting on January 14, 2016 with participants from
  FERC, U.S. Forest Service, and Dominion Transmission Inc.
\9\ LNG Engineering Phone Correspondence from November 23, 2015 and
  November 24, 2015 phone conferences between FERC and Oregon LNG
  Representatives.

    Dated: February 9, 2016.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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