Document ID: FERC-2012-0737-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions for Declaratory Orders: Southwest Power Pool, Western Area Power Administration, et al.
Posted Date: 2012-05-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 26001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10537]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL12-60-000]

Southwest Power Pool; Western Area Power Administration; Basin 
Electric Cooperative; Heartland Consumers Power District; Notice of 
Petition for Declaratory Order

    Take notice that on April 24, 2012, pursuant to section 207(a)(2) 
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), 
Western Area Power Administration (Western), Basin Electric Power 
Cooperative (Basin Electric), and Heartland Consumers Power District 
(Heartland), jointly submitted a petition requesting the Commission to 
issue a declaratory order confirming: (1) Midwest Independent System 
Operator, Inc. (MISO) is obligated by the terms of the Congestion 
Management Process contained in a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) 
between SPP and MISO to respect the Reciprocal Coordinated Flowgates 
(RCF) of a third party that has executed a Reciprocal Coordination 
Agreement with SPP; (2) the SPP-Western JOA is a Reciprocal 
Coordination Agreement under the MISO-SPP JOA; and (3) MISO is 
obligated by the MISO-SPP JOA to respect the Integrated System of 
Western, Basin Electric, and Heartland RCFs.
    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must 
file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be 
considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to 
be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of 
intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, 
motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. On or 
before the comment date, it is not necessary to serve motions to 
intervene or protests on persons other than the Applicant.
    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and 
interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an 
original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    This filing is accessible online at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link and is available for review in the Commission's 
Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ``eSubscription'' 
link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive email 
notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For 
assistance with any FERC Online service, please email 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 24, 2012.

    Dated: April 25, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-10537 Filed 5-1-12; 8:45 am]
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