Document ID: FERC-2013-1680-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Revisions to Electric Quarterly Report Filing Process; Technical Conference
Posted Date: 2013-12-30T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 250 (Monday, December 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79434-79435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31084]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

 Notice of Technical Conference

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                                                  Docket Nos.
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Filing Requirements for El. Utility    RM01-8-000
 S.A..
Electricity Market Transparency        RM10-12-000
 Provisions of Section 220 of the
 Federal Power Act.
Revisions to Electric Quarterly        RM12-3-000
 Report Filing Process.
Revised Public Utility Filing          ER02-2001-000
 Requirements for Electric Quarterly
 Reports.
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    Take notice that on January 22, 2014, the staff of the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) will hold a technical 
conference on the Revisions to Electric Quarterly Report (EQR) Filing 
Process. The conference will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 
(EST), in the Commission Meeting Room at 888 First Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. The public may attend.
    Commission staff will demonstrate the new EQR filing system 
announced in Order No. 770.\1\ The new filing system includes two 
options for filing EQRs: one that will allow EQR users to file through 
a web interface on the Commission's Web site, and a second that will 
allow an EQR filer to file its EQR in an Extensible Mark-up Language 
formatted file. At the conference, staff will demonstrate how to make a 
filing using both the XML and web interface approaches.
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    \1\ Revisions to Electric Quarterly Report Filing Process, Order 
No. 770, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,338 (2012).
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    The new EQR filing system is being prepared for deployment and 
testing logs indicate that users are successfully making filings in the 
test sandbox. However, in an effort to assure robust testing by users, 
staff would like to allow the public additional time to test the new 
system after having the benefit of participating in the January 22, 
2013 technical conference. Staff believes that this will allow the 
public the opportunity to provide any additional

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feedback before parties are required to file under the new system. For 
this reason, staff anticipates that the first filings under the new 
system (for 3Q EQRs) will be due sometime around March 1 through March 
30. Further information regarding the 3Q filing deadline will be 
forthcoming in a subsequent notice.
    Any additional information regarding the agenda for the technical 
conference will be posted prior to the conference on the Calendar of 
Events on the Commission's Web site, www.ferc.gov.
    A free webcast of the conference will be available through 
www.ferc.gov. Anyone with Internet access interested in viewing this 
conference can do so by navigating to www.ferc.gov's Calendar of Events 
and locating this event in the Calendar. The event will contain a link 
to the webcast. Capitol Connection provides technical support for the 
webcasts and offers the option of listening to the conferences via 
phone-bridge for a fee. If you need technical support, please visit 
www.CapitolConnections.org or call (703) 993-3100.
    Teleconferencing will be available. Participants interested in 
attending via teleconference must register at https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/eqr-01-22-14-form.asp by close of business on 
Thursday, January 16, 2014. Teleconferencing may not be available to 
those who do not register.
    Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please 
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-208-1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to 202-208-2106 with 
the required accommodations.
    For more information about the technical conference, please 
contact: Astrid Kirstin Rapp, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-6264, 
Astrid.Rapp@ferc.gov.

    Dated: December 20, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-31084 Filed 12-27-13; 8:45 am]
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