Document ID: FERC-2009-0781-0002
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Transmission Relay Loadability Reliability Standard; Notice of Extension of Time
Posted Date: 2009-07-21T04:00Z

[Federal Register: July 21, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 138)]
[Proposed Rules]               
[Page 35830]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

18 CFR Part 40

Docket No. RM08-13-000

 
Transmission Relay Loadability Reliability Standard; Notice of 
Extension of Time

July 13, 2009.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking: extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On May 21, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to approve Reliability 
Standard PRC-023-1 (Transmission Relay Loadability Reliability 
Standard) developed by the North American Electric Reliability 
Corporation. The date for filing comments on the Commission's NOPR is 
being extended at the request of the American Public Power Association, 
Edison Electric Institute, the Electric Power Supply Association and 
the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

DATES: Comments are due on or before August 17, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may submit comments, identified by Docket 
No. RM08-13-000, by any of the following methods:
     Agency Web site: http://www.ferc.gov: Documents created 
electronically using word processing software should be filed in native 
applications or print-to-PDF format and not in a scanned format.
     Mail/Hand Delivery: Commenters unable to file comments 
electronically must mail or hand deliver an original and 14 copies of 
their comments to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of 
the Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Konecni (Legal Information), Office of the General Counsel, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-6291.
Michael Henry (Legal Information), Office of the General Counsel, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8532.
Cynthia Pointer (Technical Information), Office of Electric 
Reliability, Division of Reliability Standards, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 
(202) 502-6069.
Robert Snow (Technical Information), Office of Electric Reliability, 
Division of Reliability Standards, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-
6716.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Transmission Relay Loadability Reliability Standard; Notice of 
Extension of Time

    On July 9, 2009, the American Public Power Association, Edison 
Electric Institute, the Electric Power Supply Association, and the 
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Movants), on behalf of 
their respective member utilities, filed a motion for an extension of 
time to file comments in response to the Commission's Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking issued May 21, 2009, in the above-referenced 
proceeding. Transmission Relay Loadability Reliability Standard, 127 
FERC ] 61,175 (2009) (May 21 NOPR). The motion states that because the 
Commission's May 21 NOPR raises many new technical and policy issues, 
the Movants require additional time to conduct member company 
consultations and to prepare reasoned comments.
    Upon consideration, notice is hereby given that an extension of 
time for filing comments on the May 21 NOPR is granted to and including 
August 17, 2009.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-17235 Filed 7-20-09; 8:45 am]