Document ID: FERC-2015-0194-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Petitions for Declaratory Orders: Delta-Montrose Electric Association
Posted Date: 2015-02-18T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 8639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03260]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL15-43-000]

Delta-Montrose Electric Association; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order

    Take notice that on February 9, 2015, pursuant to Rule 207(a)(2) of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2) (2014), Delta-Montrose 
Electric Association (DMEA) filed a petition for declaratory order 
requesting the Commission declare that: (1) Tri-State Generation and 
Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State) is a public utility pursuant 
to sections 201(e) and (f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA) and its 
wholesale partial requirements contract with DMEA is therefore subject 
to the Commission's jurisdiction under sections 205 and 206 of the 
FPA,\1\ (2) DMEA's obligation to purchase power from certified 
qualifying facilities (QF) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies 
Act of 1978 supersedes any potentially conflicting provisions in DMEA's 
wholesale partial requirements contract with Tri-State, and (3) 
Commission's regulations permit an electric utility and a QF to 
negotiate rates, all as more fully explained in the petition.
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    \1\ 16 U.S.C. 824(e) and (f); 16 U.S.C. 824(d) and 824(e).
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    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. 
Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of 
that document on the Petitioner.
    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 5 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 
20426.
    This filing is accessible on-line 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 March 11, 2015.

    Dated: February 11, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-03260 Filed 2-17-15; 8:45 am]
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