Document ID: FERC-2010-1239-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Complaint: Southern Montana Electric Generation v. NorthWestern Corporation
Posted Date: 2010-09-01T04:00Z

[Federal Register: September 1, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 169)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL10-82-000]

 
Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, 
Inc. v. NorthWestern Corporation; Notice of Complaint

August 25, 2010.
    Take notice that on August 20, 2010, pursuant to section 206 of the 
Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824c, and Rule 206 of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure, 
18 CFR 385.206, Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission 
Cooperative, Inc. (Complainant) filed a complaint against NorthWestern 
Corporation (Respondent), alleging that the Respondent violated 
Commission policies and its Open Access Transmission Tariff by (1) 
using an ``umbrella'' or ``enabling'' agreement as the contractual 
basis for a long-term point-to-point transmission service and (2) 
billing the Complainant with respect to a transmission service for 
which they had not contracted.
    Complainant certifies that copies of the complaint were served on 
the contacts listed for Respondent as listed on the Commission's list 
of Corporate Officials.
    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. The Respondent's 
answer and all interventions, or protests must be filed on or before 
the comment date. The Respondent's answer, motions to intervene, and 
protests must be served on the Complainants.
    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 e-mail 
notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For 
assistance with any FERC Online service, please e-mail 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on September 9, 2010.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-21790 Filed 8-31-10; 8:45 am]
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