

[Federal Register: October 17, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 199)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EY05-95-20-001, RM01-10-000, and EY05-13-001]

 
Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers; Entergy 
Services, Inc.; Notice Granting Extension of Waiver of Recordkeeping 
Requirements

October 7, 2005.
    Due to the emergency conditions in Louisiana and Texas created by 
Hurricane Rita, on September 23, 2005, the Commission issued a notice 
that, among other things, allowed affected transmission providers to 
delay, until October 7, 2005, compliance with the requirement of 
section 358.4(a)(2) of the Commission's regulations, 18 CFR 
358.4(a)(2)(2005), to report to the Commission and post on the OASIS or 
Internet Web site, as applicable, each emergency that resulted in any 
deviation from the standards of conduct.\1\ Due to the extreme nature 
of the emergency, the Commission also waived, until October 7, 2005, 
the requirements to record and retain a record of each deviation of the 
standards of conduct.\2\ The notice added that the Commission would 
consider extending the waiver if it continued to be needed after 
October 7, 2005. The Commission had previously granted similar waivers 
due to Hurricane Katrina.\3\
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    \1\ Notice Granting Extension of Time To Comply With Posting and 
Other Requirements, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers, 
Docket Nos. EY05-20-000, et al. (September 23, 2005).
    \2\ Id.
    \3\ Notice Granting Extension of Time To Comply With Posting and 
Other Requirements, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Providers, 
Docket Nos. EY05-14-000, et al. (August 31, 2005); Notice Waiving 
Recordkeeping Requirements, Standards of Conduct for Transmission 
Providers, Docket Nos. EY05-14-001, et al. (September 7, 2005).
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    Entergy Services, Inc., on behalf of Entergy Operating Companies, 
seeks a two-week extension, through October 21, 2005, of the waiver of 
the requirement that Entergy record a log of each individual deviation 
from the standards of conduct associated with the information sharing 
and joint operations activities necessitated by the hurricanes. It 
explains that in the area impacted by Hurricane Rita, five of its 
fossil-fueled units remain off-line, approximately 106 transmission 
lines and 70 substations are out of service, and Entergy's transmission 
system in Texas remains largely isolated from the rest of Entergy's 
system. In addition, in the City of New Orleans and the Amite-South 
area, Entergy continues to experience emergency circumstances affecting 
system reliability as a result of Hurricane Katrina. These 
circumstances, according to Entergy, require detailed communication, 
coordination and joint operations among Entergy's transmission and 
merchant units on virtually an hourly basis and the requirement to log 
each individual deviation would be an extremely burdensome task that 
would complicate Entergy's restoration operation. Entergy proposes to 
limit the application of the waiver to deviations associated with 
information sharing and joint operations activities necessitated by 
Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, but would not apply the waiver to 
deviations from standard OATT practices.
    The Commission grants Entergy's request for this limited waiver 
under these emergency circumstances.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E5-5703 Filed 10-14-05; 8:45 am]

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