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[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. EC03-131-003; EC03-131-004]

 
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company; Notice of Request for Comments

December 8, 2005.
    On July 2, 2004, the Commission approved Oklahoma Gas and Electric 
Company's (OG&E) Offer of Settlement in this proceeding subject to 
certain modifications. In the Offer of Settlement, OG&E offered a 
number of permanent and interim mitigation measures. Among these 
mitigation measures was a commitment to construct a 600 MW Bridge 
between InterGen's Redbud Energy Project and OG&E's control area that 
would create an additional 600 MWs of available transmission capacity. 
See Oklahoma Gas and Electric and NRG McClain LLC, 105 FERC ]61,297 
(2003), order approving settlement, 108 FERC ]61,004 (2004). On May 31, 
2005, OG&E filed a letter informing the Commission that, as of May 19, 
2005, all of the facilities that OG&E committed to construct under the 
Offer of Settlement were placed into commercial operation.
    A technical conference in this proceeding was held on December 1, 
2005 at the Commission's Headquarters, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. The technical conference participants discussed 
whether the upgrades completed by OG&E resulted in an additional 600 
MWs of available transmission capacity, as required in the July 2004 
Order. At the conclusion of the conference, the parties agreed to 
answer the following questions:
    1. Is an additional 600 MWs of Available Transfer Capability, 
achieved by upgrading the transmission system, created when: (a) The 
McClain generating units are not running; (b) the McClain generating 
units are running to serve OG&E load; or (c) the McClain generating 
units are running under operating conditions other than those described 
in (a) and (b)? In other words, should the base case be McClain running 
with no transmission upgrades or McClain not running with no 
transmission upgrades. Provide complete explanatory rationale and 
support for how the 600 MWs of Available Transfer Capability is 
created.
    2. Explain if there are discrepancies in Available Transfer 
Capability, as calculated by OG&E and as calculated by SPP, including 
whether the difference (if any) is the result of the use of different 
models (planning models vs. operational models) containing different 
generation dispatch pattern, different transmission system 
configuration, different firm reservations, and different generation 
and transmission outages.
    3. Were there any firm reservations, posted on the SPP OASIS after 
the July 2004 Order and prior to Redbud's transmission request in June 
2005, by Redbud or any other party that would have reduced the 
Available Transfer Capability from Redbud to OG&E's transmission 
system?
    4. In addition to the previously disclosed non-firm reservation 
that was not removed from the SPP study in response to Redbud's June 
2005 request, were there any other non-firm reservations which were not 
removed from the ATC studies performed by OG&E and SPP.
    5. Assuming the transmission upgrades created an additional 600 MWs 
of Available Transfer Capability, explain what happened to the 
Available Transfer Capability from the time OG&E placed it into service 
and when SPP made it available for transmission use.
    Comments in response to these questions are due on or before 
December 16, 2005, and reply comments are due on or before January 20, 
2006. Comments must refer to Docket Nos. EC03-131-003 and EC03-131-004, 
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must include the commenters' name, the organization they represent, if 
applicable, and their address. Commenters should limit their answers to 
the five specific questions identified above. Commentors may include 
any additional pertinent information that will aid the Commission in 
evaluating their responses to these five questions. Commentors may not 
raise any new issues. The commentors should double space their 
comments.
    Comments may be filed on paper or electronically via the eFiling 
link on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov. The 

Commission accepts most standard word processing formats and commenters 
may attach additional files with supporting information in certain 
other file formats. Commenters filing electronically do not need to 
make a paper filing. Commenters that are not able to file comments 
electronically must send an original and 14 copies of their comments 
to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of the Secretary, 888 
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
    All comments will be placed in the Commission's public files and 
may be viewed, printed, or downloaded remotely as described below. 
Commenters must serve copies of their comments on the other commenters.
    In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the 
Federal Register, the Commission provides all interested persons an 
opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the 
Internet through the Commission's home page http://www.ferc.gov and in 

the Commission's Public Reference Room during normal business hours 
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time) at 888 First Street, NE., Room 2-A, 
Washington, DC 20426.
    From the Commission's home page on the Internet, this information 
is available in the Commission's document management system, eLibrary. 
The full text of this document is available on eLibrary in PDF and 
Microsoft Word format for viewing, printing, and/or downloading. To 
access this document in eLibrary, type the docket number (excluding the 
last three digits) in the docket number field.
    User assistance is available for eLibrary and the Commission's web 
site during normal business hours. For assistance, please contact the 
Commission's Online Support at 1-866-208-3676 (toll free) or 202-502-
6652 (e-mail at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov) or the Public Reference 
Room at 202-502-8371, TTY 202-502-8659, e-mail at 
public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. Questions should be directed to: David 

Hunger, david.hunger@ferc.gov, Office of Markets Tariffs and Rates, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. (202) 502-8148.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-7309 Filed 12-13-05; 8:45 am]

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