
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10567-10568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-02948]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL17-46-000]


Basin Electric Power Cooperative; Notice of Petition for Partial 
Waiver

    Take notice that on February 6, 2017, pursuant to section 292.402 
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Rules and 
Regulations,\1\ Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) on 
its own behalf and on behalf of 72 rural electric cooperative member-
owners (collectively, the Participating Members),\2\ filed a Petition 
for Partial Waiver
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    \1\ 18 CFR 292.402 (2016).
    \2\ Basin Electric's Participating Member-owners joining in this 
petition are Agralite Electric Cooperative, Big Flat Electric Co-op, 
Inc., Black Hills Electric Cooperative, Inc., Bon Homme Yankton 
Electric Association, Inc., Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
Butte Electric Cooperative, Inc., Cam Wal Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., Capital Electric Cooperative, Inc., Central Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., Central Montana Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., 
Central Power Electric Cooperative, Inc., Charles Mix Electric 
Association, Inc., Cherry-Todd Electric Cooperative, Inc., City of 
Elk Point, Clay-Union Electric Corporation, Codington-Clark Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., Crow Wing Cooperative Power and Light Company, 
Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., Douglas Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., FEM 
Electric Association, Inc., Fergus Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
Goldenwest Electric Coop., Inc., Grand Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
H-D Electric Cooperative, Inc., Hill County Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., KEM Electric Cooperative, Inc., Kingsbury Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., L & O Power Cooperative, Lacreek Electric 
Association, Inc., Lake Region Electric Association, Inc., Lower 
Yellowstone Rural Electric Cooperative, Lyon Rural Electric 
Cooperative, Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc., Marias River 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., McCone Electric Co-op., Inc., McKenzie 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., McLean Electric Cooperative, Inc., Mid-
Yellowstone Electric Cooperative, Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light 
& Power Association, Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative, Inc., Mountrail-Williams Electric 
Cooperative, North Central Electric Cooperative, Inc., Northern 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., Northern Plains Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., NorVal Electric Cooperative, Inc., Oahe Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., Osceola Electric Cooperative, Inc., Park Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., Powder River Energy Corporation, Redwood Electric Cooperative, 
Renville-Sibley Co-op Power Association, Rosebud Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., Roughrider Electric Cooperative, Inc., Rushmore 
Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., Sheridan Electric Co-op., Inc., 
Sioux Valley- Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Inc., Slope 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., South Central Electric Association, 
Southeast Electric Cooperative, Inc.,
    Southeastern Electric Cooperative, Inc., Sun River Electric 
Cooperative, Inc., Tongue River Electric Cooperative, Inc., Traverse 
Electric Cooperative, Inc., Union County Electric Cooperative, Inc., 
Upper Missouri G & T Electric Cooperative, Inc., Verendrye Electric 
Cooperative, West Central Electric Cooperative, Inc., West River 
Electric Association, Inc., Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, 
Inc., and Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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    (Petition) of certain obligations imposed on the Participating 
Members and on Basin Electric under sections 292.303(a) and 292.303(b) 
of the Commission's Regulations \3\ implementing section 210 of the 
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as amended, as more 
fully explained in the petition.
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    \3\ 18 CFR 292.303(a) and (b) (2016).
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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.
    Comments: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 27, 2017.


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     Dated: February 6, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-02948 Filed 2-13-17; 8:45 am]
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