[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 63265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22160]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. EL17-89-000; EL19-60-000]


American Electric Power Service Corporation v. Midcontinent 
Independent System Operator, Inc. Southwest Power Pool, Inc.; City of 
Prescott, Arkansas v. Southwestern Electric Power Company Midcontinent 
Independent System Operator, Inc.; Notice of Technical Conference

    By order dated August 27, 2020,\1\ the Commission directed 
Commission staff to convene a technical conference regarding issues 
raised in these dockets about the extent of overlapping congestion 
charges assessed on pseudo-tie transactions at the Midcontinent 
Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)/Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 
(SPP) interface and possible measures that could be taken to eliminate 
any such overlapping charges. Take notice that Commission staff will 
hold this technical conference remotely, as further described below, on 
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, beginning at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). 
Commissioners may participate in the technical conference.
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    \1\ Am. Elec. Power Serv. Corp. v. Midcontinent Indep. Sys. 
Operator, Inc., 172 FERC ] 61,163 (2020) (August 2020 Further 
Briefing Order).
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    The conference will include discussions between Commission staff, 
MISO, SPP, American Electric Power Service Corporation, and the City of 
Prescott, Arkansas. These parties should be prepared to discuss the 
record in this proceeding, particularly the questions posed in the 
August 2020 Further Briefing Order and the briefs responding thereto. 
If time permits, there may be an opportunity for attendees to the 
technical conference to submit questions for discussion among the 
parties during the technical conference. Following the technical 
conference, parties to these proceedings may submit written post-
technical conference comments on or before December 8, 2020, which will 
be included in the formal record of the proceeding.
    Further details of this technical conference, including an agenda, 
will be provided in a supplemental notice after receipt of the briefs 
directed in the August 2020 Further Briefing Order. Procedures to be 
followed at the technical conference and any changes to the proposed 
agenda will be announced by staff at the opening of the technical 
conference. The technical conference will be transcribed.
    The technical conference is open to the public. Representatives of 
those parties identified above and other individuals wishing to attend 
the technical conference must register no later than noon on October 
30, 2020, at the following link: https://ferc.webex.com/ferc/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea7efc32ce32813a883c638047dce4471. Information on joining 
the technical conference will be posted on the Events Calendar on the 
Commission's website available at https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/events.
    Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please 
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-502-8659 (TTY); or send a fax to 202-208-2106 with 
the required accommodations.
    For more information about this technical conference, please 
contact Yasmine Jamnejad, yasmine.jamnejad@ferc.gov for technical 
information, and Colin Beckman, colin.beckman@ferc.gov, for legal 
information. For information related to logistics, please contact Sarah 
McKinley, 202-502-8368, sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov.

    Dated: October 1, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-22160 Filed 10-6-20; 8:45 am]
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