[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 125 (Friday, July 2, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 35286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-14240]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. EL21-39-000]


Neptune Regional Transmission System Long Island Power Authority 
v. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.; Notice Establishing Paper Hearing 
Procedures

    On December 31, 2020, Neptune Regional Transmission System, LLC 
(Neptune) and Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) (together, Neptune/
LIPA), pursuant to sections 206 and 306 of the Federal Power Act 
(FPA),\1\ filed a complaint alleging the assignment of costs pursuant 
to the provisions of the regional cost allocation method included in 
the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) Open Access Transmission Tariff 
(Tariff) results in unjust and unreasonable rates. In an order issued 
on June 25, 2021, the Commission found that Neptune/LIPA has raised 
questions of material fact about the 1% de minimis threshold and 
netting provisions of PJM's solution-based DFAX method and whether the 
rates may have become unjust and unreasonable.\2\ The Commission found 
that the record would benefit from further information and established 
paper hearing procedures to develop a further record.
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    \1\ 16 U.S.C. 824e and 825e.
    \2\ Neptune Reg'l Transmission Sys., LLC v. PJM Interconnection, 
L.L.C., 175 FERC ] 61,247, at P 29 (2021).
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    Any interested persons who currently are not parties to Docket No. 
EL21-39-000 may submit notices of intervention or motions to intervene, 
as appropriate, within 21 days of the date of the Commission's June 25, 
2021 order establishing paper hearing procedures. The briefing schedule 
described in Ordering Paragraph (D) of the June 25, 2021 order will 
apply to such persons.

    Dated: June 28, 2021.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-14240 Filed 7-1-21; 8:45 am]
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