If This Transco is the Key, Let's Find Another Door
Cynthia S. Bogorad of Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP
The September-October 1998 issue of Public Power included an article by M. Douglas Dunn and Mark Williams .
Conditional Approval of New Generating Facility
David S. Rosenzweig of Keegan Werlin LLP
On December 21, 1998, the Energy Facilities Siting Board (the "Siting Board") issued a tentative decision condition.
Detailed Summary of FERC'S Standard Market Design NOPR
Stephen H. Watts of McGuireWoods LLP
On July 31, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) in Docket No. RM01-12-000 containing its long-awaited standard market design (SMD) program designed "to remedy remaining undue discrimination in the provision of interstate transmission services and in other industry practices, and to assure just and reasonable rates within and among regional power markets." Regulations implementing SMD would be contained in a new Subpart G to be added to 18 CFR Part 35.
Summary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Standard Market Design
Leslie J. Lawner of Modrall Sperling
On July 31, 2002, the FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Docket No. RM01-12-000, "Remedying Undue Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and Standard Electricity Market Design," generally referred to as the SMD Rule. Initial comments on the rule are due 75 days after publication. The proposed rule would require all public utilities with open access transmission tariffs (OATTs) to file modifications to those tariffs to conform to the mandates of the proposed rule.