[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43280-43281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17921]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[ Docket No. AD12-12-000]
Coordination Between Natural Gas and Electricity Markets;
Supplemental Notice of Technical Conferences
On July 5, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) issued a notice scheduling a series of regional technical
conferences on the issue of gas-electric coordination.\1\ This
supplemental notice contains additional information regarding the time
and venue of each conference. The conferences are free of charge and
open to the public. Commission members may participate in the
conferences.
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\1\ Coordination between Natural Gas and Electricity Markets,
Docket No. AD12-12-000 (July 5, 2012) (Notice of Technical
Conferences) (http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/opennat.asp?fileID=13023450); 77 FR 41184 (July 12, 2012) (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07-12/pdf/2012-16997.pdf).
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The regional technical conferences will be held on the following
dates, at the following venues:
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Central....................... August 6, 2012... St. Louis, MO, Hilton
St. Louis at the
Ballpark, 1 South
Broadway, St. Louis,
MO, 63102, USA, Tel:
1-314-421-1776, 1-
877-845-7354 (toll
free).
Northeast..................... August 20, 2012.. Boston, MA, Hyatt
Harborside at
Boston's Logan
International
Airport, 101
Harborside Drive,
Boston, MA, 02128,
USA, Tel: 1-617-568-
1234, 1-888-421-1442
(toll free).
Southeast..................... August 23, 2012.. Washington, DC, FERC
HQ.
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West.......................... August 28, 2012.. Portland, OR,
DoubleTree by Hilton
Hotel Portland, 1000
NE., Multnomah
Street, Portland,
OR, 97232, USA, Tel:
1-503-281-6111, 1-
800-996-0510 (toll
free).
Mid-Atlantic.................. August 30, 2012.. Washington, DC, FERC
HQ.
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Each conference will begin at 9 a.m. and end at approximately 5:30
p.m. The dress code for the conferences will be business casual.
Subsequent notices will be issued specifying the agenda and roundtable
participants for each conference.
The conferences will not be transcribed. However, there will be a
free webcast of the conferences held at FERC HQ and a free audiocast of
the conferences held offsite. The webcasts and audiocasts will allow
persons to view or listen to the conference, but not participate.
Anyone with Internet access who desires to listen to a conference can
do so by navigating to www.ferc.gov's Calendar of Events and locating
the conference in the Calendar. Each conference will contain a link to
its webcast or audiocast, as applicable. The Capitol Connection
provides technical support for webcasts and audiocasts and offers the
option of listening to the meeting via phone-bridge for a fee. If you
have any questions, visit www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703-993-
3100.
If you have not already done so, those that plan to attend a
conference are strongly encouraged to complete the registration form
located at: www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/nat-gas-elec-mkts-form.asp. If you plan to attend more than one conference, please
register separately for each conference.
As provided for in the July 5th notice, those wishing to
participate in a roundtable should complete the request form located at
www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/nat-gas-elec-mkts-speaker-form.asp
by the close of business on July 19, 2012. The conference will be
organized as a roundtable discussion of the topics identified in the
July 5th notice and Commission staff will moderate the discussion of
each topic. Roundtable participants will not be giving presentations or
providing opening remarks. Time permitting, comments or questions from
those attending the conference, but not participating in the
roundtable, will be permitted. If you would like to participate in more
than one roundtable, please complete a separate request form for each
conference. Due to time and seating constraints, we may not be able to
accommodate all those interested in participating in the roundtables.
Information on the conferences will also be posted on the Web site
www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/electric-coord.asp, as well
as the Calendar of Events on the Commission's Web site www.ferc.gov gov,
prior to the conferences.
Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please
send an email to [email protected] or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-208-8659 (TTY), or send a Fax to 202-208-2106 with
the required accommodations.
For more information about the regional technical conferences,
please contact:
Pamela Silberstein, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8938,
[email protected].
Sarah McKinley, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8004, [email protected].
Dated: July 17, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-17921 Filed 7-23-12; 8:45 am]
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