Notice2024-13284
Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of Revisions to eTariff
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Published
June 17, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51331-51332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13284]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RM01-5-000]
Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of Revisions to eTariff
Take notice that on September 30, 2024, the Commission will
implement revisions to the eTariff program to enhance the capabilities
of the system by enabling filing pipelines and utilities to identify
the correct lead applicants for a proceeding and to have more
flexibility in the programs used to create and file tariffs by filing
tariff records in Microsoft Word or Excel format.
As a result of adding the capability to file in Word or Excel,
certain changes will be made in the way eTariff is displayed on the
eTariff Public Viewer and eLibrary. The tariff files will be converted
to .pdf using print-to-pdf for display. The Public Viewer display
should appear as it does today for .pdf filings. The tariff files in
eLibrary will display in a FERC Generated PDF document. The metadata
for each tariff record will display on one page (rather than at the top
of the page) and the tariff text will follow on the next page.
Along with this document, the Commission also is posting, under the
same eLibrary Accession Number, a marked version of the revised XML
schema and the revised validation codes that will be associated with
these revisions.
Starting on June 28, 2024, a sandbox will be made available for
pipeline and utility companies to make test filings under the new XML
schema.
In addition, pursuant to the Commission's previous practice in
developing eTariff standards,\1\ the North American Standards
Organization (NAESB) will be hosting a virtual meeting with Commission
staff on July 23, 2024, starting at 10 a.m. EST to discuss these
issues. People wishing to attend the meeting should contact NAESB at:
(713) 356-0060 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e606f6b7d6c4e606f6b7d6c20617c69"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="036d62667061436d626670612d6c7164">[email protected]</span></a> to register and obtain log-on
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\1\ Electronic Tariff Filings, Order No. 714, 124 FERC ] 61,270
(2008).
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I. Lead Applicant Identification
The eTariff XML schema will add a mandatory lead applicant field.
The lead applicant field will determine the lead party making the
filing and will be added to the Commission's service list. This change
will require the filing pipeline or utility to add the Company
Identifier (CID) for the lead applicant to the XML schema. Filings
without a lead applicant CID will be rejected. Filers also must
continue to include the company id field to identify the company whose
tariff is being revised. If pipelines and utilities are filing with
themselves as the lead applicant, they will include their own CID in
both the lead_applicant_id field and the company_id field if they are
filing for themselves.
The Commission also will post on the eTariff website, <a href="https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/etariff">https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/etariff</a>, a CSV file with CID numbers and will
endeavor to update that file monthly.
Pipelines and utilities will continue to make the eTariff filings
through the eFiling web page at <a href="https://ferconline.ferc.gov/Login.aspx">https://ferconline.ferc.gov/Login.aspx</a>.
The contact information associated with the CID of the lead applicant
will be added to the Commission's service list. Filers need to be aware
that although the filing pipeline or utility will be presented with the
following screen and will have to enter an email address as signer, the
company and email will not be added to the service list.
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If the pipeline or utility wants to be considered a co-applicant,
or enter additional email addresses, they must enter that information
on a subsequent screen in the eFiling process along with information
about any other co-applicants.
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II. Flexibility To Include Microsoft Word and Excel Files as Tariff
Records
Filing pipelines and utilities will be able to include tariff
records in Microsoft Word and Excel as well as submitting tariff
records as RTF or PDF. The Commission wants to provide as much
flexibility in making these filings as possible, particularly in Excel,
but to assure that tariff records can be read easily, certain
formatting requirements are necessary.
A. Word Files
Word files may be in portrait or landscape format with a format no
larger than 11''x17'' ledger size.
B. Excel Files
The following are the formatting requirements for Excel files.
1. Filings may be in portrait or landscape.
2. Page size may be no larger than 11''x17'' ledger size.
3. Excel file must properly define the print range, including print
titles and print page order, so the document can render properly in
PDF. Filers need to be careful to ensure that their print range does
not result in generating numerous blank pages.
4. If columns or rows roll over to subsequent pages, columns or row
headers need to be repeated so that subsequent pages are easily
understood.
5. An accurate marked version of the tariff record still must be
filed as an attachment.
Questions on these changes should be directed to: Michael
Goldenberg at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#eba68288838a8e87c5ac84878f8e85898e998cab8d8e9988c58c849d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c38eaaa0aba2a6afed84acafa7a6ada1a6b1a483a5a6b1a0eda4acb5">[email protected]</span></a> or James Sarikas at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a3e9c2cec6d08df0c2d1cac8c2d0e3c5c6d1c08dc4ccd5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="682209050d1b463b091a0103091b280e0d1a0b460f071e">[email protected]</span></a>.
Dated: June 11, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-13284 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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