Notice2024-28244
Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of Revisions to eTariff
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Published
December 3, 2024
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Energy DepartmentFederal Energy Regulatory Commission
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 95763-95765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28244]
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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 November 25, 2024, the Commission deployed
version 2.0 of the eTariff program. All eTariff filings must be
submitted using the revised version. The revised eTariff schema and
associated files are displayed at the same accession number as this
Notice.\1\
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\1\ These files also will be posted on the Commission's website
at <a href="https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/etariff">https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/etariff</a>.
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These revisions enhance the capabilities of the system by enabling
filing pipelines and utilities to (1) identify the correct lead
applicants for a proceeding; (2) have more flexibility in the programs
used to create and file tariffs by filing tariff records in Microsoft
Word or Excel format; and (3) differentiate between compliance filings
in a current proceeding and compliance filings that establish a new
docket. In addition, new codes permit utilities to distinguish baseline
line rate change filings from baseline initial rate filings.
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
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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.
These revisions are described in more detail below:
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 submitting the filing wants to be
considered a co-applicant, or enter additional email addresses, they
must enter that information as an ``Additional Applicant'' 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.
III. Revised Filing Codes
The revised compliance codes will ensure that parties differentiate
between (1) compliance filings in a current proceeding for which the
filer has a filing identifier, which are assigned a sub-docket
(compliance_type category), and (2) compliance filings, such as
compliance with complaint orders and rulemakings, where the filer has
no existing filing identifier and therefore must establish a new docket
(compliance_new category).
Under the eTariff XML schema, filers that are making a filing
related to an existing proceeding with a Filing
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Identifier must include an Associated Filing Identifier at the Filing
level for the filing to receive a sub-docket. In this situation, filers
must submit the filing using the compliance_type category and must
include an associated filing identifier at the Filing level, so they
are assigned a sub-docket of the original docket. Failure to include
the associated filing identifier will result in a rejection of the
filing (Error code 28- An Associated Filing Identifier is required at
filing level.). Type of Filing Codes designated under the
compliance_new_type category apply to filings that will receive a new
docket number. If the filing using these codes includes an associated
filing identifier at the Filing level, the filing be rejected (Error
code 187--This type of filing code establishes a new docket, so the
associated filing identifier is not needed).
New codes also have been added to permit utilities establishing new
Tariff baselines to distinguish between rate change filings (code 390)
and initial rate filings under section 35.12 of the Commission's
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\2\ 18 CFR 35.12 (2024).
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Questions on eTariff should be directed to:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#24415045564d4242564157544b4a574164424156470a434b52"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abcedfcad9c2cdcdd9ced8dbc4c5d8ceebcdced9c885ccc4dd">[email protected]</span></a>.
Dated: November 25, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-28244 Filed 12-2-24; 8:45 am]
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