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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 39 / Tuesday, March 2, 2021 / Notices
2. The Commission requires sellers with market-based rate authorization to file Electric Quarterly Reports summarizing contractual and transaction information related to their market-based power sales as a condition for retaining that authorization.2
Commission staffs review of the Electric Quarterly Reports indicates that the following 10 public utilities with market-based rate authorization have failed to file their Electric Quarterly Reports: Palama, LLC; City Power Marketing, LLC; Oracle Energy Services, LLC; EmpireCo Limited Partnership;
Allied Energy Resources Corporation;
Entra Energy LLC; BlueRock Energy, Inc.; Power Dave Fund LLC; ESS Lewes Project, LLC; and ESS Snook Project, LLC. This order notifies these public utilities that their market-based rate authorizations will be revoked unless they comply with the Commissions requirements within 15 days of the date of issuance of this order.
3. In Order No. 2001, the Commission stated that, if a public utility fails to file an Electric Quarterly Report without an appropriate request for extension, or fails to report an agreement in a report, that public utility may forfeit its market-based rate authority and may be required to file a new application for market-based rate authority if it wishes to resume making sales at market-based rates.3

4. The Commission further stated that, once this rule becomes effective, the requirement to comply with this rule will supersede the conditions in public utilities market-based rate authorizations, and failure to comply with the requirements of this rule will subject public utilities to the same consequences they would face for not satisfying the conditions in their rate authorizations, including possible revocation of their authority to make wholesale power sales at market-based rates.4

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5. Pursuant to these requirements, the Commission has revoked the marketbased rate tariffs of market-based rate 2016 clarifying Electric Quarterly Reports reporting requirements and updating Data Dictionary.
2 See Refinements to Policies and Procedures for Mkt.-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Elec.
Energy, Capacity & Ancillary Servs. by Pub. Utils., Order No. 816, 153 FERC 61,065 2015, order on rehg, Order No. 816A, 155 FERC 61,188 2016.
See also Mkt.-Based Rates for Wholesale Sales of Elec. Energy, Capacity & Ancillary Servs. by Pub.
Utils., Order No. 697, 119 FERC 61,295, at P 3, clarified, 121 FERC 61,260 2007, order on rehg, Order No. 697A, 123 FERC 61,055, clarified, 124
FERC 61,055, order on rehg, Order No. 697B, 125 FERC 61,326 2008, order on rehg, Order No.
697C, 127 FERC 61,284 2009, order on rehg, Order No. 697D, 130 FERC 61,206 2010, affd sub nom. Mont. Consumer Counsel v. FERC, 659
F.3d 910 9th Cir. 2011.
3 Order No. 2001, 99 FERC 61,107 at P 222.
4 Id. P 223.

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sellers that failed to submit their Electric Quarterly Reports.5
6. Sellers must file Electric Quarterly Reports consistent with the procedures set forth in Order Nos. 2001, 768,6 and 770.7 The exact filing dates for Electric Quarterly Reports are prescribed in 18
CFR 35.10b. As noted above, Commission staffs review of the Electric Quarterly Reports for the period up to the third quarter of 2020 identified 10 public utilities with market-based rate authorization that failed to file Electric Quarterly Reports. Commission staff contacted or attempted to contact these entities to remind them of their regulatory obligations. Despite these reminders, the public utilities listed in the caption of this order have not met these obligations. Accordingly, this order notifies these public utilities that their market-based rate authorizations will be revoked unless they comply with the Commissions requirements within 15 days of the issuance of this order.
7. In the event that any of the abovecaptioned market-based rate sellers have already filed their Electric Quarterly Reports in compliance with the Commissions requirements, those sellers inclusion herein is inadvertent.
Such market-based rate sellers are directed, within 15 days of the date of issuance of this order, to make a filing with the Commission identifying themselves and providing details about their prior filings that establish that they complied with the Commissions Electric Quarterly Report filing requirements.
8. If any of the above-captioned market-based rate sellers do not wish to continue having market-based rate authority, they may file a notice of cancellation with the Commission pursuant to section 205 of the FPA to cancel their market-based rate tariff.
The Commission orders:
A Within 15 days of the date of issuance of this order, each public utility listed in the caption of this order shall file with the Commission all delinquent Electric Quarterly Reports. If a public utility subject to this order fails to make the filings required in this order, the Commission will revoke that public utilitys market-based rate authorization and will terminate its 5 See, e.g., Elec. Q. Rep., 82 FR 60,976 Dec. 26, 2017; Electric Quarterly Reports, 80 FR 58,243
Sep. 28, 2015; Elec. Q. Rep., 79 FR 65,651 Nov.
5, 2014.
6 Elec. Mkt. Transparency Provisions of Section 220 of the Fed. Power Act, Order No. 768, 140 FERC
61,232 2012, order on rehg, Order No. 768A, 143 FERC 61,054 2013, order on rehg, Order No.
768B, 150 FERC 61,075 2015.
7 Revisions to Elec. Q. Rep. Filing Process, Order No. 770, 141 FERC 61,120 2012.

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electric market-based rate tariff. The Secretary is hereby directed, upon expiration of the filing deadline in this order, to promptly issue a notice, effective on the date of issuance, listing the public utilities whose tariffs have been revoked for failure to comply with the requirements of this order and the Commissions Electric Quarterly Report filing requirements.
B The Secretary is hereby directed to publish this order in the Federal Register.
By the Commission.
Issued: February 24, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Combined Notice of Filings Take notice that the Commission has received the following Natural Gas Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Docket Number: PR2131000.
Applicants: Southcross CCNG
Transmission Ltd.
Description: Tariff filing per 284.123b,e+g: Revision to Statement of Operating Conditions to be effective 2/22/2021.
Filed Date: 2/22/2021.
Accession Number: 202102225074
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 3/15/2021
284.123g Protests Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/
23/2021.
Docket Numbers: RP21509000.
Applicants: Golden Pass Pipeline LLC.
Description: Golden Pass Pipeline LLC submits tariff filing per 154.203:
GPPL Annual Retainage Report for 2021
to be effective 4/1/2021.
Filed Date: 02/23/2021.
Accession Number: 202102235118.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/8/2021.
Docket Numbers: RP21510000.
Applicants: Vector Pipeline L.P.
Description: Vector Pipeline L.P.
submits tariff filing per 154.204:
Negotiated Rate FilingBWEC to be effective 3/1/2021.
Filed Date: 02/23/2021.
Accession Number: 202102235145.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/8/2021.
Docket Numbers: RP21511000.
Applicants: El Paso Natural Gas Company, L.L.C.
Description: El Paso Natural Gas Company, L.L.C. submits tariff filing per 154.204: Negotiated Rate Agreements
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