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FERC issues Sunshine Notice (Agenda) for May 15, 2008 Open Commission Meeting

FERC Chairman and Commissioners testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding the adequacy of state and federal regulatory structures for governing electric utility holding companies

FERC Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher appoints Michael J. Cianci, Jr. as new Administrative Law Judge

FERC staff issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Sparrows Point LNG and Mid-Atlantic Express Pipeline Project (CP07-62-000, et al.)

FERC staff prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the pipeline project. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is proposed for an industrial port setting on Sparrows Point, in Baltimore County, Maryland, and consist of facilities capable of unloading LNG ships, storing up to 480,000 cubic meters (m3) of LNG, vaporizing the LNG, and sending out natural gas at a baseload rate of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcfd). The pipeline would include about 88 miles of 30-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline (about 48 miles in Maryland and 40 miles in Pennsylvania), ending in Eagle, Pennsylvania.

Decision: FERC issues its decision in the mid-Atlantic region transmission rate incentives case

Decision: FERC issues its decision in the Petal Gas Storage cases responding to a federal court decision

Decision G-3: FERC issues its decision in the High Island Offshore cases responding to a federal court decision

Decision G-2: FERC issues its decision to reopen the record for a paper hearing in the Duke Energy Guadalupe Pipeline case

Policy Statement - G-1: FERC issues its Policy on return on equity which will govern all gas and oil rate proceedings

Order on Rehearing - E-1: FERC issues its decision on modifying long-term market power mitigation policy

Decision E-3: FERC issues its decision on Pacific Gas & Electric's petition for a decloaratory order

NOPR - E-2: FERC seeks comments on Modification of Interchange and Transmission Loading Relief Reliability Standards; and Electric Reliability Organization Interpretation of Specific Requirements of Four Reliability Standards

NOI - E-24: FERC seeks comments on certain areas of assessing electric annual charges

Decision - G-4: FERC issues its decision largely re-affirming its earlier ruling in Opinion No. 486

FERC staff issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Yadkin and Yadkin-Pee Dee River Hydroelectric Projects (P-2197 and P-2206)

The FEIS covers six existing hydroelectric developments that compose the Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.'s 210-megawatt (MW) Yadkin Hydroelectric Project No. 2197, and Progress Energy Carolina's (Progress Energy's) 108.6-MW Yadkin-Pee Dee River Hydroelectric Project No. 2206. Both projects are located in central North Carolina, with the Yadkin Project located on the Yadkin River in Davidson, Davie, Montgomery, Rowan, and Stanly counties and the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Project located on the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers in Anson, Montgomery, Richmond and Stanly counties.