98-6276. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and Southern California Edison Company; Notice of Filing

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 11887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6276]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. EC96-19-017 and ER96-1663-018]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric 
Company, and Southern California Edison Company; Notice of Filing

March 4, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 3, 1998, the California Independent 
System Operator Corporation (ISO), filed for Commission acceptance in 
this docket, pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act, an 
application to amend the ISO Tariff, including the ISO Protocols, and a 
motion for waiver of the 60-day notice requirement. The ISO requests 
that the proposed amendments be made effective as of the ISO Operations 
Date.
    The ISO states the Amendment No. 4 would provide (1) A mechanism to 
resolve mismatches in Inter-Scheduling Coordinator Trades; (2) a 
mechanism to allow Scheduling coordinators to buy back and sell back 
Ancillary Services in the Hour-Ahead Market; (3) a clarification 
providing for the use of Day-Ahead Market Clearing Process to allocate 
Replacement Reserves; (4) amendments to conform the ISO Tariff 
provisions on Black Start and Voltage Support to contractual agreements 
between the ISO and providers of Black Start Voltage Support; (5) 
clarification of the payments process for Reliability Must-Run 
Contracts pursuant to Section 5.2.7 of the ISO Tariff; (6) 
clarification of definitions for the Imbalance Energy calculation; (7) 
a simplification of the calculation of the Usage Charge relating to 
Participating to debits; (8) amendments necessary to reflect the 
limitations of a temporary manual workaround for assessing Wheeling 
Access Charges until a recently discovered software variance can be 
corrected; (9) amendments to various default Usage Charge provisions to 
address gaming opportunities; and (10) deletion of the requirement that 
the ISO publish the Hour-Ahead GMMs. The ISO states that the proposed 
amendments are necessary for the initial operations of the ISO.
    The ISO additional requests that the Commission allow an automatic 
termination, upon seven (7) days notice, of proposed Section 7.1.4.4 of 
the ISO Tariff.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said filing should 
file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, 
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 385.211 and 18 CFR 385.214). All such 
motions or protests should be filed on or before March 16, 1998. 
Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants 
parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must 
file a motion to intervene. Copies of this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6276 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
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