E7-18249. Lee County, FL; Notice of Filing

September 11, 2007.

Take notice that on September 7, 2007, Lee County, Florida (Lee County) filed an appeal from the August 21, 2007 decision of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to include Lee County's municipal solid waste resource recovery generating facility on the NERC compliance registry within the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council for the function of generator owner. Lee County states that it owns or operates a waste-to-steam facility which generates electric through recovery of steam produced as a byproduct from the combustion of municipal solid waste, which is a qualifying facility (QF). Lee County asks the Commission to reverse the NERC's inclusion of its QFs on the compliance registry and to stay the effectiveness of the NERC decision pending resolution of the appeal by the Commission.

Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 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 notice of intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date. On or before the comment date, it is not necessary to serve motions to intervene or protests on persons other than the Applicant.

The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the “eFiling” link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov,, using the “eLibrary” link and is available for review in the Commission's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an “eSubscription” link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive e-mail notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service, please e-mail [e-mail], or call [phone] (toll free). For TTY, call [phone].

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on October 9, 2007.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.