E8-20859. Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, et al. v. Southwestern Public Service Company, Southwestern Public Service Company, Southwestern Public Service Company; Notice of Filing

September 3, 2008.

On August 29, 2008, Southwestern Public Service Company, on behalf of itself, Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc., Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc., Occidental Permian Ltd. and Occidental Power Marketing, L.P., filed an Amendment No. 2 to its Offer of Settlement and Settlement Agreement filed on December 3, 2007 and approved by the Commission on April 21, 2008 in this proceeding.

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. Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant and all the parties in this proceeding.

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 pm Eastern Time on September 10, 2008.

Reply Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on September 17, 2008.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.