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• Detailed Summary of FERC'S Standard Market Design NOPR ( June 2002 )
  Stephen H. Watts of McGuireWoods, LLP

  On July 31, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) in Docket No. RM01-12-000 containing its long-awaited standard market design (SMD) program designed "to remedy remaining undue discrimination in the provision of interstate transmission services and in other industry practices, and to assure just and reasonable rates within and among regional power markets." Regulations implementing SMD would be contained in a new Subpart G to be added to 18 CFR Part 35.

• Summary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Standard Market Design ( August 2002 )
  Leslie J. Lawner of Modrall Sperling

  On July 31, 2002, the FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Docket No. RM01-12-000, "Remedying Undue Discrimination through Open Access Transmission Service and Standard Electricity Market Design," generally referred to as the SMD Rule. Initial comments on the rule are due 75 days after publication. The proposed rule would require all public utilities with open access transmission tariffs (OATTs) to file modifications to those tariffs to conform to the mandates of the proposed rule.

• Conditional Approval of New Generating Facility ( April 2000 )
  David S. Rosenzweig of Keegan Werlin LLP

  On December 21, 1998, the Energy Facilities Siting Board (the "Siting Board") issued a tentative decision condition.

• If This Transco is the Key, Let's Find Another Door ( June 1999 )
  Cynthia S. Bogorad of Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP

  The September-October 1998 issue of Public Power included an article by M. Douglas Dunn and Mark Williams .