TITLE 18 - CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES

CHAPTER I - FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

SUBCHAPTER B - REGULATIONS UNDER THE FEDERAL POWER ACT

PART 35 - FILING OF RATE SCHEDULES AND TARIFFS

subpart c - OTHER FILING REQUIREMENTS

35.15 - Notices of cancellation or termination.

  (a) General rule. When a rate schedule or part thereof required to be on file with the Commission is proposed to be cancelled or is to terminate by its own terms and no new rate schedule or part thereof is to be filed in its place, each party required to file the schedule shall notify the Commission of the proposed cancellation or termination on the form indicated in 131.53 of this chapter at least sixty days but not more than one hundred-twenty days prior to the date such cancellation or termination is proposed to take effect. A copy of such notice to the Commission shall be duly posted. With such notice each filing party shall submit a statement giving the reasons for the proposed cancellation or termination, and a list of the affected purchasers to whom the notice has been mailed. For good cause shown, the Commission may by order provide that the notice of cancellation or termination shall be effective as of a date prior to the date of filing or prior to the date the filing would become effective in accordance with these rules.

  (b) Applicability. (1) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this section shall apply to all contracts for unbundled transmission service and all power sale contracts: (i) Executed prior to July 9, 1996; or (ii) If unexecuted, filed with the Commission prior to July 9, 1996.

  (2) Any power sales contract executed on or after July 9, 1996 that is to terminate by its own terms shall not be subject to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section.

  (c) Notice. Any public utility providing jurisdictional services under a power sales contract that is not subject to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section shall notify the Commission of the date of the termination of such contract within 30 days after such termination takes place.

[Order 888, 61 FR 21692, May 10, 1996]