Revision of Public Reference Room Procedures for Record Requests

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is updating its regulation at part 388 governing fees for paper copies of records available in its Public Reference Room. Until now, to enable requesters to determine whether they wished to order lengthy Commission documents before having to pay for their entire request, the Commission would provide paper copies of up to ten pages free of charge. Now, however, because Commission documents may be previewed electronically over the Internet and in the Public Reference Room, the Commission is eliminating its existing rule providing for up to ten pages without charge. The Commission is also providing that the schedule of fees for finding and duplicating records from the Public Reference Room will be available on the Commission's Web site.