Revisions and Technical Corrections To Conform the Commission's Regulations to the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013
hydroelectric · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Published 2014-10-01 · Effective 2015-02-23 · 79 FR 59105
Document
Document number
2014-23204
Federal Register citation
79 FR 59105
CFR reference
18 CFR 4
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
hydroelectric
Sub-agency
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publication date
2014-10-01
Effective date
2015-02-23
Energy docket
Docket No. RM14-22-000
Abstract
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) issues this Final Rule to amend its regulations to conform to the enacted Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 (Hydropower Efficiency Act). Although the Commission has been complying with the Hydropower Efficiency Act, and made its compliance procedures available on its Web site, this Final Rule now formalizes the Commission's compliance procedures in its revised regulations on preliminary permits, small conduit hydroelectric facilities, and small hydroelectric power projects, and in a new subpart on qualifying conduit hydropower facilities. In addition, this Final Rule corrects grammatical and typographical errors. All revisions in this Final Rule are intended to be ministerial in nature.