01/07/2013: Western has posted a PROPOSED Business practice for LGIA Option to Build under its "Business Practices" folder; "Draft BP's - 10 Day Comment" sub-folder; and "Business Practices Common to all Western Regions" link, or directly via the following URL: http://www.oasis.oati.com/woa/docs/WAPA/WAPAdocs/Western-Common-Business-Practices-Draft.html Note: Some browsers may require use of the "Open in New Window" right-click feature

Comments regarding the proposed business practice should be submitted within 10 business days of the posting date noted at the location above to: David Johnston at 970-461-7368 (email: djohnston@wapa.gov) and Raymond Vojdani at 970-461-7379 (email: avojdani@wapa.gov)

12/12/2012: Western's Rocky Mountain Region will be hosting the semi-annual WestConnect Stakeholder meeting in the Loveland, CO office. Details and agenda can be found at the following URL: http://westconnect.com/ Note: Some browsers may require use of the "Open in New Window" right-click feature

12/01/2012: Effective 12/01/2012, the CRCM loss rate will be 5.0 percent. For details on this revision, please check the "FY2013 Customer Letter for Customer Losses" file in the "Effective Business Practices" section of this webpage.

11/01/2012: Western has posted a PROPOSED business practice for TSR Annulments under its "Business Practices" folder; "Draft BP's - 10 Day Comment" sub-folder; and "Business Practices Common to all Western Regions" link, or directly via the following URL: http://www.oasis.oati.com/woa/docs/WAPA/WAPAdocs/Western-Common-Business-Practices-Draft.html Note: Some browsers may require use of the "Open in New Window" right-click feature

Comments regarding the proposed business practice should be submitted within 10 business days of the posting date noted at the location above to: David Johnston at 970-461-7368 (email: djohnston@wapa.gov) and Raymond Vojdani at 970-461-7379 (email: avojdani@wapa.gov)

10/01/2012: Western is currently going through a reconfiguration effective October 01, 2012. WALC will no longer be accepting transmission service requests for paths with the following PORs and PODs: PNPKWALC230; GLENCANYON2; NAVAJO230; KAY-LHV; SHR2; SJ345; SHIPROCK345; and FOURCORNE345. All Transmission service requests for the points listed should be submitted on the CRCM OASIS. This includes all short term, long term, point-to-point, and network service requests.

9/09/2012: RMR's Operations Manager (Darren Buck) has been temporarily reassigned as of September 9, 2012 to the position of CRSP-MC Manager.

8/30/2012: Western is currently going through a reconfiguration effective October 01, 2012. WALC will no longer be accepting transmission service requests for paths with the following PORs and PODs: PNPKWALC230; GLENCANYON2; NAVAJO230; KAY-LHV; SHR2; SJ345; SHIPROCK345; and FOURCORNE345. All Transmission service requests for the points listed should be submitted on the CRCM OASIS. This includes all short term, long term, point-to-point, and network service requests.

4/30/2012: Please note that Western's General Counsel, John Bremer, has been temporarily designated as Western's acting Standards of Conduct (SOC) Chief Compliance Officer. For this purpose, Mr. Bremer's contact information is: John Bremer, General Counsel Western Area Power Administration P.O. Box 281213 Lakewood, CO 80228-8213 Phone: (720) 962-7019 Email: SOCChiefComplianceOffice@wapa.gov

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3/19/2012: Changes for Western's Future: Secretary Chu's message.

03/02/2011: OATT Revision Filed with FERC, Effective Date of April 3, 2011 (Revised Section 2.2 effective March 2, 2011)

Western Area Power Administration submitted revisions to its non-jurisdictional Open Access Transmission Tariff in compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Order dated December 2, 2010. This compliance filing ( Filing Letter for revised OATT (March 2, 2011) revises the new baseline eTariff, which is substantially the same tariff originally submitted in Docket No. NJ10-1-000. Western requested the Commission deem the revisions to its OATT proposed in the compliance filing become effective April 3, 2011, with the exception of the revisions to Section 2.2, which Western requested become effective on March 2, 2011. The revised OATT is available under the "Tariff" Documents Folder on the WAPA OASIS and at the following: WAPA-Tariff-Docs If you have any questions, please contact David Johnston at (970) 461-7368, or by email at djohnston@wapa.gov