Issuances are documents issued by the Commission, the Secretary of the Commission, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), or any other agency official with delegated authority. These documents originate within the Commission. An exception to this classification is made for legal documents that are treated as submittals and are prepared by staff counsel for the purpose of litigation.
The links below will provide you with information about specific types of Issuances.
ALJ Issuance
Approved Designation
FERC Comment
FERC Correspondence with Applicant (Submitting Party)
FERC Correspondence with Government Agencies
FERC Memo
FERC Report/Study
Informational Correspondence (Miscellaneous Issuance)
Informational Letter
Notice
Order/Opinion
Responses to Inquiry
Transcript
FERC studies are part of a class of documents that are prepared by Commission staff or by a consultant under contract with FERC and issued by the Commission on a topic or subject related to the Commission's regulatory responsibilities. FERC reports class is a group of reports prepared and issued by the Office of Hydropower Licensing, one of its divisions, or regional offices, summarizing the findings and recommendations determined by a review of the records or technical data or by a field investigation and inspection of a hydropower project. Such a report can be prepared in an evaluation process; thus, it is intended to be an internal working document not available to the public. In other instances, such reports provide technical and engineering data necessary to meet safety and environmental requirements and are public records of compliance with these standards.
To see definitions of individual reports and studies, click here.
This is a document authored by Commission staff and addressed to an external party on a matter involving FERC regulatory responsibilities. Such documents frequently concern general subjects of energy regulation and are not specific to any particular docketed proceeding.
Informational Correspondence is a letter or other correspondence prepared by Commission staff and addressed to an external party other than a hydropower project applicant, licensee, exemptee, permittee or governmental agency, providing general information about the regulatory activities of the Commission. Such correspondence is merely informational or advisory. Documents in this class may provide information concerning one or more hydropower projects, and such documents are designated by the project docket numbers for the specified projects. Other documents in this class concern general subjects of energy regulation and are not specific to any particular docketed proceeding. Typically, informational correspondence is prepared in response to external inquiries or requests for information.
These are letters prepared by Commission staff and addressed to an external party, other than a utility or government agency, in response to an inquiry or request for information on a general subject or broad topic of energy regulation. Such a FERC response frequently is not directed to a specific docketed matter.
This is a letter or other correspondence prepared by Commission staff and addressed to an external party other than a utility or government agency, which provides general information about the regulatory activities of the Commission. Such correspondence is merely informational or advisory. Such letters typically have a general or broad subject matter and accordingly are not identified by a specific docket designation.
This is a verbatim record of a proceeding conducted by the Commission or a FERC office. There are three types of documents in the transcript class.
To see definitions of individual types of transcripts, click here.
This class includes documents prepared by a FERC office and addressed to a utility, or other filing party which has submitted an application, request or report to be acted upon by the FERC office.
FERC Correspondence With Submitting Party is a class of correspondence that includes documents prepared by a FERC office and addressed to a hydropower project applicant or licensee, or other filing party that has submitted an application, request or report to be acted upon by the FERC office. There are four types of documents within this class of documents (see below).
To see definitions of individual types of correspondence with applicants, click here.
These are letters or other documents prepared by FERC and addressed to another federal or state government agency advising, notifying, or otherwise informing the receiving agency with respect to a matter related to FERC regulatory jurisdiction. The document class excludes FOIA requests, Associated Public File (APF) and other documents identified as congressional constituent casework and correspondence related to FERC administrative matters but unrelated to regulatory subject matter.
This is an internal work paper document that is prepared by and addressed to FERC staff, and it concerns the routing or transmittal of documents as work product or analyses and evaluation functions (including staff recommendations pertinent to Commission action in regulatory matters), or summary of a telephone conversation with other FERC staff or an external party. There are four types of memoranda in this class of issuances.
To see definitions of individual types of memos, click here.
This is a document stating the views and recommendations of the Commissions, usually in response to a request soliciting FERC analysis on a House or Senate bill that is pending legislation before a Congressional Committee, on an oversight activity by a Congressional Committee whose jurisdiction is related to FERC regulatory matters, or on pending actions or proposed procedures on the part of other federal or state agencies concerning matters that involve parallel or shared jurisdictional responsibilities with the Commission, such as EPA, bureaus within the Department of the Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers.
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This is a class of documents authored by an ALJ concerning the status or disposition of a proceeding over which the ALJ presides. There are three types of documents that are issued by an ALJ.
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This is a formal issuance by the Office of the Secretary or a FERC office communicating to the general public that an application, petition, request or compliance submittal has been filed with the Commission, or advising that a Commission action has been scheduled, or giving notice of a formal Commission action. A formal notice of the filing of an application advises the public that comments, protests and other petitions are invited and must be filed within a specified time period. There are two types of notices in this class (see below).
To see definitions of individual types of Notice definitions, click here.
This is a formal ruling by the Commission, or by an office within FERC exercising delegated authority, for the disposition of an application or petition, a procedural question, or of a jurisdictional matter.
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This is a rate document (tariff sheet, initial rate schedule and supplement, or service agreement) to which OEPR has affixed a stamp that specifies the effective date, designation numbers, and docket number of the rate filing. Types of approved designation are rate schedules, tariffs, and service agreements entered under terms of the tariff.