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of Energy, effective January 1, 1979, which was published in the Federal Register on December 28, 1978 (43 F,R. 60636), with respect to the activ- ities of the Assistant Sectretary for Resource Applications and the Power Marketing Administrators. (b) These regulations shall apply to all power and transmission rate adjustment proceedings for the four power marketing administrations which are commenced after these regulations become effective. Thus, for all new rate proceedings they supersede the informal practices followed by the Alaska and Southwestern Power Admini strat ions and supersede the following published regulations only as they apply to rate adjustments: (1) for the Southeastern Power Administration, the "Procedure for Public Participation in the Formulation of Marketing Policy," 43 F.R. 29186 (July 6, 1978); and (2) for the Western Area Power Administration, the "Procedures for Public Participation in General Adjustments in Rates for Power Marketed by the Western Area Power Administration," 43 F.R. 12076 (March 23, 1978), as amended by 44 F.R. 7796 (February 7, 1979), Section 903.2 - Definitions As used herein-- (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Power Marketing Administration (PMA) whose rate is involved in the rate adjustment or anyone acting in such capacity, (b) Resource capacity. (c) "Department" means the Department of Energy inc 1 ud ing the PMAs and excluding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. "Assistant Secretary" means the Assistant Secretary for Applications of the Department, or anyone acting in such (d) "FERC" means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (e) "Major adjustment" means a rate adjustment other than a minor rate adj ustment. (f) "Minor new service" means a new service which (1) will produce less than a 1 percent change in the annual revenues of the power system, or (2) is for a new power system which has either annual sales normally less than 100 million kilowatthours or an installed capacity of ~ess than 20,000 kilowatts, or (3) will not be provided for more than one year, or (4) is for the temporary disposition, for not more than one year, of the output of a new powerplant. (g) "Minor rate adjustment" means a rate adjustment which (1) will produce 1 ess th an a 1 percent change in the annual revenues of the power system, or (2) is for a power system which has either annual sales norm- ally less than 100 million kilowatthours or an installed capacity of less than 20,000 kilowatts, or (3) is a rate for a minor new service. 34 (: .~ I 1,t. .",," " " ,'. ~ ''; I