How to file a motion to intervene

FERC Front Page

300x519 FERC front page, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 From FERC’s front page, ferc.gov, hover your mouse over DOCUMENTS & FILINGS and click on eFiling, which will take you to this link: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.

Log in or eRegister

300x193 Login or eRegister, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Use eRegister if you don’t already have a login.

Once you are registered, log in.

FERC Online Home Page

300x248 Home, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Click on eFiling.

Filing Type

300x195 Filing type, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Under “How is your filing to be directed?” select General.

Under “What kind of filing are you making?” select Intervention.

Under “Filing Type”,

  • If you don’t want to attach any documents, select
    “(doc-less) Motion to Intervene”
  • If you do want to attach documents, select
    “Motion to Intervene”

Remember you can file more intervention documents later; you don’t have to file anything but the bare information now.

Click Next.

Select Docket

300x198 Search-docket, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Enter CP15-17 in the text box and click Search.

300x196 Docket-cp15-17, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Click the plus mark (+) next to Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC.

It’s best if you also add the other two dockets for the other two parts of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project:

300x222 All three dockets selected, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014

Once you’ve added dockets, click Next.

Document-less Intervention Description

If under “Filing Type” you selected “(doc-less) Motion to Intervene” here’s what you need to do at the current step.

300x195 Description, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Type in a paragraph describing why you want to intervene.

Here are two examples, from

If fossil fuel companies can do it, pipeline opponents can do it.

Once you have entered your description, click Next to go to “Specify Filing Parties“.

Documents with Intervention Description

If under “Filing Type” you selected “Motion to Intervene” you also get an opportunity at this point to upload documents.

Here is an example, from Gulf Restoration Network.

Once you have uploaded all the documents you want to include, click Next to go to “Specify Filing Parties“.

Specify Filing Parties

300x197 Parties, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 If you want to intervene on behalf of an organization, enter a piece of its name in the text box and click Search.

300x227 Searched-orgs, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Click on the plus (+) next to the organizaton name you want. (You probably want to be a bit more specific than the example here of Florida.)

If you can’t find your organization by searching, click on New Organization to add it.

300x234 Org-selected, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014

Once you have found your organization, click Next.

Specify the person or persons to whom communication should be addressed. For service list-related filings, all persons to be added to the service list must be eRegistered and added as a signer or other contact.

300x198 Contact, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Type an email contact address into the contact box, and click Add as Signer.

If you want more contacts, type them into the box one by one, and click Add as Other Contact after each one.

All such addresses must already be eRegistered, or you’ll get the error message you see here.

Once you have your contacts entered, click Next.

Submission Description

300x196 Submission-description, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Modify the submission description in the text box as desired.

Click Next.

Summary

300x200 Summary, in How to intervene, by John S. Quarterman, for SpectraBusters.org, 17 December 2014 Review the information. If you want to change it, click Back and modify what needs changing.

Once you’re satisfied, click Submit.

Acknowledgment

You should see a screen saying your submission has been seen, and an email message, as well.

Your submission should show up the next working day in FERC’s elibrary. Go ahead and subscribe to the docket with eSubscription and you’ll get an email notice when that happens.