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  • Attorney-Advisor to  Administrative Law Judges Isaac Benkin, Lawrence Brenner, and Carmen Cintron, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Office of Administrative Law Judges, 2003-2005

  • American University, Washington College of Law (J.D., 2002), Symposia Editor, Administrative Law Review, 2001-2002; Recipient, Regulation of Energy Scholarship, 2002
  • University of Pennsylvania (M.A., History, 1999)
  • University of Pennsylvania (B.A., History, 1999), With Honors

  • Honorable Jerome P Cheslock, Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Forty-Third Judicial District Of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2002-2003)

  • Pennsylvania
  • District of Columbia
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
  • The United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Fred Jauss

Partner
Washington, DC
P: (202) 442-3552
F: (202) 442-3199
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Partner in the Regulatory Affairs Group.  As a former attorney with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Fred has significant experience in all areas of the Commission’s jurisdiction, including:

  • “Open Access” policies and regulations
  • Generator interconnections and related issues
  • Electric market-based rate policies and regulations
  • Transfer of jurisdictional assets pursuant to the Federal Power Act
  • Certification of qualifying cogeneration and small power production facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
  • NERC compliance and enforcement
  • Licensing of hydroelectric projects
  • Interstate natural gas pipeline cost-of-service rate proceedings pursuant to Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act
  • Shipper imbalance surcharges for interstate natural gas pipeline service
  • Implementation of backhaul service on interstate natural gas pipelines
  • Market-based rate proceedings involving oil pipelines
  • Oil pipeline cost-of-service rate proceedings pursuant to the Interstate Commerce Act
  • “Grandfathered” oil pipeline rate proceedings under the Energy Policy Act of 1992

Representative Clients

  • ConocoPhillips Company
  • Suncor Energy Marketing Inc.
  • Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc.
  • PBF Energy Company LLC
  • Chugach Electric Association
  • Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
  • Golden Valley Electric Association
  • Global Energy
  • Alliance Energy
  • Touchstone Energy Cooperative

Presentations

  • North American Pipeline Forum - “U.S. Regulatory Update” - Calgary, Alberta (April 2011)

Professional Activities

  • Member, Energy Bar Association
  • Member, Electric Cooperative Bar Association

Attorney Articles

November 23, 2010
FERC Launches New Investigations of Natural Gas Pipeline Rates
November 24, 2009
FERC Launches Investigations of Natural Gas Pipeline Rates
2001
"A Reflection," 53 Admin. L. Rev. 1065
2001
Comment, "A Bridge Too Far: The EPA’s Diesel Sulfur Rule and the Increasing Cost of Fuels Regulation Under the Clean Air Act," 53 Admin. L. Rev. 1021