BGM partner James McGrew authored Basic Practice: FERC, a 294-page treatise published by the American Bar Association that comprehensively discusses FERC’s procedures and substantive regulation of the energy sector. The United States Supreme Court cited the book twice in Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Pub. Util. Dist. No. 1, 554 U.S. ___, 128 S. Ct. 2733, 2738, 2741 (2008).

Basic Practice: FERC is now available in its second edition (Fall 2009) through the ABA website.

Among the topics covered are:

• FERC’s history and current structure;

• FERC’s rules of practice and procedure;

• Accounting, reporting and filing requirements;

• Rehearing and appellate review;

• History of FERC's regulation of the natural gas industry;

• Certificates of public convenience and necessity;

• Importation of LNG and related facilities;

• Ratemaking for natural gas pipelines;

• FERC's natural gas restructuring rulemakings;

• Natural gas jurisdictional issues;

• Regulation of public utilities;

• FERC's electric restructuring agenda;

• Transfer of facilities and issuance of securities;

• Ratemaking under the Federal Power Act;

• The Mobile-Sierra Doctrine;

• The California energy crisis;

• Hydroelectric regulation;

• Regulation of oil pipelines; and

• FERC's enforcement program.