191553P.pdf   04/30/2020  Nebraska Public Power District  v.  FERC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1553
   Petition for Review of an Order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Petition for Review - Order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
   Substantial evidence on the record as a whole supported FERC's 
   determination that the benefits Nebraska Public Power District and other 
   facilities in their zone received from Tri-State's transmission facilities 
   were roughly commensurate with the cost allocated to the zone as a result 
   of Tri-State's placement in that zone; because FER stated plausible and 
   articulable reasons why the costs and benefits were comparable, the court 
   could not say that FERC's cost-causation analysis was arbitrary and 
   capricious; the law does not require FERC to consider or analyze Nebraska 
   Public Power's argument that Tri-State be placed in a different zone 
   because FERC's role is simply to determine whether the proposed placement 
   of Tri-State in the chosen zone is just and reasonable.