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Acceptable File Formats
| Adobe Portable Document Format (Acrobat 4.x or higher) | |
| Advantica SynerGEE compatible Microsoft Access application MDB file 1 | .MDB |
| Advantica SynerGEE input data set for pipe flow program 1 | .PD |
| Advantica SynerGEE xy coordinate text file 1 | .XY |
| ASCII Comma Separated Value | .CSV |
| ASCII Text Format | .TXT |
| AutoCAD Drawing database 1 | .DWG |
| Corel WordPerfect | .WPD |
| ESRI Shape Format (vector format created by the Environmental System Research Institute) main file | .SHP |
| ESRI Shape Format (vector format created by the Environmental System Research Institute) index file 1 | .SHX |
| ESRI Shape Format (vector format created by the Environmental System Research Institute) dBase table 1 | .DBF |
| ESRI Shape Format (vector format created by the Environmental System Research Institute) projection file 1 | .PRJ |
| ESRI ArcGIS auxiliary file 1 | .AUX |
| ESRI ArcGIS external pyramid layer file used for rapid display of raster files 1 | .RRD |
| ESRI ArcMap project file 1 | .MXD |
| ESRI ArcIMS Project file (ArcXML) 1 | .AXL |
| ESRI ArcView spatial bin file for shapefiles 1 | .SBN |
| ESRI ArcView spatial bin index file for shapefiles 1 | .SBX |
| ESRI TIFF world files 1 | .TFW |
| ESRI ArcGIS MrSid (LizardTech) image raster file 1 | .SID |
| ESRI ArcGIS MrSid georeferencing information (world) file 1 | .SDW |
| Extensible Markup Language | .XML |
| FERC Index of Customers and Form No. 11 information collection tab delimited text files 2 | .TAB, .TA1, .TA2, .TA3 |
| Graphic Image Format | .GIF |
| Gregg Engineering WinFlow output file 1 | .LOG |
| Gregg Engineering WinFlow output file 1 | .NTP |
| Gregg Engineering WinFlow output file 1 | .OVR |
| Gregg Engineering WinFlow input file 1 | .WFP |
| Gregg Engineering WinTran time-varying schedule file 1 | .SCH |
| Gregg Engineering WinTran output file 1 | .WTO |
| Gregg Engineering WinTran output file 1 | .WTS |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group | .JPG |
| Keyhole Markup Language (xml-based structure for geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth)1 | .KML |
| Keyhole Markup Language compressed file 1 | .KMZ |
| Lotus | .WK1, .WK3, .WK4 |
| Microsoft Excel 4 | .XLS |
| Microsoft Media Player | .WMV, .WMA |
| Microsoft Power Point | .PPT, .PPS |
| Microsoft Word | .DOC |
| Motion Picture Experts Group 3 | .MPG |
| MP3 audio file (mp3) 3 | .MP3 |
| Managing and Utilizing System Transmission (MUST) Software 1 | .CON, .MON, .SUB, .TRA |
| RAW Image File (RGB 24-bit Graphics) | .RAW |
| Rich Text Format | .RTF |
| Tagged Image File Format | .TIF |
| Waveform sound (Microsoft Windows) 3 | .WAV |
| Web page file containing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) markup | .HTM |
| Windows bitmap | .BMP |
| Zip file compressed archive (must not be self-extracting) | .ZIP |
1 A detailed description of the content of the file and instructions for the public on how to obtain resources to view it must be included with the submission in light of National Archives and Records Administration regulations. This file type must only be submitted with Advantica SynerGEE, AutoCAD, ESRI, MUST, WinFlow, or WinTran files.
2 Should only be submitted when filing FERC Index of Customers or FERC Form No. 11.
3 A written transcript and a detailed description of the content of the file must be included with the submission in light of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
4 FERC is not able at this time to accept the following file types used by Microsoft Office 2007: .docx, .docm, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlam. We will update these guidelines when we can accept these file types.
