33536 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 24, 2000 / Notices

Comment date: June 1, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

11. Commonwealth Edison Company

[Docket No. ER00–2467–000]

Take notice that on May 11, 2000,

Commonwealth Edison Company

(ComEd) tendered for filing four NonFirm Transmission Service Agreements

with the City of St. Charles, Illinois (St.

Charles), the City of Batavia, Illinois

(Batavia), InPower Marketing Corp.

(IPMC), and Dynegy Energy Services,

Inc. (DESY), and four Short-Term Firm

Transmission Service Agreements with

DESY, Merchant Energy Group of the

Americas, Inc. (MEGA), NewEnergy,

Inc. (NEI), and IPMC under the terms of

ComEd’s Open Access Transmission

Tariff (OATT). ComEd requests that the

Commission substitute the Service

Agreement with MEGA for the

unexecuted agreement with MEGA

previously filed under the OATT in

Docket No. ER00–2260–000 on April 21,

2000.

ComEd also submits for filing an

updated Index of Customers reflecting

the addition of St. Charles, Batavia,

IPMC, DESY, and NEI, and name

changes for current customers PP&L,

Inc, renamed PPL Electric Utilities

Corporation d/b/a PPL Utilities (PPL);

PP&L EnergyPlus Co, LLC, renamed

PP&L EnergyPlus LLC. (EPLUS).

ComEd requests an effective date of

and accordingly, seeks waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirements.

Copies of this filing were served on St.

Charles, Batavia, IPMC, DESY, MEGA,

NEI, PPL and EPLUS.

Comment date: June 1, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

12. Portland General Electric Company

[Docket No. ER00–2468–000]

Take notice that on May 11, 2000,

Portland General Electric Company

(PGE), on May 9, 2000, tendered for

filing proposed changes in its FERC

Electric Service Tariff No. 11 to reflect

its affiliation with PG&E Energy

Services Corporation (PG&E ES). PGE

also filed a revised Code of Conduct that

will generically restrict the relationship

of PGE with all of its affiliates with

market-based rate authority, including

PG&E ES.

Copies of the filing were served upon

the Oregon Public Utility Commission,

the California Public Utility

Commission, the California Independent

System Operator Corporation, and PG&E

Energy Services Corporation.

Comment date: June 1, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

13. Northeast Utilities Services

Company

[Docket No. ER00–2471–000]

Take notice that on May 9, 2000,

Northeast Utilities Service Company

(NUSCO), on behalf of its affiliate, The

Connecticut Light and Power Company

(CL&P), tendered for filing Notice of

Cancellation of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC) rate

schedules and supplements thereto for

Unit Contract Connecticut Yankee, Rate

Schedule FERC No. CL&P 225, by and

between CL&P and the Connecticut

Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative

(CMEEC).

NUSCO requested that the

cancellation become effective as of April

30, 2000.

The termination of this contract is

part of a larger settlement of disputes

between CL&P and CMEEC, including

disputes related to the operation,

shutdown and decommissioning of the

Connecticut Yankee nuclear plant.

Copies of the filing were served upon

the jurisdictional customer, CMEEC, as

well as upon CL&P and the Connecticut

Department of Public Utilities Control.

Comment date: May 30, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

14. Williams Flexible Generation, LLC

[Docket No. ER00–2469–000]

Take notice that on May 11, 2000,

Williams Flexible Generation, LLC

tendered for filing pursuant to Section

205 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.205,

its application for waivers and blanket

approvals under various regulations of

the Commission and for an order

accepting its Electric Rate Schedule

FERC No. 1.

Comment date: June 1, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

15. Electric Energy, Inc.

[Docket No. EG00–148–000]

Take notice that on May 11, 2000,

Electric Energy, Inc. (EEInc.), 2100

Portland Road, P.O. Box 165, Joppa, IL

62953 filed with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission an application

for determination of exempt wholesale

generator status pursuant to Part 365 of

the Commission’s regulations.

EEInc. is a generation-only company,

the stock of which is owned by Union

Electric Company (40%), Central Illinois

Public Service Company (20%), Illinova

Generating Company (20%), and

Kentucky Utilities Company (20%)

(collectively, the Sponsors). EEInc.

owns and operates a six-unit coal-fired

generating plant in Joppa, IL that has a

total generating capacity of 1,086 MW

(the ‘‘Joppa Plant’’). All of the electricity

available from the Joppa Plant is sold at

wholesale either to the U.S. Department

of Energy, to the Sponsors, or to other

wholesale purchasers. EEInc. also owns

all of the outstanding common stock of

Midwest Electric Power, Inc., which

will own and/or operate 260 MW of

combustion turbine generating capacity

to be installed at the site of the Joppa

Plant and sell electricity exclusively at

wholesale.

Comment date: June 6, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs:

E. Any person desiring to be heard or

to protest such filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 385.214). All such motions or

protests should be filed on or before the

comment date. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection. This filing may also be

viewed on the Internet at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–13049 Filed 5–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 420–009, Alaska]

City of Ketchikan and Ketchikan Public

Utilities; Notice of Availability of Final

Environmental Assessment

May 18, 2000.

In accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and

the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s (Commission)

regulations, 18 CFR part 380 (Order No.

486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy

Projects has reviewed the application

for a new license for the Ketchikan

Lakes Hydroelectric Project, and has

prepared a Final Environmental

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1We note that other governmental and industry

sources share a heightened awareness to current

reliability issues. See, e.g., Report of the U.S.

Department of Energy’s Power Outage Study Team,

Findings and Recommendations to Enhance

Reliability from the Summer of 1999, at S–1, S–2

(March 2000) (‘‘the reliability events of the summer

of 1999 demonstrated that the necessary operating

practices, regulatory policies, and technological

tools for assuring an acceptable level of reliability

were not yet in place’’); Investigation Into The

Adequacy and Availability of Electric Power (Pub.

Util. Comm. of Ohio, Case No. 00–617–EL–COI,

April 10, 2000) (Ohio Commission notes that ECAR

is predicting a tight capacity situation this summer);

High Temperatures & Electricity Demand: An

Assessment of Supply Adequacy in California

Trends & Outlook (July 1999) (California Energy

Commission staff report showing decreasing reserve

margins); Northwest Power Planning Council,

Pacific Northwest Power Supply Adequacy/

Reliability Study (February 2000) (24 percent

probability of being unable to serve winter loads by

2003).

2Regional Transmission Organizations, Order No.

2000, 65 FR 809 (2000), FERC Stats. and Reg.

¶ 31,089 at 30,997–99 (1999), order on reh’g, Order

No. 2000–A, 65 FR 12,088 (March 8, 2000), FERC

Stats. and Regs. ¶ 31,092 (2000).

3Order Accepting For Filing Proposed MarketBased Rate Schedule And Granting Waivers, 90

FERC ¶ 61,329 (2000) (InPower).

4We note that while entities become ‘‘public

utilities’’ subject to the Federal Power Act when

they commence the sale of electric energy at

wholesale in interstate commerce, they cease to be

public utilities when such sales cease (assuming

they engage in no other activities that would make

them public utilities) without further Commission

action. See Century Power Corporation, 72 FERC

¶ 61,045 at 61,279 (1995).

5See, e.g., InPower, 90 FERC at 62,105; Reliant

Energy, Inc., et al., 91 FERC ¶ 61,073 at Appendix

B (2000). The Commission has generally waived for

such sellers the following parts of its regulations in

18 CFR: most of Subparts B and C of Part 35

(documentation), Part 41 (accounting verification),

Part 101 (prescribed Uniform System of Accounts),

and Part 141 (annual reports). In addition, where

requirements are statutory, the Commission has

allowed such sellers to make shortened filings to

satisfy Part 33 (disposition of facilities) and Part 45

(interlocking positions), and has granted blanket

authorizations for issuances of securities (Part 34).

Assessment (FEA). The project is

located on Ketchikan Creek and Granite

Basin Creek, near the City of Ketchikan,

in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska.

The project uses lands administered by

the U.S. Forest Service in the Tongass

National Forest. The Forest Service is a

cooperating agency on this

environmental assessment. The FEA

contains the staff’s analysis of the

potential environmental impacts of the

project and concludes that licensing the

project, with appropriate environmental

protective measures, would not

constitute a major federal action that

would significantly affect the quality of

the human environment.

Copies of the FEA are available for

review in the Public Reference Room,

Room 2A, of the Commission’s offices at

888 First Street, NW., Washington, DC

20426. This FEA may also be viewed on

the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/

online/rims.htm (please call (202) 208–

2222 for assistance). For further

information, contact Charles Hall at

(202) 219–2853.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EL00–75–000]

Notice of Interim Procedures To

Support Industry Reliability Efforts and

Request for Comments

May 17, 2000.

As the electric industry prepares for

another summer of potentially high

peak demands, the Commission believes

it is important to identify practical steps

the Commission and others can take to

support the industry’s efforts to ensure

the continued reliability of the electric

power system.1 Accordingly, the

Commission hereby announces a

number of specific actions it will

implement on an interim basis this

summer, and requests comments on

these and other actions the Commission

could take to assist others in their efforts

to address system reliability this

summer.

Background

While the Commission does not have

direct responsibility over reliability

matters, its consistent policy has been to

assure that the exercise of its ratemaking

and other jurisdictional responsibilities

supports and facilities the continued

high degree of reliability that has

existed in the U.S. Indeed, transmission

system reliability is one of the principal

issues sought to be addressed by the

Commission’s recent rulemaking on

Regional Transmission Organizations. 2

The Commission has also been

monitoring the functioning of electricity

markets and has been encouraging good

utility practices through its Enforcement

Hotline and other programs.

Our objective is not to become

involved in the day-to-day operation of

the electric grid or to duplicate or

supplant the efforts of others in the

industry that are engaged in inquiries

about electric reliability issues.

However, it is important that the

Commission exercise its regulatory

mandate in a manner that supports, and

does not impede, efforts to enhance

reliability throughout the industry. The

Commission has identified five actions

that it can take, in exercising its

regulatory responsibilities, that may

provide such support this summer by,

for example, supporting efforts to

increase generation supply, supporting

efforts to implement demand-side

management, and supporting efforts to

maximize the amount of Available

Transmission Capability (ATC) this

summer. In addition to these actions,

the Commission will be expediting

individual cases affecting reliability

planning for this summer which are

pending before the Commission in other

dockets.

Actions Commission Will Implement

During the Summer of 2000

The Commission hereby announces

the following actions that it will

implement to support the electric

industry’s efforts in dealing with

reliability issues this summer. Although

these actions are within the

Commission’s authority to implement

on an immediate basis and will be in

effect on an experimental basis from the

date of this Notice through September

30, 2000, we invite comments on them.

1. There are many businesses that

have installed generators at their

business location to meet a portion of

their own demands or to serve as a

backstop to their purchase of electricity

from the local grid. These generators

may provide a ready source of

generation capacity during periods

when power markets are facing a

temporary generation shortage. Indeed,

we recently approved a tariff under

which the owners of such generation

could sell electricity to a power

marketer in InPower Marketing

Corporation.3 In order to facilitate the

use of existing on-site generators to meet

demand, the Commission will adopt a

streamlined regulatory procedure to

accommodate sales from such facilities

to any entity engaged in sales of electric

energy. Owners of generating facilities

located at business locations and used

primarily for back-up for selfgeneration, who would become subject

to the Federal Power Act by virtue of

sales of power from such facilities,4 will

be permitted to sell power at wholesale

from such facilities to non-affiliated

entities without prior notice under

section 205 of the FPA. Pursuant to FPA

section 205(d), we find good cause to

waive the prior notice requirements for

such sales. Further, the Commission

hereby grants waiver of its regulations

consistent with our recent orders on

market-based rates,5 and authorizes

market-based rates during the identified

time period, subject to the following

requirements: The wholesale purchasers