Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 127 / Friday, June 30, 2000 / Notices 40627

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EC00–102–000, et al.]

Koch Power Louisiana, L.L.C., et al.;

Electric Rate and Corporate Regulation

Filings

June 22, 2000.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. Koch Power Louisiana, L.L.C. and

NRG Energy, Inc.

[Docket No. EC00–102–000]

Take notice that on June 14, 2000,

Koch Power Louisiana, L.L.C. (KPL) and

NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) tendered for

filing an application under section 203

of the Federal Power Act for approval of

the transfer of Koch Power, Inc.’s 100

percent membership interest in KPL to

NRG’s subsidiary NRG South Central

Generating LLC. KPL owns an

approximately 200 MW electric

generating facility in Sterlington,

Louisiana. NRG is a majority-owned

subsidiary of Northern States Power

Company (NSP), a combination electric

and gas utility company operating in the

states of Minnesota, North Dakota, and

South Dakota.

Comment date: July 14, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

2. Louisville Gas and Electric Company/

Kentucky Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER00–2879–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Louisville Gas and Electric Company

(LG&E)/Kentucky Utilities (KU)

(hereinafter Companies) tendered for

filing an executed unilateral

transmission service agreement with

Allegheny Energy Supply Company,

LLC. (Allegheny). This agreement

allows Allegheny to take non-firm

point-to-point transmission service from

LG&E/KU.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

3. Louisville Gas and Electric Company/

Kentucky Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER00–2880–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Louisville Gas and Electric Company

(LG&E)/Kentucky Utilities (KU)

(hereinafter Companies) tendered for

filing an executed unilateral

transmission service agreement with

Allegheny Energy Supply Company,

LLC. (Allegheny). This agreement

allows Allegheny to take firm point-topoint transmission service from LG&E/

KU.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

4. Louisville Gas and Electric Company/

Kentucky Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER00–2881–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000 ,

Louisville Gas and Electric Company

(LG&E)/Kentucky Utilities (KU)

(hereinafter Companies) tendered for

filing an executed unilateral

transmission service agreement with

The Legacy Energy Group, LLC (Legacy).

This agreement allows Legacy to take

non-firm point-to-point transmission

service from LG&E/KU.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

5. Louisville Gas and Electric Company/

Kentucky Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER00–2882–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Louisville Gas and Electric Company

(LG&E)/Kentucky Utilities (KU)

(hereinafter Companies) tendered for

filing an executed unilateral

transmission service agreement with

The Legacy Energy Group, LLC (Legacy).

This agreement allows Legacy to take

firm point-to-point transmission service

from LG&E/KU.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

6. FirstEnergy System

[Docket No. ER00–2883–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

FirstEnergy System filed Service

Agreements to provide Firm Point-toPoint Transmission Service for El Paso

Merchant Energy, L.P., the Transmission

Customer. Services are being provided

under the FirstEnergy System Open

Access Transmission Tariff submitted

for filing by the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission in Docket No.

ER97–412–000.

The proposed effective date for this

Service Agreement is June 16, 2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

7. FirstEnergy System

[Docket No. ER00–2884–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

FirstEnergy System filed a Service

Agreement to provide Non-Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service for El

Paso Merchant Energy, L.P., the

Transmission Customer. Services are

being provided under the FirstEnergy

System Open Access Transmission

Tariff submitted for filing by the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission in

Docket No. ER97–412–000.

The proposed effective date under

this Service Agreement is June 16, 2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

8. Cedar Brakes I, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER00–2885–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Cedar Brakes I, L.L.C. (Cedar Brakes)

applied to the Commission for

acceptance of Cedar Brakes’ Rate

Schedule F.E.R.C. No. 1; the granting of

certain blanket approvals, including the

authority to sell electricity at marketbased rates; and the waiver of certain

Commission regulations. Cedar Brakes’

application also seeks Commission

acceptance and approval of a power

purchase agreement with Public Service

Electric & Gas Co.

Cedar Brakes intends to engage in

wholesale electric power and energy

purchases and sales.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

9. Virginia Electric and Power

Company

[Docket No. ER00–2886–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Virginia Electric and Power Company

(Virginia Power or the Company)

tendered for filing the following:

1. Service Agreement for Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service by

Virginia Electric and Power Company to

Pepco Energy Services designated as

Service Agreement No. 282 under the

Company’s FERC Electric Tariff, First

Revised Volume No. 5;

2. Service Agreement for Non-Firm

Point-to-Point Transmission Service by

Virginia Electric and Power Company to

Pepco Energy Services designated as

Service Agreement No. 283 under the

Company’s FERC Electric Tariff, First

Revised Volume No. 5.

The foregoing Service Agreements are

tendered for filing under the Open

Access Transmission Tariff to Eligible

Purchasers dated July 14, 1997. Under

the tendered Service Agreements,

Virginia Power will provide point-topoint service to the Transmission

Customer under the rates, terms and

conditions of the Open Access

Transmission Tariff.

Virginia Power requests an effective

date of June 19, 2000, the date of filing

of the Service Agreements.

Copies of the filing were served upon

Pepco Energy Services, the Virginia

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State Corporation Commission, and the

North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

10. Newark Bay Cogeneration

Partnership, L.P.

[Docket No. ER00–2887–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Newark Bay Cogeneration Partnership,

L.P. (NBCP) applied to the Commission

for acceptance of NBCP’s Rate Schedule

F.E.R.C. No. 1; the granting of certain

blanket approvals, including the

authority to sell electricity at marketbased rates; and the waiver of certain

Commission regulations.

NBCP intends to engage in wholesale

electric power and energy purchases

and sales.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

11. Northeast Utilities Service Company

[Docket No. ER00–2888–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Northeast Utilities Service Company

(NUSCO), tendered for filing, a Service

Agreement to provide Non-Firm PointTo-Point Transmission Service to

Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc.

under the NU System Companies’ Open

Access Transmission Service Tariff No.

9.

NUSCO states that a copy of this filing

has been mailed to Morgan Stanley

Capital Group Inc.

NUSCO requests that the Service

Agreement become effective July 17,

2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

12. Northeast Utilities Service Company

[Docket No. ER00–2889–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Northeast Utilities Service Company

(NUSCO), tendered for filing, Service

Agreement to provide Firm Point-ToPoint Transmission Service to Morgan

Stanley Capital Group Inc. under the

NU System Companies’ Open Access

Transmission Service Tariff No. 9.

NUSCO states that a copy of this filing

has been mailed to Morgan Stanley

Capital Group Inc..

NUSCO requests that the Service

Agreement become effective July 17,

2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

13. Northeast Utilities Service Company

[Docket No. ER00–2890–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Northeast Utilities Service Company

(NUSCO), tendered for filing, a notice

that the Northeast Utilities System

Companies Open Access Transmission

Service Tariff No. 9 should be

considered modified to adopt the

revised North American Electric

Reliability Council Transmission

Loading Relief procedures approved in

North American Electric Reliability

Council, 91 FERC ¶ 61,122 (2000) .

Copies of this filing have been served

upon all parties to this proceeding.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

14. Wisconsin Public Service

Corporation

[Docket No. ER00–2891–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation

(WPSC) tendered for filing an executed

Service Agreement with MPEX, InterUtility Marketing providing for

transmission service under FERC

Electric Tariff, Volume No. 1.

WPSC requests that the agreement be

made effective on June 6, 2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

15. Wisconsin Public Service

Corporation

[Docket No. ER00–2892–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 2000,

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation

(WPSC) tendered for filing an executed

Service Agreement with MPEX, InterUtility Marketing providing for

transmission service under FERC

Electric Tariff, Volume No. 1.

WPSC requests that the agreement be

made effective on June 6, 2000.

Comment date: July 10, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

16. United States Department of Energy

and Bonneville Power Administration

[Docket No. NJ00–6–000]

Take notice that on June 16, 2000, the

Bonneville Power Administration

(Bonneville) filed a petition for

Expedited Declaratory Order that

Proposed Amended Open Access

Transmission Tariff Maintains

Reciprocity Finding and for Exemption

in lieu of Filing Fee. The petition

includes a modification to the

Bonneville open access transmission

tariff adopting the language of Section

17.7 of the Commission’s pro forma

tariff.

Comment date: July 13, 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, NE, Washington, DC

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).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 11690–001, Alaska]

Alaska Village Electric Cooperative,

Inc.; Notice of Availability of Final

Environmental Assessment

June 26, 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 an original license for the Alaska

Village Electric Cooperative, Inc.’s

(AVEC) proposed Old Harbor

Hydroelectric Project, and has prepared

a Final Environmental Assessment

(FEA). The project would be located

near the city of Old Harbor, Alaska on

Kodiak Island, predominantly on the

Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.

On January 19, 2000, the Commission

staff issued a draft environmental

assessment (DEA) for the project and

requested that comments be filed with

the Commission within 45 days.

Comments on the DEA were filed by the

National Marine Fisheries Service,