Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 211 / Friday, October 31, 1997 / Notices 58951

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Fossil Energy

[Docket No. FE C&E 97–03—Certification

Notice—156]

Dighton Power Associates Limited

Partnership Notice of Filing of Coal

Capability Powerplant and Industrial

Fuel Use Act

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy,

Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Filing.

SUMMARY: On October 10, 1997, Dighton

Power Associates Limited Partnership

submitted a coal capability selfcertification pursuant to section 201 of

the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use

Act of 1978, as amended.

ADDRESSES: Copies of self-certification

filings are available for public

inspection, upon request, in the Office

of Coal & Power Im/Ex, Fossil Energy,

Room 3F–056, FE–27, Forrestal

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue,

S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Russell at (202) 586–9624.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title II of

the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use

Act of 1978 (FUA), as amended (42

U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), provides that no

new baseload electric powerplant may

be constructed or operated without the

capability to use coal or another

alternate fuel as a primary energy

source. In order to meet the requirement

of coal capability, the owner or operator

of such facilities proposing to use

natural gas or petroleum as its primary

energy source shall certify, pursuant to

FUA section 201(d), to the Secretary of

Energy prior to construction, or prior to

operation as a base load powerplant,

that such powerplant has the capability

to use coal or another alternate fuel.

Such certification establishes

compliance with section 201(a) as of the

date filed with the Department of

Energy. The Secretary is required to

publish a notice in the Federal Register

that a certification has been filed. The

following owner/operator of the

proposed new baseload powerplant has

filed a self-certification in acccordance

with section 201(d).

Owner: Dighton Power Associates

Limited Partnership.

Operator: Dighton Power Associates

Limited Partnership.

Location: Dighton, MA.

Plant Configuration: combined-cycle.

Capacity: 168 megawatts.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Output will be

sold to the regional electric power grid

as a merchant plant.

In-Service Date: April 1999.

Issued in Washington, D.C., October 24,

1997.

Anthony J. Como,

Director, Electric Power Regulation, Office of

Coal & Power Im/Ex, Office of Coal & Power

systems, Office of Fossil Energy.

[FR Doc. 97–28909 Filed 10–30–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Research

Continuation of Solicitation for the

Office of Energy Research Financial

Assistance Program Notice 98–01

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Annual notice of continuation

of availability of grants and cooperative

agreements.

SUMMARY: The Office of Energy Research

(ER) of the Department of Energy hereby

announces its continuing interest in

receiving applications for grants and

cooperative agreements supporting work

in the following programs: Basic Energy

Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear

Physics, Computational and Technology

Research, Fusion Energy Sciences,

Biological and Environmental Research

and Energy Research Analyses. On

September 3, 1992, (57 FR 40582), DOE

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Office of Energy Research Financial

Assistance Program, 10 CFR Part 605,

Final Rule, which contained a

solicitation for this program.

Information about submission of

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evaluation and selection processes and

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million will be available for grant and

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in-depth information on scientific and

technical areas of interest to the Office

of Energy Research.

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The Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

program supports fundamental research

in the natural sciences and engineering

leading to new and improved energy

technologies and to understanding and

mitigating the environmental impacts of

energy technologies. The science

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