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Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 18 CFR 385.214). All such motions

or protests should be filed on or before

November 10, 1997. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make the

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–51–000]

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company;

Notice of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

October 30, 1997.

Take notice that on October 28, 1997,

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company,

(Applicant), P.O. Box 1478, Houston,

Texas 77251–1478, filed under Sections

157.205 and 157.216(b) of the

Commission’s Regulations to abandon

one 2-inch delivery tap on its index 276

at station No. 3193+44 in Harrison

County, Mississippi all as more fully

described in the request which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection. The affected end-user

is a customer of Entex, Inc., (Entex) a

local distribution company. Entex and

the end user have agreed to the

proposed abandonment of facilities and

service.

Applicant states that it is taking this

action to implement the Order issued in

Docket No. CP94–75–000 in which

Applicant was directed to abandon by

sale, in place to Koch Pipeline, Inc. its

transmission and looping facilities

referred to as Index 276. Applicant will

make prior notice filings to abandon

delivery taps on Index 276. This

application is one of those filings.

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice

of intervention and pursuant to

§ 157.205 of the Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a

protest to the request. If no protest is

filed within the time allowed therefore,

the proposed activity shall be deemed to

be authorized effective the day after the

time allowed for filing a protest. If a

protest is filed and not withdrawn

within 30 days after the time allowed

for filing a protest, the instant request

shall be treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–29190 Filed 11–4–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ER97–4345–000]

OGE Energy Resources, Inc.; Notice of

Issuance of Order

October 31, 1997.

OGE Energy Resources, Inc. (OGE

Energy) filed an application for

authorization to sell power at marketbased rates, and for certain waivers and

authorizations. In particular, OGE

Energy requested that the Commission

grant blanket approval under 18 CFR

Part 34 of all future issuances of

securities and assumptions of liabilities

by OGE Energy. On October 17, 1997,

the Commission issued an Order

Conditionally Accepting for Filing

Proposed Market-Based Rates (Order), in

the above-docketed proceeding.

The Commission’s October 17, 1997

Order granted the request for blanket

approval under Part 34, subject to the

conditions found in Ordering

Paragraphs (D), (E), and (G):

(D) Within 30 days of the date of this

order, any person desiring to be heard

or to protest the Commission’s blanket

approval of issuances of securities or

assumptions of liabilities by OGE

Energy 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.

(E) Absent a request to be heard

within the period set forth in Ordering

Paragraph (D) above, OGE Energy is

hereby authorized, pursuant to section

204 of the FPA, to issue securities and

assume obligations or liabilities as

guarantor, indorser, surety or otherwise

in respect of any security of another

person; provided that such issue or

assumption is for some lawful object

within the corporate purposes of OGE

Energy, compatible with the public

interest, and reasonably necessary or

appropriate for such purposes.

(G) The Commission reserves the right

to modify this order to require a further

showing that neither public nor private

interests will be adversely affected by

continued Commission approval of OGE

Energy’s issuances of securities or

assumptions of liabilities * * *.

Notice is hereby given that the

deadline for filing motions to intervene

or protests, as set forth above, is

November 17, 1997.

Copies of the full text of the Order are

available from the Commission’s Public

Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–29253 Filed 11–4–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2687–014]

Pacific Gas & Electric Company;

Notice of Site Visit

October 30, 1997.

Take notice that the Commission staff

will hold a site visit with Pacific Gas &

Electric Company (PG&E), the licensee

for the Pit 1 Hydroelectric Project No.

2687. The project is located near the

towns of Fall River Mills, McArthur,

and Burney, California. The site visit

will be held on Thursday, November 19,

1997, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The purpose of the site visit is to

observe the project area and project

facilities related to the relicensing issues

of the project. All interested

individuals, organizations, and agencies

are invited to attend the site visit.

Participants will meet at 8:00 a.m. at

the PG&E headquarters in Burney, on

Black Ranch Road, off of Route 299.

Participants should provide their own

transportation for the site visit. Further,

participants should bring their own

lunches for the day-long site visit.

For further information, please

contact Doug Hjorth at (617) 444–3330

ext. 283.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–29192 Filed 11–4–97; 8:45 am]

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