[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6237-6241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3337]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER97-4-000, et al.]


Florida Power & Light Company, et al.; Electric Rate and 
Corporate Regulation Filings

February 5, 1997.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Florida Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-4-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Florida Power & Light Company 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. American Ref-Fuel Company of Delaware County, L.P. and Delaware 
Resource Management, Inc.

[Docket No. EC97-11-000]

    Take notice that on January 17, 1997, American Ref-Fuel Company of 
Delaware County, L.P. (``ARC'') and Delaware Resource Management, Inc. 
(``DRMI'') (collectively ``Applicants'') submitted for filing with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (``Commission'') pursuant to 18 
CFR 33, a ``Joint Petition of American Ref-Fuel Company of Delaware 
County, L.P. and Delaware Resource Management, Inc. for an Order Under 
Section 203 of the Federal Power Act Approving the Transfer of 
Jurisdictional Assets.''
    Applicants have requested that the Commission by order issued no 
later than March 1, 1997: (1) Authorize DRMI to dispose of its interest 
as lessee in certain electric facilities located in the City of 
Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania valued in excess of $50,000 and 
to assign certain wholesale power sales contracts subject to the 
jurisdiction of the Commission, and for ARC to acquire each of the 
same; and (2) grant ARC waivers of certain Commission Regulations.
    Comment date: February 24, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

3. Florida Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-524-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Florida Power & Light Company 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. Florida Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-531-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Florida Power & Light Company 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. Boston Edison Company

[Docket No. ER97-598-000]

    Take notice that on January 14, 1997, Boston Edison Company 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Murphy Oil USA

[Docket No. ER97-610-000]

    Take notice that on January 23, 1997, Murphy Oil USA tendered for 
filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

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7. Portland General Electric Company

[Docket No. ER97-653-000]

    Take notice that on January 17, 1997, Portland General Electric 
Company (PGE) tendered for filing amended Service Agreements for those 
transmission customers either receiving or planning to receive Short-
Term Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service under PGE's open access 
transmission service tariff, PGE-8 (OA96-137-000).
    Pursuant to 18 CFR 35.11 and the Commission's order issued July 30, 
1993 (Docket No. PL93-2-002), PGE respectfully requests the Commission 
grant a waiver of the notice requirements of 18 CFR 35.3 to allow the 
amended Page 3 of the previously executed Firm Point-to-Point Service 
Agreements to become effective as of January 15, 1997.
    A copy of this filing was caused to be served upon the entities 
listed in Attachment 3 to this filing letter.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. UtiliCorp United, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-667-000]

    Take notice that on January 24, 1997, UtiliCorp United, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-721-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-722-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-723-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. NIPSCO Energy Services, Inc.

[Docket Nos. ER97-763-000, ER97-764-000 and ER97-768-000]

    Take notice that on January 21, 1997, NIPSCO Energy Services, Inc., 
tendered for filing a Notice of Withdrawal in the above-referenced 
dockets.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Florida Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-815-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Florida Power & Light Company 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. NESI Power Marketing, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-841-000]

    Take notice that on January 28, 1997, NESI Power Marketing, Inc. 
(NESI PM) filed an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Copies of the filing were served on Indiana Regulatory Commission 
and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-858-000]

    Take notice that on January 23, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

16. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-930-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

17. Pennsylvania Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-1026-000]

    Take notice that on January 10, 1997, Pennsylvania Power & Light 
Company tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced 
docket.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

18. Boston Edison Company

[Docket No. ER97-1376-000]

    Take notice that on January 23, 1997, Boston Edison Company (Boston 
Edison), tendered for filing a Service Agreement under Original Volume 
No. 8, FERC Order 888 Tariff (Tariff) for Baltimore Gas & Electric 
Company (Baltimore). Boston Edison requests that the Service Agreement 
become effective as of January 1, 1997.
    Boston Edison states that it has served a copy of this filing on 
Baltimore and the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

19. Central Maine Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1377-000]

    Take notice that on January 23, 1997, Central Maine Power Company 
(CMP), tendered for filing an executed service agreement and a 
certificate of concurrence for sale of capacity and/or energy entered 
into with Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. Service will be provided 
pursuant to CMP's Power Sales Tariff, designated rate schedule CMP--
FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 2, as supplemented.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

20. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-1378-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy), tendered for filing a service agreement under Cinergy's Non-
Firm Power Sales Standard Tariff (the Tariff) entered into between 
Cinergy and Louisville Gas and Electric Company.
    Cinergy and Louisville Gas and Electric Company are requesting an 
effective date of January 27, 1997.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

21. Kansas City Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-1379-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Kansas City Power & Light 
Company (KCPL), tendered for filing a Service Agreement dated January 
7, 1997, between KCPL and Wisconsin Electric Power Company (Wisconsin). 
KCPL proposes an effective date of January 7, 1997, and requests waiver 
of the Commission's notice requirement. This Agreement provides for the 
rates and charges for Non-Firm Transmission Service between KCPL and 
Wisconsin.

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    In its filing, KCPL states that the rates included in the above-
mentioned Service Agreement are KCPL's rates and charges in the 
compliance filing to FERC Order 888 in Docket No. OA96-4-000.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

22. Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation

[Docket No. ER97-1380-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Rochester Gas and Electric 
Corporation (RG&E) filed a Service Agreement between RG&E and UtiliCorp 
United Inc. (Customer). This Service Agreement specifies that the 
Customer has agreed to the rates, terms and conditions of the RG&E open 
access transmission tariff filed on July 9, 1996 in Docket No. OA96-
141-000.
    RG&E requests waiver of the Commission's sixty (60) day notice 
requirements and an effective date of January 13, 1997 for UtiliCorp 
United Inc. Service Agreement. RG&E has served copies of the filing on 
the New York State Public Service Commission and on the Customer.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

23. Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation

[Docket No. ER97-1381-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Rochester Gas and Electric 
Corporation (RG&E) filed a Service Agreement between RG&E and the 
Aquila Power Corporation (Customer). This Service Agreement specifies 
that the Customer has agreed to the rates, terms and conditions of the 
RG&E open access transmission tariff filed on July 9, 1996 in Docket 
No. OA96-141-000.
    RG&E requests waiver of the Commission's sixty (60) day notice 
requirements and an effective date of January 13, 1997 for the Aquila 
Power Corporation Service Agreement. RG&E has served copies of the 
filing on the New York State Public Service Commission and on the 
Customer.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

24. New York State Electric & Gas Corporation

[Docket No. ER97-1382-000]

    Take notice that New York State Electric & Gas Corporation 
(``NYSEG'') on January 28, 1997, tendered for filing pursuant to 
Sec. 35.13 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 35.13, a supplement (``Supplement'') to 
Rate Schedule FERC No. 135 (``Rate Schedule''). The Supplement revises 
a power sales agreement (``Agreement'') between NYSEG and Vermont 
Public Power Supply Authority (``VPPSA'') to include certain 
municipalities that may transact under the Agreement.
    NYSEG requests that the Supplement be deemed effective as of 
February 23, 1995, the effective date of the Agreement. To the extent 
required to give effect to the Supplement, NYSEG requests waiver of the 
notice requirements pursuant to Sec. 35.11 of the Commission's 
Regulations, 18 CFR 35.11.
    NYSEG served copies of the filing upon the New York State Public 
Service Commission, VPPSA, the Vermont Public Service Board, Town of 
Hardwick Electric Department, Village of Ludlow Electric Light 
Department, Village of Hyde Park Electric Department, Village of Stowe 
Water & Light Department, Village of Enosburg Falls Electric Light 
Department, Village of Jacksonville Electric Department, Village of 
Lyndonville Electric Department, Village of Swanton Village Electric 
Department, Village of Morrisville Electric Department.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

25. Delmarva Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-1383-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Delmarva Power & Light 
Company (Delmarva), tendered for filing executed umbrella service 
agreements with Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc., Coastal Electric 
Services Company, PanEnergy Trading and Market Services, L.L.C., PECO 
Energy Company, Public Service Electric and Gas Company under 
Delmarva's market rate sales tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Original 
Volume No. 14, filed by Delmarva in Docket No. ER96-2571-000.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

26. Potomac Electric Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1384-000]

    Take notice that on January 24, 1997, Potomac Electric Power 
Company (Pepco), tendered for filing service agreements pursuant to 
Pepco FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 4, entered into between 
Pepco and The Power Company of America, LP, LG&E Power Marketing Inc., 
and Southern Energy Marketing Inc. An effective date of January 24, 
1997 for these service agreements, with waiver of notice, is requested.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

27. Central Maine Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1385-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Central Maine Power Company 
(CMP), tendered for filing a service agreement for Non-Firm Point-to-
Point Transmission service entered into with Plum Street Energy 
Marketing, Inc. Service will be provided pursuant to CMP's Open Access 
Transmission Tariff, designated rate schedule CMP--FERC Electric 
tariff, Original Volume No. 3, as supplemented.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

28. Consumers Energy Company

[Docket No. ER97-1386-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Consumers Energy Company 
(Consumers), tendered for filing a Network Integration Transmission 
Service Agreement and a Network Operating Agreement in unexecuted form 
with Edison Sault Electric Company. A copy of the filing was served 
upon Edison Sault Electric Company and the Michigan Public Service 
Commission.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

29. PacifiCorp

[Docket No. ER97-1387-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, PacifiCorp, tendered for 
filing in accordance with 18 CFR 35 of the Commission's Rules and 
Regulations, Non-Firm Transmission Service Agreements with Aquila Power 
Corp., Cinergy Services, Inc., Coral Power, L.L.C., Enron Power 
Marketing, Inc., Federal Energy Sales, Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric 
Company, PanEnergy Power Services, Inc., Public Service Company of 
Colorado, Public Service Company of New Mexico, UtiliCorp United and 
Western Power Services, Inc. under PacifiCorp's FERC Electric Tariff, 
Original Volume No. 11.
    Copies of this filing were supplied to the Washington Utilities and 
Transportation Commission and the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
    A copy of this filing may be obtained from PacifiCorp's Regulatory 
Administration Department's Bulletin Board System through a personal 
computer by calling (503) 464-6122 (9600 baud, 8 bits, no parity, 1 
stop bit).

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    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

30. Interstate Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1388-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Interstate Power Company 
(IPW), tendered for filing a Transmission Service Agreement between IPW 
and Duke/Louis Dreyfus. Under the Transmission Service Agreement, IPW 
will provide non-firm point-to-point transmission service to Duke/Louis 
Dreyfus.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

31. Interstate Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1389-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Interstate Power Company 
(IPW), tendered for filing a Transmission Service Agreement between IPW 
and Heartland Energy Services (Heartland). Under the transmission 
Service Agreement, IPW will provide non-firm point-to-point 
transmission service to Heartland.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

32. Wisconsin Electric Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1390-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Wisconsin Electric Power 
Company (Wisconsin Electric), tendered for filing three firm 
transmission service agreements (TSAs) applicable for service to Oconto 
Electric Cooperative (OEC). Wisconsin Electric respectfully requests 
waiver of the Commission's notice requirements to allow an effective 
date of May 1, 1996, for the first two agreements, and January 1, 1997 
for the third TSA, which covers service in January and February 1997. 
Wisconsin Electric acknowledges the lateness of its filing respecting 
the first two TSAs and has calculated the time value of money penalty 
associated with such tardiness, which will be refunded to its 
transmission service customer. A calculation of the distribution 
service charges associated with service at 34.5 Kv is also included 
with Wisconsin Electric's submittal.
    Copies of the filing have been served on OEC, Wisconsin Public 
Service Corporation, Wisconsin Power and Light Company, and the Public 
Service Commission of Wisconsin.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

33. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1391-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Illinois power Company 
(Illinois Power), 500 South 27th Street, Decatur, Illinois 62526, 
tendered for filing a Power Sales Tariff, Service Agreement under which 
Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company will take service under 
Illinois Power Company's Power Sales Tariff. The agreements are based 
on the Form of Service Agreement in Illinois Power's tariff.
    Illinois Power has requested an effective date of January 15, 1997.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

34. Florida Keys Electric Cooperative Association, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-1392-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Florida Keys Electric 
Cooperative Association, Inc. (FKEC), tendered for filing the Long Term 
Joint Investment Transmission Agreement (``Agreement'') between FKEC 
and the City Electric System, Key West, Florida (``CES'').
    The Agreement provides for either Party to use the unused capacity 
of the other Party by paying the other Party a non-firm rate. In the 
Commission's filing in Docket OA96-220-000, FKEC was found to be a 
public utility under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission and was directed to file this Agreement.
    A copy of this filing has been served on CES and the Florida Public 
Service Commissioner.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

35. Duke Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1393-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Duke Power Company (Duke), 
tendered for filing a Transmission Service Agreement (TSA) between 
Duke, on its own behalf and acting as agent for its wholly-owned 
subsidiary, Nantahala Power and Light Company, and Federal Energy 
Sales, Inc. (Federal Energy). Duke states that the TSA sets out the 
transmission arrangements under which Duke will provide Federal Energy 
non-firm point-to-point transmission service under its Pro Forma Open 
Access Transmission Tariff.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

36. Non-Replacement Energy Agreement Between PJM Companies and 
Coral Power, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER97-1394-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-
Maryland (PJM) Interconnection Association filed, on behalf of the 
signatories to the PJM Agreement, a Non-Replacement Energy Agreement 
between Coral Power, L.L.C. and Public Service Electric and Gas 
Company, PECO Energy Company, Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, 
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company, 
Metropolitan Edison Company, Jersey Central Power and Light Company, 
Potomac Electric Power Company, Atlantic City Electric Company, and 
Delmarva Power & Light Company. The PJM Companies request an effective 
date of February 14, 1997.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

37. Upper Peninsula Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-1395-000]

    Take notice that on January 27, 1997, Upper Peninsula Power Company 
(UPPCO), tendered for filing a Notice of Cancellation of a Dispatch 
Agreement dated December 8, 1987 between UPPCO and Wisconsin Electric 
Power Company. UPPCO stated that it has recently discontinued dispatch 
operations at its dispatch center in Ishpeming, Michigan, and requests 
that the Commission waive Sec. 35.3 of its regulations under the 
Federal Power Act in order to permit the Notice of Cancellation to be 
made effective as of October 15, 1996.
    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

38. Charles W. Rainger

[Docket No. ID-2355-001]

    Take notice that on December 23, 1996, Charles W. Rainger, 
Applicant tendered for filing an application under Section 305(b) to 
hold the following positions:

Director, Ohio Edison Company
Director, National City Bank

    Comment date: February 19, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraph

    E. Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said 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

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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 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 this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-3337 Filed 2-10-97; 8:45 am]
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