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students pursuing a doctoral degree or

MFA degree in fields selected by the

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Board at

accredited institutions of higher

education in the U.S. Students must be

U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the

U.S., certain persons in the process of

becoming U.S. citizens or permanent

residents, or permanent residents of the

Northern Mariana Islands.

Deadline For Transmittal Of

Applications: February 17, 1998.

Applications Available: December 15,

1997.

Estimated Available Funds:

$1,875,000.

Estimated Range Of Awards: The

Secretary has determined that the

fellowship stipend for academic year

1998–1999 is $15,000, which is equal to

the level of support that the National

Science Foundation is providing for its

graduate fellowships, or the fellow’s

financial need, as determined by Part F

of Title IV of the Higher Education Act,

whichever is less. The institutional

payment for academic year 1997–1998

was $10,051. The Secretary will adjust

the institutional payment prior to the

issuance of grant awards based on the

Department of Labor’s projection in

December 1997 of the Consumer Price

Index for 1998.

Estimated Average Size Of The

Awards: $25,000.

Estimated Number Of Awards: 75

individual fellowships.

Supplementary Information: Sixty

percent of new awards will be available

for fellowships to eligible applicants

who have earned no credit hours

applicable to a graduate degree. The

remaining 40 percent of new awards

will be available for fellowships to all

otherwise eligible applicants. In each of

these two categories, 60 percent of these

new fellowships will be awarded to

applicants in the humanities, 20 percent

to applicants in the social sciences, and

20 percent to applicants in the arts.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 48 months.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75 (except as provided

in 34 CFR 650.3(b)), 77, 82, 85, and 86;

and (b) The regulations for this program

in 34 CFR Part 650.

For Applications Or Information

Contact: Richard Scarfo, Jacob K. Javits

Fellowship Program, U.S. Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue,

SW., Portals 600, Washington, DC

20024–5329. Telephone: (202) 260–

3574. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternate format, also, by

contacting that person. However, the

Department is not able to reproduce in

an alternate format the standard forms

included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

Anyone may view this document, as

well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the

Federal Register, in text or portable

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questions about using the pdf, call the

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Anyone may also view these

documents in text copy only on an

electronic bulletin board of the

Department. Telephone: (202) 219–1511

or, toll free, 1–800–222–4922. The

documents are located under Option

G—Files/Announcements, Bulletins and

Press Releases.

Note: The official version of a document is

the document published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1134,

1134h–k–1.

Dated: December 5, 1997.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

[FR Doc. 97–32545 Filed 12–11–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. TM97–2–48–001]

ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of

Proposed Changes In FERC Gas Tariff

December 8, 1997.

Take notice that on December 4, 1997,

ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered

for filing, as part of its FERC Gas Tariff,

Second Revised Volume No. 1,

following revised tariff sheets proposed

to become effective January 1, 1998:

Seventh Revised Sheet No. 19

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 68H

ANR states that the above-referenced

tariff sheets are being filed to implement

revised levels of Transporter’s Use (%)

as reflected on the fuel matrix in its

tariff, as well as the percentages

applicable to gathering. ANR will

implement these interim fuel matrix

percentages effective on the later of

January 1, 1998, or the first day of the

month following the date that the

Commission accepts this filing.

Any person desiring to protest this

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

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

20426, in accordance with Section

Regulations. All such protests must be

filed as provided in Section 154.210 of

the Commission’s Regulations. 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.

Copies of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection in the Public Reference

Room.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32507 Filed 12–11–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP97–346–000]

Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Informal

Settlement Conference

December 8, 1997.

Take notice that an informal

settlement conference will be convened

in this proceeding on December 12,

1997 at 9:30 a.m., at the offices of the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC,

20426, for the purpose of exploring the

possible settlement of the abovereferenced docket.

Any party, as defined by 18 CFR

385.102(c), or any participant, as

defined by 18 CFR 385.102(b), is invited

to attend. Persons wishing to become a

party must move to intervene and

receive intervenor status pursuant to the

Commission’s regulations (18 CFR

385.214).
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For additional information, please contact

Irene E. Szopo at (202) 208–1602 or Donald

Williams at (202) 208–0743.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32504 Filed 12–11–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. PR98–2–000]

Magnolia Pipeline Corporation; Notice

of Petition for Rate Approval

December 8, 1997.

Take notice that on November 21,

1997, Magnolia Pipeline Corporation

(Magnolia), filed a petition for rate

approval, pursuant to Section 311 of the

Natural Gas Act, Section 284.123(b)(2)

of the Commission’s Regulations, and

the Commission’s March 31, 1995 letter

order in Docket No. PR95–1–000,

requesting that the Commission approve

the continued use of Magnolia’s current

maximum rate of $0.1621 per Dth, plus

reimbursement of actual fuel use up to

three percent for Section 311

transportation services performed on

Magnolia’s system.

Magnolia states that it is an intrastate

pipeline within the meaning of Section

2(16) of the NGPA and it owns and

operates pipeline facilities within the

State of Alabama. Magnolia states that

its current maximum transportation unit

rate is based on a levelized cost of

service. Magnolia states that even if it

were able to collect its current

maximum rate, Magnolia would not

recover its total cost of service. Thus

Magnolia only seeks approval to

continue to be able to charge up to its

existing approved maximum rates.

Magnolia proposes an effective date on

and after November 22, 1997.

Pursuant to Section 284.123(b)(2)(ii),

if the Commission does not act within

150 days of the filing date, the rate will

be deemed to be fair and equitable and

not in excess of an amount which

interstate pipelines would be permitted

to charge for similar transportation

service. The Commission may, prior to

the expiration of the 150-day period,

extend the time for action or institute a

proceeding to afford parties an

opportunity for written comments and

for the oral presentation of views, data,

and arguments.

Any person desiring to participate in

this rate proceeding must file a motion

to intervene in accordance with

Sections 385.211 and 385.214 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedures. All motions must be filed

with the Secretary of the Commission

on or before December 23, 1997. The

petition for rate approval is on file with

the Commission and is available for

public inspection.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32502 Filed 12–11–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP98–83–000]

Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Petition for

Declaratory Order

December 8, 1997.

Take notice that on December 3, 1997,

Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

(Texas Eastern) tendered for filing a

petition under Rule 207 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure (18 CFR 385.207) requesting

that the Commission determine whether

Public Service Electric and Gas

Company (Public Service) is permitted

to employ the Commission’s capacity

release regulations to abrogate its longterm contractual obligations to Texas

Eastern by assigning those contracts to

a wholly-owned, shell subsidiary where

the assignment is for the express

purpose of avoiding Public Service’s

contractual obligations.

Texas Eastern states that Public

Service recently filed a plan with the

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

under which Public Service proposes to

set up a new shell subsidiary with no

assets and then to permanently assign

all of its contracts with Texas Eastern to

that subsidiary. Public Service will

continue to control all of the activities

of its new subsidiary and Public Service

employees will perform all of the

activities of its subsidiary. Texas Eastern

quotes Public Service as having stated

that the purpose of the new subsidiary

is to ‘‘reduce the potential fixed cost

responsibility’’ of Public Service under

the contracts. Texas Eastern submits

that Public Service has no contractual

right to terminate its obligations to

Texas Eastern by assigning them to a

shell subsidiary.

Texas Eastern states that Public

Service’s plan is based entirely upon

Public Service’s interpretation of the

Commission’s capacity release

regulations, which Public Service

alleges limit its obligations to three

months worth of demand charges.

Texas Eastern contends that the

capacity release by Public Service is a

sham transaction to abrogate its Texas

Eastern contracts, which still have a

total aggregate revenue stream in excess

of $750 million during their remaining

primary term. Texas Eastern argues that

Public Service’s plan will have serious

consequences, both of Texas and for the

interstate pipeline industry. Texas

Eastern alleges that, if Public Service is

allowed to avoid its existing obligations,

other shippers who find a contract

burdensome will assign that contract to

an under-capitalized subsidiary and

allow the subsidiary to default on the

contract.

Texas Eastern states that it is not

attempting to preclude Public Service

form assigning its contracts to the new

subsidiary. Texas Eastern says that it is

only seeking to assure that Public

Service will not be released from

liability as a consequence of such an

assignment.

Texas Eastern states that this

Commission has jurisdiction to grant

this relief first because of the

Commission’s jurisdiction over capacity

release as it applies to Texas Eastern

and its tariff and second, because the

Commission has direct jurisdiction over

Public Service’s capacity release

activities.

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, NE., Washington, DC, 20426

in accordance with Sections 385.214

and 385.211 of the Commission’s

Regulations. All such motion or protests

must be filed on or before January 5,

1998. All protests filed with the

Commission 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 to this proceeding,

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file and are available

for public inspection in the Public

Reference Room.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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