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26. Central Vermont Public Service

Corporation

[Docket No. ER98–2607–000]

Take notice that on April 20, 1998,

Central Vermont Public Service

Corporation (Central Vermont), tendered

for filing a Service Agreement with

Sonat Power Marketing L.P., under its

FERC Electric Tariff No. 5. The tariff

provides for the sale by Central Vermont

of power, energy, and/or resold

transmission capacity at or below

Central Vermont’s fully allocated costs.

Central Vermont requests waiver of

the Commission’s Regulations to permit

the service agreement to become

effective on April 22, 1998.

Comment date: May 8, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

27. Northern Alternative Energy,

Allendorf, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER98–2608–000]

Take notice that on April 20, 1998,

Northern Alternative Energy, Allendorf

L.L.C. (NAEA), tendered for filing an

Alternate Energy Production Electric

Service Agreement (the Agreement)

between itself and IES Utilities, Inc.,

(IES). Under the Agreement, IES will

purchase all electric energy produced by

NAEA’s wind-driven electric power

generation facility located near

Allendorf, Iowa and IES will supply

NAEA’s net electric service

requirements.

Comment date: May 8, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

28. Interstate Power Company

[Docket No. ER98–2612–000]

Take notice that on April 20, 1998,

Interstate Power Company (IPC),

tendered for filing a Network

Transmission Service between IPC and

Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL).

Under the Service Agreement, IPC will

provide Network Integration

Transmission Service to WPL for the

City of Albany.

Comment date: May 8, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

29. South Carolina Electric & Gas

Company

[Docket No. ER98–2613–000]

Take notice that on April 20, 1998,

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company

(SCE&G), submitted service agreements

establishing Allegheny Power (AP) and

Amoco Energy Trading Corporation

(AETC), as customers under the terms of

SCE&G’s Open Access Transmission

Tariff.

SCE&G requests an effective date of

one day subsequent to the filing of the

service agreements. Accordingly,

SCE&G requests waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirements.

Copies of this filing were served upon

AP, AETC, and the South Carolina

Public Service Commission.

Comment date: May 8, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

30. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER98–2614–000]

Take notice that on April 20, 1998,

Illinois Power Company (Illinois

Power), 500 South 27th Street, Decatur,

Illinois 62526, tendered for filing a

Power Sales Tariff, Service Agreement

under which VTEC Energy, Inc., 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 April 13, 1998.

Comment date: May 8, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

31. Northwestern Public Service

Company

[Docket No. ES98–27–000]

Take notice that on April 13, 1998,

Northwestern Public Service Company

submitted an application under Section

204 of the Federal Power Act for

authorization to issue short-term debt in

an aggregate principal amount of not

more than $200 million during the

period of two years starting with the

date of the letter order.

Comment date: May 13, 1998, 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

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 these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 11549–001 Wisconsin]

Dunkirk Water Power Company, Inc.;

Notice of Availability of Draft

Environmental Assessment

April 24, 1998.

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

Hydropower Licensing has reviewed the

application for exemption from

licensing for the Dunkirk Hydroelectric

Project, located on the Yahara River in

Dane County, Wisconsin, and has

prepared a Draft Environmental

Assessment (DEA) for the project.

Copies of the DEA are available in the

Public Reference Branch, Room 2–A, of

the Commission’s offices at 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.

Any comments should be filed within

30 days from the date of this notice and

should be addressed to David P.

Boergers, Acting Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

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

20426. For further information, contact

Chris Metcalf at (202) 219–2810.

Linwood A.Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–11461 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 8656–007]

William K. Fay; Notice of Availability of

Environmental Assessment

April 24, 1998.

In accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and

the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s regulations, 18 CFR Part

380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47910), the

Office of Hydropower Licensing (OHL)

has reviewed the revocation of the

Bannister Mill Project. William K. Fay,
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the project exemptee, failed to complete

construction of the project within the

required time frame. Under article 3 of

the exemption, the Commission has the

authority to revoke the exemption

should the exemptee fail to complete

project construction within the required

time frame. In the environmental

assessment (EA), staff concludes that

revocation of the project would not

constitute a major Federal action

significantly affecting the quality of the

human environment. The Bannister Mill

Project is located on Sewall Brook near

the town of Boylston in Worcester

County, Massachusetts.

The EA was written by staff in the

Office of Hydropower Licensing,

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Copies of the EA are available for review

at the Commission’s Reference and

Information Center, Room 2–A, 888

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

20426.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–11459 Filed 4–29–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 2487–006]

John M. Skorupski; Notice of Site Visit

and Scoping Meetings Pursuant to the

National Environmental Policy Act of

1969

April 24, 1998.

On March 27, 1998, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

(Commission) issued a letter accepting

the John M. Skorupski’s application for

new license for the Hoosick Falls Hydro

Project, located on the Hoosick River in

Rensselaer County, New York.

The purpose of this notice is to: (1)

advise all parties as to the proposed

scope of the staff’s environmental

analysis, including cumulative effects,

and to seek additional information

pertinent to this analysis; and (2) advise

all parties of their opportunity for

comment.

Scoping Process

The Commission’s scoping objectives

are to:

• Identify significant environmental

issues;

• Determine the depth of analysis

appropriate to each issue;

• Identify the resource issues not

requiring detailed analysis; and

• Identify reasonable project

alternatives.

The purpose of the scoping process is

to identify significant issues related to

the proposed action and to determine

what issues should be addressed in the

environmental document to be prepared

pursuant to the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The

document entitled ‘‘Scoping Document’’

(SD) will be circulated shortly to enable

appropriate federal, state, and local

resource agencies, developers, Indian

tribes, nongovernmental organizations

(NGO’s), and other interested parties to

effectively participate in and contribute

to the scoping process. SD provides a

brief description of the proposed action,

project alternatives, the geographic and

temporal scope of a cumulative effects

analysis, and a list of preliminary issues

identified by staff.

Project Site Visit

The applicant and the Commission

staff will conduct a site visit of the

Hoosick Falls Hydro Project on May 19,

1998, at 1:00 p.m. They will meet at the

project powerhouse, located off Rt. 22,

north of Hoosick Falls. All interested

individuals, NGO’s and agencies are

invited to attend. All participants are

responsible for their own transportation.

For more details, interested parties

should contact Mr. Douglas Clark, the

applicant contact, at (518) 794–8613,

prior to the site visit date.

Scoping Meetings

The Commission staff will hold

scoping meetings on May 18 and 19,

1998, in preparation for completing an

Environmental Assessment (EA), under

the National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA), for relicensing the Hoosick

Falls Project.

Commission staff will hold the

scoping meetings in the vicinity of the

Hoosick Falls Project: one evening

meeting and one morning meeting. The

evening will focus on receiving input

from the public, whereas the afternoon

meeting will focus on resource agency

concerns. We invite all interested

agencies, NGOs, and individuals to

attend one or both of the meetings, and

to assist staff in identifying the scope of

environmental issues that should be

analyzed in the EA. The times and

locations of these meetings are shown

below.

Evening Scoping Meeting

Date: May 18, 1998.

Time: 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Place: Hoosick Falls Town Hall, 80

Church St., Hoosick Falls, NY 12090,

(518) 686–4571.

Morning Scoping Meeting

Date: May 19, 1998.

Time: 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.

Place: Hoosick Falls Town Hall, 80

Church St., Hoosick Falls, NY 12090,

(518) 686–4571.

To help focus discussions, we will

distribute a Scoping Document (SD)

outlining the areas to be addressed at

the meetings to the parties on the

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of the

SD also will be available at the scoping

meetings.

Objectives

At the scoping meetings, the staff will:

(1) summarize the environmental issues

tentatively identified for analysis in the

EA; (2) solicit from the meeting

participants all available information,

especially quantifiable data, on the

resources at issue; (3) encourage

statements on environmental issues that

should be analyzed in the EA, including

opinions in favor of, or in opposition to,

the staff’s preliminary list of issues; (4)

determine the depth of analysis for

issues addressed in the EA; and (5)

identify resource issues that will not

require detailed analysis in the EA.

The scoping meetings will be

recorded by a court reporter, and all

statements (oral and written) will

become part of the Commission’s public

record for the project. Before each

meeting starts, all individuals who

attend, especially those individuals that

intend to make statements during the

meeting, will be asked to sign in and

clearly identify themselves for the

record prior to speaking. Time allotted

for presentations will be determined by

staff based on the length of the meetings

and the number of people wanting to

speak. All individuals wishing to speak

will be provided at least five minutes to

present their views.

Interested parties who choose not to

speak, or are unable to attend the

scoping meetings, may provide written

comments and information to the

Commission until June 1, 1998. Written

comments and information should be

submitted to the Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

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

20426.

The first page of all filings should

indicate ‘‘Hoosick Falls Project, FERC

No. 2487–006’’ at the top of the page.

All filings sent to the Secretary of the

Commission should contain an original

and eight copies. Failure to file an

original and eight copies may result in

appropriate staff not receiving the

benefit of your comments in a timely

manner. Furthermore, participants in

this proceeding are reminded that if

they file comments with the

Commission, they must serve a copy of