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385.214). All such motions and protests

should be filed on or before April 24,

2000. Protests will be considered by the

Commission to determine the

appropriate action to be taken, but will

not serve to make protestants parties to

the proceedings. 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. This

filing may also be viewed on the

Internet at http://www.ferc.fed.us/

online/rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9770 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP96–320–030]

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company;

Notice of Negotiated Rate Filing

April 13, 2000.

Take notice that on April 11, 2000,

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

(Koch) tendered for filing the following

contracts reflecting negotiated rate

transactions:

Special Negotiated Rate Between Koch and

KET Energy Trading, Contracts Nos. 27619

and 27621

Koch states that it requests a waiver

of Section 154.207 of the Commission’s

regulations to allow the filing to be

effective on October 1, 1999.

Koch states that it has served copies

of this filing upon each of all parties on

the official service list created by the

Secretary in this proceeding.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with Sections

385.214 or 385.211 of the Commission’s

Rules and Regulations. All such motions

or protests must be filed in accordance

with Section 154.210 of the Commission

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 proceedings. 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 in the

Public Reference Room. This filing may

be viewed on the web at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9766 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. TM00–1–25–002]

Mississippi River Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Proposed

Changes in FERC Gas Tariff

April 13, 2000.

Take notice that on April 7, 2000,

Mississippi River Transmission

Corporation (MRT) tendered for filing as

apart of its Gas Tariff, Third Revised

Volume No. 1, the sheets listed below to

become effective June 1, 2000:

Substitute Thirty Fourth Revised Sheet No. 5

Substitute Thirty Fourth Revised Sheet No. 6

Substitute Thirty First Revised Sheet No. 7

Substitute Eleventh Revised Sheet No. 8

MRT states that the purpose of this

filing is to adjust the Fuel Use and Loss

Percentages under its Rate Schedules

FTS, SCT, ITS, FSS and ISS pursuant to

Section 22 of the General Terms and

Conditions of its FERC Gas Tariff and

the Commission’s order in Docket No.

TM00–1–25–000. MRT further states,

subject to the Commission’s

authorization, the filing will replace and

supersede the tariff filing made by MRT

on October 1, 1999 in Docket No.

TM00–1–25–000.

MRT states that a copy of this filing

is being mailed to each of the parties to

this proceeding, its customers and to the

state commissions of Arkansas, Illinois,

and Missouri.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with Section

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such protests must be

filed on or before April 28, 2000.

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 proceedings. Copies of this filing are

on file with the Commission and are

available for public inspection in the

Public Reference Room. This filing may

be viewed on the web at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9769 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EL00–68–000]

Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility

Commission and the City of

Harrisonville, Missouri v. UtiliCorp

United Inc.; Notice of Complaint

April 13, 2000.

Take notice that on April 11, 2000,

the City of Harrisonville, Missouri and

the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric

Utility Commission on behalf of its

member cities El Dorado Springs,

Odessa, and Rich Hill, Missouri, filed a

complaint against UtiliCorp United Inc.

d/b/a Missouri Public Service (MPS).

The complaint asserts that MPS has

recovered certain impermissible

purchased power expenses through

MPS’s fuel adjustment clause (FAC), in

violation of the filed rate and the

Commission’s fuel clause regulations,

18 CFR 35.14. The complaint requests

that the Commission: (1) Initiate an

audit and investigation of MPS’s

application of the fuel adjustment

clause, (2) by issuing a notice of rate

examination and/or order to show cause

under 18 CFR 385.209, require MPS to

bear the burden of demonstrating in that

audit and investigation that it has not

included any improper energy purchase

costs in its FAC billings from at least

1997 to date, and (3) require MPS to

provide refunds (with interest) as

appropriate to reflect correct application

of the FAC, i.e., elimination of all

improper purchased energy costs, with

respect to all relevant periods. The

complainants also request consolidation

of this proceeding with the complaint in

Docket No. EL00–43–000.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest such 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 Rules 211 and 214

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and

385.214). All such motions or protests

must be filed on or before May 1, 2000.

Protests will be considered by the

Commission in determining the

appropriate action to be taken, but will

not serve to make protestants parties to

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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 in the

Public Reference Room. This filing may

also be viewed on the Internet at http:/

/www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance). Answers

to the complaint shall also be due on or

before May 1, 2000.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9765 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. ER00–1675–000 and ER00–

1676–000 (Not Consolidated)]

Reliant Energy Desert Basin, LLC,

Fulton Cogeneration Associates, L.P.;

Notice of Issuance of Order

April 13, 2000.

Reliant Energy Desert Basin, LLC and

Fulton Cogeneration Associates, L.P.

(hereafter, ‘‘the Applicants’’) filed with

the Commission rate schedules in the

above-captioned proceedings,

respectively, under which the

Applicants will engage in wholesale

electric power and energy transactions

at market-based rates, and for certain

waivers and authorizations. In

particular, certain of the Applicants may

also have requested in their respective

applications that the Commission grant

blanket approval under 18 CFR part 34

of all future issuances for securities and

assumptions of liabilities by the

Applicants. On April 12, 2000, the

Commission issued an order that

accepted the rate schedules for sales of

capacity and energy at market-based

rates (Order), in the above-docketed

proceedings.

The Commission’s April 12, 2000

Order granted, for those Applicants that

sought such approval, their request for

blanket approval under Part 34, subject

to the conditions found in Appendix B

in Ordering Paragraphs (2), (3), and (5):

(2) 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 the

Applicants should file a motion to

intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426,

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211 and

385.214.

Absent a request to be heard within

the period set forth in Ordering

Paragraph (2) above, if the Applicants

have requested such authorization, the

Applicants are hereby authorized to

issue securities and assume obligations

and 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 the Applicants, compatible

with the public interest, and reasonably

necessary or appropriate for such

purposes.

(5) 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 the

Applicants’ 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 May 12,

2000.

Copies of the full text of the Order are

available from the Commission’s Public

Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE,

Washington, DC 20426. This issuance

may also be viewed on the Internet at

http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm

(call 202–208–2222 for assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9760 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP00–244–000]

Sumas International Pipeline Inc.;

Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC

Gas Tariff

April 13, 2000.

Take notice that on April 10, 2000,

Sumas International Pipeline Inc. (SIPI),

tendered for filing as part of its FERC

Gas Tariff, Original Volume No. 2, the

following tariff sheets to become

effective May 1, 2000:

Second Revised Sheet Number 10

Second Revised Sheet Number 11

Original Sheet Number 11A

Second Revised Sheet Number 12

First Revised Sheet Number 12A

Third Revised Sheet Number 13

First Revised Sheet Number 13A

First Revised Sheet Number 13B

First Revised Sheet Number 13C

Original Sheet Number 13D

Original Sheet Number 13E

Original Sheet Number 13F

First Revised Sheet Number 16A

First Revised Sheet Number 21A

SIPI asserts that the purpose of this

filing is to comply with Order No. 587

issued on July 17, 1996 in general, and

in particular Order Nos. 587–G, 587–H

and 487–K, and the Notice Clarifying

Procedures for Filing Tariff Sheets

issued on September 12, 1996, in Docket

No. RM96–1–000. These pro-forma

sheets reflect the requirement that

interstate natural gas pipelines follow

standardized procedures for critical

business practices (nominations;

allocations, balancing and

measurement; involving; and capacity

release) and standardized protocols and

file formats for electronic

communication except where waivers

have been granted.

SIPI states that copies of this filing

were mailed to all customers of SIPI and

Interested Parties.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with sections

385.214 or 385.211 of the Commission’s

Rules and Regulations. All such motions

or protests must be filed in accordance

with 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 proceedings.

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 in the Public Reference

Room. This filing may be viewed on the

web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/

rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–9768 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP00–166–000]

Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc.;

Notice of Petition to Amend

April 13, 2000.

Take notice that on April 3, 2000,

Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc.

(Williams), 3800 Frederica Street,

Owensboro, Kentucky 42301, filed an