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###### Department of Energy

###### Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

          - [Docket No. ER01-596-000]

Alabama Electric Marketing, LLC (AEM) submitted for filing a rate schedule under which AEM will engage in wholesale electric power and energy transactions at market-based rates. AEM also requested waiver of various Commission regulations. In particular, AEM requested that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuance of securities and assumptions of liability by AEM.

On January 3, 2001, pursuant to delegated authority, the Director, Division of Corporate Applications, Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, granted requests for blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the following:

                    Within thirty days of the date of the order, any person desiring to be heard                           ( print page 2895)                        or to protest the blanket approval of issuances of securities or assumptions of liability by AEM 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).                

Absent a request for hearing within this period, AEM is authorized to issue securities and assumes obligations or liabilities as a guarantor, indorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of any security of another person; provided that such issuance or assumption is for some lawful object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, and compatible with the public interest, and is reasonably necessary or appropriate for such purposes.

The Commission reserves the right to require a further showing that neither public nor private interests will be adversely affected by continued approval of AEM's issuances of securities or assumptions of liability.

Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to intervene or protests, as set forth above, is February 2, 2001.

                    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, D.C. 20426. The order 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. 01-1015  Filed 1-11-01; 8:45 am]

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