Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 78 / Friday, April 21, 2000 / Notices 21405

Dated: April 11, 2000.

J. L. Roth,

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–9949 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Chicago Operations Office, Office of

Industrial Technologies, Notice of the

Chemicals Industry of the Future

Solicitation

AGENCY: Chicago Operations Office,

DOE.

ACTION: Notice of financial assistance

solicitation availability.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE) is announcing its

intention to solicit applications for

financial assistance for cost shared

research and development of

technologies that will enhance

economic competitiveness, reduce

energy consumption and reduce

environmental impacts of the U.S.

chemical industry. The DOE Office of

Industrial Technologies (OIT) seeks

industry cost-shared projects involving

at least two chemical industry

companies per project that address

research needs identified in Technology

Vision 2020: The U.S. Chemical

Industry ‘‘vision document’’ and the

subsequent Vision 2020 technology

roadmaps. These documents can be

found on the OIT web-site located at

http://www.oit.doe.gov/chemicals/. DOE

is interested in projects that focus on

applied research that lead to the

development and successful completion

of pilot-scale operations. Projects of

most interest will be those that

demonstrate broad chemical industry

applicability, and which will yield large

and replicable energy savings.

DATES: The complete solicitation

document will be available on or about

May 31, 2000. The deadline for

submission of applications will be

identified in the solicitation and should

occur during August, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the solicitation,

when issued, can be obtained from the

DOE Chicago Operations Office,

Acquisition and Assistance Home Page

at http://www.ch.doe.gov/business/

ACQ.htm under the heading ‘‘current

solicitations,’’ Solicitation No. DE–

SC02–00CH11040. Access to this Home

Page will also be possible through a hotlink from the OIT Chemicals web-site.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

Motz at (630) 252–2152; by mail at U.S.

Department of Energy, 9800 South Cass

Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439–4899; by

facsimile at (630) 252–5045; or by

electronic mail at john.motz@ch.doe.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

DOE through its Office of Industrial

Technologies (OIT) supports industries

in their efforts to increase energy

efficiency, reduce waste and increase

productivity. The goal of OIT is to

accelerate the development and use of

advanced energy efficient, renewable

and pollution prevention technologies

that benefit industry, the environment,

and U.S. energy security. OIT’s core

program is the Industries of the Future

(IOF) initiative that focuses on basic

materials and processing industries

such as the chemical industry.

Research and Development Solicitation

Topics

Responsive projects will cross-cut

several technological and

methodological roadmap areas

including, but not limited to, catalysis,

separations, new process chemistry,

reaction engineering, materials of

construction, computational fluid

dynamics, and computational

chemistry. Specific attention should be

given to system integration and process

operation and control development. The

outcome of these projects should be

pilot-scale demonstrations that will lead

to full-scale demonstration and

commercialization of process

technology. The technology

development project proposed must

show a high probability of

commercialization beyond a single

company. For this reason, the proposers

will need to describe the path to

commercialization that will impact

more than one company’s process

applications; the technology must show

a broad applicability in its proposed

configuration or in a similar adaptation

to other chemical industry applications.

Type and Number of Anticipated

Awards

Awards under this solicitation will be

cooperative agreements with a term of

up to three years. DOE is planning to

allocate approximately $4 million in

fiscal year 2001 for the selected projects,

subject to the availability of funds. It is

estimated that three to six projects will

be selected for cost-shared cooperative

agreements. Total estimated

Government funding for the solicitation

is approximately $12 million for the

maximum three-year period, subject to

the availability of funds.

Application Requirements

The projects must include teams that

comprise multi-disciplinary expertise

from corporate research, process

engineering, technology development

groups or companies, and new business

development organizations within and

outside chemical companies.

Applications that do not propose a

teaming arrangement of at least two

chemical industry companies will not

be evaluated. Teams shall be led by

chemical companies, but may include

partners from chemical product/raw

material suppliers, chemical customers,

equipment suppliers, engineering firms,

software and consulting firms,

universities, National Laboratories, and

research institutes.

Applicants will be required to cost

share a minimum of 50% of the total

project costs to be incurred under the

proposed project to be eligible for award

under this solicitation.

In addition to the foregoing, other

evaluation and selection criteria will be

developed in accordance with 10 CFR

600.10—Form and Content of

Applications and 10 CFR 600.13—Merit

Review.

Issued in Argonne, Illinois on April 11,

2000.

John D. Greenwood,

Acquisition and Assistance Group Manager

[FR Doc. 00–9982 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket Nos. OA97–111–001, OA97–112–

001 and OA97–124–001]

Cinergy Services, Inc.; Notice of Filing

April 14, 2000.

Take notice that on March 20, 2000,

Cinergy Services, Inc. (Cinergy), as agent

for and on behalf of the Cinergy

Operating Companies, PSI Energy, Inc.

and The Cincinnati Gas & Electric

Company, submitted its compliance

filing pursuant to the Commission’s

February 29, 2000 Order in Allegheny

Power Service Company, et al., 90 FERC

¶ 61,224.

Cinergy states that it has served a

copy of its filing upon Hoosier Energy

Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.,

Southern Indiana Gas and Electric

Company and Indiana Municipal Power

Agency.

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

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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 and

protests should be filed on or before

April 24, 1999. 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. 00–9947 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EG00–125–000, et al.]

ANP Bellingham Energy Company, et

al.; Electric Rate and Corporate

Regulation Filings

April 11, 2000.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. ANP Bellingham Energy Company

[Docket No. EG00–125–000]

Take notice that on April 5, 2000,

ANP Bellingham Energy Company

(Applicant), a Delaware corporation,

whose address is 10000 Memorial Drive,

Suite 500, Houston, Texas 77024, filed

with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission an application for

determination of exempt wholesale

generator status pursuant to part 365 of

the Commission’s regulations.

Applicant intends to construct an

approximate 550 MW natural gas-fired

combined cycle independent power

production facility in Bellingham,

Massachusetts (the Facility). The

Facility is currently under development

and will be owned by Applicant.

Electric energy produced by the Facility

will be sold by Applicant to the

wholesale power market in the

northeast United States.

Comment date: May 2, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice. The

Commission will limit its consideration

of comments to those that concern the

adequacy or accuracy of the application.

2. ANP Blackstone Energy Company

[Docket No. EG00–126–000]

Take notice that on April 5, 2000,

ANP Blackstone Energy Company

(Applicant), a Delaware corporation,

whose address is 10000 Memorial Drive,

Suite 500, Houston, Texas 77024, filed

with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission an application for

determination of exempt wholesale

generator status pursuant to part 365 of

the Commission’s regulations.

Applicant intends to construct an

approximate 550 MW natural gas-fired

combined cycle independent power

production facility in Blackstone,

Massachusetts (the Facility). The

Facility is currently under development

and will be owned by Applicant.

Electric energy produced by the Facility

will be sold by Applicant to the

wholesale power market in the

northeast United States

Comment date: May 2, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice. The

commission will limit its consideration

of comments to those that concern the

adequacy or accuracy of the application.

3. Wabash Valley Power Association

and American Municipal Power Ohio,

Inc. v. American Electric Power

Services Corporation; Indiana

Municipal Power Agency v. American

Electric Power Service Corporation

[Docket Nos. EL99–66–001 and EL99–72–

001]

Take notice that on April 4, 2000,

American Electric Power Service

Corporation (AEP), on the tendered for

filing its refund report in response to the

Commission’s order of March 16, 2000.

AEP also filed revised tariff sheets

reflecting changes in its loss factors that

had been inadvertently omitted from its

settlement filing on December 10, 1999.

Copies of the filing were served upon

all intervenors and all parties that

signed the settlement agreement.

Comment date: May 4, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

4. Connexus Energy

[Docket No. ER00–1900–001]

Take notice that on April 5, 2000,

Connexus Energy (Connexus) submitted

for filing substitute tariff sheets to

replace supplements, filed on March 23,

2000, to Connexus Energy Rate

Schedule FERC No. 1. Connexus states

that the purpose of the filing is to

change the proposed effective date of

the Amendment to the All Requirements

Contract, and associated revised

Schedule V, between Connexus Energy

and Elk River Municipal Utilities.

The substitute tariff sheets provide for

an effective date of January 1, 2000.

Connexus requests waiver of the prior

notice requirement.

Comment date: April 26, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

5. Otter Tail Power Company

[Docket No. ER00–2105–000]

Take notice that on April 4, 2000,

Otter Tail Power Company (OTP)

tendered for filing a Service Agreement

between OTP and Public Service

Company of Colorado (PSCO). The

Service Agreement allows PSCO to

purchase capacity and/or energy under

OTP’s Coordination Sales Tariff.

Comment date: April 25, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

6. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER00–2106–000]

Take notice that on April 4, 2000,

1999, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM)

tendered for filing a notice of

cancellation of Conoco Power Marketing

Inc.’ (formerly DuPont Power Marketing

Inc.) membership in PJM.

PJM requests a waiver and effective

date of April 5, 2000 for the notice of

cancellation.

PJM states that it served a copy of its

filing on all of the members of PJM,

including the withdrawing company,

and each of the electric regulatory

commissions within the PJM control

area.

Comment date: April 25, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

7. Entergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00–2107–000]

Take notice that on April 4, 2000,

Entergy Services, Inc., on behalf of

Entergy Arkansas, Inc., Entergy Gulf

States, Inc., Entergy Louisiana, Inc.,

Entergy Mississippi, Inc., and Entergy

New Orleans, Inc., (collectively, the

Entergy Operating Companies) tendered

for filing a Non-Firm Point-to-Point

Transmission Service Agreement and a

Short-Term Firm Point-to-Point

Transmission Service Agreement both

between Entergy Services, Inc. as agent

for the Entergy Operating Companies,

and Conoco Power Marketing, Inc.

Entergy Services requests an effective

date of March 28, 2000 for the Service

Agreement.

Comment date: April 25, 2000, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.