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that a technical conference be held to

address issues raised by the filing.

Take notice that the technical

conference will be held on Thursday,

July 12, 2001, at 9 a.m., in a room to be

designated, at the offices of the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

All interested parties and Staff are

permitted to attend.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EC01–70–000]

Wisvest-Connecticut, LLC and

Bridgepower Harbor Power, LLC, New

Haven Harbor Power, LLC, and NRG

Connecticut Power Assets, LLC;

Notice of Filing

June 8, 2001.

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Wisvest-Connecticut, LLC (Wisvest) and

NRG Connecticut Power Assets LLC

(NRG Connecticut) [together Applicants]

filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission a request for a protective

order in the above-captioned

proceeding.

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 and protests

should be filed on or before June 14,

2001. 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). Comments, protests and

interventions may be filed electronically

via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ER98–2440–002, et al.]

Central Illinois Light Company, et al.;

Electric Rate and Corporate Regulation

Filings

June 7, 2001.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. Central Illinois Light Company

[Docket No. ER98–2440–002]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Central Illinois Light Company (CILCO),

tendered for filing a triennial market

power study for sales under its Market

Rate Power Sales Tariff.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

2. Duke Energy Mohave, LLC

[Docket No. ER01–1619–001]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Duke Energy Mohave, LLC (Duke

Energy) tendered for filing the following

tariff revised sheets as part of its FERC

Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 1,

proposed to be effective on May 22,

2001.

First Revised Sheet No. 1

First Revised Sheet No. 2

Original Sheet No. 3

Duke Mohave states that the purpose

of this filing is to comply with Duke

Energy Mohave, LLC, 95 FERC 61,256

(2001). The revised sheets incorporate

the changes directed by Ordering

Paragraph (B) of the cited order.

Duke Mohave states that copies of its

filing have been mailed to all affected

customers and interested state

commissions.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

3. American Electric Power Service

Corporation

[Docket No. ER01–2215–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001, the

American Electric Power Service

Corporation (AEPSC) tendered for filing

an unexecuted Interconnection and

Operation Agreement between Indiana

Michigan Power Company and Duke

Energy Vigo, LLC. The agreement is

pursuant to the AEP Companies’ Open

Access Transmission Service Tariff

(OATT) that has been designated as the

Operating Companies of the American

Electric Power System FERC Electric

Tariff Revised Volume No. 6, effective

June 15, 2001.

AEP requests an effective date of

August 2, 2001.

A copy of the filing was served upon

the Indiana Utility Regulatory

Commission and the Michigan Public

Service Commission.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

4. Automated Power Exchange, Inc.

[Docket No. ER01–2216–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Automated Power Exchange, Inc.

tendered for filing a new rate schedule

under which APX will offer power

exchange services in the APX West

Wide Market.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

5. Sunrise Power Company, LLC

[Docket No. ER01–2217–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Sunrise Power Company, LLC (Seller), a

limited liability company organized

under the laws of the State of Delaware,

tendered for filing an order: (1)

Accepting Seller’s proposed marketbased rate tariff; (2) granting waiver of

certain Commission regulations under

the Federal Power Act; and (3) granting

the blanket approvals normally

accorded sellers permitted to sell at

market-based rates. Seller is

constructing, and intends to own and

operate a 560 MW electric generating

facility in Kern County, California.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

6. Duke Energy Corporation

[Docket No. ER01–2218–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Duke Energy Corporation (Duke)

tendered for filing a Service Agreement

with Carolina Power & Light Company

for Firm Transmission Service under

Duke’s Open Access Transmission

Tariff.

Duke requests that the proposed

Service Agreement be permitted to

become effective on May 7, 2001.

Duke states that this filing is in

accordance with Part 35 of the

Commission’s Regulations and a copy

has been served on the North Carolina

Utilities Commission.

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Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

7. Duke Energy Corporation

[Docket No. ER01–2219–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Duke Energy Corporation (Duke)

tendered for filing a Service Agreement

with Carolina Power & Light Company

for Firm Transmission Service under

Duke’s Open Access Transmission

Tariff.

Duke requests that the proposed

Service Agreement be permitted to

become effective on May 7, 2001.

Duke states that this filing is in

accordance with Part 35 of the

Commission’s Regulations and a copy

has been served on the North Carolina

Utilities Commission.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

8. Xcel Energy Operating Companies,

Northern States Power Company

(Minnesota), Northern States Power

Company (Wisconsin)

[Docket No. ER01–2220–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

Northern States Power Company and

Northern States Power Company

(Wisconsin) (jointly NSP Companies),

wholly owned utility operating

company subsidiaries of Xcel Energy,

Inc., tendered for filing a Firm Point-toPoint Transmission Service Agreement

(Agreement) between the NSP

Companies and NSP Energy Marketing.

The NSP Companies propose the

Agreement be included in the Xcel

Energy Operating Companies FERC Joint

Open Access Transmission Tariff,

Original Volume No. 1, as Service

Agreement No. 188-NSP, pursuant to

Order No. 614. The NSP Companies also

submit Ninth Revised Sheet No. 1

(Table of Contents of Transmission

Service Agreements) to the Joint OATT,

Original Volume 1, to reflect inclusion

of the Agreement.

The NSP Companies request that the

Commission accept the Agreement and

Ninth Revised Sheet No. 1 effective May

1, 2001, and request waiver of the

Commission’s notice requirements as

may be necessary for the Agreement to

be accepted for filing on the date

requested.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

9. New England Power Pool

[Docket No. ER01–2223–000]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001, the

New England Power Pool (NEPOOL)

tendered for filing the Seventy-Fifth

Agreement Amending New England

Power Pool Agreement (the SeventyFifth Agreement), which proposes

changes to the NEPOOL arrangements

that would adopt for New England a

standard market design (SMD) for a

congestion management system (CMS)

and multi-settlement system (MSS).

SMD would replace elements of the

existing Commission-approved CMS/

MSS arrangements for New England.

The SMD would be modeled largely

after the market design of PJM

Interconnection, L.L.C. The NEPOOL

Participants Committee requests that the

Commission act to accept the SeventyFifth Agreement by July 31, 2001 to

become effective on August 1, 2001 for

transactions on and after the CMS/MSS

Effective Date.

The NEPOOL Participants Committee

states that copies of these materials were

sent to all persons on the services list in

these proceedings, the NEPOOL

Participants, and the New England state

governors and regulatory commissions.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

10. Nordic Energy Barge #1, L.L.C.,

Nordic Energy Barge #2, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER01–2224–000]

Take notice that on May 30, 2001,

Nordic Energy Barge #1, L.L.C. (NordicEB1), and Nordic Energy Barge #2,

L.L.C. (collectively, the Nordic Energy

Barge LLCs), tendered for filing to: (1)

Accept for filing its Rate Schedule FERC

No. 1, which will permit each of the

filing parties to sell electric energy and

capacity to wholesale customers at

market-based rates and permit

transmission capacity reassignment; and

(2) grant such other waivers and blanket

authorizations as have been granted to

other power marketers.

The Nordic Energy Barge LLCs intend

to engage in wholesale electric power

and energy sales as a marketer. Neither

of the Nordic Energy Barge LLCs nor

any of their affiliates owns or controls

any transmission or currently operating

or operable generation facilities, or has

a franchised service area for the sale of

electricity to captive customers. Each of

the Nordic Energy Barge LLCs intends to

own and operate a newly sited 100 MW

barge-mounted generating unit, to be

docked on the Columbia River in the

vicinity of Longview, Washington, and

to sell the output of that unit

exclusively at wholesale. One of the

units will be located in Washington

waters, and the other in Oregon waters.

Comment date: June 20, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

11. New York Independent System

Operator, Inc.]

[Docket No. ER01–2230–000]

Take notice that on June 1, 2001, the

New York Independent System

Operator, Inc. (NYISO) tendered for

filing an Informational Filing describing

the operation of the Transmission

Service Charge set forth in Attachment

H to its Open-Access Transmission

Tariff.

The NYISO has served a copy of this

filing upon all parties on the service list

in the above-referenced proceedings.

Comment date: June 22, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

12. Midwest Independent Transmission

System Operator, Inc.

[Docket No. ER01–479–001]

Take notice that on June 4, 2001, the

Midwest Independent Transmission

System Operator, Inc. (the Midwest ISO)

tendered for filing revisions to its Open

Access Transmission Tariff and

Agreement of the Transmission

Facilities Owners to Organize the

Midwest ISO with respect to expanding

the Midwest ISO Advisory Committee to

include certain members of the MidContinent Area Power Pool (MAPP) and

provide certain MAPP Transmission

Owners with the option of electing

Network Transmission Service on behalf

of their bundled retail customers.

Copies of this filing were served upon

all parties listed on the official service

list compiled by the Secretary of the

Commission in this proceeding.

Comment date: June 25, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

13. Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power

Company

[Docket No. ER01–813–001]

Take notice that on May 18, 2001,

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power

Company, tendered for filing a notice in

compliance with the Commission’s

April 30, 2001 order conditionally

approving Connecticut Yankee proposal

for compliance with the Commission’s

policy regarding post-employment

benefits other than pensions (PBOP),

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power

Company, 95 FERC¶ 61,164 (2001). In

light of the conditions imposed in that

order, Connecticut Yankee states that it

has decided not to implement the

authority granted by the Commission in

that order. Instead, it will continue to

treat PBOP revenues as specified in the

settlement approved by the Commission

in a letter order dated July 18, 1996, and

in accordance with applicable

Commission requirements.

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Comment date: June 18, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

14. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER99–4415–007]

Take notice that on May 29, 2001,

Illinois Power Company, tendered for

filing a revised Refund Report

incorporating the revisions

contemplated in the February Order.

Comment date: June 18, 2001, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraph

E. 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, 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). 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. This filing may also be

viewed on the Internet at http://

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

202–208–2222 for assistance).

Comments, protests, and interventions

may be filed electronically via the

internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s web site at http:/

/www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Application Accepted for

Filing and Soliciting Motions To

Intervene, Protests, and Comments

June 8, 2001.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Preliminary

Permit.

b. Project No.: 11969–000.

c. Date filed: April 18, 2001.

d. Applicant: Symbiotics, LLC.

e. Name of Project: Briones Dam

Project.

f. Location: On Bear Creek, in Contra

Costa County, California. The project

would not utilize any federal dam or

facilities.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Brent L.

Smith, President, Northwest Power

Services, Inc., P.O. Box 535, Rigby, ID

83442, (208) 745–8360.

i. FERC Contact: Robert Bell, (202)

219–2806.

j. Deadline for filing motions to

intervene, protests and comments: 60

days from the issuance date of this

notice.

All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: David P.

Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Comments, motions to intervene, and

protests may be electronically filed via

the internet in lieu of paper. See 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s web site at

http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

Please include the project number (P–

11917–000) on any comments or

motions filed.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure require all interveners

filing documents with the Commission

to serve a copy of that document on

each person in the official service list

for the project. Further, if an intervener

files comments or documents with the

Commission relating to the merits of an

issue that may affect the responsibilities

of a particular resource agency, they

must also serve a copy of the document

on that resource agency.

k. Description of Project: The

proposed project would consist of: (1)

An existing 2,100-foot-long, 273-foothigh earthfill dam; (2) an existing

impoundment having a surface area of

3,200 acres with a storage capacity of

67,520 acre-feet and normal water

elevation of 735 feet msl; (3) a proposed

400-foot-long, 240-inch-diameter steel

penstock; (4) a proposed powerhouse

containing two generating units with a

total installed capacity of 7.8 MW; (5) a

proposed 11-mile-long, 15 kV

transmission line; and (6) appurtenant

facilities.

The project would have an annual

generation of 34.45 GWh that would be

sold to a local utility.

l. A copy of the application is

available for inspection and

reproduction at the Commission’s

Public Reference Room, located at 888

First Street, NE., Room 2A, Washington,

DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208–1371.

The application may be viewed on

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

(call (202) 208–2222 for assistance). A

copy is also available for inspection and

reproduction at the address in item h

above.

m. Preliminary Permit—Anyone

desiring to file a competing application

for preliminary permit for a proposed

project must submit the competing

application itself, or a notice of intent to

file such an application, to the

Commission on or before the specified

comment date for the particular

application (see 18 CFR 4.36).

Submission of a timely notice of intent

allows an interested person to file the

competing preliminary permit

application no later than 30 days after

the specified comment date for the

particular application. A competing

preliminary permit application must

conform with 18 CFR 4.30(b) and 4.36.

n. Preliminary Permit—Any qualified

development applicant desiring to file a

competing development application

must submit to the Commission, on or

before a specified comment date for the

particular application, either a

competing development application or a

notice of intent to file such an

application. Submission of a timely

notice of intent to file a development

application allows an interested person

to file the competing application no

later than 120 days after the specified

comment date for the particular

application. A competing license

application must conform with 18 CFR

4.30(b) and 4.36.

o. Notice of Intent—A notice of intent

must specify the exact name, business

address, and telephone number of the

prospective applicant, and must include

an unequivocal statement of intent to

submit, if such an application may be

filed, either a preliminary permit

application or a development

application (specify which type of

application). A notice of intent must be

served on the applicant(s) named in this

public notice.

p. Proposed Scope of Studies under

Permit—A preliminary permit, if issued,

does not authorize construction. The

term of the proposed preliminary permit

would be 36 months. The work

proposed under the preliminary permit

would include economic analysis,

preparation of preliminary engineering

plans, and a study of environmental

impacts. Based on the results of these

studies, the Applicant would decide

whether to proceed with the preparation

of a development application to

construct and operate the project.

q. Comments, Protests, or Motions to

Intervene—Anyone may submit

comments, a protest, or a motion to