Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2001 / Notices 10677

Issued in Golden, Colorado on February 5,

2001.

Jerry Zimmer,

Director, Office of Acquisition and Financial

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–4001 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC00–547–001, FERC–547]

Information Collection Submitted for

Review and Request for Comments

February 12, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of submission for review

of the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission)

has submitted the energy information

collection listed in this notice to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review under the provisions

of Section 3507 of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).

Any interested person may file

comments on the collection of

information directly with OMB and

should address a copy of those

comments to the Commission as

explained below. The Commission did

not receive comments in response to an

earlier Federal Register notice of

September 5, 2001 (65 FR 53708–09)

and has made a notation in this

submission.

DATES: Comments regarding this

collection are best assured of having

their full effect if received on or before

March 19, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Address comments to the

Office of Management and Budget,

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Attention: Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission Desk Officer,

725 17th Street, NW., Washington DC

20503. A copy of the comments should

also be sent to Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Office of the

Chief Information Officer, Attention:

Mr. Michael Miller, CI–1, 888 First

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. Mr.

Miller may be reached by telephone at

(202) 208–1415, by fax at (202) 208–

2425, and by e-mail at

mike.miller@ferc.fed.us.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Description

The energy information collection

submitted to OMB for review contains:

1. Collection of Information: FERC–

547 ‘‘Gas Pipeline Rates: Refund Report

Requirements.’’

2. Sponsor: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission.

3. Control No.: 1902–0084. The

Commission is requesting reinstatement,

without change, of the previously

approved data collection for which

approval expired July 31, 2000, and a

three-year approval of the collection of

data. This is a mandatory information

collection requirement.

4. Necessity of Collection of

Information: Submission of the

information is necessary to enable the

Commission to carry out its

responsibilities in implementing

provisions of Section 4, 5, and 16 of the

Natural Gas Act (NGA). Refund Reports

are required to carry out the refund

obligation policy in Section 4(e) of the

NGA. Refunds are created due to the

difference between pipeline rates

collected and subject to refund and firm

rates set by the Commission. The

refunds are flowed through by the

following means: (a) Pursuant to

settlement agreements, and (b) legal

requirements. The Commission uses the

data to insure the pass-through to gas

consumers of refunds that are required

to correct rates charged by pipelines.

The data provided by the respondents

are used to monitor the progress that is

being made to make those refunds and

to assure that refunds are being made in

compliance with the Commission’s

regulatory functions. The Commission is

committed to insuring that refunds

owed by pipelines, to their customers

are made as expeditiously as possible,

in order to hasten their ultimate passthrough to residential customers and

other end-users. The data required to be

filed for the refund report is specified by

18 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

154.501.

(5) Respondent Description: The

respondent universe currently

comprises approximately 75 natural gas

pipeline companies.

6. Estimated Burden: 5,625 total

burden hours, 75 respondents, 75

responses annually, 1 hour per

response.

Authority: Sections 4, 5 and 16 of the NGA

(15 U.S.C. 717–717w).

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–3911 Filed 2–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ER01–791–000]

Allegheny Energy Supply Conemaugh,

LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order

February 12, 2001.

Allegheny Energy Supply

Conemaugh, LLC (Allegheny

Conemaugh) submitted for filing a rate

schedule under which Allegheny

Conemaugh will engage in wholesale

electric power and energy transactions

at market-based rates. Allegheny

Conemaugh also requested waiver of

various Commission regulations. In

particular, Allegheny Conemaugh

requested that the Commission grant

blanket approval under 18 CFR part 34

of all future issuances of securities and

assumptions of liability by Allegheny

Conemaugh.

On February 1, 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

or to protest the blanket approval of

issuances of securities or assumptions of

liability by Allegheny Conemaugh

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 for hearing within

this period, Allegheny Conemaugh is

authorized to issue securities and

assume 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 Allegheny Conemaugh’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 March

5, 2001.