[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8228-8229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4403]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. OA97-518-000 and ER97-1477-000]
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Filing
February 18, 1997.
Take notice that New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc., on
January 30, 1997, tendered for filing its FERC Open Access Transmission
Tariff, two rate schedules and a petition for waiver from requirements
under Part 37 of the Commission's regulations, as promulgated in Order
889.
On January 30, 1997 the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative will
complete the payment and retirement of all debts issued by the Rural
Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, and
it accordingly will become a Public Utility subject to the general
regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
under Part II of the Federal Power Act. At the present time, the
Cooperative provides transmission service to one customer, Goodrich
Falls Hydroelectric Company, and it sells its share of the output of
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant Unit No. 1 to the Public Service Company
of New Hampshire. Regulatory jurisdiction over these two
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transactions is being transferred from the New Hampshire Public
Utilities Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as of
January 30, 1997. Accordingly, NHEC has submitted for filing rate
schedules for these transactions pursuant to Section 205(c) of the
Federal Power Act and Section 35.12 of FERC's regulations. Pursuant to
Section 35.28 of FERC's regulations, NHEC is also filing a
nondiscriminatory Open Access Transmission Tariff. In addition, because
NHEC operates limited, discrete transmission facilities rather than an
integrated grid, it is applying for a waiver of Part 37 of the
Commission's regulations, as promulgated in Commission Order No. 889.
Copies of the filing were served upon the Cooperative's
jurisdictional customers Goodrich Falls Hydroelectric Company and the
Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and upon New Hampshire Public
Utilities Commission.
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 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 18 CFR 385.214). All such
motions or protests should be filed on or before February 28, 1997.
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 this filing are on file with
Commission and are available for pubic inspection.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-4403 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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