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[FR Doc No: 94-5733]
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Office of Fossil Energy
[Docket No. EA-80]
Application for Authorization to Export Electricity; Citizens
Utilities
AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: Citizens Utilities (Citizens) has requested an electricity
export authorization in order to transmit electric energy between two
points in northern Vermont. To facilitate the transmission, electricity
must pass through the system of Hydro-Quebec, a Canadian corporation.
No net electricity will be exported to Hydro-Quebec.
DATES: Comments, protests or requests to intervene must be submitted on
or before April 11, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Comments, protests or requests to intervene should be
addressed as follows: Office of Coal & Electricity (FE-52), Office of
Fuels Programs, Office of Fossil Energy, Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Russell (Program Office) 202-
586-9624 or Michael Skinker (Program Attorney) 202-586-6667.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of electricity from the United
States to a foreign country are regulated and require authorization
under section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act (FPA).
Citizens holds two Presidential permits issued pursuant to
Executive Order No. 10485, as amended by Executive Order No. 12038, to
construct, connect, operate, and maintain electric transmission
facilities at the international border between Vermont and Canada. In
1979 Citizens was issued Presidential Permit PP-66 for the construction
of one, 120-kilovolt (kV) overhead transmission line at a point on the
international border between the United States and Canada near Derby
Line, Vermont. Citizens also holds Presidential Permit PP-80, issued in
1983, for construction of a 25-kV line near Canaan, Vermont, and a 25-
kV line in Norton, Vermont.
On February 9, 1994, Citizens notified DOE that it had entered into
an agreement with Baldwin Hydroelectric Corporation (Baldwin) to
purchase the electrical output of the Baldwin Hydroelectric Project
being constructed on the Connecticut River in northern New Hampshire.
Citizens would then provide that electricity to its customers in
northern Vermont. In its application, Citizens asserts that it has
limited transmission capability between the area of the Baldwin project
and the majority of its customers in north-central and north-west
Vermont. In order to efficiently facilitate the transfer of
electricity, Citizens proposes to export electric energy to Hydro-
Quebec in Canada across the facilities near Canaan, Vermont (PP-80).
Hydro-Quebec will redeliver the same amount of electricity to Citizens
in the U.S. at the Derby Line facility (PP-66) in Vermont. This
transaction would not result in a net export of electricity to the
system of Hydro-Quebec.
Procedural Matters:
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this application
should file a petition to intervene or protest at the address provided
above in accordance with Secs. 385.211 or 385.214 of the Rules of
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Any such petitions and protests should be filed with DOE on or
before the date listed above. Additional copies of such petitions to
intervene or protests also should be filed directly with: Craig Marks,
Citizens Utilities, High Ridge Park, Stamford, CT 06905.
Pursuant to 18 CFR 385.211, protests and comments will be
considered by the DOE 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 petition
to intervene under 18 CFR 385.214. Section 385.214 requires that a
petition to intervene must state, to the extent known, the position
taken by the petitioner and the petitioner's interest in sufficient
factual detail to demonstrate either that the petitioner has a right to
participate because it is a State Commission; that it has or represents
an interest which may be directly affected by the outcome of the
proceeding, including any interest as a consumer, customer, competitor,
or a security holder of a party to the proceeding; or that the
petitioner's participation is in the public interest.
A final decision will be made on this application after a
determination is made by the DOE on whether the proposed action would
impair the sufficiency of electric supply within the United States or
would impede or tend to impede the coordination in the public interest
of facilities as required by section 202(e) of FPA.
Before an export authorization may be issued, the environmental
impacts of the proposed DOE action (i.e., granting the export
authorization, with any conditions and limitations, or denying it) must
be evaluated pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA).
Copies of this application will be made available, upon request,
for public inspection and copying at the address provided above.
Issued in Washington, DC, March 7, 1994.
Anthony J. Como,
Director, Office of Coal & Electricity, Office of Fuels Programs,
Fossil Energy.
[FR Doc. 94-5733 Filed 3-10-94; 8:45 am]
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