[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 123 (Friday, June 26, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34867-34869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17030]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER98-3199-000, et al.]
PacifiCorp, et al., Electric Rate and Corporate Regulation
Filings
June 19, 1998.
Take notice that the following filings have been made with the
Commission:
1. PacifiCorp
[Docket No. ER98-3199-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, PacifiCorp, tendered for filing
in accordance with 18 CFR 35 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations,
umbrella Service Agreements with City of Mesa, Arizona; Morenci Water &
Electric Co.; Nautilus Energy Company, LLC; and New Energy Ventures,
L.L.C., under PacifiCorp's FERC Electric Tariff, First Revised Volume
No. 12.
Copies of this filing were supplied to the Public Utility
Commission of Oregon and the Washington Utilities and Transportation
Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
2. Allegheny Power Service Corp., on Behalf of Monongahela Power
Co., The Potomac Edison Company, and West Penn Power Company
(Allegheny Power)
[Docket No. ER98-2497-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Allegheny Power Service
Corporation on behalf of Monongahela Power Company, The Potomac Edison
Company and West Penn Power Company (Allegheny Power), filed Amendment
No. 1, to Allegheny Power's Open Access Transmission Tariff, Supplement
No. RT-1, to fulfill the requirements of the Commission's letter order
dated May 19, 1998.
Copies of the filing have been provided to the Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
3. Western Resources, Inc.
[Docket No. ER98-3332-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Western Resources, Inc.,
tendered for filing an agreement between Western Resources and Arizona
Public Service Company and Western Resources and NP Energy Inc. Western
Resources states that the purpose of the agreements is to permit the
customers to take service under Western Resources' market-based power
sales tariff on file with the Commission.
The agreements are proposed to become effective June 15, 1998.
Copies of the filing were served upon Arizona Public Service
Company, NP Energy Inc., and the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
4. Southwestern Public Service Company
[Docket No. ER98-3356-000]
Take notice that on June 15, 1998, Southwestern Public Service
Company (Southwestern), tendered for filing its proposed non-fuel and
non-purchased power operations and maintenance expense savings credits
resulting from its merger with Public Service company of Colorado
required in its agreement with Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc.
(Golden Spread), filed in Docket No. ER97-47-000.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
5. Southwestern Public Service Company
[Docket No. ER98-3363-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Southwestern Public Service
Company (Southwestern), tendered for filing its proposed non-fuel and
non-purchased power operations and maintenance expense savings credit
resulting from its merger with Public Service company of Colorado
required in its agreement with Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc.
(Farmers'), filed in Docket No. ER97-3901-000.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
6. PECO Energy Company
[Docket ER98-3373-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, PECO Energy Company (PECO),
tendered for filing three agreements between PECO and Sun Company Inc.
(R&M), (Sun), each entitled Authorization for Parallel Operation of
Customer Owned Generation Equipment, dated November 26, 1997, December
31, 1997 and March 18, 1998.
PECO requests waiver of the Commission's Regulations to permit the
agreements to be effective as of December 1, 1997, January 1, 1998 and
April 1, 1998, respectively.
Copies of the filing were served on Sun and the Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
7. Metropolitan Edison Company
[Docket No. ER98-3374-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Metropolitan Edison Company
(Met-Ed) (d/b/a GPU Energy), filed executed Retail Transmission Service
Agency Agreements between GPU and mc2, Inc., dated May 29, 1998.
GPU Energy requests a waiver of the Commission's notice
requirements for good cause shown and an effective date of November 1,
1997 through December 31, 1998, for the Retail Transmission Service
Agency Agreements.
GPU Energy will be serving a copy of the filing on the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
8. Pennsylvania Electric Company
[Docket No. ER98-3375-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1997, Pennsylvania Electric Company
(d/b/a GPU Energy), filed an executed Retail Transmission Service
Agency Agreements between GPU Energy and mc2, Inc., dated May 29, 1998.
GPU Energy requests a waiver of the Commission's notice
requirements for good cause shown and an effective date of November 1,
1997, for the Retail Transmission Service Agency Agreements.
GPU Energy will be serving a copy of the filing on the Pennsylvania
Public Utility Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
9. Public Service Company of New Mexico
[Docket No. ER98-3376-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Public Service Company of New
Mexico (PNM), submitted for filing an executed copy of the Interim
Resolution of PNM's September 18, 1997, Section 211 request
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for Transmission Service from the Western Area Power Administration
(Western), as a supplement to the two existing contracts for reserved
transmission capacity (i.e. Contracts Number 14-06-400-2425 and 8-07-
40-PO695) between PNM and Western.
PNM requests waiver of the Commission's notice requirements to
permit the Interim Resolution to become effective as of June 4, 1998.
Copies of the filing have been provided to Western, Plains Electric
Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., Southwestern Public
Service Company, and the New Mexico Public Utility Commission, and are
available for public inspection at PNM's offices in Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
10. Washington Water Power Company
[Docket No. ER98-3377-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, the Washington Water Power
Company tendered for filing a Termination of Contract, to be canceled
by mutual agreement, for Firm Energy Exchange Agreement with Enron
Power Marketing, Inc., under FERC Rate Schedule No. 232, in Docket No.
ER96-2606-000.
Washington Water Power requests that this termination become
effective October 1, 1998.
Copies of the filing have been served upon Enron Power Marketing,
Inc.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
11. Astra Power, Inc.
[Docket No. ER98-3378-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Astra Power, LLC (Astra Power),
petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for acceptance of
Astra Power's FERC Electric Rate Schedule No. 1; the granting of
certain blanket authorizations; and the waiver of certain of the
Commission's Regulations.
Astra Power intends to engage in power marketing transactions,
purchasing and reselling electricity at wholesale, at rates and on
terms and conditions that are negotiated with the purchasing party.
Astra Power may engage in reassignment of transmission capacity. Astra
Power does not own or control electric generating or transmission
facilities or have any franchised electric service territories.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
12. Florida Power Corporation
[Docket No. ER98-3379-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Florida Power Corporation
(Florida Power), tendered for filing a service agreement providing for
firm point-to-point transmission service to Virginia Electric and Power
Company (Virginia Power), pursuant to its open access transmission
tariff. Florida Power requests that the Commission waive its notice of
filing requirements and allow the agreement to become effective on June
17, 1998.
Florida Power respectfully requests Commission waiver of the notice
requirements in order to allow the Agreements to become effective June
17, 1998.
Copies of the notice have been served upon Virginia Power, and the
Florida Public Service Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
13. Carolina Power & Light Company
[Docket No. ER98-3380-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Carolina Power & Light Company
(CP&L), tendered for filing an un-executed Service Agreement between
CP&L and ConAgra Energy Services, Inc. Service to the eligible buyer
will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of CP&L's Market-
Based Rates Tariff, FERC Electric Tariff No. 4, for sales of capacity
and energy at market-based rates.
Copies of the filing were served upon the North Carolina Utilities
Commission and the South Carolina Public Service Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
14. Energetix, Inc.
[Docket No. ER98-3381-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Energetix, Inc. (Energetix),
submitted an Application for amendment to its Market-Based Rate Tariff,
FERC Electric Rate Schedule No. 1, and the Corporate Policies and
Guidelines for Transactions Between Energetix and Rochester Gas and
Electric Corporation (RG&E). Energetix states that the purpose of these
proposed revisions is to permit Energetix to engage in energy and/or
capacity transactions with its affiliate, RG&E, in a manner consistent
with the precedent of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
15. Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation
[Docket No. ER98-3382-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Rochester Gas and Electric
Corporation (RG&E), submitted an Application for amendment to its
Market-Based Rate Tariff, Market-Based Power Sales Tariff No. 3. RG&E
submitted revised tariff sheets, as well as a revised form of Service
Agreement.
In addition RG&E filed a service agreement between RG&E and its
affiliate, Energetix, Inc. (Energetix), for approval of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission). RG&E states that the purpose
of the proposed revisions to its tariff and the Service Agreement is to
permit RG&E to engage in energy and/or capacity transactions with
Energetix, in a manner consistent with the precedent of the Commission.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
16. Maine Public Service Company
[Docket No. ER98-3383-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Maine Public Service Company
(Maine Public), filed an executed Service Agreement with PG&E Energy
Trading-Power, L.P.
Main Public requests waiver of the Commission's 60-day notice
requirements so that the service agreement can become effective on May
29, 1998.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
17. Boston Edison Company
[Docket No. ER98-3384-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Boston Edison Company (Boston
Edison), tendered for filing (a) a firm point-to-point transmission
service agreement and (b) a non-firm point-to-point transmission
service agreement with Merchant Energy Group of the Americas, Inc. Both
agreements provide for service pursuant to Boston Edison's open access
transmission tariff.
Boston Edison requests that the service agreements become effective
August 16, 1998.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
18. American Electric Power Service Corporation
[Docket No. ER98-3399-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, the American Electric Power
Service Corporation (AEPSC), tendered for filing
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executed service agreements under the Wholesale Market Tariff of the
AEP Operating Companies (Power Sales Tariff). The Wholesale Market
Tariff was accepted for filing effective October 10, 1997 and has been
designated AEP Operating Companies' FERC Electric Tariff Original
Volume No. 5. AEPSC respectfully requests waiver of notice to permit
the service agreements submitted with this filing to be made effective
for Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company on April 23, 1998; PP&L, Inc., on
May 19, 1998; Puget Sound Energy, Inc., on May 4, 1998; Southern
Company Energy Marketing, Inc., on May 19, 1998; Sempra Energy Trading
Corporation on May 19, 1998; and Williams Energy Services Company on
May 19, 1998.
A copy of the filing was served upon the Parties and the State
Utility Regulatory Commissions of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio,
Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
19. FirstEnergy System
[Docket No. ER98-3400-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, FirstEnergy System filed Service
Agreements to provide Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service for
Constellation Power Source, Inc., Commonwealth Edison Company, Entergy
Power Marketing Corp., FirstEnergy Corp--Bulk Power, Illinois Power
Company, Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc., Northeast Utilities
Service Company, PECO Energy Company, Rainbow Energy Marketing Corp.,
Sonat Power Marketing L.P., Southern Company Energy Marketing L.P.,
Virginia Electric and Power Company, Williams Energy Services Co.,
Amoco Energy Trading Corp., Engage Energy US, L.P., NorAm Energy
Services, Inc., and Wisconsin Electric Power Company, the Transmission
Customers. Services are being provided under the FirstEnergy System
Open Access Transmission Tariff submitted for filing by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission in Docket No. ER97-412-000.
The proposed effective dates under these Service Agreements are May
18, 1998, June 1, 1998 and June 15, 1998, respectively, for the above
mentioned Service Agreements in this filing.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
20. Kansas City Power & Light Company
[Docket No. ER98-3407-000]
Take notice that on June 16, 1998, Kansas City Power & Light
Company (KCPL), tendered for filing a Service Agreement dated May 26,
1998, between KCPL and Entergy Power Marketing Corporation. KCPL
proposes an effective date of May 27, 1998 and requests a waiver of the
Commission's notice requirement to allow the requested effective date.
This Agreement provides for the rates and charges for Short-term Firm
Transmission Service.
In its filing, KCPL states that the rates included in the above-
mentioned Service Agreement are KCPL's rates and charges in the
compliance filing to FERC Order No. 888-A in Docket No. OA97-636-000.
Comment date: July 6, 1998, in accordance with Standard Paragraph E
at the end of this notice.
Standard Paragraph
E. 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 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
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