97-17340. Northeast Utilities System (The Connecticut Light and Power Company, Holyoke Power and Electric Company, Holyoke Water Power Company, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts Electric Company); New England Electric ...

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 2, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35799-35800]
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[FR Doc No: 97-17340]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER97-3329-000]


Northeast Utilities System (The Connecticut Light and Power 
Company, Holyoke Power and Electric Company, Holyoke Water Power 
Company, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts 
Electric Company); New England Electric System Operating Companies 
(Granite State Electric Company, New England Power Company); 
Commonwealth Energy System Companies (Cambridge Electric Light Company, 
Canal Electric Company, Commonwealth Electric Company); Central Maine 
Power Company; Notice of Filing

June 26, 1997.
    Take notice that on June 16, 1997, the above-captioned utilities 
(the Filing Systems) filed materials related to the Restated NEPOOL 
Agreement entitled Additional Generating Resources Program Terms and 
Conditions (the Terms and Conditions).
    The Filing Systems state that the Terms and Conditions are intended 
to make additional capacity and energy available in New England should 
projected 1997 summer capacity shortage conditions materialize. The 
proposed Terms and Conditions are applicable to the reactivation or 
modification of certain generating units owned by participants in 
NEPOOL (Participants) and the sales of electric energy at wholesale 
from these units to the pool. The arrangements related to the Terms and 
Conditions also involve a waiver of wheeling charges by certain 
Participant transmission service providers for transmission over non-
pool transmission facilities of energy generated by reactivated or 
modified generating units.
    The Filing Systems state that reactivation of certain generating 
units could be required as early as June 15, 1997 and request an 
effective date of June 15, 1997 for the Terms and Conditions. The 
Filing Systems state that copies of the materials in the filing have 
been sent to members of the NEPOOL Executive Committee and to the 
electric utility regulatory commissions and governors of the six New 
England states.
    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

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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 July 7, 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 the Commission and are available for public 
inspection.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-17340 Filed 7-1-97; 8:45 am]
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