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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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