[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6528-6529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2522]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-35-000]


EcoElectrica, L.P.; Notice of Application

January 27, 1995.
    Take notice that on October 25, 1994, EcoElectrica, L.P. 
(EcoElectrica), a Bermuda Limited Partnership, Scotiabank Plaza, Suite 
902, 273 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918, filed in 
Docket No. CP95-35-000, an application pursuant to Section 3 of the 
Natural Gas Act for approval of a point of import for liquefied natural 
gas (LNG), all as more fully set forth in the application and 
subsequent supplemental filings which are on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    Specifically, EcoElectrica intends to construct and operate LNG 
facilities on a 36-acre site in Guayanilla Bay near Ponce, Puerto Rico. 
EcoElectrica states that the ``jurisdictional'' facilities consist of a 
marine unloading facility, two LNG storage tanks with individual 
capacities of up to one million barrels, and a vaporization system. In 
addition, EcoElectrica proposes to construct a ``non-jurisdictional'' 
cogeneration facility that will use the imported LNG for power 
generation. The electricity generated by EcoElectrica's cogeneration 
facility will be purchased by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority 
(PREPA), the government-created public utility which supplies nearly 
all of the electric power consumed in Puerto Rico. PREPA has identified 
a need for additional electric generating capacity by the year 2000 to 
meet future demand growth, enhance system reliability and to diversify 
the fuel sources that generate electricity. A supply contract for the 
LNG has not been finalized; EcoElectrica states that it will follow 
after the finalization of the power purchase agreement being negotiated 
with PREPA.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before February 17, 1995, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 
20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the 
requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 
CFR 385.214 or 385.211). All protests filed with the Commission 

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will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be 
taken but will not serve to make the protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party to a proceeding or to 
participate as a party in any hearing therein must file a motion to 
intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that a grant of the certificate is required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely 
filed, or if the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal 
hearing is required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for EcoElectrica to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-2522 Filed 2-1-95; 8:45 am]
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