[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 139 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37430-37431]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17809]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. EC95-16-000]


Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Northern States Power Company 
(Minnesota), Northern States Power Company (Wisconsin), and Cenergy, 
Inc.; Notice of Filing

July 14, 1995.
    Take notice that on July 10, 1995, Wisconsin Electric Power Company 
(WEPCO), Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (NSP), 
Northern States Power Company, a Wisconsin corporation (NSPW), and 
Cenergy, Inc. (Cenergy) (collectively, the ``Applicants'') filed a 
Joint Application pursuant to Section 203 of the Federal Power Act and 
18 CFR Part 33 of the Commission's Regulations requesting authorization 
and approval of the mergers and corporate transactions described 
therein resulting from the proposed merger of NSP and Wisconsin Energy 
Corporation (WEC), the parent company of WEPCO (the ``Merger 
Transaction''). Under the proposed Merger Transactions, WEC will be 
renamed Primergy Corporation (``Primergy''), and will become a 
registered utility holding company under PUHCA. Primergy will own two 
operating utility subsidiaries: (1) NSP, which will be reincorporated 
in Wisconsin (the reincorporated company is referred to as ``Northern 
States'') and (2) a merged WEPCO/NSPW, which will be named Wisconsin 
Energy Company (``Wisconsin Energy''). Northern States will continue to 
operate primarily the same facilities in the same locations the NSP did 
before. Wisconsin Energy will conduct all of the combined electric 
operations of the Applicants in Wisconsin and Michigan gas operations 
transferred from NSPW to NSP, all of their combined gas operations in 
the same states. Primergy also will directly own Cenergy, as well as 
most of the unregulated subsidiaries of WEC and NSP.
    The Applicants also submitted testimony and other evidence in 
support of the Merger Transactions. The Applicants have requested that 
the Commission issue its approval of the Merger Transactions 
expeditiously without conducting an evidentiary hearing.
    In order to help interested parties to understand their filing, the 
Applicants have scheduled meetings for the week of July 31, 1995 to 
discuss their filing and any questions that parties may have. Any 
person desiring to attend the meetings should notify the Applicants in 
writing by July 21, and should include a list of topics they would like 
to discuss. Any party desiring a copy of the workpapers supporting the 
Joint Application also should request a copy from the Applicants.
    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, 825 North Capitol Street NE., Washington, DC 
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 August 28, 1995. 
Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the 
appropriate action to be 

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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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-17809 Filed 7-19-95; 8:45 am]
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