[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 41 (Thursday, February 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7784-7785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4638]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. ER96-459-000 and ER96-458-000]


Western Resources, Inc., and Westar Electric Marketing, Inc.; 
Notice of Issuance of Order

February 23, 1996.
    On November 29, 1995, Westar Electric Marketing, Inc. (Westar) 
filed an application for authorization to sell power at market-based 
rates, and for certain waivers and authorizations. In particular, 
Westar requested that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 
CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and assumptions of 
liabilities by Westar. On February 14, 1996, the Commission issued an 
Order Modifying Earlier Order, Conditionally Accepting for Filing 
Market-Based Rates, and Granting Waivers and Authorizations (Order), in 
the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's February 14, 1996 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (E), (F), and (H):
    (E) Within 30 days of the date of this order, any person desiring 
to be heard or to protest the Commission's blanket approval of 
issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities by Westar 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 385.214.
    (F) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (E) above, Westar is hereby authorized to issue 
securities and to assume obligations or liabilities as guarantor, 
endorser, surety or otherwise in respect of any security of another 
person; provided that such issue or assumption is for some lawful 
object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, compatible with 
the public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such 
purposes.
    (H) The Commission reserves the right to modify this order to 
require a further showing that neither public nor private interests 
will be adversely affected by continued Commission approval of Westar's 
issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * *.
    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is March 15, 1996.
    Copies of the full text of the Order area available from the 
Commission's 

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Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 
20426.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
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