[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 82 (Friday, April 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 18583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10351]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER96-1088-000; Docket No. ER95-1528-002]


Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, WPS Energy Services, Inc., 
WPS Power Development, Inc. Wisconsin Public Service Corporation; 
Notice of Issuance of Order

April 23, 1996.
    On February 16, 1996, WPS Energy Services, Inc. and WPS Power 
Development, Inc. (jointly WPS) filed an application for authorization 
to sell power at market-based rates, and for certain waivers and 
authorizations. In particular, WPS requested that the Commission grant 
blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of 
securities and assumptions of liabilities by WPS. On April 16, 1996, 
the Commission issued an Order Accepting For Filing Proposed 
Transmission Tariffs, Conditionally Accepting For Filing Proposed 
Market-Based Rates, Establishing Hearing Procedures, And Granting 
Rehearing (Order), in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's April 16, 1996, Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (I), (J), and (L):
    (I) 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 WPS Energy and 
WPS Power 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.
    (J) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (I) above, WPS Energy and WPS Power are 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 purpose.
    (L) 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 WPS 
Energy's and WPS Power's issuance 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 May 16, 1996.
    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-10351 Filed 4-25-96; 8:45 am]
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