[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 106 (Friday, May 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 27341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13671]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER96-1121-000]


Duke/Louis Dreyfus Energy Services (New England) L.L.C.; Notice 
of Issuance of Order

May 28, 1996.
    On February 20, 1996, Duke/Louis Dreyfus Energy Services (New 
England) L.L.C. (Duke/Dreyfus-NE) filed an application for 
authorization to sell power at market-based rates, and for certain 
waivers and authorizations. In particular, Duke/Dreyfus-NE requested 
that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all 
future issuances of securities and assumptions of liabilities by Duke/
Dreyfus-NE. On May 16, 1996, the Commission issued an Order 
Conditionally Accepting for Filing Proposed Market-Based Rates and 
Report of Change in Status (Order), in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's May 16, 1996 Order granted the request for blanket 
approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in Ordering 
Paragraphs (C), (D), and (F):
    (C) 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 Duke/Dreyfus-
NE should file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First 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 385.214.
    (D) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (C) above, Duke/Dreyfus-NE 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.
    (F) 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 Duke/
Dreyfus-NE's issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * 
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    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is June 17, 1996.
    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-13671 Filed 5-30-96; 8:45 am]
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