[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 190 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51099-51102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24972]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER96-2435-000, et al.]


J.D. Enterprises, et al.; Electric Rate and Corporate Regulation 
Filings

September 24, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. J.D. Enterprises

[Docket No. ER96-2435-000]

    Take notice that on August 30, 1996, J.D. Enterprises tendered for 
filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: October 7, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. Virginia Electric and Power Company

[Docket No. ER96-2920-000]

    Take notice that on September 11, 1996, Virginia Electric and Power 
Company tendered for filing an executed version of the service 
agreement with Allegheny Power, which it had filed in unexecuted form 
on September 5, 1996.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

3. Northern States Power Company (Minnesota Company)

[Docket No. ER96-2991-000]

    Take notice that on September 12, 1996, Northern States Power 
Company

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(Minnesota)(NSP), tendered for filing a Transmission Service Agreement 
between NSP and MidCon Power Services Corp.
    NSP requests that the Commission accept the agreement effective 
August 19, 1996, and requests waiver of the Commission's notice 
requirements in order for the agreement to be accepted for filing on 
the date requested.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. El Paso Energy Marketing Company

[Docket No. ER96-2993-000]

    Take notice that on September 12, 1996, El Paso Energy Marketing 
Company, tendered for filing a Notice of Succession changing its name 
from Eastex Power Marketing, Inc. to El Paso Energy Marketing Company, 
effective August 1, 1996.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. Northeast Utilities Service Company

[Docket No. ER96-2994-000]

    Take notice that on September 13, 1996, Northeast Utilities Service 
Company (NUSCO), on behalf of its operating affiliates, The Connecticut 
Light and Power Company, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, 
Holyoke Water Power Company, Holyoke Power and Electric Company and 
Public Service Company of New Hampshire, tendered for filing a Consent 
of Northeast Utilities Service Company to the assignment of rights 
under a service agreement for firm transmission service with Suncook 
Energy Corporation, to Minnesota Methane, LLC. NUSCO requests an 
effective date of December 1, 1996.
    NUSCO states that copies of its submission have been mailed or 
delivered to Suncook Energy Corporation.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Citizens Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER96-2995-000]

    Take notice that on September 13, 1996, Citizens Utilities Company 
(Citizens), tendered for filing the Service Agreement for Firm Point-
to-Point Backup Transmission Service (Service Agreement or Agreement) 
entered into on September 13, 1996 between Citizens, Vermont Electric 
Division (VED) and the Village of Swanton Village Electric Department 
(Swanton).
    Citizens states that it currently offers Firm Point-to-Point 
Transmission service subject to the rates, terms and conditions set 
forth in Citizens' FERC Open Access Tariff No. 4, as amended by the 
rate revisions filed by Citizens on August 13, 1996 in Docket No. ER96-
2703. The purpose of the Service Agreement is to allow Citizens to 
provide short-term back-up service to Swanton when certain facilities 
ordinarily used by Swanton are undergoing maintenance. An effective 
date of September 16, 1996 is requested by Citizens. Citizens states 
that the provision of service under this Agreement will not affect the 
existing rates or terms and conditions of service under any of 
Citizens' rate schedules or tariffs.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

7. Boston Edison Company

[Docket No. ER96-2996-000]

    Take notice that on September 13, 1996, Boston Edison Company 
(Boston Edison), tendered for filing a letter agreement between Boston 
Edison and Cambridge Electric Light Company (CEL). The tendered letter 
agreement extends the terms and conditions of the Substation 402 
Agreement to and including December 31, 1996. The Substation 402 
Agreement is designated as Boston Edison's FERC Rate Schedule No. 149. 
Boston Edison requests an effective date of September 30, 1996.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER96-2997-000]

    Take notice that on September 13, 1996, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy), tendered for filing a service agreement under Cinergy's Open 
Access Transmission Service Tariff (the Tariff) entered into between 
Cinergy and Public Service Electric and Gas Company.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison 
Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company

[Docket No. ER96-3035-000]

    Take notice that on September 18, 1996, GPU Service, Inc. (GPU), on 
behalf of Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison 
Company and Pennsylvania Electric Company (GPU Energy), filed an 
executed Service Agreement between GPU and Sonat Power Marketing, Inc. 
(SPM), dated September 12, 1996. This Service Agreement specifies that 
SPM has agreed to the rates, terms and conditions of GPU Energy's 
Operating Capacity and/or Energy Sales Tariff (Sales Tariff), 
designated as FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 1. The Sales 
Tariff was accepted by the Commission by letter order issued on 
February 10, 1995 in Jersey Central Power & Light Co., Metropolitan 
Edison Co. and Pennsylvania Electric Co., Docket No. ER95-276-000 and 
allows GPU and SPM to enter into separately scheduled transactions 
under which GPU Energy will make available for sale, surplus operating 
capacity and/or energy at negotiated rates that are no higher than GPU 
Energy's cost of service.
    GPU requests waiver of the Commission's notice requirements for 
good cause shown and an effective date of September 12, 1996, for the 
Service Agreement.
    GPU has served copies of the filing on regulatory agencies in New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. Public Service Company of New Mexico

[Docket No. ER96-3036-000]

    Take notice that on September 18, 1996, Public Service Company of 
New Mexico (PNM), filed a notice of cancellation of a jurisdictional 
rate schedule based upon Plains Electric Generation and Transmission 
Cooperative, Inc.'s (Plains) August 30, 1996, notice of PNM of 
termination of Service Schedule G to the Master Interconnection 
Agreement PNM and Plains, as amended (Service Schedule G), Supplement 
43 to PNM Rate Schedule No. 31, requesting an effective date of 
December 1, 1996.
    Copies of the filing have been served upon Plains and the New 
Mexico Public Utility Commission.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. New York State Electric & Gas Corporation

[Docket No. ER96-3037-000]

    Take notice that on September 18, 1996, New York State Electric & 
Gas Corporation (NYSEG), tendered for filing pursuant to Sec. 35.12 of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Rules of Practice and 
Procedure, 18 CFR 35.12, as an initial rate schedule, an agreement with 
Energy Transfer Group, L.L.C. (ETG). The agreement provides a

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mechanism pursuant to which the parties can enter into separately 
scheduled transactions under which NYSEG will sell to ETG and ETG will 
purchase from NYSEG either capacity and associated energy or energy 
only as the parties may mutually agree.
    NYSEG requests that the agreement become effective on September 19, 
1996, so that the parties may, if mutually agreeable, enter into 
separately scheduled transactions under the agreement. NYSEG has 
requested waiver of the notice requirements for good cause shown.
    NYSEG served copies of the filing upon the New York State Public 
Service Commission and ETG.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. Illinois Power Company

[Docket No. ER96-3038-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, Illinois Power Company 
(Illinois Power), 500 South 27th Street, Decatur, Illinois 62526, 
tendered for filing firm and non-firm transmission agreements under 
which Coral Power, L.L.C. will take transmission service pursuant to 
its open access transmission tariff. The agreements are based on the 
Form of Service Agreement in Illinois Power's tariff.
    Illinois Power has requested an effective date of September 6, 
1996.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Northern Indiana Public Service Company

[Docket No. ER96-3039-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, Northern Indiana Public 
Service Company, tendered for filing an executed Service Agreement 
between Northern Indiana Public Service Company and The Power Company 
of America, L.P.
    Under the Service Agreement, Northern Indiana Public Service 
Company agrees to provide services to The Power Company of America, 
L.P., under Northern Indiana Public Service Company's Power Sales 
Tariff, which was accepting for filing by the Commission and made 
effective by Order dated August 17, 1995 in Docket No. ER95-1222-000. 
Northern Indiana Public Service Company and AIG Trading Corporation 
request waiver of the Commission's sixty-day notice requirement to 
permit an effective date of October 1, 1996.
    Copies of this filing have been sent to the Indiana Utility 
Regulatory Commission and the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer 
Counselor.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. PacifiCorp

[Docket No. ER96-3040-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, PacifiCorp, tendered for 
filing in accordance with 18 CFR Part 35 of the Commission's Rules and 
Regulations, a Letter Agreement dated July 3, 1996, (Agreement) between 
PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric (PGE).
    PacifiCorp requests that a waiver of prior notice be granted and 
that an effective date of one day after the date the Commission 
receives this filing be assigned to the Agreement.
    Copies of this filing were supplied to PGE, the Public Utility 
Commission of Oregon and the Washington Utilities and Transportation 
Commission.
    A copy of this filing may be obtained from PacifiCorp's Regulatory 
Administration Department's Bulletin Board System through a personal 
computer by calling (503) 464-6122 (9600 baud, 8 bits, no parity, 1 
stop bit).
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. Louisville Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER96-3041-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, Louisville Gas and Electric 
Company, tendered for filing copies of service agreements between 
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Enron Power Marketing, Inc. 
under Rate GSS.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

16. Louisville Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER96-3042-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, Louisville Gas and Electric 
Company, tendered for filing copies of service agreements between 
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Koch Power Services, Inc. under 
Rate GSS.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

17. Louisville Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER96-3043-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, Louisville Gas and Electric 
Company (LG&E), tendered for filing a copy of a Non-Firm Transmission 
Agreement between Louisville Gas and Electric Company and SCANA Energy 
Marketing, Inc. under Rate TS.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

18. San Diego Gas & Electric Company

[Docket No. ER96-3044-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, San Diego Gas & Electric 
Company (SDG&E), tendered for filing and acceptance, pursuant to 18 CFR 
35.12, an Interchange Agreement (Agreement) between SDG&E and Edison 
Source (Edison Source).
    SDG&E requests that the Commission allow the Agreement to become 
effective on the 1st of October 1996 or at the earliest possible date.
    Copies of this filing were served upon the Public Utilities 
Commission of the State of California and Edison Source.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

19. PECO Energy Company

[Docket No. ER96-3045-000]

    Take notice that on September 19, 1996, PECO Energy Company (PECO), 
filed a Service Agreement dated September 6, 1996 with Illinois Power 
Marketing, Inc. (ILLINOVA) under PECO's FERC Electric Tariff Original 
Volume No. 1 (Tariff). The Service Agreement adds ILLINOVA as a 
customer under the Tariff.
    PECO requests an effective date of September 6, 1996, for the 
Service Agreement.
    PECO states that copies of this filing have been supplied to 
ILLINOVA and to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
    Comment date: October 8, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

20. Baltimore Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ES96-46-000]

    Take notice that on September 20, 1996, Baltimore Gas and Electric 
Company filed an application, under Sec. 204 of the Federal Power Act, 
seeking authorization to issue short-term unsecured promissory notes, 
commercial paper notes, and/or medium-term notes, from time to time, in 
an aggregate principal amount of not more than $700 million outstanding 
at any one time, on or before December 31, 1998 with maturities not 
more than twelve months after the date of issuance.
    Comment date: October 18, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

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Standard Paragraph

    E. 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, 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 18 CFR 385.214). All such motions or 
protests should be filed on or before the comment date. Protests will 
be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action 
to be 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-24972 Filed 9-27-96; 8:45 am]
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