[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 52927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25908]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER96-2495-000]


AEP Power Marketing, Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Order

October 4, 1996.
    AEP Power Marketing, Inc. (AEP Marketing) filed an application for 
authorization to sell power at market-based rates, and for certain 
waivers and authorizations. In particular, AEP Marketing requested that 
the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all 
future issuances of securities and assumptions of liabilities by AEP 
Marketing. On September 20, 1996, the Commission issued an Order 
Conditionally Accepting For Filing Proposed Market-Based Rates (Order), 
in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's September 20, 1996 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (D), (E), and (G):
    (D) 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 AEP Marketing 
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.
    (E) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (D) above, AEP Marketing is hereby authorized, 
pursuant to Section 204 of the FPA, to issue securities and 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 AEP Marketing, compatible with the public interest, and reasonably 
necessary or appropriate for such purposes.
    (G) 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 AEP 
Marketing'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 October 21, 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. 96-25908 Filed 10-8-96; 8:45 am]
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