[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2362-2365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1044]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER96-3093-000, et al.]


Montana Power Company, et al.; Electric Rate and Corporate 
Regulation Filings

January 9, 1997.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Montana Power Company

[Docket No. ER96-3093-000]

    Take notice that on January 2, 1997, Montana Power Company tendered 
for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. Village of Belmont City of Juneau, City of Plymouth, City of 
Reedsburg, City of Sheboygan Falls, and City of Wisconsin Rapids, 
Wisconsin

[Docket No. EL97-19-000]

    Take notice that on December 20, 1996, the Village of Belmont, City 
of Juneau, City of Plymouth, City of Reedsburg, City of Sheboygan 
Falls, and City of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (the Wisconsin 
Municipals) filed a complaint under Section 206 of the Federal Power 
Act against Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WP&L). In the complaint 
the Wisconsin Municipals challenged the term and rate provisions of the 
ten-year ``evergreen'' contracts between them and Wisconsin Power and 
Light Company and request a rate reduction of approximately 23%, or $5 
million annually, or that the contracts be terminated. The Wisconsin 
Municipals also ask the FERC to set a refund effective date under 
Section 206 of the Act, 60 days after the filing of the complaint.
    Comment date: February 10, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice. Answers to the compliant shall 
be due on or before February 10, 1997.

3. NESI Power Marketing, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-841-000]

    Take notice that on January 7, 1997, NESI Power Marketing, Inc. 
tendered for filing an amendment in the above-referenced docket.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. Interstate Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-926-000]

    Take notice that on December 24, 1996, Interstate Power Company 
(Interstate), submitted for filing a new ``Power Sales Tariff PS-1'' 
(Tariff). The Tariff is intended to provide Interstate with greater 
flexibility to engage in transactions for capacity and energy at cost-
based rates.
    Copies of this filing have been served on: Iowa Utilities Board, 
Illinois Commerce Commission, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. Interstate Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-927-000]

    Take notice that on December 24, 1996, Interstate Power Company 
(Interstate), submitted for filing modifications to the following 
interconnection agreements:

Commonwealth Edison Company, Rate Schedule No. 69
Corn Belt Power Corporation, Rate Schedule No. 82

The proposed modifications are intended to terminate Interstate's right 
to make energy and power sale under each of the agreements.
    Copies of this filing have been served on each of the parties to 
the above-referenced agreements and the Iowa Utilities Board, the 
Illinois Commerce Commission and the Minnesota Public Utilities 
Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-928-000]

    Take notice that on December 24, 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 Wisconsin Electric Power Company.
    Cinergy and Wisconsin Electric Power Company are requesting an 
effective date of December 15, 1996.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

7. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-929-000]

    Take notice that on December 24, 1996, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy), tendered for filing a service agreement

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under Cinergy's Open Access Transmission Service Tariff (the Tariff) 
entered into between Cinergy and Williams Energy Services Company.
    Cinergy and Williams Energy Services Company are requesting an 
effective date of December 1, 1996.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-930-000]

    Take notice that on December 24, 1996, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy), tendered for filing on behalf of its operating companies, 
The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (CG&E) and PSI Energy, Inc. 
(PSI), an Interchange Agreement, dated December 1, 1996 between 
Cinergy, CG&E, PSI and NIPSCO Energy Services, Inc. (NESI).
    The Interchange Agreement provides for the following service 
between Cinergy and NESI.

1. Exhibit A--Power Sales by NESI
2. Exhibit B--Power Sales by Cinergy

    Cinergy and NESI have requested an effective date of December 23, 
1996.
    Copies of the filing were served on NIPSCO Energy Services, Inc., 
the Kentucky Public Service Commission, the Public Utilities Commission 
of Ohio and the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
    Comment date: January 14, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Northeast Utilities Service Company

[Docket No. ER97-931-000]

    Take notice that on December 26, 1996, Northeast Utilities Service 
Company (NUSCO), tendered for filing, a Service Agreement with Freeport 
Electric, Freeport, NY, under the NU System Companies' Sale for Resale 
Tariff No. 7, Market-Based Rates.
    NUSCO states that a copy of this filing has been mailed to the 
Freeport Electric, Freeport, NY.
    NUSCO requests that the Service Agreement become effective January 
1, 1997.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. Arizona Public Service Company 

[Docket No. ER97-932-000]

    Take notice that on December 26, 1996, Arizona Public Service 
Company (APS), tendered for filing a Service Agreement to provide Non-
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service to the Aquila Power 
Corporation (Aquila) under APS' Open Access Transmission Tariff filed 
in Compliance with FERC Order No. 888.
    A copy of this filing has been served on Aquila and the Arizona 
Corporation Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. Alabama Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-934-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Alabama Power Company 
(APCo), tendered for filing a petition for waiver of Commission's fuel 
adjustment clause regulations to permit the recovery from its full and 
partial requirements wholesale customers of an appropriate share of the 
cost associated with the buyout of 4.45 million tons of coal over the 
period January 1, 1997 through December 31, 2000 under two contracts 
with Drummond Company, Inc. APCo states that its purchase of 
replacement coal at more favorable prices will produce cumulative 
savings to its customers in excess of the buyout costs that it proposes 
to recover as fuel costs through the fuel cost recovery mechanisms 
applicable to these customers. The waiver is proposed to be made 
effective January 1, 1997.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. Green Mountain Power Corporation

[Docket No. ER97-935-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Green Mountain Power 
Corporation (GMP), tendered for filing an Amendment dated as of 
September 1, 1996 to a Power Sales Agreement between GMP and the 
Electric Department of the Village of Northfield, Vermont (Northfield). 
GMP states it purchases electricity from Northfield under the Power 
Sales Agreement, and that the Amendment modifies the manner in which an 
adjustment factor relating to compensation due to Northfield for energy 
delivered to GMP is administered. GMP has proposed to make the 
Amendment effective as of September 1, 1996, concurrently with the 
commencement of the current contract year.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Boston Edison Company

[Docket No. ER97-936-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 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 March 31, 1997. The Substation 402 Agreement 
is designated as Boston Edison's FERC Rate Schedule No. 149. Boston 
Edison requests an effective date of December 31, 1996.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. Delmarva Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-937-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Delmarva Power & Light 
Company (Delmarva), tendered for filing in the above-captioned docket 
nine notices of termination of bundled economy energy coordination 
agreements with Atlantic City Electric Company, Northeast Utilities 
System, Long Island Lighting Company, New York State Electric & Gas 
Corporation, PECO Energy, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., 
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Old Dominion Electric 
Cooperative and the City of Dover, Delaware, and one notice of 
termination of Schedule A of Delmarva's rate schedule with LG&E Power 
Marketing, Inc. Delmarva seeks waiver of notice to permit these notices 
of termination to become effective on January 26, 1997, in accordance 
with the contract terms.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. Virginia Electric and Power Co. and Potomac Electric Power Co. 

[Docket No. ER97-938-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Virginia Electric and Power 
Company (Virginia Power) and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco), 
tendered for filing a Notice of Cancellation of certain Rate Schedules 
under the Interconnection Agreement between Potomac Electric Power 
Company and Virginia Electric and Power Company, dated May 25, 1983 
(Pepco Rate Schedule FERC No. 35 and Virginia Power Rate Schedule FERC 
No. 20). Virginia Power and CP&L have requested an effective date of 
December 31, 1996 for the amendments.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the Virginia State 
Corporation Commission and the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

16. Virginia Electric and Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-939-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Virginia Electric and Power

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Company (Virginia Power), tendered for filing a Notice of Cancellation 
of certain Rate Schedules under the Interconnection Agreement between 
Appalachian Power Company and Virginia Electric and Power Company, 
dated February 1, 1948 (APCO Rate Schedule FPC No. 16 and Virginia 
Power Rate Schedule FPC No. 7). Virginia Power also filed a Certificate 
of Concurrence executed by American Electric Power Services (AEP) 
consenting and assenting to these cancellations on behalf of APCO. 
Virginia Power has requested an effective date of December 31, 1996 for 
the cancellations.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the Virginia State 
Corporation Commission, the North Carolina Utilities Commission and Mr. 
D.W. Bethel, Manager--Interconnection Agreements, American Electric 
Power Services.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

17. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., a division of MDU Resources Group, 
Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-940-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Montana-Dakota Utilities 
Co., a division of MDU resources Group, Inc., (Montana-Dakota), 
tendered an agreement dated January 27, 1983 with Capital Electric 
Cooperative, Inc. and two supplements to such agreement. Montana-Dakota 
requests that the Commission disclaim jurisdiction over the agreement 
and such supplements. Montana-Dakota requests, further, if the 
Commission will not disclaim jurisdiction, that the Commission accept 
the agreement and such supplements for filing in accordance with 
Federal Power Act Sec. 205 and waive the notice requirement to permit 
the agreement and such two supplements to be effective in accordance 
with the intent of the contracting parties.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

18. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-941-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 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 Toledo Edison Company.
    Cinergy and Toledo Edison Company are requesting an effective date 
of December 15, 1996.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

19. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-942-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 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 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company.
    Cinergy and Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company are requesting 
an effective date of December 15, 1996.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

20. Carolina Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-943-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Carolina Power & Light 
Company (CP&L), tendered for filing separate Service Agreements for 
Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service executed between CP&L and 
the following Eligible Transmission customers: Koch Power Services, 
Inc.; Williams Energy Services Company; IUC Power Services; and 
Heartland Energy Services, Inc.; and Service Agreements for Short-Term 
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service with IUC Power Services and 
Heartland Energy Services, Inc. Service to each Eligible Customer will 
be in accordance with the terms and conditions of Carolina Power & 
Light Company's Open Access Transmission Tariff.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the North Carolina Utilities 
Commission and the South Carolina Public Service Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

21. Carolina Power & Light Company

[Docket No. ER97-944-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Carolina Power & Light 
Company (Carolina), tendered for filing an executed Service Agreement 
between Carolina and the following Eligible Entities: Florida Power 
Corporation, Potomac Electric Power Company, Atlantic City Electric 
Company, Duquesne Light Company, and WPS Energy Services, Inc. (ESI). 
Service to each Eligible Entity will be in accordance with the terms 
and conditions of Carolina's Tariff No. 1 for Sales of Capacity and 
Energy.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the North Carolina Utilities 
Commission and the South Carolina Public Service Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

22. Ohio Power Company

[Docket No. ER97-945-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Ohio Power Company (OPC), 
tendered for filing with the Commission a Facilities, Operations 
Maintenance and Repair Agreement dated December 12, 1996, between OPC, 
and South Central Power Company (SCP). SCP is an Ohio electricity 
cooperative and a member of Buckeye Power, Inc.
    SCP has requested OPC provide a new 138-Kv delivery point pursuant 
to provisions of the Power Delivery Agreement between Columbus Southern 
Power Company, Buckeye Power, Inc., The Cincinnati Gas & Electric 
Company, The Dayton Power and Light Company, Monongahela Power Company, 
OPC and Toledo Edison Company, dated January 1, 1968. OPC requests an 
effective date of December 12, 1996 for the tendered agreements.
    OPC states that copies of its filing were served upon the South 
Central Power Company, Buckeye Power, Inc. and the Public Utilities 
Commission of Ohio.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

23. Western Resources, Inc.

[Docket No. ER97-946-000]

    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Western Resources, Inc. 
tendered for filing, Supplement Nos. 3 and 13 to Rate Schedule FPC No. 
83, the Agreement for Interchange of Power and Interconnected Operation 
between The Empire District Electric Company and Kansas Gas and 
Electric Company (KGE), is to be canceled.
    Notice of the proposed cancellation has been served upon the Empire 
District Electric Company, the Kansas Corporation Commission, and the 
Missouri Public Service Commission.
    Comment date: January 23, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

24. Detroit Edison Company

[Docket Nos. ES97-18-000 and ES97-18-001]

    Take notice that on December 16, 1996, Detroit Edison Company 
(Detroit Edison) filed an application, as amended,1 under Sec. 204 
of the Federal Power Act, seeking authorization to

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issue, from time to time, on or before May 31, 1999, short-term debt 
and promissory notes with maturities of not more than two years, all in 
an aggregate principal amount of not more than $1 billion outstanding 
at any one time.
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    Also, Detroit Edison requests exemption from the Commission's 
competitive bidding and negotiated placement regulations for the 
issuance of the promissory notes with maturities of in excess of one 
year from the date of issuance.
    Comment date: February 7, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

25. Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative

[Docket No. NJ97-5-000]

    Take notice that on January 3, 1997, Hoosier Energy Rural Electric 
Cooperative (Hoosier Energy) submitted for filing an Open Access Tariff 
and a request for declaratory order which would find that Hoosier 
Energy's Transmission Tariff meets the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's (Commission's) comparability standards and is therefore an 
acceptable reciprocity tariff pursuant to the provisions of Order No. 
888.
    Comment date: February 3, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

26. U.S. Department of Energy Bonneville Power Administration

[Docket No. NJ97-3-000]

    Take notice that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) on 
December 20, 1996, tendered two filings for Commission review of BPA's 
open access transmission terms and conditions, and associated rates. 
These transmission terms and conditions, and their associated rates are 
the result of a settlement among most parties to the BPA administrative 
proceedings that preceded adoption of such terms and conditions, and 
rates.
    First, BPA tendered for filing its Network Integration and Point-
to-Point transmission tariff terms and conditions with a Petition for 
Declaratory Order that the terms and conditions meet or exceed the 
Commission's open access policies, and are consistent with the 
reciprocity compliance principles of the Commission's final rule on 
non-discriminatory open access transmission service.
    Second, BPA tendered for filing its rates associated with such 
tariff terms and conditions with a Petition for Declaratory Order that 
such rates satisfy the standards applicable to BPA pursuant to Section 
212(i)(1) of the Federal Power Act. BPA previously filed these rates on 
July 26, 1996, in its request for confirmation and approval of its 
general wholesale power and transmission rates under the standards of 
the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act in 
Docket Nos. EF96-2011-000 and EF96-2021-000. Interim approval of such 
rates was granted by the Commission on September 25, 1996.
    BPA requests review of the following rates associated with its 
Network Integration and Point to Point transmission tariffs for 
conformance with the standards applicable to BPA under the Federal 
Power Act: NT-96 Network Integration Transmission Rate; PTP-96 Point-
to-Point Firm Transmission Rate; RNF-96 Reserved Nonfirm Transmission 
Rate; ET-96 Energy Transmission; IS-96 Southern Intertie Transmission, 
IM-96 Montana Intertie Transmission Rate; AF-96 Advance Funding Rate; 
UFT-96 Use-of-Facilities Transmission Rate; APS-96 Ancillary Products 
and Services Rate; and BPA's General Rate Schedule Provisions.
    Comment date: February 3, 1997, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

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, 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 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-1044 Filed 1-15-97; 8:45 am]
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