[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 31 (Friday, February 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6963-6964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3742]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. ER97-683-000]


Northwest Natural Gas Company; Notice of Issuance of Order

February 11, 1997.
    Northwest Natural Gas Company (Northwest Natural) submitted for 
filing a rate schedule under which Northwest Natural will engage in 
wholesale electric power and energy transactions as a marketer. 
Northwest Natural also requested waiver of various Commission 
regulations. In particular, Northwest Natural requested that the 
Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future 
issuances of securities and assumptions of liability by Northwest 
Natural.
    On February 6, 1997, pursuant to delegated authority, the Director, 
Division of Applications, Office of

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Electric Power Regulations, granted requests for blanket approval under 
Part 34, subject to the following:
    Within thirty days of the date of the order, any person desiring to 
be heard or to protest the blanket approval of issuances of securities 
or assumptions of liability by Northwest Natural 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).
    Absent a request for hearing within this period, Northwest Natural 
is authorized to issue securities and assume obligations or liabilities 
as a guarantor, endorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of any 
security of another person; provided that such issuance of assumption 
is for some lawful object within the corporate purposes of the 
applicant, and compatible with the public interest, and is reasonably 
necessary or appropriate for such purposes.
    The Commission reserves the right to require a further showing that 
neither public nor private interests will be adversely affected by 
continued approval of Northwest Natural's issuances of securities or 
assumptions of liability.
    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is March 10, 1997. 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. 97-3742 Filed 2-13-97; 8:45 am]
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