[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8228-8229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4403]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. OA97-518-000 and ER97-1477-000]


New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Filing

February 18, 1997.
    Take notice that New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc., on 
January 30, 1997, tendered for filing its FERC Open Access Transmission 
Tariff, two rate schedules and a petition for waiver from requirements 
under Part 37 of the Commission's regulations, as promulgated in Order 
889.
    On January 30, 1997 the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative will 
complete the payment and retirement of all debts issued by the Rural 
Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, and 
it accordingly will become a Public Utility subject to the general 
regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
under Part II of the Federal Power Act. At the present time, the 
Cooperative provides transmission service to one customer, Goodrich 
Falls Hydroelectric Company, and it sells its share of the output of 
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant Unit No. 1 to the Public Service Company 
of New Hampshire. Regulatory jurisdiction over these two

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transactions is being transferred from the New Hampshire Public 
Utilities Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as of 
January 30, 1997. Accordingly, NHEC has submitted for filing rate 
schedules for these transactions pursuant to Section 205(c) of the 
Federal Power Act and Section 35.12 of FERC's regulations. Pursuant to 
Section 35.28 of FERC's regulations, NHEC is also filing a 
nondiscriminatory Open Access Transmission Tariff. In addition, because 
NHEC operates limited, discrete transmission facilities rather than an 
integrated grid, it is applying for a waiver of Part 37 of the 
Commission's regulations, as promulgated in Commission Order No. 889.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the Cooperative's 
jurisdictional customers Goodrich Falls Hydroelectric Company and the 
Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and upon New Hampshire Public 
Utilities Commission.
    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 February 28, 1997. 
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 
Commission and are available for pubic inspection.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-4403 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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