[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 167 (Thursday, August 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 45639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-22914]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. EC97-5-000, ER97-412-000 and ER97-413-000]


Ohio Edison Company, Pennsylvania Power Company, The Cleveland 
Electric Illuminating Company, and The Toledo Edison Company; Notice of 
Compliance Filing and Notice Shortening Comment Date on Compliance 
Filing

August 22, 1997.
    On August 8, 1997, Ohio Edison Company, Pennsylvania Power Company, 
The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, and the Toledo Edison 
Company (hereinafter Applicants) filed a motion requesting a thirty-day 
comment period on the compliance filing the Applicants made on August 
8, 1997, in accordance with the Commission's Order Accepting For Filing 
And Suspending Proposed Tariffs, Establishing Optional Procedures And 
Consolidating Dockets issued July 16, 1997, in the above-docketed 
proceedings. The compliance filing includes proposed Mitigation 
Measures and attachments, a revised Appendix A screen analysis, and 
supporting testimony.
    In their motion, Applicants state that a thirty-day comment period 
will afford any interested participants a sufficient opportunity to 
comment on the compliance filing and will permit the Commission to 
resolve competition issues without unnecessary delay and accord 
ratepayers the opportunity to begin to achieve cost savings. On August 
11, August 14, and August 18, 1997, the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, the 
Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Buckeye Power, Inc., the 
Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland, the Cleveland Housing Network, 
the Western Reserve Alliance, and the Public Utilities Commission of 
Ohio filed answers in support of the Applicants' motion. On August 12, 
1997, the Industrial Energy Users-Ohio filed an answer in opposition to 
the Applicant's request.
    Upon consideration, notice is hereby given that the Applicants' 
motion requesting a thirty-day comment period is granted in part. 
Comments on the Applicant's compliance filing shall be filed on or 
before September 22, 1997.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-22914 Filed 8-27-97; 8:45 am]
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