[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 180 (Wednesday, September 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 48829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24617]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER97-3815-000]


Friendly Power Company LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order

September 11, 1997.
    Friendly Power Company LLC (Friendly) submitted for filing a rate 
schedule under which Friendly will engage in wholesale electric power 
and energy transactions as a marketer. Friendly also requested waiver 
of various Commission regulations. In particular, Friendly requested 
that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all 
future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability by 
Friendly.
    On September 4, 1997, pursuant to delegated authority, the 
Director, Division of Applications, Office of Electric Power 
Regulation, 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 protests the blanket approval of issuance of securities 
or assumptions of liability by Friendly 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, Friendly 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 or assumption is for 
some lawful object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, and 
compatible with the public interest, and is reasonably necessary of 
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 Friendly'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 October 6, 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. 97-24617 Filed 9-16-97; 8:45 am]
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