[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 56156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28675]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER97-4166-000]


Southern Company Energy Marketing, L.P.; Notice of Issuance of 
Order

October 24, 1997.
    Southern Company Energy Marketing, L.P. (SCEM), a company 
indirectly owned by Atlantic Richfield Company and the The Southern 
Company, filed an application for authorization to sell electric energy 
and capacity at market-based rates, and for certain waivers and 
authorizations. In particular, SCEM requested that the Commission grant 
blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of 
securities and assumptions of liabilities by SCEM. On October 10, 1997, 
the Commission issued an order Accepting Proposed Market-Based Rates 
for Filing (Order), in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's October 10, 1997 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (D), (E), and (G):
    (D) Within 30 days of the date of issuance of this order, any 
person desiring to be heard or to protest the Commission's blanket 
approval of issuance of securities or assumptions of liabilities by 
SCEM 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.
    (E) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (D) above, SCEM is hereby authorized, pursuant to 
section 204 of the FPA to issue securities and assume obligations of 
liabilities as guarantor, indorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of 
any security of another person; provided that such issue or assumption 
is for some lawful object within the corporate purposes of SCEM 
compatible with the public interest, and reasonably necessary or 
appropriate for such purposes.
    (G) The Commission reserves the right to modify this order to 
require a further showing that neither public nor private interests 
will be adversely affected by continued Commission approved of SCEM's 
issuance of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * *.
    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is November 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. 97-28675 Filed 10-28-97; 8:45 am]
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