[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 233 (Thursday, December 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64215-64216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-31762]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER97-4281-000]


NRG Power Marketing, Inc., Notice of Issuance of Order

November 28, 1997.
    NRG Power Marketing Inc. (NRG Power), an affiliate of Northern 
States Power Company, filed an application for authorization to sell 
electric energy and capacity at market-based rates. NRG Power also 
requested certain waivers and authorizations. In particular, NRG Power 
requested that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR part 
34 of all future issuances and assumptions of liabilities by NRG Power. 
On November 12, 1997, the Commission issued an Order Accepting For 
Filing Proposed Market-Based Rates (Order), in the above-docketed 
proceeding.
    The Commission's November 12, 1997 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering paragraphs (C), (D), and (F):
    (C) 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 issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities by 
NRG Power 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.
    (D) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (C) above, NRG Power is hereby authorized, pursuant 
to section 204 of the FPA, to issue securities and assume obligations 
and liabilities as guarantor, indorser, surety, or otherwise in respect 
of any security of another person; provided that such issued or 
assumption is for some lawful object within the corporate purposes of 
NRG Power, compatible with the public interest, and reasonably 
necessary or appropriate for such purposes.
    (F) 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 approval of NRG 
Power's issuances 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 December 12, 1997.

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    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. 97-31762 Filed 12-3-97; 8:45 am]
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