[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 241 (Tuesday, December 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65802-65803]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32767]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER97-4352-000]


SEMCO Energy Services, Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Order

December 11, 1997.
    SEMCO Energy Services, Inc. (SEMCO) submitted for filing a rate 
schedule under which SEMCO will engage in wholesale electric power and 
energy transactions as a marketer. SEMCO also requested waiver of 
various Commission regulations. In particular, SEMCO requested that the 
Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future 
issuances of securities and assumptions of liability of SEMCO.
    On November 28, 1997, pursuant to delegated authority, the 
Director, Division of Rate 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 protest the blanket approval of issuances of securities 
or assumptions of liability by SEMCO 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 Procedures (18 CFR 
385.211 and 385.214).
    Absent a request for hearing within this period, SEMCO is 
authorized to issue securities and assume obligations or liabilities as 
a guarantor, indorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of any security 
of another person; provided that such issuance of assumption is for 
some lawful object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, and 
compatible with the public interest, and is reasonably necessary or 
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 SEMCO's issuances of securities or assumptions of 
liability.

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    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is December 29, 1997. Copies 
of the full text of the order are available from the Commission's 
Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-32767 Filed 12-15-97; 8:45 am]
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