[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 73 (Thursday, April 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 18901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10085]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2459-060]


West Penn Power Company; Notice Rejecting Request for Rehearing

April 10, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 2, 1998, the Acting Director, Office of 
Hydropower Licensing, issued an order approving a trail management plan 
for the Lake Lynn Project No. 2459.\1\ On April 2, 1998, Friends of the 
Cheat Lake Trail filed a request for rehearing of that order with the 
Commission.
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    \1\ 82 FERC para. 62,140 (1998).
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    Section 313(a) of the Federal Power Act \2\ requires an aggrieved 
party to file a request for rehearing within thirty days after the 
issuance of the Commission's order, in this case by April 1, 1998. 
Because the 30-day deadline for requesting rehearing is statutorily 
based, it cannot be extended and Friends of the Cheat Lake Trail's 
request for rehearing must be rejected as untimely.
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    \2\ 16 U.S.C. Sec. 8251.
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    This notice constitutes final agency action. Requests for rehearing 
by the Commission of this rejection notice may be filed within 30 days 
of the date of issuance of this notice, pursuant to 18 CFR 385.713.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-10085 Filed 4-15-98; 8:45 am]
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