[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 196 (Friday, October 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54465-54466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27170]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER98-4222-000]


Lake Benton Power Partners II, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Order

October 5, 1998.
    Lake Benton Power Partners II, LLC (LBPP), is a limited liability 
company created to develop and own a wind energy facility. LBPP filed 
an application requesting that the Commission accept a power purchase

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agreement for selling wholesale power at market-based rates to Northern 
States Power Company, and for certain authorizations and waivers. In 
particular, LBPP requested that the Commission grant blanket approval 
under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and 
assumptions of liabilities by LBPP. On October 2, 1998, the Commission 
issued an Order Accepting For Filing Proposed Market-Based Rates 
(Order), in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's October 2, 1998 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (E), (F), and (H):
    (E) Within 30 days of the date 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 LBPP 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.
    (F) Absent a request to be heard within period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (E) above, LBPP is hereby authorized 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 issue or assumption is for some lawful 
object within the corporate purposes of LBPP, compatible with the 
public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such 
purposes.
    (H) The Commission reserves the right to modify this order to 
require a further showing that neither public or private interests will 
be adversely affected by continued Commission approval of LBPP'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 November 2, 1998.
    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.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-27170 Filed 10-8-98; 8:45 am]
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