[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 72293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34617]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER99-415-000]


Commonwealth Chesapeake Company, L.L.C.; Notice of Issuance of 
Order

December 23, 1998.
    Commonwealth Chesapeake Company is a Virginia corporation created 
for the purpose of developing, building, owning and operating a 300 MW 
generating facility in Accomack County, Virginia. Commonwealth 
Chesapeake filed an application requesting that the Commission 
authorize it to engage in wholesale power sales at market-based rates, 
and for certain waivers and authorizations. In particular, Commonwealth 
Chesapeake requested that the Commission grant blanket approval under 
18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and assumptions of 
liabilities by Commonwealth Chesapeake. On December 21, 1998, the 
Commission issued an Order Conditionally Accepting For Filing Proposed 
Market-Based Rates (Order), in the above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's December 21, 1998 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (F), (G), and (I):
    (F) 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 Commonwealth 
Chesapeake 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.
    (G) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (F) above, Commonwealth Chesapeake 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 Commonwealth Chesapeake, 
compatible with the public interest, and reasonably necessary or 
appropriate for such purposes.
    (I) 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 
Commonwealth Chesapeake'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 January 20, 1999.
    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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-34617 Filed 12-30-98; 8:45 am]
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