[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 48 (Friday, March 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12311-12314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6169]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. EC99-39-000, et al.]


Storm Lake Power Partners II LLC, et al.; Electric Rate and 
Corporate Regulation Filings

March 5, 1999.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Storm Lake Power Partners II LLC

[Docket No. EC99-39-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Storm Lake Power Partners II LLC 
(Applicant) filed an update to its application under Section 203 of the 
Federal Power Act. Applicant filed the proposed agreement necessary to 
effect the transaction, as required by the Commission's Regulations (18 
CFR 33.3).
    Comment date: April 1, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

2. Carthage Energy, LLC

[Docket No. EG99-87-000]

    Take notice that on March 3, 1999, Carthage Energy, LLC, having an 
address at 2 Court Street, Binghamton, New York 13901, filed with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an application for determination 
of exempt wholesale generator status pursuant to Part 365 of the 
Commission's regulations.
    The applicant is a limited liability company that will be engaged 
directly and exclusively in the business of owning or operating, or 
both owning and operating, an eligible facility in Carthage, New York. 
The facility will consist of a 57 MW, combined-cycle facility fueled 
primarily by natural gas. The facility will include such 
interconnection components as are necessary to interconnect the 
facility with Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation.
    Comment date: March 26, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E

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at the end of this notice. The Commission will limit its consideration 
of comments to those that concern the adequacy or accuracy of the 
application.

3. Vitol Gas & Electric LLC; Commonwealth Energy Corporation

[Docket No. ER94-155-024; Docket No. ER97-4253-004]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999 the above-mentioned power 
marketers filed quarterly reports with the Commission in the above-
mentioned proceedings for information only. These filings are available 
for public inspection and copying in the Public Reference Room or on 
the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm for viewing and 
downloading (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).

4. Electric Clearinghouse, Inc.

[Docket No. ER94-968-023]

    Take notice that on March 3, 1999, the above-mentioned power 
marketer filed a quarterly report with the Commission in the above-
mentioned proceeding for information only. This filing is available for 
public inspection and copying in the Public Reference Room or on the 
web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm for viewing and 
downloading (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).

5. Amoco Energy Trading Corporation

[Docket No. ER95-1359-015]

    Take notice that on March 4, 1999, the above-mentioned power 
marketer filed a quarterly report with the Commission in the above-
mentioned proceeding for information only. This filing is available for 
public inspection and copying in the Public Reference Room or on the 
web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm for viewing and 
downloading (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).

6. Novarco Ltd.; Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company

[Docket No. ER98-4139-001; Docket No. ER95-305-019]

    Take notice that on February 26, 1999, the above-mentioned power 
marketers filed quarterly reports with the Commission in the above-
mentioned proceedings for information only. These filings are available 
for public inspection and copying in the Public Reference Room or on 
the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm for viewing and 
downloading (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).

7. USGen New England, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-1966-000]

    Take notice that on February 25, 1999, the above-referenced public 
utility filed their quarterly transaction report for the quarter ending 
December 31, 1998.
    Comment date: March 18, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

8. Florida Power Corporation; Florida Power & Light Company; Tampa 
Electric Company

[Docket No. ER99-2003-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999 Florida Power Corporation, 
Florida Power & Light Company and Tampa Electric Company (the Florida 
Utilities) tendered for filing a Response to the Commission's December 
16, 1998 order in North American Electric Reliability Council, Docket 
No. EL98-52-000, 85 FERC para. 61,353 (1998).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

9. WPS Resources Corporation

[Docket No. ER99-2004-000]

    WPS Resources Corporation (AWPSR), on behalf of its respective 
public utility subsidiaries, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation 
(AWPSC) and Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCo) hereby provided 
notice that, upon acceptance of this filing by the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission (Commission), its joint open-access transmission 
tariff should be considered modified to incorporate the Interim Firm 
Load Curtailment and Regional Redispatch Plans adopted by Mid-America 
Interconnected Network, Inc. (MAIN) and its members in compliance with 
ordering paragraphs (D) and (E) of the Order on Petition for 
Declaratory Order in North American Electric Reliability Council, 
Docket No. EL98-52-000 (December 16, 1998) (TLR Order).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

10. Northern States Power Company (Minnesota); Northern States 
Power Company (Wisconsin); PanEnergy Lake Charles Generation, Inc.; 
Central Main Power Company

[Docket Nos. ER99-2006-000; ER99-2007-000; ER99-1802-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, the above-referenced public 
utilities filed their quarterly transaction reports for the quarter 
ending December 31, 1998.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

11. Arizona Public Service Company

[Docket No. ER99-2020-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Arizona Public Service Company 
(APS), tendered for filing Umbrella Service Agreements to provide 
Short-Term Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service to Cinergy 
Services, Inc., and Short-Term Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point 
Transmission Service to Cargill-Alliant, LLC and Morgan Stanley Capital 
Group, Inc., under APS' Open Access Transmission Tariff.
    A copy of this filing has been served on Cargill-Alliant, LLC, 
Cinergy Services, Inc., Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc., and the 
Arizona Corporation Commission.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

12. California Power Exchange Corporation

[Docket No. ER99-2021-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, the California Power Exchange 
Corporation (PX), tendered for filing Amendment No. 10 to the PX 
Tariff, which consists of a new Power Exchange Administrative Sanctions 
Protocol.
    The PX proposes to make the new protocol effective 60 days after 
filing on May 1, 1999.
    The PX states that it has served copies of its filing on the PX 
Participants and on the California Public Utilities Commission. The 
filing also has been posted on the PX website at http://www.calpx.com.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

13. Virginia Electric and Power Company

[Docket No. ER99-2022-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Virginia Electric and Power 
Company (Virginia Power), tendered for filing a Service Agreement for 
Long Term Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service with PECO Energy 
Company under the Open Access Transmission Tariff to Eligible 
Purchasers dated July 14, 1997. Under the tendered Service Agreement, 
Virginia Power will provide Long Term Firm Point-to-Point Transmission 
Service to the Transmission Customer under the rates, terms and 
conditions of the Open Access Transmission Tariff.
    Virginia Power requests an effective date of January 1, 2000.
    Copies of the filing were served upon PECO Energy Company, the 
Virginia State Corporation Commission and the North Carolina Utilities 
Commission.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

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14. PP&L, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2023-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, PP&L, Inc. (PP&L), tendered a 
Service Agreement dated February 23, 1999 with Connecticut Light & 
Power Company, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, Public Service 
of New Hampshire and Holyoke Water Power Company, acting through their 
agent, Northeast Utilities Service Company (collectively, Northeast) 
under PP&L's Market-Based Rate and Resale of Transmission Rights 
Tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Revised Volume No. 5. The Service 
Agreement adds Northeast as an eligible customer under the Tariff.
    PP&L requests an effective date of March 2, 1999, for the Service 
Agreement.
    PP&L states that copies of this filing have been supplied to 
Northeast and to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

15. PP&L, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2024-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, PP&L, Inc. (PP&L), tendered a 
Service Agreement dated February 4, 1999 with WPS Energy Services, Inc. 
(WPS), under PP&L's Market-Based Rate and Resale of Transmission Rights 
Tariff, FERC Electric Tariff, Revised Volume No. 5. The Service 
Agreement adds WPS as an eligible customer under the Tariff.
    PP&L requests an effective date of March 2, 1999, for the Service 
Agreement.
    PP&L states that copies of this filing have been supplied to WPS 
and to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

16. Northern States Power Company (Minnesota); Northern States 
Power Company (Wisconsin)

[Docket No. ER99-2025-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Northern States Power Company 
(Minnesota) and Northern States Power Company (Wisconsin) (jointly 
NSP), tendered for filing a Network Operating Agreement and a Network 
Integration Transmission Service Agreement between NSP and Blue Earth 
Light & Water Department.
    NSP requests that the Commission accept both the agreements 
effective February 1, 1999, and requests waiver of the Commission's 
notice requirements in order for the agreements to be accepted for 
filing on the date requested.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

17. Puget Sound Energy, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2026-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 
(Puget), tendered for filing the 1998-99 Operating Procedures under the 
Pacific Northwest Coordination Agreement (PNCA). Puget states that the 
1998-99 Operating Procedures relate to service under the PNCA.
    A copy of the filing was served upon the parties to the PNCA.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

18. Duke Energy Corporation

[Docket No. ER99-2029-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Duke Power, a division of Duke 
Energy Corporation (Duke), tendered for filing a Service Agreement for 
Market Rate Sales under Rate Schedule MR, FERC Electric Tariff First 
Revised Volume No. 3 (the MRSAs), between Duke and Columbia Energy 
Power Marketing Corporation.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

19. Cleco Corporation

[Docket No. ER99-2033-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Cleco Corporation (Cleco) 
submitted a filing in response to the Commission's December 16, 1998 
order in North American Electric Reliability Council, Docket No. EL98-
52-000. Cleco's filing is available for public inspection at its 
offices in Pineville, Louisiana.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

20. MidAmerican Energy Company

[Docket No. ER99-2034-000]

    Take notice that on March 3, 1999, MidAmerican Energy Company, 666 
Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50309, tendered for filing its response 
to the Commission's December 16, 1998 Order in North American Electric 
Reliability Council, Docket No. EL98-52-000.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

21. Public Service Company of Oklahoma; Southwestern Electric Power 
Company

[Docket No. ER99-2035-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Public Service Company of 
Oklahoma (PSO) and Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) 
submitted for filing a letter informing the Commission that PSO and 
SWEPCO, as members of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), will rely on the 
response filed by the SPP on March 1, 1999 in Docket No. EL98-52-000 to 
comply with the Commission's order in that docket.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

22. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER99-2036-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Oklahoma Gas and Electric 
Company filed its response to the Commission's December 16, 1998 Order 
in Docket No. EL98-52-000, North American Electric Reliability Council, 
85 FERC para. 61,353 (1998).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

23. The Empire District Electric Company

[Docket No. ER99-2037-000]

    Take notice that on March 3, 1999, The Empire District Electric 
Company tendered for filing its response to the Commission's December 
16, 1998 order in North American Electric Reliability Council, Docket 
No. EL98-52-000.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

24. Southwest Power Pool, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2038-000]

    Take notice that on March 3, 1999, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (SPP) 
tendered for filing its response to the Commission's December 16, 1998 
order in North American Electric Reliability Council, Docket No. EL98-
52-000.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

25. Northwestern Public Service Company

[Docket No. ER99-2039-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Northwestern Public Service 
Company (Northwestern) tendered for filing its response to the 
Commission's December 16, 1998 order in North American Electric 
Reliability Council, Docket No. EL98-52-000, regarding curtailments of 
generation to load transactions and regional redispatch solutions. 
Northwestern states that it confirms and supports the filing 
concurrently submitted to the Commission by the Mid-Continent Area 
Power pool (MAPP)

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on these issues on behalf of MAPP's members, including Northwestern.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

26. The United Illuminating Company

[Docket No. ER99-2040-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, The United Illuminating Company 
tendered for filing its response to the Commission's December 16, 1998 
order in FERC Docket Number EL98-52-000, North American Electric 
Reliability Council, 85 FERC para. 61,353 (1998).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

27. St. Joseph Light & Power Company

[Docket No. ER99-2041-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, St. Joseph Light & Power Company 
(SJLP) filed its confirmation and support of the filing made on the 
same day by the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP) in response to the 
Commission's order in North American Elec. Reliability Council, Docket 
No. EL98-52-000, 85 FERC para. 61,353 (1998). In its filing, MAPP, on 
behalf of SJLP and its other members that are public utilities subject 
to the FERC's jurisdiction, described its proposed interim plan to (i) 
identify the parallel flows associated with native load and network 
service on known constraints, and (ii) develop protocols for curtailing 
such parallel flows on a comparable basis. MAPP's filing also describes 
its interim regional redispatch procedures.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

28. Ohio Edison Company, Pennsylvania Power Company, The Cleveland 
Electric Illuminating Company, and The Toledo Edison Company

[Docket No. ER99-2042-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Ohio Edison Company, 
Pennsylvania Power Company, The Cleveland Electric Illuminating 
Company, and The Toledo Edison Company (collectively as FirstEnergy) 
submitted a compliance filing pursuant to the Commission's December 16, 
1998 order in North American Electric Reliability Council, 85 FERC 
para. 61,353 (1998).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

29. Golden Spread Electric Coop., Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2053-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999 Golden Spread Electric 
Cooperative, Inc. (Golden Spread) tendered for filing with the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission an informational filing to Golden Spread 
Rate Schedule FERC No. 38, a Test Energy Sale Agreement (TESA) between 
itself and Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) pursuant to Golden 
Spread's existing market-based rate authority. Golden Spread states 
that updated information pertaining to SPS's avoided energy cost is 
specifically required by the TESA, and that a copy of the informational 
filing was served upon SPS.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

30. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., A Division of MDU Resources 
Group, Inc.

[Docket No. ER99-2054-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., a 
Division of MDU Resources Group, Inc. (Montana-Dakota) filed a letter 
in support of the contemporaneous filing made by the Mid-Continent Area 
Power Pool in response to the Commission's Order in North American 
Reliability Council, 85 FERC 61,253 (1998).
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

31. Avista Corporation

[Docket No. ER99-2056-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1999, Avista Corporation (Avista 
Corp.), tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission pursuant to 18 CFR 35.13(a)(2)(I) a revision to its Rate 
Schedule FERC No. 62.
    Avista Corp., requests an effective date of April 1, 1999.
    A copy of this filing has been served upon East Greenacres 
Irrigation District and The United States Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Reclamation.
    Comment date: March 22, 1999, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
E at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    E. Any person desiring to be heard or to protest such filing 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). All such motions 
or protests should be filed on or before the comment date. Protests 
will be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate 
action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to 
the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a motion 
to intervene. Copies of these filings are on file with the Commission 
and are available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed 
on the Internet at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-
208-222 for assistance).
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-6169 Filed 3-11-99; 8:45 am]
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