[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 122 (Friday, June 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34228-34229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16222]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. EC99-34-000 and ER99-1764-000]


Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation and Erie Boulevard Hydropower, 
L.P.; Notice of Issuance of Order

June 21, 1999.
    Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (Niagara Mohawk) and Erie 
Boulevard Hydropower, L.P. (Erie Boulevard) filed a joint application 
pursuant to section 203 of the Federal Power Act requesting Commission 
authorization for Niagara Mohawk to sell, and for Erie Boulevard to 
purchase, certain jurisdictional transmission facilities. Erie 
Boulevard is a limited partnership formed for the purpose of 
purchasing, owning and operating the hydroelectric generating plants it 
is purchasing from Niagara Mohawk. Erie Boulevard also requested 
market-based rate authority, and certain waivers and authorizations. In 
particular, Erie Boulevard requested that the Commission grant blanket 
approval

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under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and 
assumptions of liabilities by Erie Boulevard. On June 17, 1999, the 
Commission issued an Order Approving Disposition Of Jurisdictional 
Facilities, Granting Waiver Of Notice, Denying Motions For Stay, 
Accepting Answer, Conditionally Accepting For Filing Tariff For Market-
Based Power Sales and Interconnection Agreement And Granting Request 
For Confidential Treatment (Order), in the above-docketed proceedings.
    The Commission's June 17, 1999 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (M), (N), and (P):
    (M) 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 Erie Boulevard 
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.
    (N) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (M) above, Erie Boulevard 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 Erie Boulevard, compatible with 
the public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such 
purposes.
    (P) 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 Erie 
Boulevard's issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * 
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    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is July 19, 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.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-16222 Filed 6-24-99; 8:45 am]
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