[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 31, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47494-47495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22578]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. ER99-3208-000, ER99-3320-000, ER99-3368-000, ER99-3420-
000, ER99-3446-000, ER99-3450-000, ER99-3491-000, ER99-3502-000, and 
ER99-3554-000 (Not consolidated)]


Illinova Power Marketing, Inc., Rathdrum Power, LLC, DTE Energy 
Marketing Company, Sunbury Generation, LLC, PP&L Resources, Inc. and 
PP&L, Inc., Foote Creek II, LLC, PP&L Montana, LLC, PP&L Colstrip I, 
LLC, PP&L Colstrip II, LLC and PP&L Colstrip III, LLC, Berkshire Power 
Company, LLC, and Lone Star Steel Sales Company; Notice of Issurance of 
Order

August 25, 1999.
    Illinova Power Marketing, Inc., Rathdrum Power, LLC, DTE Energy 
Marketing Company, Sunbury Generation, LLC, PP&L Resources, Inc. and 
PP&L, Inc., Foote Creek II, PP&L Montana, LLC, PP&L Colstrip I, LLC, 
PP&L Colstrip II, LLC, PP&L Colstrip III, LLC, Berkshire Power Company, 
LLC, and Lone Star Steel Sales Company (hereafter, ``the Applicants'') 
filed with the Commission rate schedules in the above-captioned 
proceedings, respectively, under which the Applicants will engage in 
wholesale electric power and energy transactions at market-based rates, 
and for certain waivers and authorizations. In particular, certain of 
the Applicants may also have requested in their respective applications 
that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all 
future issuances of securities and assumptions of liabilities by the 
Applicants. On August 24, 1999, the Commission issued an order that 
accepted the rate schedules for sales of capacity and energy at market-
based rates (Order), in the above-docketed proceedings.
    The Commission's August 24, 1999 Order granted, for those 
Applicants that sought such approval, their request for blanket 
approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in Appendix B 
in Ordering Paragraphs (2), (3), and (5):
    (2) 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 the Applicants 
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

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Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214.
    (3) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (2) above, if the Applicants have requested such 
authorization, the Applicants are 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 the Applicants, compatible with the public 
interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such purposes.
    (5) 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 the 
Applicants' 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 September 23, 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. This issuance may also be viewed on the 
Internet at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-222 
for assistance).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-22578 Filed 8-30-99; 8:45 am]
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