[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66621-66623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30840]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER00-101-000, et al.]


Allegheny Energy Unit 1 and Unit 2, L.L.C., et al.; Electric Rate 
and Corporate Regulation Filings

November 17, 1999.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Allegheny Energy Unit 1 and Unit 2, L.L.C.

[Docket No. ER00-101-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, Allegheny Energy Unit 1 and 
Unit 2, L.L.C. (Allegheny), tendered for filing an amendment to its 
application for a market rate tariff of general applicability under 
which it proposes to sell capacity and energy to non-affiliates at 
market-based rates, and to make such sales to affiliates at rates 
capped by a publicly available regional index price.
    Allegheny requests an effective date no later that December 1, 
1999.
    Copies of the filing have been provided to the Public Utilities 
Commission of Ohio, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the 
Maryland Public Service Commission, the Virginia State Corporation 
Commission, the West Virginia Public Service Commission, and all 
parties of record.
    Comment date: November 30, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. Southwestern Public Service Company

[Docket No. ER00-536-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, New Century Services, Inc. 
(NCS), on behalf of Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS), tendered 
for filing pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act and Part 35 
of the Commission's Regulations, revisions to the New Century Operating 
Companies Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) and changes to the 
rates charged by SPS under the OATT.
    NCS proposes that the filing become effective January 1, 2000.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

3. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-541-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy), tendered for filing a Firm Point-To-Point Service Agreement 
under Cinergy's Open Access Transmission Service Tariff (the Tariff) 
entered into between Cinergy Edison Mission Marketing & Trading, Inc., 
(Edison).
    Cinergy and Edison are requesting an effective date of October 9, 
1999.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-542-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy) and Aquila Energy Marketing Corporation (AEMC), tendered for 
filing a Notice of Assignment that AEMC will replace Aquila Power 
Corporation of Cinergy's Market-Based Power Sales Tariff Original 
Volume No. 7-MB, Service Agreement No. 95, dated October 22, 1997.
    Cinergy and AEMC are requesting an effective date of one day after 
this filing.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-543-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy) and TXU Energy Trading Company (TXU), tendered for filing a 
Notice of Assignment that TXU will replace Enserch Energy Service, 
Inc., of Cinergy's Cost-Based Power Sales Tariff Original Volume No. 6-
CB, Service Agreement No. 217, dated May 1, 1999.
    Cinergy and TXU are requesting an effective date of one day after 
this filing.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-544-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy) and Aquila Energy Marketing Corporation (AEMC), tendered for 
filing a Notice of Assignment that AEMC will replace Aquila Power 
Corporation of Cinergy's Cost-Based Power Sales Tariff Original Volume 
No. 6-CB, Service Agreement No. 95, dated October 25, 1997.
    Cinergy and AEMC are requesting an effective date of one day after 
this filing.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

7. Kansas Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER00-545-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Western Resources, Inc. 
(WRI), on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary, Kansas Gas and 
Electric Company (KGE), tendered for filing a Tenth Revised Exhibit B 
to the Electric Power, Transmission and Service Contract between KGE 
and the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCo). KGE states 
that the filing is to update Exhibit B to reflect the installation of 
the Wolf Creek delivery point.
    This filing is proposed to become effective October 13, 1999.
    Copies of the filing were served upon KEPCo and the Kansas 
Corporation Commission.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. Consumers Energy Company

[Docket No. ER00-546-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Consumers Energy Company 
(Consumers) tendered for filing executed service agreements for Non-
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service with Florida Power & Light.
    The agreement is pursuant to the Joint Open Access Transmission 
Service Tariff filed on December 31, 1996 by Consumers and Detroit 
Edison Company (Detroit Edison) and has an effective date of October 
26, 1999.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the Michigan Public Service 
Commission, Detroit Edison and the customer listed above.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Duquesne Light Company; FirstEnergy Operating Companies

[Docket No. ER00-547-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Duquesne Light Company 
(Duquesne) and FirstEnergy Operating Companies (The Cleveland Electric 
Illuminating Company, Ohio Edison Company Pennsylvania Power Company, 
The Toledo Edison Company and when applicable, American Transmission 
Systems, Inc.) (FirstEnergy) on November 9, 1999, tendered for filing 
under Federal Power Act Section 205 proposed Must-Run and Connection 
and Site Agreements. The Agreements apply to the electric generating 
plants transferred from FirstEnergy to Duquesne as part of the 
generation exchange approved by the Commission.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the Pennsylvania Public 
Utility

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Commission and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. Cinergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-548-000]

    Take notice that on November 9, 1999, Cinergy Services, Inc. 
(Cinergy) and TXU Energy Trading Company (TXU), on November 8, 1999, 
are requesting via a Notice of Assignment that TXU will replace Enserch 
Energy Service, Inc., of Cinergy's Market-Based Power Sales Tariff 
Original Volume No. 7-MB, Service Agreement No. 220, dated May 1, 1999.
    Cinergy and TXU are requesting an effective date of one day after 
this filing.
    Comment date: November 29, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. Pacific Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER00-549-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, Pacific Gas and Electric 
Company (PG&E), tendered for filing the Large Facilities Authorization 
Letter No. 2 and the Small Facilities Authorization Letter No. 3, 
submitted pursuant to the Procedures for Implementation (Procedures) of 
Section 3.3 of the 1987 Agreement between PG&E and the City and County 
of San Francisco (City). This is PG&E's second quarterly filing 
submitted pursuant to Section 4 of the Procedures, which provides for 
the quarterly filing of Facilities Authorization Letters. The 
Facilities Authorization Letters streamline the procedures for filing 
numerous Facilities, and facilitates payment of PG&E's costs of 
designing, constructing, procuring, testing, placing in operation, 
owning, operating and maintaining the customer-specific Facilities 
required for firm transmission and distribution service requested by 
City under these Facilities Authorization Letters. PG&E has requested 
permission to use automatic rate adjustments whenever the California 
Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) authorizes a new Electric Rule 2 
Cost of Ownership Rate but cap the monthly transmission-level rates, 
respectively, at 0.58% and 1.19% for customer-financed and PG&E-
financed Facilities, and cap the monthly distribution-level rates, 
respectively, at 0.77% and 1.34% for customer-financed and PG&E-
financed facilities.
    PG&E has requested certain waivers.
    Copies of this filing have been served upon City and the CPUC.
    Comment date: November 30, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. New York Independent System Operator, Inc.; Central Hudson Gas 
& Electric Corporation; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, 
Inc.; Long Island Lighting Company; New York State Electric & Gas 
Corporation; Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation; Orange and Rockland 
Utilities, Inc.; Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation; Power 
Authority of the State of New York

[Docket No. ER00-550-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, the Member Systems of the 
New York Power Pool (Member Systems) and the New York Independent 
System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) tendered for filing certain revised 
tariff sheets to the ISO Open Access Transmission and ISO Services 
Tariffs, as well as revisions to various ISO-related Agreements 
previously approved by the Commission. With one exception, the Member 
Systems request that the above-referenced tariff sheets become 
effective on the date that the NYISO commences operation.
    A copy of this filing was served upon all persons on the 
Commission's official service list(s) in Docket Nos. ER97-1523, et al., 
and the respective electric utility regulatory agencies in New York, 
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
    Comment date: November 30, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Virginia Electric and Power Company

[Docket No. ER00-552-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, Virginia Electric and Power 
Company (Virginia Power), tendered for filing a Service Agreement for 
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service with Illinova Power Marketing, 
Inc. under the Company's Open Access Transmission Tariff to Eligible 
Purchasers dated July 14, 1997. Under the tendered Service Agreement, 
Virginia Power will provide firm point-to-point service to the 
Transmission Customer under the rates, terms and conditions of the Open 
Access Transmission Tariff.
    Virginia Power requests an effective date of November 10, 1999, the 
date of filing of the Service Agreement.
    Copies of the filing were served upon Illinova Power Marketing, 
Inc., the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the North Carolina 
Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: November 30, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. California Power Exchange Corporation

[Docket No. ER00-553-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, the California Power 
Exchange Corporation (CalPX), tendered for filing a tariff change that 
would permit its current Day-of Market Experiment to become permanent. 
CalPX requests waiver of the notice period to permit the filing to 
become effective at the same time that corresponding changes in its 
Operating Manual take effect. In the interim, CalPX requests that the 
Commission permit it to continue the experimental Day-of Market 
timeline without change.
    Comment date: November 30, 1999, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. Allegheny Power

[Docket No. ER99-4021-000]

    Take notice that on November 10, 1999, Allegheny Power (Allegheny), 
tendered for filing an amendment to Supplement No. 30 to its market 
rate tariff of general applicability under which the Allegheny Power 
franchised operating companies propose to sell capacity and energy to 
one another at a publicly available regional index price.
    Allegheny requests an effective date of October 6, 1999.
    Copies of the filing have been provided to the Public Utilities 
Commission of Ohio, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the 
Maryland Public Service Commission, the Virginia State Corporation 
Commission, the West Virginia Public Service Commission, and all 
parties of record.
    Comment date: November 30, 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

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viewed on the Internet at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 
202-208-2222 for assistance).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-30840 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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