[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8128-8129]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3768]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. ER00-586-000, ER00-816-000, ER00-840-000, ER00-891-000, 
and ER00-895-000 (Not consolidated)]


Madison Gas & Electric Company, Ameren Services Co., Tenaska 
Alabama Partners, L.P., Delano Energy Company and Onondaga Cogeneration 
Limited Partnership; Notice of Issuance of Order

February 11, 2000.
    Madison Gas & Electric Company, Ameren Services Co., Tenaska 
Alabama Partners, L.P., Delano Energy Company, and Onondaga 
Cogeneration Limited Partnership (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 February 9, 2000, 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 February 9, 2000 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 Commissiion'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, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in 
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of 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

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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 March 10, 2000.
    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, 
DC 20426. This issuance may also be 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. 00-3768 Filed 2-16-00; 8:45 am]
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