[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 58 (Friday, March 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15901-15902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7313]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. ER00-1258-000 and EL00-37-000]


First Electric Cooperative Corporation; Notice of Issuance of 
Order

March 20, 2000.
    First Electric Cooperative Corporation (First Electric) made a rate 
filing in Docket No. ER00-1258-000 pertaining to arrangements under 
which it provides facilities to Arkansas Electric Cooperative 
Corporation to provide wheeling services to Entergy Arkansas and C&L 
Cooperative. Also, in Docket No. EL00-37-000, First Electric filed a 
request for certain waivers of the Commission's regulations. In 
particular, First Electric requested that the Commission grant blanket 
approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and 
assumptions of liabilities by First Electric. On March 15, 2000, the 
Commission issued an Order Granting Request for Waivers Of Order Nos. 
888 And 889, Addressing Requests for Other Waivers And Accepting Rate 
Filing (Order), in the above-docketed proceedings.
    The Commission's March 15, 2000 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (C), (D), and (H):
    (C) 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 First Electric 
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.
    (D) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (C) above, First Electric is hereby authorized to 
issue securities and assume obligations and liabilities as guarantor 
endorser, 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 First Electric, compatible with 
the public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for such 
purposes.
    (H) 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 First

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Electric's issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * *.
    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is April 14, 2000.
    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. The Order may also be viewed on the Internet at  
  http://www.ferc.fed.us/online rims. htm (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance).

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-7313 Filed 3-23-00; 8:45 am]
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