[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 112 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36676-36677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14593]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

[Docket No. EA-224]


Application To Export Electric Energy; Dominion Resources

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of application.

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SUMMARY: Dominion Resources, on behalf of its subsidiaries, Virginia 
Electric and Power Company and Dominion Energy, Inc., has applied for 
authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada 
pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

DATES: Comments, protests or requests to intervene must be submitted on 
or before July 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests or requests to intervene should be 
addressed as follows: Office of Coal & Power Im/Ex (FE-27), Office of 
Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, 
Washington, DC 20585-0350 (FAX 202-287-5736).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xavier Puslowski (Program Office) 202-
586-9506 or Michael Skinker (Program Attorney) 202-586-2793.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of electricity from the United 
States to a foreign country are regulated and require authorization 
under section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 
824a(e)).
    On May 16, 2000, the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department 
of Energy (DOE) received an application from Dominion Resources to 
export electric energy to Canada on behalf of two of its operating 
subsidiaries, Virginia Electric and Power Company (``Virginia Power'') 
and Dominion Energy Inc. (``Dominion Energy''). Dominion Resources 
requests DOE to renew Virginia Power's existing export authorization 
granted by DOE on July 16, 1998, (Order No. EA-180) and to grant new 
export authority to Dominion Energy to sell electric energy to Canada.
    Virginia Power owns generation, transmission and distribution 
facilities in Virginia and North Carolina and has a franchised service 
area. Dominion Energy, an independent producer of power operating in 
five U.S. States, has no franchised service territory.
    Virginia Power and Dominion Energy propose to export electric 
energy to Canada using the existing international electric transmission 
facilities owned by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Citizens Utilities, Detroit Edison Company, Joint 
Owners of Highgate,

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Long Sault, Inc., Maine Electric Power Company, Maine Public Service, 
Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative, Minnesota Power and Light, Minnkota 
Power, New York Power Authority, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, 
Northern States Power and Vermont Electric Transmission Company. The 
construction of each of the international transmission facilities to be 
utilized, as more fully described in the application, has previously 
been authorized by a Presidential permit issued pursuant to Executive 
Order 10485, as amended.

Procedural Matters

    Any person desiring to become a party to this proceeding or to be 
heard by filing comments or protests to this application should file a 
petition to intervene, comment or protest at the address provided above 
in accordance with Secs. 385.211 or 385.214 of the FERC's Rules of 
Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of 
each petition and protest should be filed with the DOE on or before the 
date listed above.
    Comments on the Dominion Resources application to export electric 
energy to Canada should be clearly marked with Docket EA-224. 
Additional copies are to be filed directly with Michael C. Regulinski, 
Esq., Virginia Electric and Power Co, 1 James River Plaza, 701 East 
Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 and James H. McGrew, Esq., 
Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, LLP., 1100 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 510 
East, Washington, D.C. 20005-3934.
    A final decision will be made on this application after the 
environmental impacts have been evaluated pursuant to the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and a determination is made by the DOE 
that the proposed action will not adversely impact on the reliability 
of the U.S. electric power supply system.
    Copies of this application will be made available, upon request, 
for public inspection and copying at the address provided above or by 
accessing the Fossil Energy Home Page at http://www.fe.doe.gov. Upon 
reaching the Fossil Energy Home page, select ``Regulatory,'' then 
``Electricity,'' and then ``Pending Proceedings'' from the options 
menus.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2000.
Anthony J. Como,
Deputy Director, Electric Power Regulation, Office of Coal & Power Im/
Ex, Office of Coal & Power Systems, Office of Fossil Energy.
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