[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 179 (Thursday, September 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55516-55518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23591]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER00-2775-001, et al.]


MidAmerican Energy Company, et al.; Electric Rate and Corporate 
Regulation Filings

September 7, 2000.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. MidAmerican Energy Company

[Docket No. ER00-2775-001]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, MidAmerican Energy Company 
(MidAmerican), 666 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50309, tendered for 
filing with the Commission an Electric Interchange and Interconnection 
Agreement dated January 24, 1994, modified by way of a First Amendment 
to Electric Interchange and Interconnection Agreement dated April 26, 
2000, entered into with Indianola Waterworks and Electric Light and 
Power Board of Trustees, pursuant to MidAmerican's Rate Schedule for 
Power Sales, FERC Electric Tariff, Original Volume No. 8.
    MidAmerican requested and the Director, Division of Tariffs and 
Rates--Central, approved a June 9, 2000 effective date for the Electric 
Interchange and Interconnection Agreement, as amended, subject to 
MidAmerican making a compliance filing to conform MidAmerican's 
previous filing in this matter dated June 29, 2000 to be consistent 
with the necessary filing rate schedule designations as required by 
Order 614, FERC Stats. & Regs. para. 31,096 (2000) and Southwest Power 
Pool Inc., 92 FERC para.61,109 (2000). MidAmerican has served a copy of 
the compliance filing on the Indianola Waterworks and Electric Light 
and Power Board of Trustees, the Iowa Utilities Board, the Illinois 
Commerce Commission and the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-2917-001]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power 
Plant, Inc. tendered for filing a redesignated FERC Electric Tariff, 
designated in accordance with Order No. 614 and in compliance with the 
letter order issued in this docket on August 3, 2000.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

3. Constellation Power Source Generation, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-2918-001]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Constellation Power Source 
Generation, Inc. submitted for filing a redesignated FERC Electric 
Tariff, designated in accordance with Order No. 614 and in compliance 
with the letter order issued in this docket on July 24, 2000.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. Constellation Power Source Generation, Inc.

[Docket Nos. ER00-3040-001; ER00-3041-001; ER00-3042-001; ER00-3043-
001; ER00-3044-001; ER00-3045-001; ER00-3046-001; ER00-3047-001; ER00-
3048-001; ER00-3049-001]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Constellation Power Source 
Generation, Inc., tendered for filing, in compliance with the letter 
orders issued by the Commission in these dockets on July 24, 2000 and 
August 3, 2000, redesignated and formatted rate schedules to comply 
with Order No. 614.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. Duquesne Light Company

[Docket No. ER00-3580-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Duquesne Light Company 
(DLC), tendered for filing a Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission 
Service Agreement dated August 31, 2000 with Alliance Energy Services 
Partnership under DLC's Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff). The 
Service Agreement adds Alliance Energy Services Partnership as a 
customer under the Tariff.
    DLC requests an effective date of August 31, 2000 for the Service 
Agreement.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Duquesne Light Company

[Docket No. ER00-3581-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Duquesne Light Company 
(DLC), tendered for filing a Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service 
Agreement dated August 31, 2000 with Alliance Energy Services 
Partnership under DLC's Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff). The 
Service Agreement adds Alliance Energy Services Partnership as a 
customer under the Tariff.
    DLC requests an effective date of August 31, 2000 for the Service 
Agreement.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

7. Arizona Independent Scheduling Administrator Association

[Docket No. ER00-3583-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, the Arizona Independent

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Scheduling Administrator Association (Arizona ISA), tendered for filing 
pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act an electric tariff 
which describes the terms of service pursuant to which retail 
competition will be implemented throughout much of the State of 
Arizona. The tariff consists of: (1) The Protocols Manual; (2) a form 
agreement to be executed by the Arizona ISA and each Transmission 
Provider; (3) a form agreement to be executed by the Arizona ISA, each 
Transmission Provider and each Scheduling Coordinator active in that 
Transmission Provider's service territory; and (4) a rate schedule 
describing the way in which the Arizona ISA will recover its costs.
    In addition the filing contains certificates of concurrence being 
submitted by Arizona Public Service Company and Tucson Electric Power 
Company, the two Transmission Providers in the State of Arizona that 
are FERC jurisdictional, and that have open access transmission tariffs 
on file with the Commission.
    The Arizona ISA requests that the tariff become effective on 
November 1, 2000.
    The Arizona ISA served copies of the entire filing upon the Arizona 
Corporation Commission, and via email sent electronic copies of the 
tariff and certain supporting documents upon those persons listed in 
the Certificate of Service submitted with the filing.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. Tucson Electric Power Company

[Docket No. ER00-3584-000]

    Take notice that on August 31, 2000, Tucson Electric Power Company 
tendered for filing one (1) umbrella service agreement (for short-term 
firm service) and one (1) service agreement (for non-firm service) 
pursuant to Part II of Tucson's Open Access Transmission Tariff, which 
was filed in Docket No. ER00-771-000.
    The details of the service agreements are as follows:
    (1) Umbrella Agreement for Short-Term Firm Point-to-Point 
Transmission Service dated as of August 16, 2000 by and between Tucson 
Electric Power Company and Entergy Power Marketing Corp.--FERC Electric 
Tariff Vol. No. 2, Service Agreement No. 126. No service has commenced 
at this time.
    (2) Form of Service Agreement for Non-Firm Point-to Point 
Transmission Service dated as August 16, 2000 by and between Tucson 
Electric Power Company and Entergy Power Marketing Corp.--FERC Electric 
Tariff Vol. No. 2, Service Agreement No. 127. No service has commenced 
at this time.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Virginia Electric and Power Company

[Docket No. ER00-3585-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Virginia Electric and Power 
Company, doing business as Virginia Power (the Company), tendered for 
filing fifteen letter agreements with the Virginia Electric Municipal 
Association No. 1 (VMEA). The letter agreements, dated April 15, 1998, 
add facilities to the Agreement for the Purchase of Electricity for 
Resale, Rate Schedule FERC No. 109, with VMEA by establishing the terms 
and conditions for additional metering facilities at various delivery 
points of VMEA member municipalities, including the Towns of 
Blackstone, Culpeper, Elkton and Wakefield and the Cities of Franklin, 
Harrisonburg and Manassas.
    Copies of the filing were served upon the VMEA, the VMEA member 
municipalities listed above and the Virginia State Corporation 
Commission.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. NorthWestern Public Service, a division of NorthWestern 
Corporation

[Docket No. ER00-3587-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, NorthWestern Public Service 
(NorthWestern), division of NorthWestern Corporation, tendered for 
filing revised tariff sheets, pursuant to The Commission's Order 
Accepting for Filing Tariff Amendments, dated August 1, 2000 (the 
Order) in this dockets. As directed by the Order, the revised tariff 
sheets state that NorthWestern's open access transmission tariff 
incorporates the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool's revised line loading 
relief procedures, as such procedures are described in the Order.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. Allegheny Energy Service Corporation, on behalf of Monongahela 
Power Company, The Potomac Edison Company, and West Penn Power 
Company (Allegheny Power)

[Docket No. ER00-3588-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Allegheny Energy Service 
Corporation on behalf of Monongahela Power Company, The Potomac Edison 
Company, and West Penn Power Company (Allegheny Power), tendered for 
filing an Interconnection Agreement (Agreement) with Allegheny Energy 
Supply Company, LLC.
    The proposed effective date under the Agreement is September 1, 
2000 or a date ordered by the Commission.
    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, and the West Virginia Public Service Commission.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. Public Service Electric and Gas Company

[Docket No. ER00-3589-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Public Service Electric and 
Gas Company (PSE&G), tendered for filing a change in rate schedule to 
amend the Firm Capacity Agreement between PSE&G and Orange and Rockland 
Utilities Inc.
    This amendment will become effective on November 1, 2000.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-3590-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. 
(APGI), tendered for filing umbrella service agreements between: (1) 
APGI and Aquila Energy Marketing Corporation for Firm and Non-Firm 
Point-to-Point Transmission Service; and (2) APGI and The Cincinnati 
Gas & Electric Company, PSI Energy, Inc. (collectively Cinergy 
Operating Companies), and Cinergy Services, Inc., as an agent for and 
on behalf of the Cinergy Operating Companies (Cinergy) for Firm Point-
to-Point Transmission Service, under APGI's FERC Electric Tariff 
Original Volume No. 3 -- Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT).
    The service agreement provides for transmission service under 
APGI's OATT and is proposed to be effective September 1, 2000, the date 
of this filing.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

[Docket No. ER00-3591-000]

    Take notice that on September 1, 2000, the New York Independent

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System Operator, Inc., filed a combined compliance filing and report in 
the above-captioned proceeding. The filing includes certain proposed 
tariff revisions which the NYISO requests become effective on September 
1, 2000.
    A copy of this filing was served upon all parties in the above 
captioned proceedings.
    Comment date: September 22, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. MidAmerican Energy Company

[Dockets Nos. ER96-719-000 and ER00-2051-000]

    Take notice that on August 28, 2000, MidAmerican Energy Company 
(MidAmerican) filed revisions to its Rate Schedule for Power Sales, 
FERC Electric Rate Schedule, Original Volume No. 5 (FERC Docket No. 
ER96-719-000; amended in FERC Docket No. ER00-2051-000).
    Comment date: September 18, 2000, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

16. Entergy Services, Inc.

[Docket Nos. ER99-231-001; ER99-232-001; and ER99-487-001]

Sam Rayburn G&T Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Entergy Services, 
Inc.; Entergy Gulf States, Inc.

[Docket Nos. EL99-6-001]

    Take notice that on August 31, 2000, Entergy Services, Inc. 
(Entergy Services), on behalf of Entergy Gulf States, Inc., tendered 
for filing its compliance filing in the above-captioned dockets as 
required by the Commission's August 21, 2000 letter order.
    The compliance filing submits a clean version of the Network 
Integration Transmission Service Agreement and Attachment A 
(collectively, the NITSA) between Entergy and SRG&T that reflects the 
approved settlement.
    Comment date: October 10, 2000, 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, 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). 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 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. 00-23591 Filed 9-13-00; 8:45 am]
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