[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52125-52127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25664]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER01-2688-001, et al.]


Gilroy Energy Center, L.L.C., et al.; Electric Rate and Corporate 
Regulation Filings

October 5, 2001.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Gilroy Energy Center, LLC

[Docket No. ER01-2688-001]

    Take notice that on October 2, 2001, Gilroy Energy Center, LLC (the 
Applicant), submitted for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) a first Substitute Sheet Nos. 2 and 3 to its 
FERC Electric Tariff No. 1, in compliance with the Commission Staff 
Letter issued in this Docket on September 21, 2001.
    Comment date: October 23, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

2. San Diego Gas & Electric Company

[Docket No. ER01-3093-000]

    Take notice that on October 2, 2001, San Diego Gas & Electric 
Company (SDG&E) tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (FERC or Commission), its Service Agreements numbers 9 and 
10 to its FERC Electric Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 6, two 
interconnection agreements. Both agreements relate to the 
interconnection of a new generation plant to be owned by CalPeak Power 
-Enterprise, LLC (CalPeak Enterprise). The plant, with a capacity of 49 
MW, is being constructed on an expedited basis to meet potential 
shortfalls in the Western states' electric supplies. It will be located 
near the City of Escondido in San Diego County, California, and is 
expected to begin service on or about September 24, 2001.
    Service Agreement No. 9 is an Expedited Interconnection Facilities 
Agreement dated September 21, 2001 between SDG&E and CalPeak 
Enterprise, under which SDG&E will construct, operate and maintain the 
proposed interconnection facilities. Service Agreement No. 10, the 
Interconnection Agreement between SDG&E and CalPeak Enterprise dated 
September 21, 2001, establishes interconnection and operating 
responsibilities and associated communications procedures between the 
parties.
    SDG&E requests an effective date of September 21, 2001 for both 
agreements. SDG&E states that copies of the amended filing have been 
served on CalPeak Enterprise and on the California Public Utilities 
Commission.
    Comment date: October 23, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

3. Southern Energy Retail Trading and Marketing, Inc.

[Docket No. ER02-1-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Southern Energy Retail Trading 
and Marketing, Inc. tendered for filing with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission (Commission) a Notice of Cancellation pursuant to 
18 CFR 35.15 (2001), in order to reflect the cancellation of its Market 
Rate Tariff, designated as Rate Schedule FERC No. 1, originally 
accepted for filing in Docket No. ER98-1149-000.
    Comment date: October 23, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. New England Power Pool

[Docket No. ER02-2-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, the New England Power Pool 
(NEPOOL) Participants Committee filed with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission (Commission) for acceptance materials (1) to 
permit NEPOOL to expand its membership to include AES Londonderry, 
L.L.C. (AESL), Long Island Lighting Company d/b/a LIPA (LIPA), and New 
Hampshire Office of Consumer Advocate (NHOCA); and (2) to terminate the 
membership of Merchant Energy Group of Americas, Inc. (MEGA).
    The Participants Committee requests an effective date of October 1, 
2001 for commencement of participation in NEPOOL by LIPA, December 1, 
2001 for commencement of participation in NEPOOL by AESL and NHOCA, and 
August 21, 2001 for the termination of MEGA.
    The Participants Committee states that copies of these materials 
were sent to the New England state governors and regulatory commissions 
and the Participants in NEPOOL.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

5. MidAmerican Energy Company

[Docket No. ER02-3-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, MidAmerican Energy Company 
(MidAmerican), filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission), a Master Energy Sales Agreement (Agreement) dated 
September 1, 2001, entered into with Peoples Energy Services 
Corporation (Peoples), pursuant to MidAmerican's Rate Schedule for 
Power Sales, FERC Electric Tariff (Tariff), Original Volume No. 5. The 
Agreement constitutes a 1st revised Service Agreement No. 57, under the 
Tariff, between MidAmerican and Peoples.
    MidAmerican requests a September 1, 2001 effective date for the 
Master Energy Sales Agreement and seeks a waiver of the Commission's 
notice requirement. MidAmerican has served a copy of the compliance 
filing on Peoples Energy Services Corporation, the Iowa Utilities 
Board, the Illinois Commerce Commission and the South Dakota Public 
Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

6. Pacific Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER02-4-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Pacific Gas and Electric 
Company (PG&E) tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) a Notice of Cancellation of the PG&E First 
Revised Rate Schedule FERC No. 215 (Must-Run Service Agreement between 
Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the California Independent System 
Operator Corporation for the FMC Synchronous Condenser/Emergency Gas 
Turbine).
    Copies of this filing have been served upon the California System 
Operator Corporation (ISO) and the California Public Utilities 
Commission.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

7. Southern Company Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER02-5-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Southern Company Services, 
Inc. (SCS), acting on behalf of Alabama Power Company (APC), Georgia 
Power Company, Gulf Power Company, Mississippi Power Company, and 
Savannah Electric and Power Company (collectively referred to as 
Southern Companies), filed with the Federal

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Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission), a Service Agreement for 
Conditional and Experimental Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service 
Between SCS, as agent for Southern Companies, and Coral Power, L.L.C. 
Regarding OASIS request 1717624, under the Open Access Transmission 
Tariff of Southern Companies (FERC Electric Tariff, Fourth Revised 
Volume No. 5). Under this agreement, Coral will be provided monthly 
transmission service on a firm basis except for when providing such 
service could cause or potentially cause a stability-related problem 
that has been identified in the Southwest Quadrant of Southern 
Companies' transmission system.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

8. Avista Corporation

[Docket No. ER02-6-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Avista Corporation (Avista) 
tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) an executed Service Agreement for Firm Point-To-Point 
Transmission Service under Avista's Open Access Transmission Tariff--
FERC Electric Tariff, Volume No. 8 with Consolidated Irrigation 
District No. 19. The Service Agreement replaces an existing agreement 
that terminates on October 1, 2001.
    Avista requests a waiver of the Commission's notice requirements to 
allow the Service Agreement to become effective on October 1, 2001.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

9. Great Bay Power Corporation

[Docket No. ER02-7-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Great Bay Power Corporation 
(Great Bay) tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) a service agreement between Constellation Power 
Source, Inc. and Great Bay for service under Great Bay's revised 
Market-Based Rate Power Sales Tariff Volume No. 2 (Tariff). This Tariff 
was accepted for filing by the Commission on May 31, 2000, in Docket 
No. ER00-2211-000. The service agreement is proposed to be effective 
September 25, 2001.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

10. Xcel Energy Services Inc.

[Docket No. ER02-8-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Xcel Energy Services, Inc. 
(XES), on behalf of Public Service Company of Colorado (Public 
Service), submitted for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) a Second Amendment to the Power Purchase 
Agreement dated May 14, 1998 between Public Service and Holy Cross 
Energy. XES requests that this agreement become effective on October 1, 
2001.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

11. Southern Company Services, Inc.

[Docket No. ER02-9-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Southern Company Services, 
Inc. (SCS), acting on behalf of Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power 
Company, Gulf Power Company, Mississippi Power Company, and Savannah 
Electric and Power Company (collectively referred to as Southern 
Companies), filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) one agreement for network integration transmission service 
between Southern Companies and Generation Energy Marketing, a 
Department of SCS, as agent for Mississippi Power Company, under the 
Open Access Transmission Tariff of Southern Companies (FERC Electric 
Tariff, Fourth Revised Volume No. 5). Under this agreement, power will 
be delivered to the South Mississippi Electric Power Association's 
Coast EPA Lizana Delivery Point. This agreement is being filed in 
conjunction with a power sale by SCS, as agent for Mississippi Power 
Company, to the South Mississippi Electric Power Association under 
Southern Companies' Market-Based Rate Power Sales Tariff, as was 
approved in FERC Docket No. ER01-1284-000.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

12. Duke Energy Oakland, LLC and Duke Energy South Bay, LLC

[Docket No. ER02-10-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Duke Energy Oakland, L.L.C. 
(DEO) and Duke Energy South Bay, L.L.C. (DESB) made an informational 
filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) 
detailing and supporting their Annual Fixed Revenue Requirements and 
their Variable O&M Rates as required by Schedule F of the reliability 
Must Run Agreement with the California Independent System Operator 
(CAISO). Copies of the filing have been served upon the CAISO both in 
hard copy and electronic format.
    DEO and DESB request an effective date of January 2, 2002.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

13. Pacific Gas and Electric Company

[Docket No. ER02-11-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Pacific Gas and Electric 
Company (PG&E) made an informational filing with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission (Commission), for proposed revisions, to become 
effective January 1, 2002, to its Reliability Must-Run Service 
Agreements (RMR Agreements) with the California Independent System 
Operator Corporation (ISO) for Helms Power Plant (Helms), PG&E First 
Revised Rate Schedule FERC No. 207, Humboldt Bay Power Plant (Humboldt 
Bay), PG&E First Revised Rate Schedule FERC No 208, Hunters Point Power 
Plant (Hunters Point), PG&E First Revised Rate Schedule FERC No. 209, 
and San Joaquin Power Plant (San Joaquin), PG&E First Revised Rate 
Schedule FERC No. 211. This filing proposes revisions to portions of 
the listed Rate Schedules to adjust the applicable rates as required 
under the currently-effective RMR Agreement.
    Copies of PG&E's filing have been served upon the ISO, the 
California Electricity Oversight Board, and the California Public 
Utilities Commission.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

14. New England Power Pool

[Docket No. ER02-12-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, the New England Power Pool 
(NEPOOL) Participants Committee tendered for filing with the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) a Service Agreement for Long-
Term Firm In Service pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act 
and 18 CFR 35.12 of the Commission's regulations. Acceptance of this 
Service Agreement will recognize the provision of Long-Term Firm In 
Service to Morgan Stanley Capital Group, Inc., in accordance with the 
provisions of the NEPOOL Open Access Transmission Tariff, as amended 
and supplemented, and the Commission's order issued July 16, 2001 in 
New England Power Pool, 96 FERC para. 61,087 (2001). An effective date 
of September 1, 2001 for commencement of transmission service has been 
requested.
    Copies of this filing were sent to the NEPOOL Participants, the New 
England state governors and regulatory commissions, and all parties to 
the transaction.

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    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

15. Southwest Power Pool, Inc.

[Docket No. ER02-13-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 
(SPP) submitted for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) a service agreement for Firm Point-to-Point 
Transmission Service with OG+E Energy Resources, Inc. (Transmission 
Customer). A copy of this filing was served on the Transmission 
Customer.
    SPP requests an effective date of September 1, 2001 for this 
service agreement.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

16. West Texas Utilities Company

[Docket No. ER02-14-000]

    Take notice that on October 1, 2001, West Texas Utilities Company 
(WTU) filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) 
a Restated and Amended Power Supply Agreement (Restated PSA) between 
WTU and the City of Weatherford, Texas (Weatherford) for the period 
July 17, 2001 through December 31, 2001 and a restated service 
agreement (Restated Service Agreement) between WTU and Weatherford 
under WTU's Market-Based Rate Tariff for the period on and after 
January 1, 2002. The only substantive change to the two documents is 
the addition of a new point of receipt to Exhibit A of each agreement.
    WTU seeks an effective date of July 17, 2001 for the Restated PSA 
and an effective date of January 1, 2002 for the Restated Service 
Agreement and, accordingly, seeks waiver of the Commission's notice 
requirements to the extent necessary. Copies of the filing have been 
served on Weatherford and on the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
    Comment date: October 22, 2001, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraph

    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 this filing are on file with the Commission and 
are available for public inspection. This filing may also be viewed on 
the Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' link, select 
``Docket#'' and follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance). Comments, protests and interventions may be filed 
electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
under the ``e-Filing'' link.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
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