[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 179 (Thursday, September 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 55850]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2206]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 35-27889]


Filings Under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as 
Amended (``Act'')

September 9, 2004.
    Notice is hereby given that the following filing(s) has/have been 
made with the Commission pursuant to provisions of the Act and rules 
promulgated under the Act. All interested persons are referred to the 
application(s) and/or declaration(s) for complete statements of the 
proposed transaction(s) summarized below. The application(s) and/or 
declaration(s) and any amendment(s) is/are available for public 
inspection through the Commission's Branch of Public Reference.
    Interested persons wishing to comment or request a hearing on the 
application(s) and/or declaration(s) should submit their views in 
writing by October 4, 2004, to the Secretary, Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Washington, DC 20549-0609, and serve a copy on the relevant 
applicant(s) and/or declarant(s) at the address(es) specified below. 
Proof of service (by affidavit or, in the case of an attorney at law, 
by certificate) should be filed with the request. Any request for 
hearing should identify specifically the issues of facts or law that 
are disputed. A person who so requests will be notified of any hearing, 
if ordered, and will receive a copy of any notice or order issued in 
the matter. After October 4, 2004, the application(s) and/or 
declaration(s), as filed or as amended, may be granted and/or permitted 
to become effective.

Exelon Corporation, et al. (70-9645)

    Exelon Corporation, a registered holding company under the Act 
(``Exelon'') at 10 South Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 
and three subsidiary companies, Commonwealth Edison Company, an 
electric public-utility company and a holding company exempt from 
registration by order under section 3(a)(1) of the Act (``ComEd''), at 
10 South Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, Illinois, PECO Energy 
Company, a public-utility company (``PECO''), at 2301 Market Street, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Exelon Generation Company, LLC, a 
public-utility company (``Genco''), at 300 Exelon Way, Kennett Square, 
Pennsylvania (collectively ``Applicants''), have filed a post-effective 
amendment under sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Act to an application/
declaration previously filed.
    PECO is a public-utility company engaged in the purchase, 
transmission, distribution and sale of electricity and the purchase, 
distribution and sale of natural gas in Pennsylvania. ComEd is a 
public-utility company and exempt holding company engaged in the 
purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in 
Illinois. Genco is a public-utility company engaged in the purchase, 
generation and sale of electricity in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and 
elsewhere.
    In its order approving the merger (``Merger'') that created Exelon 
(Holding Co. Act Release No. 27256, October 19, 2000) (``Merger 
Order''), the Commission found that the electric properties of Exelon 
and its subsidiary companies would be interconnected within the meaning 
of section 2(a)(29)(A) of the Act. That finding was based in part on 
the fact that Exelon had obtained a 100 MW firm west-to-east contract 
path (``Contract Path'') from the interface of the transmission systems 
of American Electric Power Company, Inc. (``AEP'') and ComEd to PJM 
Interconnection, LLC (``PJM''). At the time of the Merger, PECO was a 
member of what was then the PJM independent system operator. Exelon 
committed to file a post-effective amendment seeking Commission 
approval of any alternative arrangement to satisfy the interconnection 
requirement. Exelon asserts that AEP will join PJM effective October 1, 
2004. According to Exelon, upon integration of AEP into PJM, the 
transmission facilities of ComEd will be physically interconnected with 
those of PECO through the facilities of other members of PJM. 
Accordingly, Exelon requests that the Commission issue an order finding 
that, once AEP joins PJM, the Exelon interconnection requirement will 
be satisfied by the membership of ComEd and PECO in PJM. Exelon asks 
the Commission to further determine that, with the entry of AEP into 
PJM, Exelon is not required to renew the Contract Path as a basis for 
interconnection under the Act.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, 
pursuant to delegated authority.

Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E4-2206 Filed 9-15-04; 8:45 am]
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