[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8232-8234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4435]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. EG97-32-000, et al.]
GPUI Lake Holdings, Inc., et al.; Electric Rate and Corporate
Regulation Filings
February 13, 1997.
Take notice that the following filings have been made with the
Commission:
1. GPUI Lake Holdings, Inc.
[Docket No. EG97-32-000]
On February 5, 1997, GPUI Lake Holdings, Inc. (``GPUI Lake
Holdings'') of One Upper Pond Road, Parsippany, New Jersey, filed with
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an application for
determination of exempt wholesale generator status pursuant to Part 365
of the Commission's Regulations.
The Applicant is a Delaware corporation which was formed to acquire
an indirect ownership interest in a 106 MW natural gas fueled, topping
cycle cogeneration facility located in Umatilla, Florida, which is an
eligible facility as defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act
of 1935. All of the electric energy produced by the facility is sold at
wholesale to Florida Power Corporation.
Comment date: March 5, 1997, in accordance with Standard Paragraph
E at the end of this notice. The Commission will limits its
consideration of comments to those that concern the adequacy or
accuracy of the application.
2. TransCanada Energy Ltd.
[Docket No. ER97-1417-000]
Take notice that on January 27, 1997, TransCanada Power Corporation
tendered for filing a letter stating that effective January 1, 1997,
TPC was amalgamated with affiliated corporations to become TransCanada
Energy Ltd.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
3. Delmarva Power & Light Company
[Docket No. ER97-1456-000]
Take notice that on January 30, 1997, Delmarva Power & Light
Company (Delmarva) tendered for filing its quarterly report of short-
term transactions under Delmarva's Market Rate Sales Tariff.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
4. Grumman Aerospace Corporation
[Docket No. ER97-1469-000]
Take notice that on January 29, 1997, Grumman Aerospace Corporation
tendered for filing a Notice of Cancellation of Rate Schedule FERC No.
1.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
5. Arizona Public Service Company
[Docket No. ER97-1472-000]
Take notice that on January 29, 1997, Arizona Public Service
Company (APS), tendered for filing a Service Agreement to provide Non-
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service under APS' Open Access
Transmission Tariff filed in Compliance with FERC Order No. 888 with
Southern Energy Trading and Marketing, Inc. (Southern).
A copy of this filing has been served on Southern and the Arizona
Corporation Commission.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
6. Arizona Public Service Company
[Docket No. ER97-1473-000]
Take notice that on January 29, 1997, Arizona Public Service
Company (APS), tendered for filing a Service Agreement to provide Non-
Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service under APS' Open Access
Transmission Tariff filed in Compliance with FERC Order No. 888 with
DuPont Power Marketing, Inc. (DuPont).
A copy of this filing has been served on the DuPont and the Arizona
Corporation Commission.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
7. The Montana Power Company
[Docket No. ER97-1474-000]
Take notice that on January 2, 1997, The Montana Power Company
(Montana), tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission changes to its FERC Electric Tariff, Second Revised Volume
No. 1. These changes are required by Commission Order No. 888 and
unbundle Montana's power supply and transmission services. In addition,
Montana tendered for filing Service Agreements under FERC Electric
Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1 with Flathead Electric Cooperative,
Inc. (Flathead), Public Utility District No. 1 of Benton County
(Benton), The City of McMinnville, a Municipal corporation of the State
of Oregon (McMinnville), and Questar Energy Trading (Questar). Questar
previously filed in Docket No. ER96-3049-000.
A copy of the filing was served Flathead, Benton, McMinnville and
Questar.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
8. Soyland Power Cooperative, Inc.
[Docket No. ER97-1475-000]
Take notice that on January 22, 1997, Soyland Power Cooperative,
Inc. (Soyland), tendered for filing an initial rate schedule pursuant
to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act and 35.12 of the regulations of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission). Soyland
determined that its change in status to a Commission-regulated
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``public utility'' from a rural electric cooperative regulated by the
Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service necessitated the filing of
this contract.
The filing consists of an Interconnection Agreement dated September
1, 1983, between Soyland and City of Springfield, Illinois
(Springfield). Soyland is not currently engaged in any transactions
under the Interconnection Agreement, nor has it engaged in any such
transactions since September 13, 1996, the date it became a Commission-
regulated public utility.
Copies of the filing were served upon Springfield, Springfield's
Washington, DC counsel, and the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
9. Entergy Services, Inc.
[Docket No. ER97-1476-000]
Take notice that on January 30, 1997, Entergy Services, Inc.
(Entergy Services), on behalf of Entergy Arkansas, Inc., Entergy Gulf
States, Inc., Entergy Louisiana, Inc., Entergy Mississippi, Inc., and
Entergy New Orleans, Inc. (collectively, the Entergy Operating
companies), tendered for filing a Network Integration Transmission
Service Agreement between Entergy Services, as agent for the Entergy
Operating companies, and East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc., Sam
Rayburn G&T Electric Cooperative, Inc., and Tex-La Electric Cooperative
of Texas, Inc.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
10. Central Power and Light Company West Texas Utilities Company
Public Service Company of Oklahoma Southwestern Electric Power
Company
[Docket No. ER97-1478-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Public Service Company of
Oklahoma (PSO), Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), Central
Power and Light Company (CPL) and West Texas Utilities Company (WTU)
(collectively, the ``CSW Operating Companies'') submitted for filing
service agreements under which the CSW Operating Companies will provide
transmission and ancillary services in accordance with the CSW
Operating Companies' open access transmission service tariff accepted
for filing in Docket No. OA97-24-000.
The Companies state that portions of the filing have been served on
each customer and that the entire filing has been served on the Public
Utility Commission of Texas, the Louisiana Public Service Commission,
the Arkansas Public Service Commission and the Oklahoma Corporation
Commission.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
11. New England Power Company Massachusetts Electric Company
Ashburnham Municipal Light Department
[Docket No. ER97-1479-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, New England Power Company
(NEP), Massachusetts Electric Company (MECo) and Ashburnham Municipal
Light Department (Ashburnham) tendered for filing a Joint Use Agreement
which permits each of the parties to make specified uses of NEP's
Substation No. 610. NEP also tendered an Interconnection Service
Agreement with Ashburnham pursuant to NEP's Tariff No. 9.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
12. Southern California Edison Company
[Docket No. ER97-1480-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Southern California Edison
Company (Edison), tendered for filing the following 1997 Settlement
Agreement (Settlement) with the City of Banning, California (City) and
Amendment No. 2 to the 1990 Integrated Operations Agreement, FERC Rate
Schedule No. 248:
1997 Settlement Agreement Between Southern California Edison Company
and the City Of Banning, California
Amendment No. 2 to the 1990 Integrated Operations Agreement Between
Southern California Edison Company and the City Of Banning
The Settlement sets forth the terms and conditions by which Edison
agrees to integrate new Capacity Resources, supersedes parts of
Appendix B to the 1992 Settlement regarding integration of resources,
and terminates the 1995 Power Sale Agreement between Edison and the
City. Additionally, Edison and the City have agreed to amend the
termination provisions of the 1990 IOA to require only three years
notice for termination. Edison seeks waiver of the 60 day prior notice
requirement and requests that the Commission assign an effective date
of February 1, 1997.
Copies of this filing were served upon the Public Utilities
Commission of the State of California and all interested parties.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
13. Idaho Power Company
[Docket No. ER97-1481-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Idaho Power Company (IPC),
tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission an
Application for Order Approving Rate Schedule and Granting Certain
Authority.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
14. Arizona Public Service Corp.
[Docket No. ER97-1482-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Arizona Public Service
Corporation tendered for filing a Notice of Cancellation of its Firm
Point-to-Point Transmission Service Agreement.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
15. Washington Water Power
[Docket No. ER97-1483-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Washington Water Power,
tendered for filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
pursuant to 18 CFR 35.13, executed Service Agreements under WWP's FERC
Electric Tariff Original Volume No. 9. WWP requests an effective date
of January 1, 1997.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
16. Northern States Power Company (Minnesota Company)
[Docket No. ER97-1484-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Northern States Power
Company, Minnesota (NSP), tendered its filing of Amendment No. 1 to the
Municipal Interconnection and Interchange Agreement between NSP and the
city of Kasota, Minnesota. The filing contains cost support and the
unbundled power sale rate information.
A copy of the filing was served upon each of the parties named in
the Service List.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
17. Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
[Docket No. ER97-1485-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Wisconsin Public Service
Corporation
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(``WPSC''), tendered for filing an executed Electric Service Agreement
for partial requirements service with the Washington Island Electric
Cooperative (``the Cooperative) under the WPSC's W-2A Tariff and an
unexecuted Network Integration Transmission Service Agreement under
WPSC's Open Access Transmission Tariff. WPSC requests that the
Commission make the service agreements effective on February 1, 1997.
WPSC states that copies of this filing have been served on the
Cooperative, on the Michigan Public Service Commission and on the
Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
18. Illinois Power Company
[Docket No. ER97-1486-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Illinois Power Company
(Illinois Power), 500 South 27th Street, Decatur, Illinois 62526,
tendered for filing a Power Sales Tariff, Service Agreement under which
Progress Power Marketing, Inc. will take service under Illinois Power
Company's Power Sales Tariff. The agreements are based on the Form of
Service Agreement in Illinois Power's tariff.
Illinois Power has requested an effective date of January 23, 1997.
Comment date: February 27, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
19. Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, Consolidated Edison
Company of New York, Inc., Long Island Lighting Company, New York
State Electric & Gas Corporation, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation,
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Rochester Gas and Electric
Corporation, Power Authority of the State of New York
[Docket No. ER97-1523-000]
New York Power Pool
[Docket No. OA97-470-000]
Take notice that on January 31, 1997, Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Corporation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Long Island
Lighting Company, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation, Niagara
Mohawk Power Corporation, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., and
Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, and the Power Authority of the
State of New York filed Agreements to form an Independent System
Operator, New York Power Exchange, and New York State Reliability
Council, and to provide statewide transmission service.
In addition, New York Power Pool amended its compliance filing
pursuant to Order No. 888 in Docket No. OA97-470-000.
Comment date: February 24, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
20. Lake Cogen, Ltd.
[Docket No. QF92-198-002]
On February 5, 1997, Lake Cogen, Ltd. (Applicant), c/o GPU
International, Inc., One Upper Pond Road, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054,
submitted for filing an application for recertification of a facility
as a qualifying cogeneration facility pursuant to Section 292.207(b) of
the Commission's Regulations. No determination has been made that the
submittal constitutes a complete filing.
According to Applicant, the topping-cycle cogeneration facility is
located in Umatilla, Florida. The Commission previously certified the
facility as a qualifying cogeneration facility in Lake Cogen, Ltd., 61
FERC para. 62,109 (1992) and recertified the facility in Lake Cogen,
Ltd., 76 FERC para. 62,102 (1996). The instant request for
recertification is due to a change in ownership of the facility.
Comment date: February 28, 1997, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph E at the end of this notice.
Standard Paragraph
E. Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said filing 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 18 CFR 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-4435 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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