[Federal Register: December 28, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 248)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. ER98-4608-000]

 
PP&L EnergyPlus Company; Notice of Issuance of Order

December 21, 1998.
    PP&L EnergyPlus Company (PP&L EnergyPlus), a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of PP&L, Inc., filed an application requesting that the 
Commission grant it authority to charge market-based rates for 
wholesale sales of energy and capacity, and for certain waivers and 
authorizations. In particular, PP&L EnergyPlus requested that the 
Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future 
issuances of securities and assumptions of liabilities by PP&L 
EnergyPlus. On December 17, 1998, the Commission issued an Order 
Conditionally Accepting For Filing Proposed Market-Based Rates For 
Power Sales And Reassignment Of Transmission Rights (Order), in the 
above-docketed proceeding.
    The Commission's December 17, 1998 Order granted the request for 
blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the conditions found in 
Ordering Paragraphs (D), (E), and (G):
    (D) Within 30 days of the date of this order, any person desiring 
to be heard or to protest the Commission's blanket approval of 
issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities by PP&L 
EnergyPlus 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 
385.214.
    (E) Absent a request to be heard within the period set forth in 
Ordering Paragraph (D) above, PP&L EnergyPlus is hereby authorized to 
issue securities and assume obligations and liabilities as guarantor, 
indorser, surety or otherwise in respect of any security of another 
person; provided that such issue or assumption is for some lawful 
object within the corporate purposes of PP&L EnergyPlus, compatible 
with the public interest, and reasonably necessary or appropriate for 
such purposes.
    (G) The Commission reserves the right to modify this order to 
require a further showing that neither public nor private interests 
will be adversely affected by continued Commission approval of PP&L 
EnergyPlus' issuances of securities or assumptions of liabilities * * 
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    Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to 
intervene or protests, as set forth above, is January 19, 1999.
    Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 20426.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-34217 Filed 12-24-98; 8:45 am]
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