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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-254-000, et al.]

 

Transwestern Pipeline Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

March 4, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Transwestern Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP94-254-000]

    Take notice that on February 25, 1994, Transwestern Pipeline 
Company (Transwestern), Post Office Box 1188, Houston, Texas 77251-
1188, filed an abbreviated application pursuant to sections 7(b) and 
7(c) of the Natural Gas Act and 18 CFR 157.214 for a certificate of 
public convenience and necessity and abandonment authorization relating 
to the proposed refunctionalization of certain facilities from 
production and gathering to transmission and from transmission to 
production and gathering, respectively, all as more fully set forth in 
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Transwestern explains that, on November 23, 1993, it filed a 
Stipulation and Agreement (Stipulation) resolving all issues in its 
pending rate case in Docket No. RP93-34-000. In Article V of the 
Stipulation, the parties thereto agreed that Transwestern would file an 
application to refunctionalize certain plant from transmission to 
production and gathering and certain plant from production and 
gathering to transmission, within sixty days of the Presiding Judge's 
certification of the Stipulation to the Commission. On December 27, 
1993, the Presiding Judge certified the Stipulation to the Commission. 
Further, pursuant to the Stipulation, Transwestern is requesting that 
its application be set for formal hearing.
    Transwestern filed its application in compliance with the 
Stipulation and requests that the Commission: (a) Approve the 
refunctionalization as requested, (b) grant certificate authorization 
to operate the facilities to be refunctionalized from production and 
gathering to transmission as described in Exhibit T-1 to the 
application, (c) grant abandonment authorization of the certificates 
applicable to the facilities to be refunctionalized from transmission 
to production and gathering as described in Exhibit T-2 to the 
application, (d) find that the facilities to be refunctionalized from 
transmission to production and gathering as well as all of 
Transwestern's existing production and gathering facilities are non-
jurisdictional facilities under section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act, 
and (e) grant such other and further relief as may be proper and 
appropriate in the premises.
    Transwestern submits that the refunctionalization proposed in its 
application is in the public convenience and necessity because it 
comports with the Commission's modified primary function test and, 
therefore, meets the Commission's policy objectives of unbundling 
transmission and production and gathering.
    Comment date: March 25, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

2. Colorado Interstate Gas Company; Williams Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP94-258-000]

    Take notice that on February 28, 1994, Colorado Interstate Gas 
Company (CIG), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, and 
Williams Natural Gas Company (WNG), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 
74101 (collectively referred to as Applicants), jointly filed in Docket 
No. CP94-258-000 an application pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon the sale, transportation 
and exchange of natural gas, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    CIG and WNG propose to abandon two transportation and exchange 
services provided under CIG's Rate Schedules X-14 and X-47 and WNG's 
Rate Schedules X-12 and X-20 of their respective Gas Tariff. CIG and 
WNG have agreed to terminate the designated agreements, as gas has not 
been purchased since 1983 and both Applicants have open access 
certificates to provide transportation service and to operate under 
Order No. 636.
    Comment date: March 25, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

3. Arkla Energy Resources Company

[Docket No. CP94-263-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1994, Arkla Energy Resources Company 
(AER), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. 
CP94-263-000 a request pursuant to section 157.205 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) for 
authorization to construct and operate certain facilities in Louisiana 
and Texas, under AER's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-
483-000 et al. pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as 
more fully set forth in the request which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    AER proposes to upgrade two existing domestic delivery taps for 
deliveries to Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company's (ALG) new Rural 
Extension Nos. 1329 and 1330 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana and Titus 
County, Texas. It is said that the volume of gas to be delivered 
through these taps is approximately 42,705 Mcf annually and 366 Mcf on 
a peak day. It is further said that the facilities would be constructed 
at an estimated cost of $41,700 and that ALG would reimburse AER for 
all construction costs.
    Comment date: April 18, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

4. Northern Natural Gas Company and Colorado Interstate Gas Co.

[Docket No. CP94-256-000]

    Take notice that on February 28, 1994, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124 and Colorado 
Interstate Gas Company (CIG), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 
80944, filed a joint application in Docket No. CP94-256-000 pursuant to 
section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to 
abandon the exchange of natural gas, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Northern and CIG propose to abandon the exchange of natural gas 
pursuant to an October 8, 1956, Gas Exchange Agreement included in 
Northern's FERC Gas Tariff as Rate Schedule X-67 and in CIG's FERC Gas 
Tariff as Rate Schedule X-21. Northern and CIG state that these rate 
schedules provide for the exchange of natural gas supplies which are 
nearer the gathering facilities of the other party in the Hugoton Field 
in Oklahoma. Northern and CIG state that since both parties have open 
access transportation certificates and have restructured their services 
under Order No. 636, there is no longer a need for the exchange service 
as certificated by the Commission.
    Northern and CIG do not propose to abandon any facilities as a 
result of the authorization requested.
    Comment date: March 25, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    F. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before the comment date, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the 
requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 
CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.10). All protests filed with the Commission will be 
considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but 
will not serve to make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any 
person wishing to become a party to a proceeding or to participate as a 
party in any hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the Commission's Rules.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that a grant of the certificate and/or permission and approval 
for the proposed abandonment are required by the public convenience and 
necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if 
the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal hearing is 
required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
    G. Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Sec. 157.205 of the 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, the 
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and 
not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-5680 Filed 3-10-94; 8:45 am]
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