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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-260-000, et al.]

 

Algonquin Gas Transmission Company, et al.; Natural Gas 
Certificate Filings

March 8, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Algonquin Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP94-260-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1994, Algonquin Gas Transmission 
Company (``Algonquin''), 1284 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, 
Massachusetts 02135, filed in Docket No. CP94-260-000 an application 
pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act for a certificate of 
public convenience and necessity authorizing Algonquin to (i) transport 
gas on a pipeline lateral for Canal Electric Company (``CEC'') and 
Montaup Electric Company (``MEC'') (CEC and MEC are collectively 
referred to herein as ``Customer'') pursuant to a proposed new Rate 
Schedule X-40, and (ii) to construct and operate facilities necessary 
to perform such service, all as more fully set forth in the application 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Algonquin proposes to construct and operate facilities and 
transport on a firm basis up to 75,000 MMBtu per day of natural gas 
through such facilities under a new Rate Schedule X-40 for Customer. 
Algonquin states that Customer intends to use the natural gas 
transported hereunder as fuel for Unit No. 2 of the electric generating 
station in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Specifically, Algonquin proposes to 
construct, own and operate a pipeline lateral, meter station, and 
appurtenant facilities (the ``Canal Lateral''). Algonquin states that 
the Canal Lateral will extend from a point on Algonquin's existing G-8 
system in Bourne, Massachusetts along the north side of the Cape Cod 
Canal to an agreed upon point of interconnection, at or near the 
Bourne/Sandwich town line, with facilities to be constructed by 
Customer for purposes of receiving the gas. Algonquin states that 
Customer is filing a contemporaneous petition for declaratory order 
requesting that the Commission declare its facilities to be 
nonjurisdictional.
    Algonquin states that transportation service under proposed Rate 
Schedule X-40 will consist of receipt of gas at the head of the Canal 
Lateral and delivery to Customer's facilities at the terminus of the 
Canal Lateral. Algonquin states that transportation service upstream of 
the Canal Lateral will be provided through existing facilities under 
existing open access rate schedules, including firm transportation 
obtained through capacity release or interruptible transportation. 
Customer and Algonquin have executed a precedent agreement 
contemplating firm transportation service for a fourteen year term 
under proposed Rate Schedule X-40 and construction of the following 
facilities necessary to provide that service:
    1. 4.0 miles of 18-inch pipeline extending from the interconnection 
of Algonquin's existing G-8 and G-11 System in Bourne, Massachusetts 
along the north side of the Cape Cod Canal to an agreed upon point of 
interconnection with facilities to be constructed by Customer at or 
near the Bourne/Sandwich, Massachusetts town line.
    2. Line pressure measurement meter station adjacent to the existing 
Algonquin Sagamore Meter Station, consisting of measurement facilities 
with flow control capability, a remote terminal unit, and utilities for 
data transmission, valves and other associated equipment.
    3. Expansion of the existing G-11 System tap valve site and 
construction of a new valve site at the upstream and downstream ends of 
the Canal Lateral respectively.
    Algonquin states that the facilities would be constructed during 
the summer and fall of 1995 for an in-service date of November 1, 1995. 
The cost of the facilities is estimated to be approximately $7.5 
million. The proposed monthly demand charge for service under Rate 
Schedule X-40 is $2.4986 per MMBtu.
    Comment date: March 29, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

2. Arkla Energy Resources Company

[Docket No. CP94-262-000]

    Take notice that on March 2, 1994, Arkla Energy Resources Company 
(AER), P.O. Box 21734, Shreveport, Louisiana 71151, filed in Docket No. 
CP94-262-000 a request pursuant to Section 157.205 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) for 
authorization to abandon certain facilities in Arkansas to Arkansas 
Louisiana Gas Company (ALG) under AER's blanket certificate issued in 
Docket Nos. CP82-384-000 and CP82-384-001 pursuant to section 7 of the 
Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    AER states that it proposes to abandon 1,300 feet of 2-inch plastic 
pipe (AER's Line KM-9) and two 1-inch delivery taps in Union County, 
Arkansas. Line KM-9 was constructed in 1923 and certificated in AER's 
Grandfather Docket No. G-252, it is stated. AER says that Line KM-9 has 
been used to deliver gas to five ALG domestic customers in a rural 
area. AER states that there are no industrial or prospective industrial 
customers on this line. It is further stated that ALG would continue to 
secure the appropriate supply arrangements and provide deliveries to 
the rural customers. Therefore, AER says that no services to the 
customers would be abandoned.
    Comment date: April 22, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

3. Canal Electric Company and Montaup Electric Company

[Docket No. CP94-264-000]

    Take notice that on March 1, 1994, Canal Electric Company, One Main 
Street Post Office Box 9150 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-9150, and 
Montaup Electric Company, One Liberty Square Post Office Box 2333 
Boston, Massachusetts 02107, (Jointly referred to as Petitioners) filed 
in Docket No. CP94-264-000 a request for a declaratory order that 
Petitioners construction and operation of certain facilities are not 
subject to the Commission's jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act, all 
as more fully set forth in the petition which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    Petitioners state that they intend to construct and operate 
facilities designed to receive natural gas supplies from a new lateral 
pipeline to be constructed by Algonquin Gas Transmission Company 
(Algonquin) and to deliver those gas supplies to Generating Unit No. 2 
at the Canal Electric Plant located in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
    Specifically, Petitioners proposes to construct, own, and operate 
approximately 4,600 feet of 18-inch pipeline. Petitioners state that 
approximately 3,300 feet of this will be located on Canal Plant 
property and approximately 1,300 feet will extend from the Canal Plant 
property to the point of interconnection with new facilities to be 
constructed by Algonquin. In addition, Petitioners state that they will 
construct appurtenant pressure regulating and heating facilities. 
Petitioners state that their pipeline facilities would originate on the 
property of the existing Canal Plant, proceed in a northwesterly 
direction, cross under the Cape Cod Canal, and terminate at a point 
located north of the Cape Cod Canal, at or near the Bourne/Sandwich 
town line, where they would interconnect with the interstate natural 
gas transmission facilities proposed for construction by Algonquin in 
Docket No. CP94-260-000. Petitioners state that the facilities will be 
constructed for the purpose of receiving supplies of natural gas for 
use only as fuel for Canal Unit No. 2, and will not be used to 
transport or sell natural gas to any third party.
    Petitioners request that the Commission rule: (1) That Petitioners 
will not become natural gas companies subject to the jurisdiction of 
the Commission by virtue of their ownership and operation of pipeline 
facilities; (2) that Petitioners proposed facilities will not be used 
in interstate commerce; and (3) the service to be provided by 
Petitioners facilities will not occur in interstate commerce.
    Comment date: March 29, 1994, in accordance with the first 
paragraph of Standard Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

4. Arkla Energy Resources Company

[Docket No. CP94-267-000]
    Take notice that on March 4, 1994, Arkla Energy Resources Company 
(``AER''), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. 
CP94-267-000 an application pursuant to sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing the replacement and rearrangement of existing mainline 
pipeline, abandonment of minor storage and gas supply facilities and 
certain mainline enhancements to its pipeline system in Arkansas, 
Louisiana and Texas.
    AER specifically proposes to do the following replacement 
activities: (a) Reclaim Line F in Louisiana, 87 miles of 20-inch 
Dresser-coupled pipe and replace it with 91 miles of 20-inch welded 
steel pipe and rate the MAOP to 1000 psig or greater; (b) re-route a 
portion of Line F in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana to connect to AER's 
Ruston Storage Field and abandon in place Line 1-F and Line FT-5; (c) 
reclassify approximately 8.2 miles of Line F in Caddo Parish, Louisiana 
and operate it as a low pressure gas supply line; and (d) abandon 55 
inactive delivery taps and rearrange eleven existing delivery taps, all 
serving Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company. AER states that these 
replacement activities are estimated to cost $48.6 million.
    AER also specifically proposes to do the following mainline 
enhancements: (a) Install a mainline compressor station, two 2,250 h.p. 
compressor units, on Line F near the Ruston Storage Field and rearrange 
the existing Ruston Storage Compressor unit to perform both mainline 
and storage operations; (b) install approximately 2.2 miles of 20-inch 
pipeline (Line ACT-4) at the discharge side of AER's Malvern Compressor 
Station on Line AC to Line S-3-S in Hot Spring County, Arkansas; and 
(c) uprate the MAOP on AER's Line S from 880 psig to 930 and abandon 
2,208 feet of Line S in Harrison County, Texas. AER states that these 
mainline enhancements are estimated to cost $12.4 million.
    Comment date: March 29, 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. 94-5832 Filed 3-11-94; 8:45 am]
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