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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP91-2067-001, et al.]

 

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

March 23, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Questar Pipeline Co.

[Docket No. CP91-2067-001]

    Take notice that on March 18, 1994, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, submitted 
an amendment to its abbreviated application filed May 16, 1991, in 
Docket No. CP91-2067-000. Questar states that it submitted its 
amendment principally to seek authorization to construct and operate a 
CO2 Removal Plant, which will be installed as part of its proposed 
jurisdictional Piceance Creek Compressor Station. The CO2 Removal 
Plant was originally proposed to be installed as a nonjurisdictional 
CO2 extraction facility.
    Questar states that it has submitted amended Exhibits K, L, and N 
to the original May 16, 1991, application to inform the Commission of 
changes to the original proposal. It is further stated that the 
estimated cost of the Piceance Creek Compressor Station facilities, 
including the CO2 Removal Plant, has been revised upward from 
$14.6 to $20.9 million.
    Comment date: April 13, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

2. Mississippi River Transmission Corp.

[Docket No. CP94-296-000]

    Take notice that on March 18, 1994, Mississippi River Transmission 
Corporation (MRT), 9900 Clayton Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124, filed 
in Docket No. CP94-296-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 
157.216 of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 
and 157.216) for authorization to abandon two measuring and regulating 
stations, and associated equipment and service to Laclede Gas Company 
(Laclede) and NL Industries' Titanium Pigment Division, formerly 
National Lead Company (NL Industries), pursuant to MRT's blanket 
authorization issued in Docket No. CP82-489-000, all as more fully set 
forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    MRT states that Laclede is currently a firm and interruptible 
transportation customer of MRT. In the past, MRT provided sales service 
to Laclede through a delivery point at MRT's Catalan Street Measuring 
and Regulating Station in St. Louis County, Missouri. These facilities 
are stated to be located in U.S. Survey 904, Township 44 North, Range 7 
East, St. Louis County, Missouri. MRT was authorized to construct and 
operate these facilities and provide sales service to Laclede in Docket 
No. G-291. It is further stated that no customer other than Laclede is 
or has been serviced by these facilities.
    MRT also states that since Laclede no longer requires a delivery 
point at Catalan Street and has already removed all of its equipment 
from that location, MRT seeks authority to remove its Catalan Street 
Station and the associated equipment and service to Laclede.
    MRT further states that NL Industries was an industrial customer 
which was directly served by MRT. In the past, MRT provided both firm 
and interruptible sales service to NL Industries' Titanium Pigment 
plant through a delivery point at MRT's National Lead Measuring and 
Regulating Station located in St. Louis County, Missouri. This facility 
is located approximately twenty feet from the Catalan Street Station in 
U.S. Survey 904, Township 44 North, Range 7 East, St. Louis County, 
Missouri. MRT was authorized to construct and operate these facilities 
and provide sales service to NL Industries in Docket No. G-291. No 
customer other than NL Industries is or has been served by these 
facilities.
    Since NL Industries has ceased operations at its Titanium Pigment 
Plant, MRT states that it seeks authority to remove the National Lead 
Station and the associated equipment and service to NL Industries.
    Comment date: May 9, 1994, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

3. CNG Transmission Corp.

[Docket No. CP94-297-000]

    Take notice that on March 21, 1994, CNG Transmission Corporation 
(CNG), 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, filed an 
application pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an 
order permitting and approving the abandonment of facilities in place, 
all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    CNG proposes to retire in place 79.7 miles of 12-inch pipeline, 
known as Line 10, located in Clarion, Jefferson, Elk, McKean and Potter 
Counties, Pennsylvania. CNG states that it desires to retire Line 10 
because of its age and condition. It is indicated that Line 10 was 
originally constructed and placed in 1936 by an affiliate of CNG, 
Peoples Natural Gas Company.
    CNG also states that the abandonment of Line 10 would have no 
affect on CNG's existing services because the markets served by the 
facility have declined and CNG's existing, parallel pipeline, Line 20, 
has sufficient capacity to maintain existing services to the markets 
served by this part of CNG's system. It is also indicated that approval 
of the proposed abandonment would enable CNG to retire a deteriorated 
pipeline, thereby protecting the integrity and enhancing the safe 
operation of CNG's system. CNG also states that abandonment of Line 10 
would benefit the public convenience and necessity by lowering long-
term costs on CNG's system.
    Comment date: April 4, 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-7481 Filed 3-29-94; 8:45 am]
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