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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-42-000, et al.]

 

NorAm Gas Transmission Co., et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

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

1. NorAm Gas Transmission Co.

[Docket No. CP95-42-000]

    Take notice that on October 31, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission 
Company (NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket 
No. CP95-42-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205, 157.208 and 
157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205, 157.208, 157.216) for authorization to construct and 
operate facilities and to abandon facilities under NGT's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-384-000, et al., 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.
    NGT proposes to replace and rearrange certain marketing lateral 
segments located in Stephens County, Oklahoma. NGT describes the pipe 
segments as generally being old and deteriorated.1 NGT advises 
that delivery points for two of Arkla's domestic customers and one 6-
inch check meter on Line 10 would be relocated to the new Line 10 
segment.
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    \1\NGT states that Lines 10, 10-1, and 11-3 were acquired 
through a merger with Consolidated Gas Utilities Corporation (24 FPC 
91 (1960)), and deliver gas to townborder stations served by Arkla, 
a division of NorAm Energy Corp (Arkla).
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    NGT states that the project would involve the installation of 
approximately 5,050 feet of 10-inch pipe (replacement Line 10 segment) 
and 20 feet of 8-inch pipe (to connect Line ADT-8 to Line 11-3 at 
pipeline station no. 611+20). NGT states that it would abandon in place 
the following:
    (1) Two segments of Line 10, totaling 5,034 feet of 6-inch pipe,
    (2) Two segments of Line 10-1, totaling 2,035 feet of 8-inch pipe,
    (3) A segment of Line 11-3, totaling 2,980 feet of 10-inch pipe, 
except for the Hell Creek crossing which would be used as part of 
replacement Line 10,2 and
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    \2\NGT advises that the Hell Creek crossing on Line 11-3 was 
replaced in 1990.
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    (4) A segment of Line ADT-8, totaling 610 feet of 8-inch pipe.
    NGT explains that the project would permit it to consolidate the 
operations of the abandoned segments to continue service within the 
existing certificated entitlement to Arkla, through the new 10-inch 
segment of Line 10. NGT estimates that the total cost of the 
replacement facilities would be $244,743.
    Comment date: December 23, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

2. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

[Docket No. CP95-49-000]

    Take notice that on November 3, 1994, Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee) P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252, filed in 
Docket No. CP95-49-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205(b) and 
157.212 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205(b) and 157.212) for authorization to operate three existing 
delivery point facilities that were initially constructed under Section 
311(a) of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA), all as more fully 
set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    The request for authorization states that Tennessee has constructed 
a number of delivery points under Section 311(a) of the NGA for use in 
the transportation of natural gas under Subpart B of Part 284 of the 
Commission's Regulations. Since Tennessee now renders significant 
transportation of natural gas under its Subpart G blanket certificate, 
it states it is imperative that maximum flexibility be attained so that 
its facilities can be used for the benefit of all customers on 
Tennessee's system.
    Tennessee states that the location of the delivery points are in 
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana and Albany 
County, New York.
    It is stated that delivery volumes through the existing delivery 
points would not impact Tennessee's peak day and annual deliveries; 
that the proposed activity is not prohibited by its existing tariff; 
and that it has sufficient capacity to accommodate the changes proposed 
herein without detriment or disadvantage to Tennessee's other 
customers.
    Comment date: December 23, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

3. National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.

[Docket No. CP95-50-000

    Take notice that on November 3, 1994, National Fuel Gas Supply 
Corporation (National), 10 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York, 14203, 
filed an application with the Commission in Docket No. CP95-50-000 
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for authorization 
to refunctionalize 33 pipeline segments with 14 appurtenant metering 
and regulating stations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 
production and gathering to transmission effective March 1, 1995, all 
as more fully set forth in the application which is open to the public 
for inspection.
    National proposes to refunctionalize 33 pipeline segments with 14 
appurtenant metering and regulating stations in Clarion, Crawford, Elk, 
Erie, and Jefferson Counties, Pennsylvania. The pipeline segments vary 
between 78 and 47,183 feet in length and between two and eight inches 
in diameter. National states that it currently classifies these 
facilities as production and gathering for accounting purposes. 
National proposes to reclassify these facilities as transmission. 
National also states that the total net book value of the pipeline 
segments, associated metering and regulating stations, and rights-of-
way that it proposes to refunctionalize amounts to $2,575,600.
    Comment date: November 29, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

4. Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.; Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.; 
Texas Gas Transmission Corp.

[Docket No. CP95-60-000]

    Take notice that on November 4, 1994, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25314-1599, Columbia Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia 
Gulf), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West Virginia 25314-
1599, and Texas Gas Transmission Corporation (Texas Gas) 3800 Frederica 
Street, Owensboro, Kentucky 42301, jointly as the Companies, filed in 
Docket No. CP95-60-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for an order granting permission and approval to 
abandon certain exchange of gas by Columbia and Texas Gas into their 
systems which obviated the need to construct and replace certain 
facilities located in the South Bosco Field, Acadia Parish, Louisiana 
and the North Chalkley Field, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and provide 
certain operational benefits for Texas Gas' system. The Companies state 
that the exchanges are no longer required, as Columbia has terminated 
the gas purchase agreements and any operational benefits to Texas Gas 
provided under these exchanges have ceased to exist. The exchange 
authority for which the Companies are seeking abandonment authority are 
as follows:

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     Docket No.         (Mcfd)            Company          Rate schedule
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CP71-86.............     15,000  Columbia................  X-11         
CP71-86.............     15,000  Columbia Gulf...........  X-4          
CP71-86.............     15,000  Texas Gas...............  X-36         
CP71-317............      2,000  Columbia................  X-32         
CP71-317............      2,000  Columbia Gulf...........  X-7          
CP71-317............      2,000  Texas Gas...............  X-38         
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    Comment date: November 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, D.C. 
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 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. 94-28261 Filed 11-15-94; 8:45 am]
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