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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-75-000]

 

Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

December 2, 1994.
    Take notice that on November 15, 1994, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310, filed an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Sec. 157.7 of the Commission's regulations 
for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Texas 
Eastern to construct and operate facilities necessary to utilize firm 
contract storage services and to purchase and recover the cost of 
6,000,000 Dekatherms (Dth) of working gas for system load balancing, 
operational flexibility, and increased customer support for emergency 
and non-emergency advance deliver services, all as more fully set forth 
in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    More specifically, Texas Eastern seeks authorization to: (i) 
Utilize firm contract storage service to be rendered by MS-1 
Distribution & Storage Corporation (MS-1 Distribution) pursuant to a 
gas storage contract between MS-1 Distribution and Texas Eastern dated 
November 1, 1994 (MS-1 Storage Contract); (ii) purchase and recover the 
cost of 6,000,000 Dth of working gas in storage; (iii) construct, 
install, own, and operate the necessary facilities for Texas Eastern to 
deliver to and receive from MS-1 Distribution natural gas stored 
pursuant to the MS-1 Storage Contract; (iv) make available to Texas 
Eastern's Rate Schedules FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers Emergency Advance 
Deliveries and Non-emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service; (v) 
charge Rate Schedule FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers an initial rate, 
subject to tracking under proposed Sec. 15.8 of the General Terms and 
Conditions; and (vi) place into effect, without condition, the Pro 
Forma Tariff Sheets set forth in Exhibit P as part of Texas Eastern's 
FERC Gas Tariff.
    MS-1 Distribution has entered into: a lease for two storage caverns 
in Copiah County, Mississippi with Copiah County Storage Company; and 
an agreement with TPC Facilities, Inc. to operate the storage caverns. 
MS-1 Distribution's storage caverns will be located near Texas 
Eastern's existing 30-inch pipeline system. Texas Eastern will 
construct, own and operate a tap and filter separator and 1.96 miles of 
24-inch pipeline from Texas Eastern's mainline near M.P. 263 to the 
storage facility. A related tap and filter separator is also proposed 
in Copiah County, Mississippi. Texas Eastern estimates the total 
capital costs for the proposed facilities is $3,822,000 in 1997 
dollars.
    The MS-1 Storage Contract provides that MS-1 Distribution will 
furnish Texas Eastern with firm storage service equal to a maximum 
storage quantity (MSQ) of 6,000,000 Dth. It is currently anticipated 
that the service will be implemented in two phases: the first phase, 
with 3,000,000 Dth of firm storage service, available for the winter 
season commencing November 1, 1997; and the second phase with an 
additional 3,000,000 Dth (for a MSQ of 6,000,000 Dth) of firm storage 
service, available approximately twelve months following the 
implementation of the first phase.
    Texas Eastern proposes to recover the cost associated with the MS-1 
Storage Contract, the 6,000,000 Dth of working gas required to fill 
Texas Eastern's storage inventory, and the associated necessary 
facilities by means of an initial rate comprised of a reservation 
surcharge, subject to tracking pursuant to proposed Sec. 15.8 of the 
General Terms and Conditions of Texas Eastern's FERC Gas Tariff, 
applicable to Rate Schedules FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers.
    To the extent Texas Eastern is not utilizing storage services under 
the MS-1 Storage Contract, Texas Eastern also proposes to offer Rate 
Schedule FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers Emergency Advance Delivery 
Service and Non-emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service. 
Emergency Advance Delivery Service will permit Rate Schedules FT-1, 
CDS, and SCT customers to nominate up to their Advance Delivery Maximum 
Daily Quantity (MDQ) in emergency situations for advance deliveries 
utilizing Texas Eastern's MS-1 Storage Contract rights during periods 
of emergency without being required to tender to Texas Eastern receipts 
of equivalent quantities on such day. Texas Eastern will also make Non-
emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service available to FT-1, CDS, 
and SCT customers.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this application 
should, on or before December 23, 1994, file with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, N.E., 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 385.211 or 384.214) 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 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 3, 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 is required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If 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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-30278 Filed 12-8-94; 8:45 am]
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