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[FR Doc No: 94-31898]


[Federal Register: December 28, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-117-000, et al.]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas 
Certificate Filings

December 19, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation

[Docket No. CP95-117-000]

    Take notice that on December 12, 1994, Transcontinental Gas Pipe 
Line Corporation (Applicant), filed an application pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's 
Regulations requesting permission and approval to abandon firm and 
interruptible transportation service provided to El Paso Natural Gas 
Company (El Paso) under Applicant's Rate Schedule X-198, effective June 
8, 1994. Applicant's application is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Applicant states that it proposes to abandon its transportation 
service authorized in Docket No. CP79-230, as amended.\1\Applicant 
states that a February 9, 1979 transportation service agreement, as 
amended, forms the basis of Applicant's Rate Schedule X-198. The 
primary term of that agreement expired on June 8, 1994. Pursuant to 
that agreement, Applicant transports up to 50,075 Mcf per day for El 
Paso from the tailgate of the U-T Offshore System separation plant at 
Johnson's Bayou, Cameron Parish, Louisiana (Receipt Point) through 
Applicant's Southwest Louisiana Gathering System to an existing 
interconnection between Applicant and Houston Pipe Line Company (HPL) 
located near Fulshear, Fort Bend County, Texas and/or the Exxon 
Company, U.S.A., Katy Plant, Waller County, Texas. To the extent gas is 
delivered at Fulshear, HPL redelivers thermally equivalent volumes for 
El Paso's account at the Katy Plant and at Bammel, Harris County, 
Texas. All gas received at the Katy Plant from HPL and/or Applicant is 
redelivered by Oasis Pipe Line Company to El Paso at the Waha receipt 
point, Pecos County, Texas. Applicant is also authorized to transport 
natural gas for El Paso on an interruptible basis from the Receipt 
Point to its existing interconnections with (1) Northern Natural Gas 
Company, at Starks, Louisiana; (2) Florida Gas Transmission Company 
near Vinton, Louisiana; and (3) Louisiana Resources Company at 
Applicant's separation plant at Johnson's Bayou Cameron Parish, 
Louisiana.
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    \1\See, 7 FERC 61,227 (1979).
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    By December 11, 1992 letter, El Paso requested the termination of 
this agreement. Applicant requests retroactive abandonment so that El 
Paso will not have to pay demand charges for services not provided. 
Applicant states that El Paso has not requested nor has Applicant 
provided the subject transportation service since the proposed 
abandonment date of June 8, 1994. No facilities are proposed to be 
abandoned.
    Comment date: January 9, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

2. Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP95-120-000]

    Take notice that on December 14, 1994, Koch Gateway Pipeline 
Company (Koch Gateway), Post Office Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-
1478, filed a prior notice request with the Commission in Docket No. 
CP95-120-000 pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216(b) of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for 
authorization modify an existing delivery side meter station making it 
a bi-directional receipt and delivery point to provide service for an 
existing customer under the blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP82-430-000, all as more fully set forth in the request on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Koch Gateway proposes to modify an existing dual 4-inch delivery 
meter station by reversing one of the dual meter tubes to establish a 
bi-directional receipt and delivery point to serve J. W. Gathering 
Company (J. W. Gathering). Koch Gateway states that the modification of 
the meter station would enable J. W. Gateway with a means to access 
natural gas on its system from Koch Gateway's interstate pipeline 
system and receive up to approximately 6,000 MMBtu per day of natural 
gas. Koch further states that the modification will require the 
abandonment of the reversed tube from delivery service. The estimated 
cost for the modification of the delivery point is $9,000, which J. W. 
Gathering would reimburse to Koch Gateway.
    Comment date: February 2, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

3. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP95-122-000]

    Take notice that on December 16, 1994, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642, 
Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket No. CP95-122-000 a request 
pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for 
authorization to construct and operate a new delivery point so that 
Texas Eastern may provide up to 200 Dekatherms per day of firm 
transportation service to the City of Edmonton, Kentucky (Edmonton), 
the end user, under Texas Eastern's blanket certificate issued in 
Docket No. CP82-535-000 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.
    Texas Eastern states that Edmonton, a municipal utility, has 
requested Texas Eastern to install a 2-inch tap, a single \1/2\-inch 
and a single 2-inch turbine meter run, electronic gas measurement 
equipment, and approximately 50 feet of 2-inch diameter pipe to connect 
Edmonton's existing 3-inch distribution pipeline system and Texas 
Eastern's 30-inch Line No. 15 at approximately Mile Post 354.37 in 
Metcalfe County, Kentucky, in order to alleviate Edmonton's pressure/
operational concerns. The approximate cost of such facilities is 
estimated by Texas Eastern to be $190,000, including allowance for 
federal income tax, and will be 100% reimbursable by Edmonton.
    Texas Eastern states the firm transportation service for Edmonton 
will be provided pursuant to Rate Schedule SCT of Texas Eastern's FERC 
Gas Tariff, Sixth Revised Volume No. 1. Texas Eastern states that 
because the transportation services for Edmonton will be performed 
utilizing existing capacity on Texas Eastern's system, the quantities 
of gas to be delivered to Edmonton are within Edmonton's certificated 
entitlements. Texas Eastern states that its existing tariff does not 
prohibit the addition of new delivery points.
    Texas Eastern also states that the installation of the delivery 
point will have no effect on its peak day or annual deliveries, and 
that its proposal will be accomplished without detriment or 
disadvantage to Texas Eastern's other customers.
    Comment date: February 2, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G 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 Section 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. 94-31898 Filed 12-27-94; 8:45 am]
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