[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 17 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5174-5175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1931]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP93-685-001, et al.]


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

January 18, 1995.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP93-685-001]

    Take notice that on January 12, 1995, Tuscarora Gas Transmission 
Company (Tuscarora), 6100 Neil Road, P.O. Box 30150, Reno, Nevada 
89520-3057, filed in Docket No. CP93-685-001, pursuant to Section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act, seeking to amend its application filed in 
Docket No. CP93-685-000 on August 27, 1993. In that application 
Tuscarora requested authorization to: (1) Construct, own, and operate a 
new 229-mile, 20-inch diameter natural gas pipeline extending from an 
interconnection with Pacific Gas Transmission Company (PGT) near Malin, 
Oregon to the Tracy Power Plant owned by Sierra Pacific Power Company 
in Storey County, Nevada, (2) transport natural gas on an open access, 
self implementing basis, with pregranted abandonment authority, and (3) 
construct, own, operate, and abandon certain facilities on a self-
implementing basis. In its amendment, Tuscarora seeks to: (1) modify 
its pipe specifications and flow studies; (2) reduce its proposed 
rates; (3) change its proposed tariff; (4) revise exhibits regarding 
officers and subsidiaries and affiliates; and (5) incorporate those 
portions of Tuscarora's letter filed on November 18, 1994, which 
provides additional information regarding the status of regulatory and 
upstream transportation matters and the changes required as a result of 
the environmental review process; all as more fully set forth in the 
amendment which is on file with the Commission and is open to public 
inspection.
    Tuscarora also requested that the Commission issue a preliminary 
determination on non-environmental issues.
    Tuscarora says that upon analysis of pipe manufacturer's bids after 
completion of the projects detailed design phase it determined that it 
would benefit the project to change the specifications for pipe to be 
used in locations designated as Class 1 and Class 2 under the 
Department of Transportation's Minimum Federal Safety Standards. 
Tuscarora says that the proposed changes will not change the cost of 
the project and will have little impact on the flow characteristics of 
the pipeline.
    Tuscarora proposes to reduce its proposed initial transportation 
rates as a result of two changes in Tuscarora's rate methodology: a 
lowering of the return on equity component used in calculating the 
rates from 13.5% to 13.0% and the use of levelized rates for the first 
five years of Tuscarora's operation. Tuscarora also proposes to modify 
the portions of its tariff that set out the proposed rates, prescribe 
uniform gas-usage, permit assignability, and establish forms of firm 
transportation agreements.
    Comment date: February 8, 1995, in accordance with the first 
paragraph of Standard Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

2. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Columbia Gulf Transmission 
Company; Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP95-151-000]

    Take notice that on January 11, 1995, Natural Gas Pipeline Company 
of America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148; 
Columbia Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia Gulf), P.O. Box 1273, 
Charleston, West Virginia 25325-1273; and Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252-2511, filed a 
joint application with the Commission in Docket No. CP95-151-000 
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for permission 
and approval to abandon five separate exchange services which were 
authorized in Docket Nos. CP72-295, CP73-177, CP73-182, CP74-204, as 
amended, CP77-327, and CP79-249, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is open to the public for inspection.
    The parties propose to abandon the following five exchange 
services:
    1. An exchange service between Natural, Columbia Gulf, and 
Tennessee performed under Natural's FERC Rate Schedule X-33, Columbia 
Gulf's FERC Rate Schedule X-14, and Tennessee's FERC Rate Schedule X-
39, jointly authorized in Docket No. CP72-295;1 [[Page 5175]] 

    \1\49 FPC 1002 (1973).
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    2. An exchange service between Natural and Tennessee performed 
under Natural's Rate Schedule X-37 and Tennessee's FERC Rate Schedule 
X-38 authorized in Natural's Docket No. CP73-177 and Tennessee's Docket 
No. CP73-182;2

    \2\The Commission concurrently granted authorization to Exxon 
Corporation in Docket No. CI73-410, to Natural in Docket No. CP73-
177, and to Tennessee in Docket No. CP73-182 on April 5, 1973. (Not 
cited in the Federal Power Commission reports).
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    3. An exchange service between Natural and Columbia Gulf performed 
under Natural's Rate Schedule X-61 and Columbia Gulf's Rate Schedules 
X-22, X-24, and X-47, jointly authorized in Docket No. CP74-204;3

    \3\Temporary order issued January 10, 1975, and amended on July 
3, 1975; permanent order issued at 57 FPC 1270 (1977), as amended at 
1 FERC 61,178 (1977); 3 FERC 61,062 (1978); 3 FERC 61,292 (1978); 
9 FERC 62,199 (1979); 11 FERC 62,078; and 37 FERC 62,166 (1986).
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    4. An exchange service between Natural, Columbia Gulf, and 
Tennessee performed under Natural's Rate Schedule X-87, Columbia Gulf's 
Rate Schedule X-33, and Tennessee's Rate Schedule X-54, jointly 
authorized in Docket No. CP77-327;4 and,

    \4\Temporary order issued on May 31, 1977, and permanent order 
issued at 58 FPC 2819 (1977).
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    5. An exchange service between Natural and Columbia Gulf, jointly 
authorized in Docket No. CP79-249,5 performed under Columbia 
Gulf's Rate Schedule X-64, but to which Natural inadvertently did not 
file a rate schedule,

    \5\8 FERC 61,094 (1979).
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    Comment date: February 8, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

3. Texas Gas Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP95-157-000]

    Take notice that on January 13, 1995, Texas Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Gas), P.O. Box 1160, Owensboro, Kentucky, 42302, 
filed in Docket No. CP95-157-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 
and 157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.205, 157.216) for authorization to abandon a delivery tap 
in Phillips County, Arkansas, under Texas Gas' blanket certificate 
issued in Docket No. CP82-407-000, 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 Gas proposes to abandon by removal the Nitrogen Products--
Helena delivery tap, which is located on Texas Gas' Helena 12' pipeline 
in Phillips County. The tap was installed to deliver gas transported by 
Texas Gas to Nitrogen Products Incorporated's (Nitrogen Products) plant 
at Helena, Arkansas. It is asserted that Nitrogen Products has notified 
Texas Gas that it no longer requires deliveries because Nitrogen 
Products is selling the plant and the facilities are being dismantled.
    Comment date: March 6, 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, 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. 95-1931 Filed 1-25-95; 8:45 am]
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