[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 18 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5384-5385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2049]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-150-000, et al.]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas 
Certificate Filings

January 20, 1995.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP95-150-000]

    Take notice that on January 11, 1995, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642, 
Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket No. CP95-150-000 a request 
pursuant to Sec. Sec. 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for 
authorization to operate an existing tap as a bidirectional tap to 
enable Texas Eastern to deliver gas to an independent producer 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 proposes to operate an existing tap as a 
bidirectional tap to enable Texas Eastern to deliver gas to and receive 
gas from Zilkha Energy Company (Zilkha), an independent producer in 
East Cameron Block 328 Platform. It is stated that up to 3,000 Dth/d 
would be received and/or delivered through this tap. Zilkha will 
install 9,230 feet of 4-inch pipeline and related meters extending from 
East Cameron Block 328 to East Cameron Block 323.
    It is also stated that the interruptible service for Zilkha would 
be under Texas Eastern's Rate Schedule IT-1. Texas Eastern's tariff 
does not prohibit the additional volumes, according to Texas Eastern. 
Also, there would be no detriment to its other customers or impact on 
its peak or annual deliveries.
    Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

2. Williams Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP95-154-000]

    Take notice that on January 12, 1995, Williams Natural Gas Company 
(WNG), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed in Docket No. CP95-
154-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 157.212 and 157.216 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.212 and 157.216) for authorization to relocate the Kansas Gas & 
Electric (KG&E) Brock tap and to abandon by reclaim, sale and in place 
approximately 2.7 miles of 8-inch lateral pipeline located in Bourbon 
County, Kansas under WNG's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP82-479-000 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.
    The tap's relocation is prompted by highway construction from the 
Kansas Department of Transportation. WNG proposes to move the KG&E 
Brock tap from the Ft. Scott 8-inch pipeline to the existing Ft. Scott 
16-inch pipeline. Due to the highway construction, WNG will abandon by 
reclaim approximately 550 feet, abandon in place approximately 2.6 
miles, and sell to Kansas Power & Light/Kansas Gas & Electric (KPL/KGE) 
approximately 0.5 miles of the 8-inch pipeline. Customers will be 
affected by WNG's abandonment of the 8-inch pipeline, but agreement has 
been met to continue their receiving service from KG&E. The estimated 
construction cost is $16,044; the reclaim cost is $5,969 and the 
salvage value is $3,200. The pipeline to be abandoned in place will be 
purged with air and capped.
    Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

3. Washington Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP95-156-000]

    Take notice that on January 13, 1995, Washington Natural Gas 
Company (Washington Natural), 815 Mercer Street, Seattle, Washington 
98111, filed in Docket No. CP95-156-000 for a Blanket Certificate of 
Public Convenience and Necessity under Subpart F of the Commission's 
Regulations for the Jackson Prairie Storage Project (Storage Project), 
all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    According to Washington Natural, the Storage Project, an aquifer-
type natural gas storage facility in Chehalis (Lewis County) 
Washington, connects to the main pipeline facilities of Northwest 
Pipeline Corporation (Northwest), and is owned in equal undivided 
interests by Washington Natural, The Washington Water Power Company and 
Northwest. Washington Natural indicates that the operations of the 
Storage Project will be conducted in accordance with an executed 
agreement among the parties and that the overall supervision of the 
project will be under the direction of a Management Committee.
    Washington Natural states that although it has applied for case 
specific certificates in the past related to operations at Storage 
Project, it would be more cost effective and less time consuming if 
Storage Project were permitted to utilize a blanket certificate.
    Comment date: February 10, 1995, in accordance with the first 
paragraph of Standard Paragraph E at the end of this notice.

4. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP95-160-000]

    Take notice that on January 17, 1995, NorAm Gas Transmission 
Company (NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket 
No. CP95-160-000 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 certain facilities in Oklahoma 
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 abandon by transfer and sale to Arkla a segment of 
NGT's Line 634 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma and to abandon in place one 
inactive 1-inch domestic tap on NGT's Line 634-2 in Hughes County, 
Oklahoma. The segment of Line 634 consists of 2,520 feet of 2-inch 
plastic pipe and three rural taps, two 1-inch and one 2-inch taps 
serving only Arkla's rural domestic and small commercial customers. NGT 
states that no customers or service will be abandoned as a result of 
the transfer.
    Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

5. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company and K N Interstate Gas 
Transmission Co.

[Docket No. CP95-161-000]

    Take notice that on January 18, 1995, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501 and K N Interstate Gas Transmission Co. (K 
N), 370 Van Gordon Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80228 filed a joint 
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 sales, [[Page 5385]] transportation and exchange services 
rendered under Williston's Rate Schedule No. X-3, FERC Gas Tariff, 
Original Volume No. 1, and K N's Rate Schedule X-4, FERC Gas Tariff, 
Second Revised Volume No. 2, effective December 1, 1994.\1\ The 
application is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.

    \1\See, 58 FPC 1738 (1977).
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    Williston and K N state that they propose to abandon the above 
services authorized in Docket Nos. CP75-154 and CP75-57, respectively, 
to Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. (Williston's predecessor)\2\ and 
Kansas-Nebraska Gas Company, Inc. (K N's predecessor).\3\ Williston and 
K N state that pursuant to a June 30, 1994, Settlement Agreement, the 
parties agreed to terminate the gas purchase obligation under Rate 
Schedules X-3 and X-4 as of July 1, 1994, provided, however, that the 
transportation and exchange service under Rate Schedule X-3 was to 
continue until December 1, 1994, when the agreement was terminated in 
its entirety. Williston and K N state that they are the only parties to 
the gas sales, transportation and exchange services in the referenced 
rate schedules.

    \2\See, 30 FERC 61,143 (1985).
    \3\See, 63 FERC 61,155 (1993).
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    Comment date: February 10, 1995, 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 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. 95-2049 Filed 1-26-95; 8:45 am]
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