[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 8649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3706]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-194-000]


Northern Border Pipeline Co.; Notice of Application

February 9, 1995.
    Take notice that on February 2, 1995, Northern Border Pipeline 
Company (Northern Border), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 
68124, filed in Docket No. CP95-194-000, an application, pursuant to 
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act for a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity authorizing the construction and operation of 
certain pipeline and compression facilities for the expansion and 
extension of Northern Border's system to transport gas on a firm basis 
on behalf of eleven shippers, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Specifically, Northern Border requests authority to construct and 
operate facilities consisting of: (1) Approximately 218 miles of 30-
inch pipeline extending from the terminus of Northern Border's existing 
pipeline at Harper, Iowa to Manhattan, Illinois; (2) 45 miles of 24-
inch pipeline from the end of the proposed 30-inch pipeline to a point 
of interconnection with Crossroads Pipeline Company near Griffith, 
Indiana; (3) four new 20,000 horsepower (HP) compressor stations on the 
existing 42-inch pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota; 
(4) one new 6,000 HP compressor station on the existing 30-inch 
pipeline in Iowa; (5) one new compressor on the proposed 30-inch 
pipeline extension in Iowa, consisting of two 2,650 HP units; (6) seven 
meter stations at seven new delivery points; and (7) other appurtenant 
facilities. In addition, Northern Border proposes to install 
interconnection facilities (tees and side valves) along the proposed 
extension in close proximity to other pipeline systems. Northern Border 
states that the estimated cost of the proposed facilities is $370.3 
million and will be project financed. The proposed in-service date of 
the facilities is November 1, 1997.
    Northern Border proposes to maintain its cost of service ratemaking 
methodology and roll-in to Rate Schedule T-1, (Northern Border's Part 
284 firm transportation rate schedule) the cost of the new facilities 
with its existing system costs. Northern Border maintains that the 
aggregation of the proposed costs with existing facility costs will 
result in a unit cost under Rate Schedule T-1 rate that is less than 
the present unit cost. Northern Border also requests a one-time waiver 
of Subsection 4.83 of Rate Schedule T-1 in Northern Border's FERC Gas 
Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 1, which details the calculation of an 
average monthly rate base. Instead of calculating the average monthly 
rate base using the beginning and end of month balances as is currently 
in the tariff, Northern Border seeks to use a daily weighted average 
balance for the in-service month of the proposed facilities.
    Northern Border states that it held an open season between October 
24, 1994 and November 18, 1994 for the proposed capacity expansion and 
system extension. Northern Border asserts that the open season resulted 
in eleven qualified shippers. Based on the accepted bids, 212,500 Mcf 
per day will be received into Northern Border's system at Port of 
Morgan, Montana. Of this total, 10,000 Mcf per day will be delivered 
upstream of Ventura, Iowa and 40,000 Mcf per day will be delivered at 
Ventura, Iowa. At Ventura, Iowa, Northern Border will receive 100,000 
Mcf per day and transport a total of 262,500 Mcf per day for delivery 
at various points downstream.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before March 2, 1995, 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 Regulation 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 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 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 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 Northern Border to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-3706 Filed 2-14-95; 8:45 am]
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