[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 71 (Thursday, April 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18807-18808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9066]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Southern Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Application

[Docket No. CP95-289-000]
April 7, 1995.
    Take notice that on March 30, 1995, Southern Natural Gas Company 
(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed in 
Docket No. CP95-289-000 an application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 
(c) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon 
facilities to be replaced and for a certificate to construct and 
operate certain facilities, including replacement facilities, all as 
more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Southern states that its proposal is an integral part of the 
compromises established in its Stipulation and Agreement (Settlement) 
filed on March 15, 1995, in Docket Nos. RP89-224, et al., to resolve 
all of its outstanding rate and gas supply realignment cost proceedings 
pending before the Commission. Southern thus proposes the following 
projects and requests Commission approval of the application by no 
later than October 31, 1995, contingent upon and in conjunction 

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with approval of the provisions of the Settlement.\1\

    \1\Southern indicates that a related filing is being made 
concurrently in Docket No. CP95-292-000 to abandon approximately 122 
miles of its Brunswick Line by sale to AGL, and to construct a meter 
station at the new interconnect with the portion of the line being 
sold.
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    (1) Project 1: Construct, install, replace and operate the 
following facilities: approximately 11.8 miles of 30-inch pipeline in 
Henry and Clayton Counties, Georgia, to replace 6.1 miles of existing 
14-inch Ocmulgee-Atlanta loop pipeline and 5.7 miles of existing 12-
inch Macon branch pipeline, and various modifications at the Marietta, 
South Atlanta No. 1, and Dallas No. 2 meter stations serving Atlanta 
Gas Light Company (AGL), all of which are to enhance operational 
flexibility and to increase peak hour flow through various meter 
stations in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.\2\ Southern explains that (a) 
there would be miscellaneous modifications of piping at the South 
Atlanta regulator station and South Atlanta No. 1 meter station, (b) 
the Marietta meter station would be rebuilt with three 8-inch orifice 
meter runs, and (c) the existing metering facilities at the Dallas No. 
2 meter station would be replaced with a 6-inch turbine meter run and 
appurtenant facilities.

    \2\Southern states that, although AGL has contracted for an 
additional 100,000 Mcf/day of firm transportation service as part of 
the overall economics necessary to achieve the Settlement, including 
the installation of these facilities, the facilities involved here 
do not provide additional firm capacity to meter stations serving 
the Atlanta area.
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    (2) Project 2: Construct and operate approximately 7.8 miles of 20-
inch South Main 2nd loop pipeline immediately upstream of the Wrens 
Compressor Station in Glascock and Jefferson Counties, Georgia, and 
approximately 3.1 miles of 20-inch loop line immediately upstream of 
the Hall Gate Compressor Station in Baldwin County, Georgia, to enhance 
the overall service available and to provide increased service on 
shoulder days (days before and after peak days) to South Carolina 
Pipeline Corporation (SCPL).\3\

    \3\Southern advises that although SCPL has contracted for an 
additional 28,000 Mcf/day of firm transportation service as part of 
the overall economics necessary to achieve the Settlement, including 
the installation of these facilities, these facilities do not 
provide additional firm capacity.
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    (3) Project 3: Construct and operate approximately 7.1 miles of 30-
inch South Main 3rd loop pipeline immediately upstream of the Auburn 
Compressor Station in Lee and Macon Counties, Alabama, to provide 8,000 
Mcf/day of additional firm transportation service for SCANA 
Hydrocarbons, Inc., an affiliate of SCPL.\4\

    \4\Southern included a copy of a SCANA service agreement dated 
March 28, 1995, for transportation service under Southern's Rate 
Schedule FT, as Exhibit I of its application.
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    Southern estimates that the total cost of these facilities will be 
$26,850,250. Southern advises that financing would be accomplished 
initially through the use of short term financing, available cash from 
operations, or use of both alternatives and, ultimately, from permanent 
financing.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 28, 1995, 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 385.214 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 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 Southern to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-9066 Filed 4-12-95; 8:45 am]
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