[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34978-34979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16350]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-29-001]


Paiute Pipeline Company; Notice of Amendment

June 28, 1995.
    Take notice that on March 27, 1995, Paiute Pipeline Company 
(Paiute), P.O. Box 94197, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-4197, filed in Docket 
No. CP94-29-001, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, an 
amendment to its October 15, 1993 application in Docket No. CP94-29-
001, requesting authorization to construct and operate certain pipeline 
loop and pressure regulation and measurement facilities, in order to 
enable Southwest Gas Corporation-Northern California (Southwest-
Northern California) to serve the city of Truckee, California, and 
environs, and to increase Paiute's capacity to provide additional 
delivery point flexibility to Southwest Gas Corporation-Northern Nevada 
(Southwest-Northern Nevada) in its Incline Village, Nevada market area, 
all as more fully set forth in the amendment which is on file with the 
Commission and open for public inspection.
    Paiute states that on October 15, 1993, Paiute filed its 
application in Docket No. CP94-29-000, in which it requested various 
certificate authorizations pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas 
Act. Paiute indicates that the purpose of the requested authorizations 
was to permit it to transport up to 10,333 Dth/d of additional gas to 
Southwest-Northern California at its existing delivery point to enable 
Southwest-Northern California to provide new natural gas service to the 
Truckee area. In addition, Paiute states that the facilities proposed 
in its October 15, 1993 application would enable Paiute to provide 
additional delivery point flexibility to Southwest-Northern Nevada such 
that Southwest-Northern Nevada could receive additional quantities of 
up to 2,455 Dth/d of gas at delivery points in Southwest-Northern 
Nevada's Incline Village market area along the North Tahoe Lateral, and 
up to 1,496 Dth/d of gas at a delivery point on the Elko Lateral.
    Paiute indicates that Southwest-Northern California has recently 
reevaluated various pipeline transportation options, and has now 
requested that Paiute expand its system to add delivery capacity 
between the Wadsworth Junction, where Paiute's mainline divides between 
its Reno Lateral and Carson Lateral, and the existing delivery point to 
Southwest-Northern California at the terminus of Paiute's North Tahoe 
Lateral.
    Consequently, Paiute, by its amendment, now requests authorization 
in this proceeding to construct and operate pipeline loop and 
measurement and pressure regulating facilities so as to expand the 
delivery capacity of its system between the Wadsworth Junction and the 
terminus of its North Tahoe Lateral by 12,788 Dth/d. Paiute states that 
the proposed facilities will enable it to provide additional firm 
transportation service between those points to Southwest-Northern 
California of 10,333 Dth/d, and will enable Paiute to accommodate 
Southwest-Northern Nevada's request to provide it with additional 
delivery capacity to its Incline Village delivery points of 2,455 Dth/
d. Paiute further states that it will file a new certificate 
application in a separate docket to request authorization for the Elko 
Lateral compressor stations.
    Specifically, Paiute now proposes to:
    (1) Construct and operate 11.1 miles of 16-inch loop pipeline and 
3.0 miles of 12-inch loop pipeline on its North Tahoe Lateral;
    (2) Construct and operate 5.8 miles of 12-inch loop pipeline on its 
South Tahoe Lateral;
    (3) Install pressure regulating equipment at the California Check 
Meter station on its North Tahoe Lateral;
    (4) Relocate the South Tahoe Lateral pressure reduction station; 
and
    (5) Modify the Wadsworth Junction pressure regulation station.
    Paiute states that the estimated cost the proposed facilities if 
$10,451,878. Paiute intends to finance the cost of construction through 
ongoing regular financing programs and internally generated funds.
    Paiute states that it has entered into a new transportation service 
agreement with Southwest-Northern California to transport an additional 
10,333 Dth/d of gas to it. Paiute further states that it has entered 
into a transportation service 

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agreement with Southwest-Northern Nevada under which it would increase 
its billing determinants by 2,455 Dth/d under Paiute's Rate Schedule 
FT-1.
    Paiute proposes that the rates for the services to be provided by 
means of the proposed facilities be designed using an incremental 
facilities surcharge in Rate Schedule FT-1 applicable to the two 
shippers receiving additional service as a result of the expansion, 
under which the costs and revenues related to the construction of the 
proposed facilities for service to the Truckee and Incline Village 
areas will be considered on an incremental cost basis.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said amendment should, on or before July 19, 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 Rules of practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 or 
385.214) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). 
All protest 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 proceedings. 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. All person who have heretofore filed need not file 
again.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16350 Filed 7-3-95; 8:45 am]
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