[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 129 (Thursday, July 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 35198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16501]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP95-576-000]


Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Application

June 29, 1995.
    Take notice that on June 22, 1995, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, filed an 
abbreviated application, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas 
Act, for a certificate of Public convenience and necessity authorizing 
Northwest to increase the storage withdrawal contract demand provided 
under Rate Schedule SGS-1 for certain existing storage service 
customers, all as more fully set forth in the application on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Northwest ways that Washington Natural Gas Company (Washington 
Natural), Project Operator of the Jackson Prairie Storage Project 
(Jackson Prairie), has requested certificate authorization in Docket 
No. CP95-300-000 to construct additional storage facilitates and to 
inject 0.4 Bcf of additional cushion gas at Jackson Prairie in order to 
increase the maximum firm withdrawal capacity by 100,000 Mcf per day. 
Each of the three owners of Jackson Prairie, Washington Natural, 
Northwest and the Washington Water Power Company (Water Power) have a 
right to one-third of the resulting increased withdrawal capacity. As 
the designated storage provider for all capacity at Jackson Prairie, 
Northwest has entered into the necessary replacement storage service 
agreements to reflect allocations among existing storage customers of 
the planned additional 102,800 Dth per day (100,000 Mcf x 1.028dth/Mcf) 
of firm withdrawal capacity.
    Northwest states that its one-third share of the increased 
withdrawal capacity, 34,266 Dth per day, was offered in an ``open-
season'' process to all customers with existing Rate Schedule SGS-1 or 
SGS-2F service agreements for Jackson Prairie capacity owned by 
Northwest. As a result, six SGS-2F customers contracted for a total of 
15,182 Dth per day additional withdrawal contract demand, which 
Northwest will self-implement under this Part 284, Subpart G blanket 
transportation certificate, and two SGS-1 customers contracted for 
19,084 Dth per day additional withdrawal contract demand.
    Further, Northwest says that it has entered into replacement SGS-1 
service agreements with Northwest Natural Gas Company, Washington 
Natural and Water Power which cover both the 19,084 Dth per day of 
Northwest's share of the increased Jackson Prairie withdrawal capacity 
plus all of the Washington Natural and Waster Power ownership shares of 
34,267 Dth per day each. Since Rate Schedule SGS-1 service is 
certificated on a case-by-case basis, Northwest specifically requests 
certificate authority to provide a total of 87,618 Dth per day of 
additional Rate Schedule SGS-1 withdrawal contract demand for these 
three existing customers, to be effective upon Washington Natural's 
completion of its proposed project to expand the withdrawal capacity of 
Jackson Prairie.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before July 20, 1995, 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 mut 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 construction and operations 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 necessary for Northwest to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16501 Filed 7-5-95; 8:45 am]
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