[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 222 (Friday, November 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57710-57711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28430]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-45-000, et al.]


Pacific Gas Transmission Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

November 8, 1995.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Pacific Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP96-45-000]

    Take notice that on November 2, 1995, Pacific Gas Transmission 
Company (PGT), 2100 Southwest River Parkway, Portland, Oregon 97201, 
filed in Docket No. CP96-45-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 
and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.205, and 157.211) for approval to operate certain taps to 
serve entities other than the right-of-way grantor and/or provide 
service in excess of 200 MMBtu per day under PGT's blanket certificate 
authority issued in Docket No. CP82-530-000, pursuant to Section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), all as more fully set forth in the 
request which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    PGT proposes to operate a total of eighteen taps along its Medford 
Extension to serve entities other than the right-of-way and/or provide 
service in excess of 200 MMBtu per day. PGT states that the taps in 
question were all installed at the request of WP Natural Gas Company 
(WP), the sole firm customer utilizing the line, pursuant to PGT's 
blanket certificate and the Commission's certificate order in Docket 
No. CP93-618-000. PGT indicates that it has come to PGT's attention 
that WP may use these taps to serve more than a single right-of-way 
grantor and/or provide service in excess of the volume limitations set 
forth in section 157.211(a)(1) of the Commission's regulations. It is 
indicated that PGT seeks authorization for such service.
    Comment date: December 26, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

2. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP96-46-000]

    Take notice that on November 3, 1995, NorAm Gas Transmission 
Company (NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket 
No. CP96-46-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.211 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.211) for authorization to construct and operate facilities in 
Franklin County, Texas 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 construct and operate a 1-inch tap and first-cut 
regulator on NGT's Line AM-54 in the Mark Caudle H.R.S., Franklin 
County, Texas to deliver gas to ARKLA, a distribution division of NorAm 
Energy Corporation (ARKLA). The estimated volumes to be delivered to 
this delivery tap are approximately 40,000 MMBtu annually and 1,080 
MMBtu on a peak day. The estimated cost of construction of the tap and 
the first-cut regulator is $2,078 and ARKLA agrees to reimburse NGT for 
these cost.
    Comment date: December 26, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

3. Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-47-000]

    Take notice that on November 3, 1995, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25314, filed in Docket No. CP96-47-000 an application pursuant 
to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to 
abandon certain natural gas transportation and exchange service for 
National Gas & Oil Corporation (National) which was authorized in 
Docket No. CP78-271, all as more fully set forth in the application on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Columbia proposes to abandon service for National under Columbia's 
Rate Schedule X-74. Columbia states that it was authorized to transport 
up to 300 Mcf of gas per day during the winter period from November 1 
through March 31 of each year. Columbia adds this service was 
accomplished by National delivering gas to Columbia Gas of Ohio (COH) 
at existing interconnections in Newark and/or Zanesville, Ohio. COH 
would then reduce by equivalent volumes its receipt of gas from 
Columbia at existing interconnections near Newark and/or Zanesville, 
Ohio. Columbia then redelivered like volumes of gas to National at an 
existing point of delivery near Somerton, Ohio and at a 

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specific point on Columbia's Line O-1463 near Batesville, Ohio. 
Columbia asserts that gas was last transported under X-74 in 1983 and 
there are no outstanding imbalances.
    Comment date: November 29, 1995, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

4. National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-49-000]

    Take notice that on November 3, 1995, National Fuel Gas Supply 
Corporation (National), 10 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York 14203, 
filed in Docket No. CP96-49-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) 
of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon its 
storage service to Boston Gas Company (Boston Gas), Orange & Rockland 
Utilities, Inc. (O&R), Penn Fuel Gas, Inc. (Penn Fuel) and The Southern 
Connecticut Gas Company (S. Conn.), all as more fully set forth in the 
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    National proposes to abandon the storage service it provides to 
Boston Gas, O&R, Penn Fuel and S. Conn. under National's SS-1 and SS-2 
Rate Schedules, effective April 1, 1996. Specifically, 876,620 Mcf of 
annual storage service is provided to Boston Gas; 711,165 Mcf of annual 
storage service is provided to Penn Fuel; and 150,000 Mcf of annual 
storage service is provided to S. Conn. under the SS-2 Rate Schedule, 
and 1,500,000 Mcf of annual storage service is provided to O&R under 
the SS-1 Rate Schedule.
    National states that all four customers, as provided in their 
service agreements, have submitted written notices of termination to 
National on or before March 31, 1995, requesting termination of their 
services effective April 1, 1996.
    Comment date: November 29, 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 
the 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. 95-28430 Filed 11-16-95; 8:45 am]
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