[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 240 (Thursday, December 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 64161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30433]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-97-000]


Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

December 8, 1995.
    Take notice that on December 5, 1995, Eastern Shore Natural Gas 
Company (Eastern Shore), Post Office Box 615, Dover, Delaware 19903-
0615, filed an application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and (c) of the 
Natural Gas Act for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing Eastern Shore to (1) provide additional firm contract 
demand sales and storage service to several of its existing customers, 
(2) abandon firm sales service to one of its existing customers, and 
(3) construct and operate certain new pipeline and compressor 
facilities required to stabilize capacity on its system and to provide 
the additional firm sales and storage service, all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Specifically, Eastern Shore requests authority to (1) construct and 
operate a 2,170 HP compressor station in Delaware City, new Castle 
County, Delaware on its portion of its existing pipeline system known 
as the ``Hockessin Line'', such new station to be know as the 
``Delaware City Compressor Station''; (2) construct and operate .89 
miles of 16-inch pipeline in Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware 
to tie the suction side of the proposed Delaware City Compressor 
Station into the Hockessin Line: and (3) increase the maximum allowable 
operating pressure (MAOP) from 500 PSIG to 590 PSIG on 28.7 miles of 
Eastern Shore's pipeline from Eastern Shore's existing Bridgeville 
Compressor Station in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware to its 
terminus in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland.
    Eastern Shore states that the proposed compressor facility and 
associated piping are needed to stabilize capacity on its system as a 
result of steadily declining inlet pressures at its Hockessin 
interconnect with Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation. 
Construction of the proposed facilities is planned to be undertaken 
during the 1996 Summer and Fall seasons and completed by a proposed in 
service date of November 1, 1996.
    Eastern Shore further states that the proposed facilities will also 
enable it to provide additional firm sales and storage service to 
several of its customers who have executed precedent agreements for the 
additional firm service for terms of 10 and 20 years. Eastern Shore 
also requests authorization to abandon 100 Mcf per day of firm sales 
service to one of its direct sales customers, Playtex Apparel, Inc., 
effective September 30, 1996.
    Eastern Shore estimates the total cost of the additional pipeline 
and compressor facilities proposed in its application to be $6,788,334. 
Eastern Shore states that it will finance this amount initially from 
internally generated funds and short-term notes and that permanent 
financing will be arranged after construction has been completed.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 29, 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 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 be 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 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 Procedures, 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 Eastern Shore to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-30433 Filed 12-12-95; 8:45 am]

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