[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66969-66970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-31282]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-74-002]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.; Notice of Petition to Amend

December 20, 1995.
    Take notice that on December 18, 1995, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310, filed in Docket No. CP95-74-002 pursuant to Section 7(c) of 
the Natural Gas Act a petition to amend the authorization issued June 
6, 1995, in Docket No. CP95-74-000, in order to ``firm-up'' service for 
two shippers under Rate Schedules FTS-7 and FTS-8 and to delete one 
shipper from the group of shippers for which additional firm long-term 
incremental transportation service was previously authorized for 
another FTS-7/FTS-8 shipper as well as to construct and operate 
different incremental facilities from those previously authorized, all 
as more fully set forth in the amendment on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    Texas Eastern states that the June 6, 1995, order authorized it to 
provide firm, additional, long-term, incremental transportation service 
of natural gas under Rate Schedules FTS-7 and/or FTS-8 of up to a total 
of 8,776 Dekatherms per day (Dthd) for the Customers as follows:

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                                                        FTS-7     FTS-8 
                                                        DTH/d     DTH/d 
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NJN.................................................     1,449         3
PGW.................................................       318         7
Colonial............................................     6,984        15
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      Total.........................................     8,751        25
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    In order to provide the addition service the order also authorized 
Texas Eastern to construct and operate facilities consisting of 
approximately 2.39 miles of 36-inch pipeline looping in two separate 
segments in the state of Pennsylvania. The specific facilities 
included:
     1.0 miles of 36-inch pipeline looping between Texas 
Eastern's Delmont Compressor Station in Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania and
     1.39 miles of 36-inch pipeline looping between Texas 
Eastern's existing Shermans Dale and Grantsville Compressor Stations in 
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
    The estimated total cost of the proposed facilities (in 1996 dollar 
was $8,203,000.
    Finally, Texas Eastern was authorized to adjust the reservation 
charges applicable to Rate Schedules FTS-7 and FTS-8 to reflect the 
impact of ``rolling in'' the costs association with the expanded 
facilities, although Texas Eastern was required to make a limited 
Section 4 filing to place the rates into effect.
    In the instant amendment, Texas Eastern proposes to modify the 
facilities required to provide the service and to reflect a change in 
the group of parties participating in the project. Texas Eastern states 
that it has been informed by Colonial that it no longer requires the 
additional service authorized for it. Additionally, Texas Eastern 
states that it was notified that other Rate Schedules FTS-7 and/or FTS-
8 customers, namely Commonwealth Gas Company (commonwealth) and 
Providence Gas Company (Providence), sought to participate in the 
project and have since executed long term service agreements. As a 
result of these requests, Texas Eastern states it has identified 
changes to existing facilities which can be made with will result in 
the ability to provide 

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the requested service at a significantly lower cost and with much less 
environmental impact. Specifically, Texas Eastern now proposes to 
implement the following construction activities:
    (1) Relay approximately 2.08 miles of Line No. 1 with new 36-inch 
pipeline, looping Texas Eastern's existing 36-inch Line 2 from 
approximately Milepost 1056.10 to approximately Milepost 1058.18 in 
Somerset County, Pennsylvania between the existing Uniontown (Station 
21-A) and Bedford (Station 22-A) Compressor Stations; and
    (2) Relay approximately 0.86 miles of Line No. 1 with 0.86 miles of 
new 36-inch pipeline, looping Texas Eastern's existing 36-inch Line No. 
2 from approximately Milepost 1110.01 to approximately Milepost 1110.87 
in Bedford County, Pennsylvania between the existing Bedford (Station 
22-A) and Chambersburg (Station 23) Compressor Stations.
    The participating customers and service allocations to each under 
Rate Schedules FTS-7 and FTS-8, and reflected in the amendment, are as 
follow:

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                                                    FTS-7DTH/  FTS-8DTH/
                                                        d          d    
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NJN...............................................      1,449          3
PGW...............................................        318          7
Commonwealth......................................        266      4,227
Providence........................................        538      4,745
      Total.......................................      2,571      9,032
                                                                        
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    Based on the annual cost of service for the amended facilities, 
Texas Eastern, consistent with the determination in Texas Eastern's 
previous ``firm-up proceedings, proposes a revised reservation charge 
of $6.925 per dekatherm for Rate Schedule FTS-7 and $7.206 per 
dekatherm for Rate Schedule FTS-8.
    Texas Eastern estimates that the construction will cost $7,689,000, 
a reduction of approximately $514,000 from the estimated cost of the 
facilities authorized in the June 6, 1995, order.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protect with 
reference to said petition to amend should or on before January 11, 
1996, 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 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 petition to amend 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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell.
Secretary
[FR Doc. 95-31282 Filed 12-26-95; 8:45 am]
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