[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 10333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5932]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-217-000]


City of Tallahassee, et al., Complaints, vs. Florida Gas 
Transmission Company, Respondent; Notice of Complaint

March 7, 1996.
    Take notice that on February 28, 1996, City of Tallahassee, City of 
Lakeland, Orlando Utilities Commission, Jacksonville Electric 
Authority, and Florida Gas Utilities (jointly Complainants), c/o John, 
Hengerer & Esposito, 1200 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, 
filed in Docket No. CP96-217-000 a complaint pursuant to Rule 206 of 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, against Florida Gas 
Transmission Company (FGT) alleging violations of FGT's tariff 
provisions and Commission rules regarding affiliate preference in 
provision of jurisdictional service in connection with construction of 
a proposed delivery point in Leon County, Florida, all as more fully 
detailed in the complaint which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    It is stated that the complainants are all firm transportation 
customers of FGT and members of the Florida Cities Fuel Committee, an 
ad hoc group of municipalities which customarily participate in FGT 
rate and certificate proceedings. It is explained that FGT's 
interconnecting delivery point, for which FGT requested prior notice 
authorization in Docket No. CP96-139-000, would serve West Florida 
Natural Gas (WFNG), a local distribution company, which in turn would 
make deliveries to the Department of Correction's (DOC) Wakulla 
Correctional Institution in Wakulla County, Florida.
    Complainants allege that because FGT would not be fully reimbursed 
by WFNG for the construction costs, FGT would be subsidizing 
construction of the facility, and complainants allege that such a 
subsidy is in violation of FGT's tariff.
    Complainants further allege that the proposal would involve 
preferential treatment for Citrus Trading, FGT's marketing affiliate, 
which would provide gas supplies for the deliveries to the DOC, and it 
is alleged that this violates the Commission's rules prohibiting 
affiliate preference. It is alleged that FGT has adopted a new policy 
on customer ownership of gate station facilities, which would permit 
WFNG to own the meter station which is among the proposed facilities, 
and it is alleged that such ownership is in violation of FGT's tariff 
provisions. Complainants allege that the proposed change in ownership 
policy is not in the public interest and should be evaluated before it 
is implemented.
    It is stated that the City of Tallahassee, one of the complainants, 
has simultaneously filed a protest in Docket No. CP96-139-000, FGT's 
prior notice filing. It is asserted that the City of Tallahassee had 
made a bid to serve the DOC's Wakulla facility.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 8, 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). 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-5932 Filed 3-12-96; 8:45 am]
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