[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13856-13857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7519]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-239-000, et al.]


Questar Pipeline Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate Filings

March 21, 1996.

    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Questar Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-239-000]

    Take notice that on March 8, 1996, as supplemented on March 14, 
1996 and March 18, 1996, Questar Pipeline Company (Questar), 79 South 
State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in Docket No. CP96-239-
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 authorization to 1) construct and operate replacement 
delivery point metering and regulating facilities and 2) abandon the 
existing metering and regulating delivery point facilities. The subject 
delivery point, the Ogden Valley District Regulator Station (Ogden 
Valley DRS) formerly known as the Weber Basin District Regulator 
Station (Weber Basin DRS), is located adjacent to Questar's 
transmission pipeline system in Morgan County, Utah. Questar states 
that the replacement delivery point facilities will be utilized to 
provide expanded transportation service to Mountain Fuel Supply Company 
(Mountain Fuel), a local distribution company which is an affiliate of 
Questar, under the blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-491-
000, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully 
set forth in the request which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    By letter dated February 6, 1996, Questar states that Mountain Fuel 
requested that additional facilities be installed to provide expanded 
transportation service. Questar states that the proposed facilities 
will allow Mountain Fuel to provide expanded service to meet the space-
and-water heating requirements of the commercial and residential 
customers of Upper Ogden Valley area of Weber County, Utah. 
Specifically, Questar will install a four-inch meter run at an 
estimated cost of $15,000. Questar proposes to provide the expanded 
transportation service pursuant to its firm transportation Rate 
Schedule T-1. Questar notes that the additional deliveries to Mountain 
Fuel will not exceed the maximum daily quantities of 795,000 Dth/d nor 
will it cause detriment or disadvantage to its other customers. Questar 
proposes to initially deliver up to approximately 400 Dth per hour. 
Questar notes that Mountain Fuel expects its peak-day and annual 
requirements at the new delivery point to approximate 8,000 Dth/d and 
750,000 Dth per year.
    The facilities that Questar proposes to abandon have been 
historically utilized as a transportation delivery point, formerly 
known as Weber Basin DRS, pursuant to Questar's firm transportation 
Rate Schedules T-1 and NNT. Specifically, Questar proposes to abandon 
approximately 100 feet of two, three and four-inch diameter piping, one 
two-inch meter run and one pressure regulating valve assembly at an 
estimated cost of $15,000. Weber Basin DRS was originally constructed 
in 1965 to serve as a delivery point at a cost of $796. As part of its 
corporate reorganization in Docket Nos. CP80-274, et al., the 
Commission authorized the transfer of the Weber Basin DRS and other 
jurisdictional transmission facilities to Questar as interstate 
facilities subject to the Commission's jurisdiction under the NGA.
    Comment date: May 6, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

2. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP96-251-000]

    Take notice that on March 15, 1996, NorAm Gas Transmission Company 
(NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. 
CP96-251-000 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 certain facilities 
in Columbia County, Arkansas 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 to construct and operate a 2-inch tap and 1-inch 
first-cut

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regulator for the transportation of gas to Petro Chem Operating Co. 
(Petro Chem). The estimated annual volume to be delivered is 43,800 
MMBtu and 120 MMBtu per day. The estimated cost of construction is 
$81,286.36, which will be reimbursed by Petro Chem.
    Comment date: May 6, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

3. Northwest Pipeline Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-257-000]

    Take notice that on March 18, 1996, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-257-000 an application pursuant to Sections 7(c) and 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for authorization to construct and operate 
certain replacement natural gas facilities and for authorization to 
abandon and remove the facilities being replaced, all as more fully set 
forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Northwest proposes to construct and operate approximately one mile 
of new 26-inch replacement pipeline, partially outside of Northwest's 
existing right-of-way, and abandon and remove approximately one mile of 
existing deteriorated pipeline on Northwest's Ignacio to Sumas mainline 
near the town of Rangely in Rio Blanco County, Colorado.
    Northwest states that the installation of replacement pipeline and 
the removal and abandonment of the existing line is necessary to insure 
the integrity of its mainline transmission system.
    Northwest states that the proposed pipeline replacement will not 
result in an increase in the capacity of its mainline.
    Northwest estimates the total costs to construct the proposed 
pipeline and remove and abandon the existing pipeline segment at 
approximately $882,500.
    Comment date: April 11, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
F at the end of this notice.

4. Williams Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP96-259-000]

    Take notice that on March 18, 1996, Williams Natural Gas Company 
(WNG), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed in Docket No. CP96-
259-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.216) for authorization to abandon facilities in Shawnee County, 
Kansas under WNG's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-479-
000 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.
    WNG proposes to abandon by sale to KPL, a Western Resources Company 
(KPL) approximately 8.25 miles of the Forbes 8-inch pipeline, 
measuring, regulating, and appurtenant facilities.
    Comment date: May 6, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    F. Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with 
reference to said filing should on or before the comment date file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 385.211 and 385.214) 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 filing 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 the 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 
therefore, 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. 96-7519 Filed 3-27-96; 8:45 am]

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