[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 68 (Monday, April 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15476-15477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8604]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-277-000, et al.]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company, et al.; Natural Gas 
Certificate Filings

April 2, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-277-000]

    Take notice that on March 25, 1996, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP96-277-000 a 
request pursuant to Section 157.205 and 157.216 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216) for 
authorization to abandon a farm tap at Station 2248+21 on the 
Williston-Minot pipeline in Mountrail County, North Dakota, and the 
service provided through it, to Montana-Dakota Utilities Company 
(Montana-Dakota). Williston Basin makes this request under its blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-487-000, et al. pursuant to 
Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the 
request on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Williston Basin indicates that Montana-Dakota, a local distribution 
company, who is the only customer that receives service from this tap, 
has requested that the tap be abandoned.
    Comment date: May 17, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

2. Questar Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-280-000]

    Take notice that on March 26, 1996, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 filed in 
Docket No. CP96-280-000, a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216(b)) for authority to abandon, by removal, 
the Barnum and Whittier District Regulator Stations (DRS) in Morgan 
County, Utah, each comprising one \3/4\-inch tap, approximately 105 
feet of \3/4\-inch pipeline, a can-type regulator set and appurtenant 
facilities under Questar's blanket authorization 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.
    Questar proposes to abandon the two DRSs because Mountain Fuel 
Supply Company (Mountain Fuel), Questar's local distribution affiliate 
and the only customer receiving service through the subject facilities, 
has advised Questar that the two DRSs are no longer required as 
delivery points into Mountain Fuel's distribution system. Questar 
states that service once provided through the DRSs is now tied directly 
into existing Mountain Fuel distribution systems and that no 
abandonment of service to Mountain Fuel will result from the proposed 
action. Questar further states that the total investment associated 
with the two DRS facilities proposed to be abandoned is $3,185.
    Comment date: May 17, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

3. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-283-000]

    Take notice that on March 28, 1996, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642, 
Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed a prior-notice request with the 
Commission in Docket No. CP96-283-000 pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for 
authorization to construct and operate a metering and regulating 
station in Middlesex County, New Jersey, under Texas Eastern's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-535-000 pursuant to Section 7 of 
the NGA, all as more fully set forth in the request which is open to 
the public for inspection.
    Texas Eastern proposes to construct and operate, at the request of 
Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G--an existing firm 
customer), a new metering and regulating station adjacent to its 
existing metering and regulating facility in Middlesex County at 
approximately Mile Post 1463.56 on its 20-inch diameter Lines 1 and 2. 
Texas Eastern states that it would install an 8-inch hot tap on both 
Lines 1 and 2, dual 8-inch meter runs, one 2-inch turbine meter run, 
and other appurtenant facilities at an estimated cost of $404,000. 
Texas Eastern also states that PSE&G would reimburse

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Texas Eastern for all construction expenses for the proposed metering 
and regulating station.
    Texas Eastern also proposes to abandon and remove the existing 
metering and regulating station (constructed in 1950) currently 
adjacent to the proposed facilities once the new metering and 
regulating station has been constructed. Texas Eastern states that it 
delivers up to 16,000 Dekatherms of natural gas per day at the current 
metering and regulating station and that PSE&G has requested Texas 
Eastern to deliver up to 60,000 Dekatherms via the proposed facilities. 
Texas Eastern would deliver the new quantities of natural gas under its 
open-access rate schedules and existing contracts with PSE&G. Since 
Texas Eastern would not abandon the existing metering and regulating 
facilities until after the new facilities have been completed, no 
natural gas service to PSE&G or any other existing Texas Eastern 
customer would be interrupted or abandoned.
    Comment date: May 17, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G 
at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-8604 Filed 4-5-96; 8:45 am]
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