[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 81 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 18387]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10138]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-335-000]


Colorado Interstate Gas Company; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order

April 19, 1996.
    Take notice that on April 17, 1996, Colorado Interstate Gas Company 
(CIG), Post Office Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-335-000 a petition under Rule 207 of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.207) for a declaratory 
order determining that CIG is authorized: (i) to hold 79,071 Dth per 
day of capacity on Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd. (WIC) and 10,000 
Dth per day of capacity on Trailblazer Pipeline Company (Trailblazer) 
for shippers that have requested CIG obtain such capacity on their 
behalf and (ii) to hold 20,000 Dth per day of capacity on WIC for 
operational use, all as more fully set forth in the petition which is 
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    It is stated that WIC (an affiliate of CIG) originates in 
Sweetwater County, Wyoming, and terminates in Weld County, Colorado. 
WIC receives gas at interconnections in Sweetwater and Carbon Counties, 
Wyoming with CIG, Questar Pipeline Company, Overthrust Pipeline 
Company, and Western Gas Resources, Inc. CIG states that WIC delivers 
gas to CIG and Trailblazer in Weld County, Colorado.
    CIG states that in January 1996, both Trailblazer and WIC posted on 
their electronic bulletin boards announcements of an open season during 
which interested shippers could submit requests for capacity on 
expansions that both pipelines were then considering.
    It is stated that CIG submitted bids and was awarded capacity for 
two discrete parcels of WIC expansion capacity consisting of (i) 79,071 
Dth/d to give shippers increased service options on CIG, and (ii) 
20,000 Dth/d to support system operations on CIG. CIG contends that is 
also submitted a bid and was eventually awarded 10,000 Dth/d of 
expansion capacity on Trailblazer. CIG states that it has now signed a 
10-year firm transportation agreement for the WIC capacity. It is 
stated that final execution of the comparable agreement is expected 
soon.
    CIG states that its bids for the WIC and Trailblazer capacity were 
supported largely by other contracts executed by Shippers on CIG's own 
system who sought to have CIG hold such additional capacity in order to 
provide service for this amount.
    It is stated that CIG has allocated the WIC/Trailblazer capacity to 
the following customers of CIG on the basis of their contracts with CIG 
for such capacity.

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                        Customer                             Quantity   
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Public Service Company of Colorado \1\.................     49,371 Dth/d
Colorado Springs Utilities.............................  \1\ 19,700 Dth/
                                                                       d
Snyder Oil Corporation \2\.............................     10,000 Dth/d
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      Total............................................     79,071 Dth/d
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\1\ Capacity on WIC only with terms ending September 30, 2001.          
\2\ Capacity on WIC and Trailblazer with a term of ten years from the in-
  service date of WIC and Trailblazer expansions.                       

    CIG states that the 20,000 Dth/d parcel on WIC is to be held by CIG 
solely for operational purposes. It is stated that in its Order No. 636 
compliance filing (Docket No. RS92-4), CIG provided a detailed showing 
of its need to retain 150 MMcf/d of WIC capacity to support system 
operations, which the Commission has approved.
    It is stated that the same operational reasons for continued 
retention of the 150 MMcf/d of capacity on WIC,\3\ along with 
additional data submitted in its petition, justify an additional 20,000 
Dth/d of CIG capacity on WIC.
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    \3\ CIG states that in Docket No. RP95-114-000, 73 FERC 
para.61,035 (1995), the Commission permitted CIG to retain its WIC 
capacity.
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    CIG states that its petition is in accordance with the Commission's 
policy on acquisition of capacity by an interstate pipeline on a third 
party pipeline set forth in Texas Eastern Pipeline Corporation, Docket 
No. CP95-218-000, 74 FERC para.61,074 (1996). In addition, CIG requests 
that the Commission find that such capacity will be accorded rolled-in 
rate treatment.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before May 10, 1996, file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-10138 Filed 4-24-96; 8:45 am]
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