[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33110-33113]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16219]



-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-533-000, et al.]


Petal Gas Storage Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

June 18, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Petal Gas Storage Company

[Docket No. CP96-533-000]

    Take notice that on May 22, 1996, as supplemented on June 11, 1996, 
Petal Gas Storage Company (Petal), Fairlane Plaza South, 330 Town 
Center Drive, Dearborn, Michigan 48126-2712, filed in Docket No. CP96-
533-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 
157.212) for authorization to construct and operate a new delivery 
point adjacent to Petal's natural gas storage facilities in Forrest 
County, Mississippi and to acquire, construct and operate appurtenant 
facilities to accommodate natural gas deliveries for the account of 
NorAm Energy Services, Inc. (NorAm), under the blanket certificate 
issued in Docket No. CP95-14-000, 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.
    Petal asserts that the proposed delivery point will permit Petal to 
accommodate natural gas deliveries on an interruptible basis, pursuant 
to a presently-effective storage service agreement between Petal and 
NorAm. Petal states that the proposed delivery point would be located 
approximately one-half mile north of Petal's storage field, which is 
north of the town of Petal, Mississippi, and would permit the delivery 
for NorAm or other customers to Hattiesburg Gas Storage Company 
(Hattiesburg), a Hinshaw pipeline that is subject to the jurisdiction 
of the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
    Petal states that presently, natural gas stored in its facilities 
can only be delivered to or received from Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company and Koch Gateway Pipeline Company. The proposed new delivery 
point would permit Petal to deliver gas from NorAm's Petal storage 
account to Hattiesburg for storage in Hattiesburg's facilities, or to 
receive gas from Hattiesburg for NorAm's account for storage in Petal's 
facilities. Additionally, Hattiesburg's connection with 
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation and AIM Pipeline Company 
could also provide NorAm with access to additional interstate and 
intrastate markets. Petal notes that the new delivery point would also 
be available for use by other customers.
    The delivery point facilities will consist of (1) approximately 
2,600 feet of an existing 8-inch pipeline to be acquired by Petal from 
its parent company, CMS Gas Transmission and Storage Company; (2) 300 
feet of 12-inch pipeline extending to the Hattiesburg Industrial Gas 
Sales Company with associated 12-inch control valves and 1,800 feet of 
12-inch pipeline connecting the 8-inch pipeline to the Petal 
facilities, including 8-inch control and manual valves, flanges, studs, 
nuts, etc. and 12-inch by 8-inch reducers; and (3) a metering station 
300 feet from the interconnection with Hattiesburg at the terminus of 
the 8-inch pipeline. Petal estimates that the maximum allowable 
operating pressure of the delivery point facilities will be 1135 psig, 
and the facilities will be capable of accommodating the bidirectional 
flow of up to 100,000 MMBtu/d. Petal estimates that it will deliver 
approximately 25,000 MMBtu/d on a peak-day basis and approximately 
500,000 MMBtu annually at the proposed delivery point on an 
interruptible basis.
    Petal estimates that the total cost of the proposed construction 
will be $450,000. Petal notes that it has been authorized by the 
Commission to charge market-based rates, and therefore it will bear the 
cost of the proposed facilities exclusively. Petal states that the 
total volumes of gas to be delivered to NorAm after the proposed 
delivery point has been installed will not exceed the total volumes 
presently authorized and the installation of the proposed delivery 
point is not prohibited by its FERC Gas Tariff. Petal notes that the 
delivery point will not affect its certificated peak-day and annual 
deliveries, because it does not propose an increase in certificated 
firm capacity. Petal claims that the new delivery point should permit 
increased utilization of its storage facilities on a peak-day and year-
round basis. Petal asserts that it has sufficient capacity to 
accomplish deliveries for NorAm at the proposed delivery point without 
detriment or disadvantage to its other customers.
    Comment date: August 2, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

2. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

[Docket Nos. CP89-629-032 and CP90-639-020]

    Take notice that on June 7, 1996, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 
(Tennessee), 1010 Milam Street, Houston, Texas 77252 filed a petition 
to amend the authorizations previously granted in this proceeding, 
pursuant to

[[Page 33111]]

section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) regulations, to accommodate 
a request by one shipper to add two delivery points, at which service 
would be provided only on a secondary basis.
    Tennessee states that on October 9, 1991, the Commission issued 
Tennessee a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing 
Tennessee, among other things, to provide firm transportation services 
to New England Power Company (NEPCO). Tennessee states that NEPCO has 
requested two delivery points to increase its operational flexibility 
and ability to offload gas in response to its shifting gas needs. 
Tennessee states that it is willing to grant such request, subject to 
the receipt of satisfactory regulatory approvals.
    Comment date: July 9, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph F 
at the end of this notice.

3. ANR Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-563-000]

    Take notice that on June 10, 1996, ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 500 
Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243, filed in Docket No. CP96-
563-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 
157.212) for authorization to modify and operate an existing 
interconnection between ANR and Central Illinois Light Company (CILCO) 
for delivery of natural gas to CILCO in Bureau County, Illinois under 
ANR's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-480-000 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.
    ANR proposes to add a 6-inch turbine meter at the Princeton 
Interconnection for operational flexibility. This additional 6-inch 
meter run will allow ANR to inspect, maintain, or make repairs to the 
meters without shutting down this interconnection and interrupting 
service to CILCO. The total cost of the proposed facility is 
approximately $70,600. Because ANR is installing this facility for 
operational flexibility, the proposed quantities of natural gas to be 
delivered at Princeton Interconnection will be unaffected by the 
installation of the 6-inch meter.
    ANR states that the proposed modification is not prohibited by its 
existing tariff and that it has sufficient capacity to accomplish 
deliveries without detriment or disadvantage to other customers. The 
proposed modification will not have an effect on CIG's peak day and 
annual deliveries and the total volumes delivered will not exceed total 
volumes authorized prior to this request.
    Comment date: August 2, 1996, in accordance with Standard paragraph 
G at the end of this notice.

4. Young Gas Storage Company, Ltd.

[Docket No. CP96-565-000]

    Take notice that on June 11, 1996, Young Gas Storage Company, Ltd. 
(Young), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, filed an 
abbreviated application in Docket No. CP96-565-000, pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's 
regulations, for authorization to abandon and remove a single bi-
directional meter station that was constructed by Young to move gas 
belonging to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo) to and from 
Young's underground gas storage field (the Young Storage Field) in 
Morgan County Colorado, all as more fully set forth in the application, 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Young is a limited partnership, which consists of two general 
partners (Young Gas Storage Company and CIG Gas Storage Company) and 
one limited partner (the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a 
municipal corporation of the State of Colorado). According to Young, 
PSCo indirectly owns a 47.5 percent interest in Young through a PSCo 
subsidiary, and has contracted for up to 180,000 Mcfd of storage 
capacity from the Young Storage Field.
    Young proposes to abandon and remove the bi-directional meter 
station and sell the salvageable materials to Colorado Interstate Gas 
Company (CIG). PSCo has agreed to and supports Young's proposal to 
abandon and remove the subject facilities, stating that it no longer 
expects to need this receipt and delivery meter station. CIG, under a 
May 31, 1996 Facilities Sales Agreement with Young, has agreed to 
purchase the salvaged meter station materials for $234,317. According 
to Young, the March 31, 1996 net book value of these facilities was 
$591,355.
    Young commenced storage service operations from the Young Storage 
Field on June 1, 1995. CIG operates the storage field. Two CIG 
pipelines (a 16-inch diameter line and a 24-inch diameter line) connect 
the Young Storage Field to CIG's pipeline system. These pipelines also 
connect CIG's Fort Morgan Storage Field facility to CIG's main terminal 
facility at Watkins Station. According to Young, it constructed the 
subject meter station as part of the Young Storage Field connection to 
CIG's 16-inch line, pursuant to Young's original negotiations with PSCo 
and CIG. As proposed, this meter station was to be used solely for 
PSCo, and PSCo was to construct facilities to connect directly to the 
CIG 16-inch line. Young states that, as the parties continued to 
negotiate, a more economical means of providing transportation service 
to PSCo emerged, which allowed PSCo to avoid constructing facilities to 
connect to CIG's 16-inch line, and which did not require the use of the 
subject meter station facilities at the 16-inch line. Young states that 
its other existing meter station, at CIG's 24-inch line, has sufficient 
capacity to measure all of Young's volumes.
    Comment date: July 9, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph F 
at the end of this notice.

5. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company

[Docket No. CP96-567-000]

    Take notice that on June 12, 1996, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line 
Company (Panhandle), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-567-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA), for permission and approval to abandon, by sale 
to Equity Gas Systems, Inc. (Equity) certain certificated gathering 
facilities located in Woods County, Oklahoma, all as more fully set 
forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    It is stated that the facilities proposed to be abandoned herein, 
were constructed for the purpose of gathering long-term gas supplies 
for Panhandle's system supply obligations to sales customers as 
certificated by the Commission over the years. Panhandle states that 
since its restructuring of services under Order No. 636, that it no 
longer has certificated sales obligations, and thereby Panhandle 
indicates that it no longer requires the minor gathering facilities 
proposed to be abandoned in this proceeding, to maintain its system 
supply for sales customers. It is indicated that Equity will operate 
the acquired facilities in conjunction with its gathering activities 
and that Equity will continue to provide gathering service for the 
connected gas wells.
    Specifically, Panhandle is proposing to abandon approximately 11.83 
miles of pipeline, ranging from 2-inches to 6-inches in length together 
with related rights-of-way, easements, permits and property interests, 
as well a nine measuring stations and eleven well

[[Page 33112]]

connections. Panhandle states that it intends to sell the facilities to 
Equity for $301,000.
    Comment date: July 9, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph F 
at the end of this notice.

6. ANR Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-571-000]

    Take notice that on June 13, 1996, ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 500 
Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243, filed in Docket No. CP96-
571-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 
for authorization to utilize a temporary workspace and any other 
authorization deemed necessary associated with a pipeline replacement 
project in Bolivar County, Mississippi, all as more fully set forth in 
the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    In replacing two of the lines within approximately a 1.0 mile 
segment of its Southeast Mainline, ANR propose to use work areas which 
may not have been included in the scope of the authorizations for the 
facilities when they were originally certificated and constructed.
    Comment date: July 9, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph F 
at the end of this notice.

7. Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-572-000]

    Take notice that on June 14, 1996, Koch Gateway Pipeline Company 
(Koch Gateway), P.O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-1478, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-572-000 an application, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
for authorization to construct and operate approximately 16 miles of 
30-inch pipeline in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana to attach gas 
reserves in the deep offshore areas to its Bastian Bay Line, and for 
permission to roll in the costs attributable to those facilities, all 
as more fully set forth in the application, which is on file with the 
Commission and open for public inspection.
    Koch Gateway states that it would construct and operate the 
pipeline from an interconnect with the Warren Venice Processing Plant 
westward to an interconnection with Koch Gateway's existing Bastian Bay 
Line. Koch Gateway indicates that installation of the pipeline would 
provide an economic means of linking the substantial deep-water 
reserves being developed in the Mississippi Canyon Area, and the Viosca 
Knoll Area to Koch Gateway's system and to the interstate grid. Koch 
Gateway also states that, unless the new line is built, capacity 
constraints will result from the limited available capacity currently 
taking gas away from the Venice area.
    Koch Gateway estimates a construction cost of $20,851,117, which 
would be financed from funds generated internally.
    Koch Gateway proposes rolled-in rate treatment for the proposed 
construction because it contends that the project provides system-wide 
benefits to existing and future shippers. In support of that 
contention, Koch Gateway states that the supplies to be attached by 
this facility will be attached to the southeast side of its system and 
will help alleviate system flow constraints from west to east which 
exists during peak periods. Koch Gateway points out that the proposed 
facilities will provide a bypass of an existing bottleneck on its 
facilities upstream of Bastian Bay on its existing 12-inch, 16-inch, 
and 20-inch pipelines. Koch Gateway also notes that the rate impact on 
existing shippers is small with no rate increase for a single service 
exceeding 2.9 percent and the average rate impact being 2.45 percent.
    Comment date: July 9, 1996. in accordance with Standard Paragraph F 
at the end of this notice.

8. Northwest Pipeline Corporation

[Docket No., CP96-576-000]

    Take notice that on June 17, 1996, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), P.O. Box 58900, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158-0900, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-576-000 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 construct and operate a 
new lateral and meter station in Clark County, Washington, for 
deliveries to a proposed electric power generation facility, under the 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-433-000, 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.
    Northwest proposes to construct and operate an approximately 2.775 
mile 10-inch lateral pipeline from an interconnect with its Portland 
Lateral, and paralleling and extending beyond the existing Vancouver 
Lateral in Clark County, Washington, and the new River Road Meter 
Station at the terminus of the new lateral in order to provide up to 
48,000 dt equivalent of firm service to a planned new Clark Public 
Utility District No. 1 River Road Generating Project (River Road) in 
Clark County, Washington. It is indicated that Washington Water Power 
Company (Water Power) would arrange for the natural gas supplies and 
transportation services necessary for operation of the River Road power 
generating plant pursuant to various Part 284 transportation agreements 
using its own capacity and capacity released by other shippers, 
including Inland Pacific Energy Services (Inland). It is also stated 
that Water Power has reached an agreement with Inland whereby Inland 
will arrange for Northwest to construct and necessary the delivery 
facilities to serve the River Road plant. Northwest states that in 
return, upon completion of construction of the proposed delivery 
facilities, Water Power has agreed to take permanent assignment of both 
Inland's resulting Facilities Agreement and its Rate Schedule TF-1 
transportation agreement dated September 1, 1990.
    Northwest states that the Facilities Agreement supersedes and 
terminates the September 15, 1993, Facilities Agreement between 
Northwest and Inland for a similar delivery facilities project to serve 
a Klickitat Energy Partners (KEP) cogeneration project, which has since 
been cancelled. It is stated that, by amendment to its F-33 agreement 
for 10,000 dt equivalent of natural gas per day of contract demand, 
Inland originally agreed to a twenty-year term extension to satisfy the 
economic criteria set forth in the Facilities Reimbursement portion of 
Northwest's tariff for the KEP project. It is stated that, pursuant to 
the superseding Facilities Agreement, Northwest and Inland have agreed 
to substitute the River Road project for the cancelled KEP project, 
thus applying the economic value of the contract term extension to the 
facilities proposed herein. Northwest alleges that the present value of 
additional future revenues generated by the term extension exceeds the 
present value of the incremental cost of service attributable to the 
proposed facilities, and thus Northwest will pay for the $2.44 million 
facility cost without reimbursement.
    Comment date: August 1, 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

[[Page 33113]]

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 necessary 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. 96-16219 Filed 6-25-96; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P