[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 130 (Friday, July 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35199-35200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17076]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-594-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

June 28, 1996.
    Take notice that on June 25, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP96-
94-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.212) for authorization to operate three existing metering 
facilities located in San Juan County, New Mexico, as jurisdictional 
delivery points for delivery of natural gas under El Paso's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP82-435-000 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.
    El Paso states that it installed two metering facilities in 
connection with the construction and installation of various procession 
and treating facilities at the Blanco Plant and one metering facility 
in connection with the pigging facilities on El Paso's 16'' O.D. 
Blanco-Fruitland Line (Line No. 3200) to facilitate the delivery of 
pipeline quality gas to those facilities for use as fuel. El Paso 
further states that the Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities 
and Line No. 3200 have been abandoned by El Paso and are now owned by a 
different non-regulated entity; however, a need for pipeline quality 
gas as fuel at these facilities still remains. El Paso states that in 
order to facilitate the delivery of gas for fuel, El Paso now seeks 
authorization to utilize the three existing metering facilities as 
jurisdictional delivery points under a transportation arrangement and 
to charge its tariff rates for any deliveries of gas to such points.
    El Paso states that pursuant to the spin-down of production-area 
facilities by El Paso to El Paso Field Services Company (Field 
Services) as described in El Paso's application at Docket Nos. CP94-
183-000 and 001, Field Services acquired, among other things, the 
Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities and Line No. 3200. El 
Paso has been informed that Field Services will continue to need 
pipeline quality gas to be utilized as fuel at the transferred 
facilities.
    El Paso states that the operation of the proposed delivery points 
at the Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities and the pigging 
operations on Line No. 3200 is not prohibited by El Paso's existing 
Volume No. 1-A Tariff. El Paso further states that it will provide 
interruptible transportation service to the proposed delivery points 
pursuant to an effective Transportation Service Agreement (TSA) between 
El Paso and El Paso Gas Marketing Company. In addition, El Paso states 
that it has sufficient capacity to accomplish the deliveries specified 
under the TSA without detriment or disadvantage to El Paso's other 
customers.
    El Paso states that the volumes of natural gas to be transported 
through the proposed delivery points are:
    (a) Blanco Plant Miscellaneous Operating Fuel No. 1--15.63 Mcf per 
day for an average day;
    (b) Blanco Miscellaneous Operating Fuel No. 2--5.30 Mcf per day for 
an average day during those months when in use; and
    (c) Dry Gas to Pig 16'' Wet Line--1,112 Mcf per day based on a peak 
day with approximately 2 flow hours total (only used when pigging of 
Line No. 3200 is necessary).
    El Paso believes the delivery of gas through the existing metering 
facilities will have a negligible effect upon El Paso's peak day and 
annual deliveries based on its 1995 peak day transportation of 
3,224,879 Mcf and a total annual transportation of 872,056,118 Mcf.
    The request also states that El Paso's environmental analysis 
supports the conclusion that the operation of the existing metering 
facilities as jurisdictional delivery points will not be a major 
Federal action significantly affecting the human environment.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
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

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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 
therefor, 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. 96-17076 Filed 7-3-96; 8:45 am]
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