[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 139 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37457-37458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18206]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-285-001]


Paiute Pipeline Company; Notice of Request for Amendment to 
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessary

July 12, 1996.
    Take notice that on July 1, 1996, Paiute Pipeline Company (Paiute), 
P.O. Box 94197, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-4197, filed in Docket No. CP95-
285-001, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act and part 157 of 
the Commission's Regulations, a request to amend the certificate of 
public convenience and necessity issued to Paiute in Docket No. CP95-
285-000 by order issued August 31, 1995 (Order).\1\ By its request for 
amendment, Paiute requests authorization to forgo the relocation of its 
existing 360 horsepower reciprocating compressor located on Paiute's 
Elko Lateral in Elko County, Nevada (Elko Compressor Station).
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    \1\ 72 FERC para. 61,193 (1995).
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    Paiute states that the Commission, by its Order, issued a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Paiute to:
    (1) Install a 1,339 horsepower turbine-driven compressor at 
milepost 61.45 on the Elko Lateral in Lander County, Nevada (Battle 
Mountain Compressor Station); and
    (2) Relocate the Elko Compressor Station from milepost 137.2 on the 
Elko Lateral to milepost 110.1 in Eureka County, Nevada.
    Paiute states that the purpose of the compressor station 
construction project is to increase Paiute's capacity on the Elko 
Lateral by 1,496 Dth/d to provide additional delivery point flexibility 
to Southwest Gas Corporation-Northern Nevada (Southwest-Northern 
Nevada). Paiute further states that it is presently constructing the 
Battle Mountain Compressor Station facilities, and expects to complete 
and place into service those facilities on or before October 1, 1996.
    Paiute indicates that recent system reinforcements by Southwest-
Northern Nevada immediately downstream of the Elko Compressor Station 
have removed the need for Paiute to relocate the compressor station. As 
a result of Southwest-Northern Nevada's system reinforcements, Paiute 
has determined that it can provide the required additional delivery 
capacity to Southwest-Northern Nevada on the Elko Lateral by installing 
the Battle Mountain Compressor Station and leaving the Elko Compressor 
Station at its present location.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before August 2, 1996, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
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 and 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

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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 application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that the application should be approved. If a motion for leave to 
intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its 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 Paiute to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-18206 Filed 7-17-96; 8:45 am]
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