[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 139 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37462-37463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18207]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-386-001, et al.]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas
Certificate Filings
July 11, 1996.
Take notice that the following filings have been made with the
Commission:
1. Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation
[Docket No. CP96-386-001]
Take notice that on July 3, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West
Virginia 25325-1273, filed in Docket No. CP96-386-001 pursuant to Rule
212 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR
385.212) a motion for acceptance of proposed firm and interruptible
default contracts which will be used by Columbia Natural Resources,
Inc. (CNR), in the event negotiated agreements cannot be reached
between CNR and the gathering customers affected by the spin-down of
gathering facilities proposed in these proceedings. Columbia's motion
is on file with the Commission and open for public inspection.
Columbia states that because the proposed default contracts meet
the Commission's criteria set forth in Arkla Gathering Services
Company, 69 FERC para. 61,280 (1994), the Commission should approve the
default contracts.
Comment date: August 1, 1996, in accordance with the first
paragraph of Standard Paragraph F at the end of this notice.
2. Carnegie Interstate Pipeline Company and Carnegie Production
Company
[Docket No. CP96-612-000]
Take notice that on June 28, 1996, Carnegie Interstate Pipeline
Company (CIPCO) and Carnegie Production Company (Carnegie Production)
800 Regis Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236, filed in Docket No.
CP96-612-000 a joint application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to permit CIPCO to abandon
jurisdictional gas purchase contracts by transfer to Carnegie
Production, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Specifically, Applicants request that the Commission authorize
CIPCO to abandon by transfer to Carnegie Production, all of the FERC
jurisdictional contracts currently held by Carnegie Production and
Marketing (CP&M), CIPCO's gas production and marketing division.
Applicants state that Carnegie Production will engage in sales for
resale of gas acquired pursuant to the transferred gas purchase
contracts under a blanket marketing certificate subject to the terms
and conditions set forth in Subpart L of Part 284 of the Commission's
regulations. Applicants further state that upon the effective date of
such transfers Carnegie Production will perform all the FERC
jurisdictional sales services currently being performed by CP&M and
CIPCO will request that the Commission delete its blanket certificate
for unbundled sales service issued pursuant to Subpart J of Part 284
and CIPCO will file to remove from its tariff, Rate Schedules FMS and
IMS, its merchant service.
Comment date: August 1, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph
F at the end of this notice.
3. Koch Gateway Pipeline Company and Southern Natural Gas Company
[Docket No. CP96-619-000]
Take notice that on July 3, 1996, Koch Gateway Pipeline Company
(Koch), P. O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77521-1478 and Southern Natural
Gas Company (Southern), P. O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563,
filed in Docket No. CP96-619-000 an application pursuant to Section
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Section 157.18 of the Commission's
regulations for an order permitting and approving abandonment of an
exchange service. Koch and Southern state that this abandonment of
service is in the public
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interest and will have no effect on any existing customer, all as more
fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission
and open for public inspection.
Comment date: August 1, 1996, in accordance with Standard Paragraph
F at the end of this notice.
4. Colorado Interstate Gas Company
[Docket No. CP96-624-000]
Take notice that, on July 5, 1996, Colorado Interstate Gas Company
(CIG), P. O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, filed a
request, pursuant to its blanket certificate in Docket No. CP83-21-000
(21 FERC para. 62,403) and Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the
Commission's Regulations, for authorization to construct new bi-
directional delivery facilities so as to increase the capacity of its
Fort Lupton Meter Station (a.k.a. the Fort Lupton delivery point) to
200,000 Dth per day, in order to provide increased deliverability to
Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), all as more fully set forth
in the request, which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
The Fort Lupton delivery point is located in Section 34, T2N, R66W,
in Weld County, Colorado. CIG states that it has sufficient capacity to
accomplish the increased deliveries without detriment or disadvantage
to its other customers. CIG also states that the deliveries through the
new Fort Lupton delivery point facilities will provide service to
PSCo's Fort Vrain power plant and other loads in the area, and will
enable PSCo to avoid the construction of approximately 50 miles of 20-
inch pipeline to transport the gas it has stored in the Young Storage
Field. CIG further estimates that the new facilities will cost
approximately $68,000.
Comment date: August 26, 1996, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
5. Algonquin Gas Transmission Company
[Docket No. CP96-625-000]
Take notice that on July 5, 1996, Algonquin Gas Transmission
Company (Algonquin), 1284 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, Massachusetts
02135, filed in Docket No. CP96-625-000 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 certain facilities in connection with establishing a new
delivery point for Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation (Connecticut),
under the blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP87-317-000,
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.
Algonquin states that Connecticut has requested and Algonquin has
agreed to establish a new delivery point on land to be owned by
Connecticut adjacent to Algonquin's existing pipeline facilities in the
town of Hebron, Connecticut. Algonquin explains that it will construct
a new measuring station and associated auxiliary facilities at a cost
estimated to be $217,000; and that Connecticut will install
approximately 4,400 feet of 6-inch steel main. In addition, Algonquin
relates that Connecticut will pay all costs for the facilities
installed and will construct all non-jurisdictional facilities
downstream of those constructed by Algonquin. Algonquin says that the
metering and certain auxiliary piping will be constructed, owned,
operated, and maintained by Algonquin, while the meter station
building, regulators, heaters, and other remaining facilities will be
constructed, owned, operated and maintained by Connecticut. Algonquin
states that it does not propose to increase the Maximum Daily Delivery
obligation under firm service agreements between Algonquin and
Connecticut. Algonquin relates that Connecticut has requested a
transfer of 200 MMBtu per day under Rate Schedule AFT-1 (F-4) of its
entitlement for firm service from an existing delivery point at
Mansfield, Connecticut to the proposed Hebron delivery point. Algonquin
states that its peak day or annual commitments under firm service
agreements will not be adversely affected by construction of the new
station.
Algonquin states that its existing tariff does not prohibit the
addition of new delivery points. In addition, Algonquin states that it
has sufficient capacity to accomplish the instant proposal without
detriment or disadvantage to Algonquin's other firm customers.
Comment date: August 26, 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 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 unnecessary 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-18207 Filed 7-17-96; 8:45 am]
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