[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42017-42018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20578]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-492-000, et al.]


CNG Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

August 7, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. CNG Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-492-000]

    Take notice that on May 6, 1996, CNG Transmission Corporation 
(CNG), 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-492-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's Regulations for a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity authorizing CNG to lease, construct and operate facilities 
for storage and transmission of natural gas, all as more fully set 
forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    CNG seeks authorization to construct and operate the following 
natural gas pipeline and storage facilities:
    (1) Approximately 15.1 miles of 24-inch pipeline loop in Wetzel 
County, West Virginia;
    (2) approximately 20.4 miles of 24-inch pipeline in Steuben County, 
New York;
    (3) upgrade CNG's existing 30-inch PL-1 pipeline to permit 
operation of the line at a maximum design allowable operating pressure 
of 1,250 psig;
    (4) a 4,000 horsepower addition to CNG's existing Chambersburg 
Compressor Station in Franklin County, Pennsylvania;
    (5) a new 9,600 horsepower compressor station located in Steuben 
County, New York;
    (6) a measurement and regulation station in Steuben County, New 
York; and
    (7) other appurtenant facilities.
    CNG proposes to lease 64,000 Dth of firm transmission capacity from 
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern) on the CRP 
pipeline located in southern Pennsylvania and jointly owned by CNG and 
Texas Eastern. CNG also seeks authorization to lease and operate 
certain natural gas salt cavern storage facilities located near the 
town of Bath, New York from Bath Petroleum Storage Inc. CNG says the 
pipeline and storage facilities are needed to provide up to 168,320 Dth 
per day of additional storage deliverability and up to 102,820 Dth per 
day of additional firm transportation service.
    Comment date: August 28, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

2. CNG Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-493-000]

    Take notice that on May 6, 1996, CNG Transmission Corporation 
(CNG), 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-493-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA), and part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's Regulations, for a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity authorizing CNG to construct and operate certain facilities 
for the transportation of natural gas, all as more fully set forth in 
the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    CNG seeks authorization to construct and operate approximately 14 
miles of 16-inch pipeline in Steuben County, New York interconnecting 
CNG's pipeline system with Avoca Natural Gas Storage, L.P. (Avoca); 
4,000 horsepower of compression at a new compressor station to be built 
adjacent to CNG's existing Greenlick Compressor Station in Potter 
County, Pennsylvania; and a new metering and regulating station near 
the town of Avoca, New York. CNG says the facilities are needed to 
enable Avoca Shippers to have their natural gas transported to and from 
the Avoca Salt Cavern Project.
    Comment date: August 28, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

3. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-606-000]

    Take notice that on June 28, 1996, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310 filed in Docket No. CP96-606-000 an application pursuant to 
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of Commission's 
Regulations for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing Texas Eastern to construct and operate pipeline facilities 
and to lease pipeline capacity to CNG Transmission Corporation (CNG), 
all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    More specifically, Texas Eastern seeks authorization to construct, 
own and operate the following pipeline facilities which Texas Eastern 
says are needed to provide CNG with 64,000 Dth per Day of leased 
capacity from the interconnection of Texas Eastern's pipeline system 
with CNG's storage facilities near Oakford, Pennsylvania to the 
interconnection of Texas Eastern's and CNG's pipeline systems near 
CNG's Chambersburg Compressor Station:
    (1) 4.96 miles of 36-inch pipeline to replace 24-inch idled 
pipeline on the discharge of the Uniontown Compressor Station from 
approximate mileposts 1071.64 to 1076.60 in Somerset County, 
Pennsylvania;
    (2) 3.13 miles of 36-inch pipeline to replace 24-inch idled 
pipeline on the discharge of the Bedford Compressor Station from 
approximate mileposts 1123.73 to 1126.86 in Fulton County, 
Pennsylvania; and
    (3) other appurtenant pipeline facilities.
    Pursuant to a Capacity Lease Agreement between Texas Eastern and 
CNG for a primary term commencing November 1, 1997 and ending October 
31, 2020, and year to year thereafter, Texas Eastern proposes to 
incrementally lease capacity to CNG in the following phases:

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                                                                                    Incremental    Maximum lease
                     Phase                                 Commencing             phase quantity   quantity(Dth/
                                                                                      (Dth/d)           d)      
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1.............................................  Nov. 1, 1997....................          24,500          24,500
2.............................................  Nov. 1, 1998....................          10,000          34,500
3.............................................  Nov. 1, 1999....................          10,500          45,000

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4.............................................  Nov. 1, 2000....................          19,000          64,000
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    Texas Eastern also seeks pregranted abandonment authorization for 
the proposed leased pipeline capacity upon termination of the Capacity 
Lease Agreement with CNG.
    Comment date: August 28, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

4. Mississippi River Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-682-000]

    Take notice that on July 30, 1996, Mississippi River Transmission 
Corporation (MRT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-682-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon a transportation 
service provided under MRT's Rate Schedule X-24 for KN Energy, Inc. 
(KN), all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file 
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    MRT states that it was authorized by Commission order issued June 
18, 1986, in Docket No. CP86-138-000 to transport up to 1,000 Mcf of 
natural gas per day on an interruptible basis for KN. According to MRT, 
gas was delivered at the inlet side of its wellhead metering facilities 
located in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. MRT states that it redelivered 
equivalent amounts of natural gas to KN at an existing point of 
interconnection in the North Reydon Field, Roger Mills County, 
Oklahoma.
    MRT states that the transportation service is no longer required 
and has been terminated by mutual agreement in a letter dated May 15, 
1996. MRT states that no facilities are proposed to be abandoned in 
connection with the requested authorization.
    Comment date: August 28, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

5. Interenergy Sheffield Processing Company

[Docket No. CP96-684-000]

    Take notice that on July 30, 1996, Interenergy Sheffield Processing 
Company (Interenergy Sheffield), 1700 Broadway, Suite 700, Denver, 
Colorado 80290, filed an application in Docket No. CP96-684-000, for a 
Presidential Permit and for authority under Section 3 of the Natural 
Gas Act to construct, connect, maintain and operate certain natural gas 
facilities at the border of the United States and Canada for the 
purpose of importing up to 3300 Mcf per day of solution gas (a mixture 
of natural gas and natural gas liquids), all as more fully set forth in 
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection. Interenergy Sheffield also requests a waiver of the filing 
requirements of Section 153.8 of the Commission's Regulations.
    To effectuate the import, Interenergy Sheffield proposes to 
construct 1.2 miles of 8-inch pipeline which would connect its existing 
gathering system in Burke County, North Dakota, with facilities at the 
Canadian border. Specifically, at the border the proposed pipeline 
would connect with a new 8-inch pipeline to be constructed in Canada by 
Interenergy Sheffield Processing Company (Canada) Ltd., and extend 4.5 
miles into the Province of Saskatchewan where it would connect with an 
existing 8-inch gathering line owned and operated by Amoco Canada 
Resources Ltd. (Amoco), upstream of Amoco's Steelman Gas Processing 
Plant.
    Comment date: August 28, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-20578 Filed 8-12-96; 8:45 am]
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