[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 170 (Friday, August 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45955-45957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22163]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-716-000, et al.]


East Tennessee Natural Gas Company, et al.; Natural Gas 
Certificate Filings

August 23, 1996.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. East Tennessee Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP96-716-000]

    Take notice that on August 14, 1996, East Tennessee Natural Gas 
Company (East Tennessee) a Tennessee Corporation, P. O. 2511, Houston, 
Texas 77252, filed, in the above docket, a request for authorization 
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) and 
under its blanket authority issued on September 1, 1982, in Docket No. 
CP82-412-000, to establish a new delivery point in order to provide 
additional firm transportation service to an existing customer, Loudon 
Utilities Gas Department (Loudon), all as more fully set forth in the 
request that is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Specifically, East Tennessee proposes to install a new delivery 
point located at approximate M.P. 3218D-101+6.6 on its system in Loudon 
County, Tennessee. To establish the delivery point, East Tennessee 
states that it will install a four-inch tie-in assembly, approximately 
50 feet of four-inch interconnecting pipe, a two-inch turbine

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meter, electronic gas measurement (EGM) and communications. East 
Tennessee states that it will own, operate and maintain the measurement 
facilities, the tie-in assembly and interconnecting pipe, and will 
maintain the communications and EGM. Loudon will provide the site for 
these facilities and will provide over-pressure protection, pressure 
regulation, heating and odorization, as required by the State of 
Tennessee.
    East Tennessee further states that the total quantities to be 
delivered to Loudon will not exceed the total quantities authorized. 
East Tennessee asserts that the installation of the proposed delivery 
point is not prohibited by its tariff, and that it has sufficient 
capacity to accomplish the deliveries at the proposed new delivery 
point without detriment or disadvantage to any of its other customers.
    Comment date: October 7, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

2. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company

[Docket No. CP96-717-000]

    Take notice that on August 15, 1996, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line 
Company (Panhandle), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-717-000 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 upgrade the existing Ohio 
Gas Delta delivery point, under Panhandle's blanket certificate issued 
in Docket No. CP83-83-000 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.
    Specifically, Panhandle proposes to replace certain inefficient and 
undersized facilities with more efficient upgraded facilities so as to 
allow increased deliveries to be made at this delivery point. The 
estimated cost to upgrade the facilities is $370,000.
    Comment date: October 7, in accordance with Standard Paragraph G at 
the end of this notice.

3. Northwest Pipeline Corporation

[Docket No. CP96-723-000]

    Take notice that on August 16, 1996, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-723-000, an abbreviated application pursuant to 
Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Regulations, for 
(1) a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the 
construction and operation of approximately 1,750 feet of new upgraded 
26-inch replacement pipeline and appurtenances on Northwest's Ignacio 
to Sumas mainline, and (2) permission and approval to abandon by 
removal approximately 1,020 feet and to abandon in place approximately 
730 feet of the 26-inch pipeline being replaced; all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Northwest states that the installation of replacement pipeline and 
abandonment of existing pipeline is necessary to comply with Department 
of Transportation safety classification requirements. The total costs 
to construct the proposed pipeline and abandon the existing pipeline 
segment are estimated at $685,000.
    Comment date: October 7, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

4. Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP96-724-000]

    Take notice that on August 19, 1996, Eastern Shore Natural Gas 
Company (Eastern Shore), P.O. Box 1769, Dover, Delaware 19903-1769, 
filed in Docket No. CP96-724-000 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 add one new delivery 
point for Delmarva Power and Light Company (Delmarva), an existing 
customer, under Eastern Shore's blanket certificate issued in Docket 
No. CP83-40-000 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.
    Eastern Shore proposes to construct and operate one delivery point 
and associated facilities near Cox Neck Road (County Road 411) in St. 
Georges, New Castle County, Delaware (Cox Neck Delivery Point) to serve 
Delmarva. Eastern Shore states the proposed Cox Neck Delivery Point 
would require the installation of a meter and appurtenant equipment and 
approximately 200 feet of 4-inch-diameter service lateral.
    Eastern Shore states that deliveries to Delmarva at the Cox Neck 
Delivery Point will be approximately 175 Mcf on a peak day and 
approximately 17,500 Mcf per year.
    Eastern Shore asserts that the delivery of gas through the new tap 
would be within the customer's existing entitlement, that there will be 
no adverse impact on Eastern Shore's other customers' peak and annual 
deliveries, and that no additional facilities will be required to serve 
the new delivery point other than a meter and regulating station and 
service lateral, the costs of which will be paid for by Delmarva.
    Eastern Shore further states that its tariff does not prohibit the 
addition of delivery points for existing customers.
    Comment date: October 7, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

5. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP96-725-000]

    Take notice that on August 19, 1996, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 
(Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252, filed in Docket No. 
CP96-725-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.216) for authorization to abandon by removal a delivery tap and 
measurement facilities located in Montgomery County, Texas, under 
Tennessee's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-413-000, 
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.
    Tennessee proposes to abandon the facilities, including the meter, 
piping and appurtenant facilities, which were installed and placed in 
service in June 1972 to serve Terra Resources, Inc. (Terra), for the 
sale and delivery of natural gas for oil field operations. It is stated 
that no gas has flowed through the meter since 1992 and that the sales 
agreement between Tennessee and the Daniels Corporation (Daniels), the 
successor-in-interest to Terra, was terminated in 1992. It is asserted 
that Daniels was the only customer served by the facilities, and a 
letter was included in the application showing Daniels' consent to the 
abandonment.
    Comment date: October 7, 1996, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

6. Kern River Gas Transmission

[Docket No. CP96-727-000]

    Take notice that on August 19, 1996, Kern River Gas Transmission 
Company (Kern River), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108, 
filed an abbreviated application in Docket No. CP96-727-000, pursuant 
to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act and Section 157 of the 
Commission's Regulations, for a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity authorizing the construction and operation of facilities, all 
as more

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fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Kern River requests authorization to construct and operate the 
proposed Blue Diamond Meter Station on Kern River's existing pipeline 
located near Las Vegas, Nevada. Kern River states that the installation 
of the new meter station will allow it to make deliveries to Southwest 
Gas Corporation (Southwest) enabling Southwest to provide firm 
transportation service to Nevada Power Company (NPC) at NPC's Clark and 
Sunrise electric generating stations in Clark County, Nevada, and to 
serve imminent increases in demand in its Las Vegas service area.
    The estimated cost of constructing the Blue Diamond Meter Station 
is $871,500. Kern River will finance this cost as well as an $8 million 
``Contribution-in-Aid-of-Construction'' towards Southwest's required 
construction tie-in consisting of approximately 24 miles of 24-inch 
diameter pipeline, by use of internally generated funds. Kern River 
plans to place the proposed facilities in service by May 1, 1997.
    Comment date: September 13, 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.
    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. 96-22163 Filed 8-29-96; 8:45 am]
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