[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 47908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23128]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RP96-353-000; RM96-14-001]


National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation; Secondary Market 
Transactions on Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines; Notice of Application 
to Participate in Pilot Program

September 5, 1996.
    Take notice that on August 30, 1996, National Fuel Gas Distribution 
Corporation (National Fuel Distribution) tendered for filing an 
application to participate in the ``Proposed Experimental Pilot Program 
To Relax The Price Cap for Secondary Market Transactions'' (Pilot 
Program), promulgated in Docket No. RM96-14-001.
    Through its application, National Fuel Distribution seeks a finding 
that it lacks market power on its upstream pipelines in the relevant 
area and that those upstream pipelines likewise lack market in the 
relevant area.
    National Fuel Distribution seeks permission for itself and the 
majority of its upstream pipelines to participate in the Pilot Program 
for the period of the 1996-1997 winter season with the opportunity to 
extend the program. The pipelines agreeing to participation in the 
Pilot Program with National Fuel Distribution for the 1996-1997 winter 
period are Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, Transcontinental Gas 
Pipe Line Company, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation and Columbia 
Gulf Transmission Corporation.
    National Fuel Distribution requests that CNG Transmission 
Corporation's and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's participation at 
some future date be conditioned upon their complying with the 
comparability and reporting requirements provision of the Pilot 
Program.
    Further, National Fuel Distribution requests that the reporting 
requirements be modified so as: (1) to provide only aggregated 
information, or in the alternative to preserve the identity of shippers 
in filed reports; (2) to provide National Fuel Distribution and its 
participating upstream pipelines with at least six months in which to 
file the requisite information; and (3) to require annual reporting, or 
in the alternative, quarterly reporting rather than monthly.
    Any person desiring to comment on or protest said filing should 
file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in 
accordance with Sections 385.214 and 385.211 of the Commission's Rules 
and Regulations. All such motions or protest must be filed within 15 
days and comply with the requirements in Section 154.210 of the 
Commission's Regulations. Protests will be considered by the Commission 
in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve 
to make protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to 
become a party must file a motion to intervene. Copies of this filing 
are on file with the Commission and are available for public inspection 
in the Public Reference Room.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-23128 Filed 9-10-96; 8:45 am]

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