[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 48931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23684]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-772-000]


Northern Border Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

September 11, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 6, 1996, Northern Border Pipeline 
Company (Northern Border), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 
68124-1000, filed in Docket No. CP96-772-000 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 operate 
an existing valve setting as a delivery point (Windom Delivery Point) 
to Northwest Gas of Cottonwood County, LLC. (Northwest Gas) in 
Cottonwood County, Minnesota, under Northern Border's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP84-420-000 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.
    Northern Border proposes to operate an existing 4-inch tee and side 
valve at Valve Site No. 48 as the Windom Delivery Point to Northwest 
Gas. Northern Border states that it will deliver up to 10,000 Mcf on a 
peak day and an estimated 1.1 Bcf annually to Northwest Gas at the 
proposed Windom Delivery Point.
    Northern Border states that Northwest Gas will construct and own 
measurement facilities at the proposed Windom Delivery Point. In 
addition, Northern Border stats that Northwest Gas will transport the 
gas volumes received at the Windom Delivery Point through a 3.2-mile-
long 4-inch-diameter pipeline it plans to construct to a point of 
interconnection with Ethanol 2000, LLP (Ethanol 2000) and to a point of 
interconnection with Peoples Natural Gas Company (Peoples).
    Northern Border states that Ethanol 2000 will use its natural gas 
volumes for heating, plant protection and ultimately to process corn 
into ethanol, and that Peoples will use its natural gas volumes to 
serve the town of Windom, Minnesota.
    Northern Border states that there will not be any impact on the 
peak day capability of its existing shippers as a result of the 
proposed interconnect and any impact on annual deliveries will be de 
minimis. Northern Border further states that the proposed change is not 
prohibited by its existing tariff and that it has sufficient capacity 
in its system to accomplish delivery of gas to the proposed delivery 
point without detriment or disadvantage to any other customer.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
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 therefor, 
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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-23684 Filed 9-16-96; 8:45 am]
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