[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52783-52784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25687]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-784-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

October 2, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 12, 1996, as supplemented on 
September 30, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia), 
Post Office Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 25325-1273, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-784-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205, 
157.212(a), and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.208(b), and 157.216(b)) for 
authorization to modify certain measurement and appurtenant facilities 
at an existing point of delivery to Commonwealth Gas Services, Inc. 
(COS) at the Sunrise Valley Station (Sunrise), in Fairfax County, 
Virginia, and to partially reassign the Maximum Daily Delivery 
Obligations (MDDO's) from other existing points of delivery to COS to 
this particular point of delivery, under the blanket certificate issued 
in Docket No. CP83-76-000, all as more fully set forth in the request 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Columbia states that it currently provides COS with firm 
transportation service under Part 284 of the Commission's Regulations 
at Sunrise. Columbia proposes to provide increased services to COS at 
Sunrise pursuant to its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP86-
240-000 under its existing Rate Schedule, Storage Service 
Transportation (SST) and within certificated entitlements. Columbia 
claims that COS has requested that its existing SST Agreement with 
Columbia be amended increasing the MDDO at Sunrise from 43 to 2,000 
Dth/d and reducing the MDDO's at Warrenton from 4,110 to 3,224 Dth/d 
and at Dulles from 5,148 to 4,077 Dth/d. Columbia proposes to deliver 
2,000 Dth/d and up to 200,000 Dth/annually at the proposed modified 
delivery point. Columbia asserts that COS has not asked for an increase 
in its firm entitlements in conjunction with this request and that 
there is no impact on Columbia's peak day obligations to its other 
customers as a result of the proposed modification.
    Columbia states that the proposed modification will consist of 
abandoning by removal approximately 33 feet of four-inch station 
piping, a regulator setting and a relief valve, meter setting and the 
four by six inch reducer; installing electronic measurement equipment; 
and operating and maintaining the electronic measurement and the 
Equimeter T-18 turbine meter and associated meter run. Additionally, 
Columbia states that COS will install approximately 53 feet of four-
inch station piping, six by four inch reducer, four inch insulation 
joint, meter setting, Equimeter T-18 turbine meter, heater valve 
setting, regulator setting and new odorizer system. Columbia claims 
that COS will operate and maintain approximately 53 feet of four-inch 
station piping, the insulation joint, meter setting and bypass run, 
heater valve setting, regulator setting, six by four inch reducer, and 
new odorizer system. Columbia states that COS will own all of the 
facilities that are to be constructed.
    Columbia estimates that the cost for the proposed modification is 
$34,700, which COS will reimburse Columbia 100% of the total actual 
cost. Columbia claims that there will be no salvage value for its 
facilities that are to be retired and the estimated net debit to 
accumulated provision for depreciation is $23,919. Columbia asserts 
that it has received clearance from the Commonwealth of Virginia 
Department of Historic Resources and the United States Department of 
the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service for its proposed construction. 
Columbia states that it has also obtained clearance from the 
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality comprising 
of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality comprising of 
Virginia's Coastal Resources Management Program. Columbia states that 
the proposed abandonment is supported by COS and will not result in any 
abandonment of service.
    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

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Sec. 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 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. 96-25687 Filed 10-7-96; 8:45 am]
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