[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 52785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25688]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-801-000]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

October 2, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 18, 1996, Northern Natural Gas 
Company (Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124-
1000, filed in Docket No. CP96-801-000 a request pursuant to 
Secs. 157.205 and 157.212 of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.212) for authorization to install 
and operate a new delivery point to accommodate deliveries of gas to 
Western Gas Utilities, Inc. (WGU), in Wright County, Minnesota, under 
Northern's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-401-000, 
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 proposes to construct and operate the new delivery point, 
to be known as the Delano #1B TBS, in order to deliver up to 1,000 
MMBtu equivalent of natural gas per day to WGU on a peak day and up to 
153,000 MMBtu equivalent on an annual basis. It is stated that the end 
uses of the gas will be commercial and industrial. Northern proposes to 
make the deliveries under its currently effective interruptible 
throughput service agreement. The cost of the facilities is estimated 
at $183,000. It is asserted that the total volumes to be delivered to 
WGU after the addition of the requested delivery point would not exceed 
those presently authorized. It is further asserted that Northern has 
sufficient capacity to accomplish the deliveries without detriment or 
disadvantage to its other customers. It is further explained that 
Northern's tariff does not prohibit the addition of delivery points.
    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 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 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. 96-25688 Filed 10-7-96; 8:45 am]
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