[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 7 (Friday, January 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1444-1445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-597]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-165-000]


Colorado Interstate Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

January 7, 1997.
    Take notice that on December 20, 1996, Colorado Interstate Gas 
Company (CIG), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, filed 
in Docket No. CP97-165-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205, 157.211) for authorization to establish a new delivery 
point for Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), under CIG's 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP83-21-000 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.
    CIG states that during the summer of 1996, it constructed 
approximately 21 miles of 12-inch-diameter (Indian Creek Lateral) and 
installed two 1478 horsepower compressors (Big Canyon Compressor 
Station) in Potter County, Texas pursuant to the provisions of Section 
311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act (NGPA) and the Commission's 
regulations under the NGPA. CIG states that these facilities have been 
used as receipt facilities to receive gas for the account of PSCo, a 
local distribution company, for transportation to their distribution 
system.
    CIG states that it received a request from PSCo requesting CIG to 
establish a certificated delivery point (Nichols Delivery Point) off 
its Indian Creek Lateral. CIG states that PSCo will use

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the Nichols Delivery Point to deliver gas to Southwestern Public 
Service Company. CIG states the new delivery point could deliver up to 
110,000 Mcf of natural gas per day.
    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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-597 Filed 1-9-97; 8:45 am]
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