[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18340-18341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9610]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-328-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application

April 9, 1997.
    Take notice that on April 4, 1997, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), P.O. Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, filed in 
Docket No. CP97-328-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
for authorization to construct and operate 4.88 miles of 36-inch 
diameter pipeline loop on its Leidy Line beginning at milepost 144.53 
in Lycoming County and ending at milepost 149.41 in Lycoming County, 
Pennsylvania, in order to create an additional 35,000 Dth per day of 
firm transportation capacity (Pocono Expansion Project) to serve the 
firm market requirements of PG Energy, Inc. and Penn Fuel Gas, Inc., 
all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Transco notes that the pipeline loop proposed herein was part of 
the Leidy Line loops that was proposed in Transco's SeaBoard 97 
project, in Docket Nos. CP96-545-000 and CP96-545-001, and which was 
approved but not constructed in Transco's Steuben Storage Project in 
Docket No. CP90-685-000.\1\ Transco states that, contemporaneously, 
with this filing, it is filing a letter withdrawing its application for 
the SeaBoard 97 project so that it can meet the firm 1997 market 
requirements of two of the SeaBoard 97 shippers (PG Energy, Inc. and 
Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.) by proposing to construct a portion of the Leidy 
Line loops proposed in SeaBoard 97 in the instant application.
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    \1\ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, 52 FERC para. 
61,287 (1990); reh'g, 53 FERC para. 61,102 (1990).
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    Transco states that these shippers have committed to firm 
transportation service for contract terms of up to twenty years and 
that the service will be provided under Rate Schedule FT of Transco's 
FERC Gas Tariff, Volume No. 1 and Transco's blanket certificate under 
Part 284(G) of the Commission's regulations. Transco states that the 
proposed rate for the firm transportation service will be a separately 
incremental monthly reservation rate of $4.8502. Transco states that 
the proposed rate is based on a straight-fixed variable rate

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design methodology and an incremental cost of service. Transco states 
that it specifically reserves the right to file for approval of rolled-
in rates for the Pocono Expansion Project in a future Section 4 rate 
proceeding and to demonstrate in such proceeding the significant system 
benefits resulting from this project.
    Transco states that the proposed facilities will cost an estimated 
$9.8 million, as detailed in Exhibit K of the application. Transco 
states that the construction and operation of the proposed loop will 
not have a significant impact on the quality of the human health or on 
the environment. In order to meet the firm 1997 market requirements of 
the two Pocono Expansion Project shippers, Transco requests that the 
Commission grant all necessary final authorizations by July 1, 1997. It 
is stated that this schedule will enable Transco to meet the in-service 
date of November 1, 1997, requested by the shippers.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 30, 1997, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20426, a 
motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements of 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 
385.211) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CAR 157.10). 
All protests filed with the Commission will be considered by it in 
determining the appropriate action to be taken but will not serve to 
make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to 
become a party to a proceeding or to participate as a party in any 
hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held with further notice before the Commission or its designee on this 
application if no motion to intervene is field within the time required 
herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that a 
grant of the certificate is required by the public convenience and 
necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if 
the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal hearing is 
required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-9610 Filed 4-14-97; 8:45 am]
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