[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 113 (Thursday, June 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32103-32104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15335]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-550-000]


Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

June 6, 1997.
    Take notice that on May 28, 1997, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, file in 
Docket No. CP97-550-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205 and 157.211) for authorization to operate two existing fuel 
gas delivery points located in Rio Blanco County, Colorado as 
certificated delivery points under Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, 
for the delivery of gas for any eligible shipper under Northwest's 
blanket transportation certificate. Northwest makes such request under 
its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-433 pursuant to 
Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the 
request on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Specifically, Northwest is requesting authority to operate an 
existing 2-inch meter and a 2-inch tap, as certificated delivery point 
facilities under Section 7(c). The 2-inch meter is located on the fuel 
gas line that serves the Foundation Creek Plant/Compressor Station, and 
the 2-inch tap is located on the Piceance Creek Lateral that delivers 
fuel gas to the Piceance Creek Plant/Compressor Station. Those 
facilities were originally installed for the non-jurisdictional 
delivery of fuel gas to facilities owned and operated by Northwest.
    Northwest averred that effective January 1, 1993, it abandoned all 
of its gathering system facilities, including the Foundation Creek 
Plant/Compressor Station and the Piceance Creek Plant/Compressor 
Station, by transfer to Williams Gas Processing Company, an affiliate, 
as authorized in Docket No. CP91-2392. Northwest states that, effective 
October 15, 1996, those non-jurisdictional facilities were sold to 
Wildhorse Energy Partners, L.L.C. (Wildhorse).
    Northwest indicates that it entered into an Interconnect and 
Operating Agreement with Wildhorse on October 1, 1996, to implement an 
operational balancing procedure for the Rocky Mountain area points of 
interconnection between the two companies, including the subject fuel 
gas delivery points in Docket No. CP97-550-000. Northwest now desires 
to make these delivery points available for deliveries to Wildhorse 
under transportation service agreements.
    Northwest states that during 1996, it delivered an average of 68 Dt 
per day to the Foundation Creek fuel gas delivery point and an average 
of 403 Dt per day to the Piceance Creek fuel gas delivery point. It is 
stated that firm transportation service to the subject delivery points 
will be provided pursuant to Rate Schedule TF-1, and that interruptible 
transportation service

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will be provided pursuant to Rate Schedule TI-1.
    Northwest does not anticipate that this proposal will result in any 
significant peak day or annual impact to Northwest's system, since 
deliveries made through those two delivery points will be volumes 
within the shippers existing entitlements.
    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 Regulation 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. 97-15335 Filed 6-11-97; 8:45 am]
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