[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52702-52703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26739]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-774-000]


CNG Transmission Corporation and Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation; Notice of Application

October 3, 1997.
    Take notice that on September 26, 1997, CNG Transmission 
Corporation (CNG), 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 
26301, and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 
Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 77056-5310, filed in Docket No. CP97-
774-000 an application pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act and 
Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations.
    The Applicants seek a Certificate of Public Convenience and 
Necessity granting authorization:
    1. To construct, install, own, operate, and maintain certain 
additional compression facilities at the Oakford Compression Station, 
and certain new or replacement pipeline facilities to increase the 
storage capacity of the Oakford Storage Complex (Oakford), located in 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by 10 Bcf, at an estimated cost of 
$44,032,000 to be shared equally by the Applicants;
    2. To convert to working capacity 2.75 Bcf of Murrysville storage 
reservoir's capacity that was held to support deliverability 
requirements gas in CNG's Order 636 restructuring;
    3. To increase deliverability from CNG's Greenlick Storage Complex 
located in Potter County, Pennsylvania, by 150 MMcf/d, by modifying the 
existing dehydration system and other auxiliary installations, at an 
estimated cost of $875,000;
    4. To convert 2.56 Bcf of existing base gas capacity at CNG's Fink-
Kennedy/Lost Creek Complex to working gas capacity;
    5. For CNG to utilize its share of the expansion capacity as part 
of its Market Area Storage Project;
    6. For Texas Eastern to utilize its share of the expanded storage 
capacity and injection/withdrawal capability as system storage;
    7. For Texas Eastern to recover its cost of service associated with 
these facilities through its storage cost credit/surcharge mechanism, 
including the true-up for actual gas costs; and
    8. Of certain revised pro-forma Texas Eastern tariff sheets, all as 
more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    The Applicants state that they each own an undivided one-half 
interest in Oakford, and that CNG is the operator of that facility. CNG 
states that it has begun a well stimulation program designed to improve 
deliverability lost due to deterioration within the two storage 
reservoirs in Oakford. This program would maximize efficient use of 
existing and proposed compression, allow Applicants to maintain the 
current certificated deliverability, and minimize the need for future 
additional compression horsepower. CNG feels no certificate is 
necessary for these well stimulations, as the program will maximize 
efficient use of the existing and proposed compression, minimize the 
need for future additional compression, and allow maintenance of 
current certificated deliverability.
    The Applicants further state that they will replace the existing 
dehydration system at the Oakford Compression Station which will 
increase its efficiency. They will also replace the existing 325 feet 
of suction line at the Lincoln Heights Compressor Station. The 
Applicants feel that both of these replacements are within the 
definition of an auxiliary installation pursuant to Sec. 2.55 of the 
Commission's regulations, and therefore require no certificate 
authorization.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before October 24, 1997, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
NE., Washington, D.C., 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in

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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 CFR 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 the 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 without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its on review of the matter finds 
that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment 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 the Applicants to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-26739 Filed 10-8-97; 8:45 am]
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