[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 232 (Wednesday, December 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63926-63927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-31640]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-97-000]


Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited Partnership; Notice of 
Application

November 26, 1997.
    Take notice that on November 19, 1997, Great Lakes Gas Transmission 
Company Limited Partnership (Great Lakes), One Woodward Avenue, Suite 
1600, Detroit, Michigan 48226, filed in Docket No. CP98-97-000 under 
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, for authority to construct and 
operate 3.9 miles of 36-inch loop pipeline in Kittson and Itasca 
Counties, Minnesota, along with a side tap in St. Louis County, 
Minnesota, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Great Lakes states that the estimated cost of the proposed 
facilities is $8,597,000 and that they will be used to transport 6,000 
dekatherms per day (dth/d) for the City of Duluth, Minnesota (Duluth) 
and 500 dth/d for Northwest Natural of Cass County, Inc. (Northwest). 
Great Lakes states that its agreement with Northwest provides for firm 
transportation between the Canadian border near St. Vincent, Minnesota 
(Emerson interconnect) and Great Lake's Carlton, Minnesota delivery 
point. Great Lake's agreement with Duluth provides for firm 
transportation between the Emerson interconnect and either the Carloton 
delivery point or the new line tap to be located in St. Louis County, 
Minnesota. Great Lakes proposes to place the facilities in service on 
November 1, 1999.
    Any person desiring to participate in the hearing process or to 
make any protest with reference to said application should on or before 
December 17, 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 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. The Commission's rules require that protestors provide 
copies of their protests to the party or parties directly involved. 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.
    A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service 
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive 
copies of all documents filed by the applicant and by every one of the 
intervenors. An intervenor can file for rehearing of any Commission 
order and can petition for court review of any such order. However, an 
intervenor must submit copies of comments or any other filing it makes 
with the Commission to every other intervenor in the proceeding, as 
well as 14 copies with the Commission.
    A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have 
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of 
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Commenters will be placed 
on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of 
environmental documents and will be able to participate in meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on 
all other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all 
documents filed by other parties or issued by the Commission and will 
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final 
order to a federal court.
    The Commission will consider all comments and concerns equally, 
whether filed by commenters or those requesting intervenor status.
    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 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

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unnecessary for Great Lakes to appear or be represented at the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-31640 Filed 12-2-97; 8:45 am]
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