[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25206-25207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12075]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-372-000]


Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

May 1, 1998.
    Take notice that on April 23, 1998, Northwest Pipeline Corporation 
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158-0900, filed in 
Docket No. CP98-372-000, a request, pursuant to Secs. 157.205, 157.216, 
and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.205, 157.216, and 157.211), for authorization to abandon by 
removal its existing Moses Lake Meter Station and its existing U&I 
Sugar Meter Station in Grant County, Washington and to construct and 
operate a new combined, replacement Moses Lake Meter Station at the 
same site to better accommodate existing natural gas delivery 
requirements to Cascade Natural Gas Corporation (Cascade), under 
Northwest's blanket certificate authorization issued in Docket No. 
CP82-433-000, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more 
fully set forth in the request which is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.

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    Northwest reports that the new Moses Lake Meter Station will have a 
maximum design capacity of approximately 27,911 Dth per day at 300 
psig, which is sufficient to accommodate the combined existing firm 
delivery obligations at the two existing meter stations. Northwest 
relates that the removed facilities will either be returned to stock, 
scrapped or salvaged for reuse in the new Moses Lake Meter Station. 
Northwest asserts that no abandonment of service will occur. Northwest 
states it has sent a copy of this filing to the Washington 
Transportation and Utilities Commission which has regulatory authority 
over gas deliveries to customers served through the affected delivery 
meters.
    Northwest estimates the total cost of the proposed new Moses Lake 
Meter Station to be approximately $556,809. Because this investment is 
necessary for Northwest to better accommodate existing delivery 
requirements to cascade, Northwest indicates that it will not require 
any cost reimbursement from Cascade.
    Northwest states that any deliveries made to Cascade through the 
new Moses Lake Meter Station will be transportation gas delivered 
either for Cascade or other shippers for whom Northwest is authorized 
to transport gas. Northwest says that any volumes delivered to the 
Moses Lake delivery point will be within the authorized entitlement of 
such shippers. Northwest states that its tariff does not prohibit the 
addition or modification of delivery point facilities.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file with the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 
20426, 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 Sec. 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 therefore, 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. 98-12075 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]
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