[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 148 (Monday, August 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41237-41238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20565]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-673-000]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

July 28, 1998.
    Take notice that on July 16, 1998, Northern Natural Gas Company, 
(Applicant), P.O. Box 3330, Omaha, Nebraska, 68103-0330, filed in 
Docket No. CP98-673-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 
157.212, and 157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural 
Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.212, 157.216) for approval to upgrade 
three existing delivery points located in Wright, Carver, and Stearns 
Counties, Minnesota, to accommodate natural gas deliveries to 
Minnegasco, a division of NorAm Energy Corporation, (Minnegasco), under 
Applicant's blanket certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP82-401-000, 
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), all as more 
fully set forth in the request which is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Applicant proposes to upgrade these delivery points to accommodate 
natural gas deliveries to Minnegasco under currently effective 
throughput service agreements. Applicant asserts that Minnegasco has 
requested the upgrade of the existing delivery points to provide 
increased natural gas service to the Dayton, Waconia, and Cold Springs 
town border stations to meet peak day requirements. Applicant further 
states that the estimated incremental volumes proposed to be delivered 
to Minnegasco at these delivery points are 5,110 MMBtu on a peak day 
and 600,114 MMBtu on an annual basis. It is also indicated that the 
estimated cost to upgrade the delivery points is $228,000.
    Any person or the Commission's Staff may, within 45 days of the 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and

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Procedure (18 CFR 385.214), a motion to intervene and pursuant to 
Section 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 therefor, the proposed activities 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 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. 98-20565 Filed 7-31-98; 8:45 am]
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