[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 163 (Monday, August 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45057-45058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22627]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-716-000]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request 
Under Blanket Authorization

August 19, 1998.
    Take notice that on August 10, 1998, and supplemented on August 14, 
1998, Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), 
Suite 300, 200 North Third Street, Bismarck North Dakota 58501, filed 
in Docket No. CP98-716-000, a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 
157.211, and 157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural 
Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211, and 157.216) for authorization to 
upgrade an existing meter and regulatory at an existing meter station 
in Mountrail County, North Dakota, under its blanket certificate issued 
in Docket No. CP82-487-000, et al., pursuant to Section 7(c) 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.
    Specifically, Williston Basin requests authorization to upgrade the 
Ross meter station by abandoning the existing 1-inch positive diaphragm 
meter and appurtenances and then installing a 2-inch positive rotary 
meter and

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increasing the size of the regulatory orifice from \1/8\ inch to \3/8\ 
inch in diameter. Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (Montana-Dakota), a 
local distribution company, currently takes deliveries of natural gas 
at the Ross station and has requested that the gas measurement 
facilities be upgraded so it can commence service to Dakota Quality 
Grain for the operation of a grain dryer for the 1998 fall grain drying 
season. Williston Basin states that the current maximum daily delivery 
is 84 Mcf per day with an estimated maximum daily delivery of 554 Mcf 
per day after the upgrade.
    Williston Basin says it provides service to Montana-Dakota through 
the Ross meter station under its Rate Schedules FT-1 and/or IT-1. 
Williston Basin reports that the total cost of the upgrade will be 
approximately $4,500 which will be 100% reimbursed to Williston Basin 
by Montana-Dakota.
    Williston Basin asserts that the increase in the maximum daily 
delivery at the Ross meter station will have no significant effect on 
its peak day or annual requirements and it will still be able to 
accomplish deliveries without detriment or disadvantage to its other 
customers. Williston Basin states that its FERC Gas Tariff does not 
prohibit the proposed activity.
    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, N.E., Washington, D.C. 
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 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 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. 98-22627 Filed 8-21-98; 8:45 am]
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