[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 234 (Monday, December 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67469-67470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-32370]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-92-000]


Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

December 1, 1998.
    Take notice that on November 25, 1998, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar), 180 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in 
Docket No. CP99-92-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's (Commission) regulations, for a

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certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Questar to 
increase the certificated maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) 
for Questar's existing Main Line (M.L.) No. 101 pipeline, all as more 
fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    Questar proposes to increase the certificated MAOP of its 41.2 
mile, 20-inch diameter M.L. No. 101 pipeline in Sweetwater County, 
Wyoming and Daggett County, Utah, from 1,200 psig to 1,416 psig. 
Questar indicates that the proposed MAOP increase will provide more 
efficient operation of Questar's system, within the physical-design 
capacity of the pipeline, by enabling Questar to intermittently free 
flow natural gas volumes directly from Questar's Clay Basin storage 
field during periods when the storage-reservoir pressures are high, to 
an interconnection with Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd., located at 
Questar's Nightingale/Kanda/Coleman Compressor Complex. Questar also 
indicates that the proposed MAOP increase will provide system benefits 
to Questar's customers by reducing fuel-gas costs and compressor 
station wear and tear at Nightingale/Kanda/Coleman Compressor Complex. 
Questar states that there will be no annual capacity increase 
associated with the proposal.
    Any person desiring to be heard or making any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 11, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
NE, Washington, D.C. 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 take 
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 person to whom the protests are directed. 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 issued by the Commission, filed by the 
applicant, or filed by all other 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 serve copies of comments 
or any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other 
intervenor in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 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 such 
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 NGA and the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the Commission or its designee on these 
applications 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 unnecessary for Questar to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-32370 Filed 12-4-98; 8:45 am]
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