[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 52 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13420-13421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6560]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-240-000]


Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

March 12, 1999.
    Take notice that on March 5, 1999, Reliant Energy Gas Transmission 
Company (Reliant), formerly NorAm Gas Transmission Company,\1\ 1111 
Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002-5231, filed in Docket No. CP99-
240-000 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 construct, and operate 
certain facilities in Arkansas and to abandon the existing facilities. 
Reliant makes such request under its blanket certificate issued in 
Docket Nos. CP82-384-000 and CP82-384-001 pursuant to Section 7 of the 
Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request on file 
with the Commission. The filing may be viewed on the web at http://
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
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    \1\ Effective February 2, 1999, as part of a corporate name 
change, NorAm Gas Transmission Company changed its name to Reliant 
Energy Gas Transmission Company.
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    Reliant proposes to abandon an existing 2-inch delivery tap and 2-
inch positive displacement meter station on its Line JM-20, and to 
construct and

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operate a delivery tap and meter station to provide continued 
deliveries on Reliant's JM-20 Line to Reliant Energy Arkla (Arkla), a 
division of Reliant Energy, Incorporated. Reliant proposes to abandon 
in place a 2-inch tap and remove and junk the 2-inch positive 
displacement meter station located at pipeline station 79+44, in St. 
Francis County, Arkansas. It is averred that a new delivery tap, 
consisting of a 2-inch tap, two 2-inch regulators, two 2-inch relief 
valves and one 2-inch U-shape meter is proposed to be located at 
pipeline station 77+44. It is stated that Reliant will own and operate 
the meter station. The total volumes to be delivered to Arkla are 
approximately 18,000 Dt annually and 250 Dt on a peak day. It is 
indicated that the tap will be installed on existing right-of-way at an 
estimated cost of $43,804.
    Reliant states that it will transport gas to Arkla and provide 
service under its tariff, and that the volumes delivered are within 
Arkla's certificated entitlement.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file 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. 99-6560 Filed 3-17-99; 8:45 am]
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