[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32223-32224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15192]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-546-000]


Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

June 10, 1999.
    Take notice that on June 7, 1999, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 
America (Natural), 747 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148, filed 
in Docket No. CP99-546-000 a request pursuant to sections 157.205, 
157.208, and 157.212, of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural 
Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.208, 157.212) for authorization to 
construct and operate facilities in Grundy County, Illinois under 
Natural's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP86-582-000 
pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set 
forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection. This filing may be viewed on the web at http://
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    The proposed facilities are to be located between Natural's Gulf 
Coast Mainline and the nonjurisdictional processing plant owned by Aux 
Sable Liquid Products, Inc. (Aux Sable) and will be utilized to receive 
natural gas transported by the Alliance Pipeline L.P. (Alliance) system 
and nominated for delivery to Natural's Gulf Coast Mainline (Natural's 
system). As such, these facilities will serve to replace 
interconnection facilities authorized by the Commission's September 17, 
1998 order in Docket Nos. CP97-168, et al.

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Certificating the Alliance project. Following processing, Aux Sable 
will directly deliver the Alliance volumes nominated to Natural's 
system.
    The proposed interconnection facilities will also be capable of 
delivering gas from Natural's system to the Aux Sable facility (for use 
as ``plant augmentation'' volumes) and back to Natural. On a completely 
interruptible basis, such volumes will be available to Aux Sable to 
blend with the Alliance volumes it is processing. Such additional 
volumes will serve the purpose of enhancing, while not changing, the 
operation of the processing plant. The benefit to Natural will be 
enhanced pressure for such volumes upon their return along with the 
Alliance volumes nominated to Natural's system.
    The estimated cost of the proposed facilities is $12.4 million. 
Such cost will be fully reimbursed by Alliance as a contribution-in-aid 
to Natural.
    Natural proposes an approximately 3,000 foot, 30/36-inch line (36-
inch line), meter and tap facilities designed to receive up to 1.6 Bcf/
day from Alliance, either directly or via the Aux Sable plant; and (2) 
an approximately 3,000 foot, 24/30-inch line (30-inch line), meter and 
tap facilities designed to receive or deliver up to 800 Mmcf/day from 
or to the Aux Sable plant. These facilities will serve the primary 
function of enabling the delivery of volumes transported by Alliance 
and, following processing by Aux Sable, nominated for delivery to 
Natural's system.
    The 36-inch line will perform this function most days, but the 30-
inch line will also be available. Both lines will be available, on a 
firm basis and to the exclusion of all other uses, if necessary to 
effect delivery of the Alliance shippers' volumes to Natural's system. 
The secondary function of these facilities will be to move, on a 
completely interruptible basis, plant augmentation volumes from 
Natural's system into (via the 30-inch line) and out of (via the 36-
inch line) the Aux Sable plant.
    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.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-15192 Filed 6-15-99; 8:45 am]
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