[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 130 (Thursday, July 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36863-36864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17253]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-571-000]


Clear Creek Storage Company, L.L.C.; Application for Blanket 
Certificate

July 1, 1999.
    Take notice that on June 29, 1999, Clear Creek Storage Company, 
L.L.C. (Clear Creek), 180 East 100 South, Post Office Box 45601, Salt 
Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in Docket No. CP99-571-000, an application 
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), an application 
for a blanket certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing Clear Creek to engage in any of the activities specified in 
18 CFR 157.208 through 157.218. This filing may be viewed on the web at 
http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance).
    Clear Creek is a Utah limited liability corporation that is owners 
by two non-pipeline natural gas companies, Questar Energy Trading 
Company (QET) (75%) and Montana Power Ventures Inc. (MPV) (25%), which 
have subscribed to

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all the planned storage capacity in the Clear Creek storage reservoir. 
Clear Creek states that the storage capacity of the project will be 
used by its owners to support their respective efforts to buy and 
market natural gas and to manage their individual portfolios of natural 
gas supplies and customer demands. Clear Creek states that QET and MPV 
will each store their own gas and have rights to injections and 
withdrawals in proportion to their respective ownership shares in Clear 
Creek.
    Any persons desiring to be heard or to protest said filing should 
apply on or before July 22, 1999, file with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, 
a petition 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 be taken but 
will not serve to make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any 
person wishing to become a party to the proceeding or to participate as 
a party in any hearing therein must file a petition to intervene in 
accordance with the Commission's Rules.
    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 Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practices and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission on this application 
if no petition to intervene is filed within the time required herein, 
and if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that the 
abandonment is required by the public convenience and necessity. If a 
petition for leave to intervene is timely field, or if the Commission 
on its 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 Clear Creek to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-17253 Filed 7-7-99; 8:45 am]
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